Ben Shelton and Jiri Lehecka will face off in the quarter of the Boss Open for the 1st time in their career. They are scheduled to compete on Friday at 5:00 pm on CENTER COURT. Here the head to head stats and relative prediction.

Prediction, odds and live streaming

The pick for Tennis Tonic is Ben Shelton who should win in 3 sets.

See updated oddsAs per the initial odds, Ben Shelton is the pick to win this match.
Ben Shelton -> 1.72
Jiri Lehecka -> 2.12

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Prediction and head to head Ben Shelton vs. Jiri Lehecka

There is no head to head record between Ben Shelton and Jiri Lehecka since this will be the first time that they will play each other in the main tour.

Ben Shelton

Ben Shelton

18 - 11win/loss

Hard
9-5
I Hard
1-1
Clay
7-5
Grass
1-0
Rank
10
High
10
LLWWLWWLLW
Year Total Hard Clay I.hard Grass Carpet
2025 19-13 9-5 7-5 1-1 2-2 0-0
2024 42-26 22-13 8-4 8-5 4-4 0-0
2023 28-26 21-13 4-8 1-2 2-3 0-0
2022 40-11 16-9 0-0 24-2 0-0 0-0
2021 18-7 7-3 5-2 6-2 0-0 0-0

Ranked no. 12 (career-high), Shelton reached the quarter after beating Pierre-Hugues Herbert 7-6(4) 7-5.

In the 2nd round, The American had a good straight sets win against Herbert (7-64 7-5). During the match, Shelton scored 82 points vs Herbert’s 72. Ben was quite aggressive to blast 37 winners.

Talking about the service games, Shelton recorded 8 aces and he committed only 3 double faults. Ben Shelton was quite effective on serve to win 82% (37/45) of his 1st serve and 66% (21/32) on the second serve. This was the main reason for not conceding a single break during the match. Shelton broke Herbert once after converting 20% of his break points (1/5).

Shelton has a solid match record in the last 5 years having won 64% of his matches (146-81). 1-0 on grass in 2025. Talking about his performance on the same surface of this competition, Shelton has an overall7-7 record in the last 5 years on grass.

The American’s best result of the current year was getting to the final in Munich.

The American has an overall 18-11 win-loss record in 2025, 1-0 on grass (See FULL STATS).

Previously in Stuttgart

Stuttgart
Shelton's Record

Jiri Lehecka

Jiri Lehecka

20 - 11win/loss

Hard
11-5
I Hard
2-1
Clay
5-5
Grass
2-0
Rank
30
High
22
WWWWLWWLWW
Year Total Hard Clay I.hard Grass Carpet
2025 24-12 11-5 5-5 2-1 6-1 0-0
2024 32-19 20-10 4-1 8-8 0-0 0-0
2023 38-29 18-13 10-8 5-5 5-3 0-0
2022 42-32 5-4 24-13 13-12 0-3 0-0
2021 63-26 12-3 34-15 17-8 0-0 0-0

Ranked no. 33, Lehecka reached the quarter after beating Benjamin Bonzi 6-4 6-4 and Jan-Lennard Struff 6-4 7-5.

In the 2nd round, Lehecka had a good straight sets win against Struff (6-4 7-5). During the match Lehecka scored 74 points vs Struff’s 66. The Czech was very aggressive to blast 31 winners.

About the serving games, Lehecka recorded 11 aces and he committed only 1 double fault for the entire match. Jiri Lehecka was quite efficient on serve to win 76% (31/41) of his 1st serve and 67% (16/24) on the second serve. This was the main reason for not conceding a single break during the match. Lehecka broke Struff twice after converting 22% of his break points (2/9).

Overall Performance in this tournament

Lehecka hasn’t dropped yet a set in the tournament to win 54% of the points he played.

His best result of the current year was winning the title in Brisbane where he beat Reilly Opelka in the final 4-1 ret..

Jiri has a composed 20-11 win-loss record in 2025, 2-0 on grass (See FULL STATS).

Previously in Stuttgart

Previously, his best result was reaching the 2nd

round in 2023. See his history.
Stuttgart
Lehecka's Record

H2H Performance in the tournament (main draw)

B.Shelton
J.Lehecka
1h:50
1h:50
Time on court​
2h:41
2h:41
1h:50
1h:50
Last match​
1h:26
1h:26
1
1
Match played
!
2
2
25
25
Games Played​
42
42
2
2
Set played​​
4
4
82
82
Total points​
144
144
82
82
Avg point​
72
72
37
37
Winners
64
64
37
37
Avg Winners​
32
32
45%
45%
Ratio winners
44%
44%
-- Serve --
8
8
Aces
24
24
8
8
Avg Aces
!
12
12
3
3
Double Faults
3
3
3
3
Avg Double Faults
1.5
1.5
37/45
37/45
1st won total​
64/78
64/78
!
82%
82%
1st won %
!
82%
82%
21/32
21/32
2nd won total​
26/43
26/43
!
66%
66%
2nd won %
60%
60%
-- Break Points --
1/5
1/5
BP won
4/15
4/15
1/5
1/5
Avg BP won
2/7.5
2/7.5
!
20%
20%
Won
!
27%
27%
4
4
Conceded
4
4
4
4
Avg Conceded
2
2
0
0
Broken
0
0
!
0
0
Avg Broken
!
0
0
4
4
Saved
4
4

Matches, sets, games and points

Points Shelton Lehecka
Match played 1 2
Tot Set 2 4
Tot Games 25 42
Pts 82-72 144-121
Total Points 154 265
Winners 37 64
%Winners 45% 44%

Shelton played 1 match while Lehecka competed in 2 matches. Both players have not lost a single set in this event so far. Shelton has played 2 set(s) less than Lehecka (2 vs 4). Therefore, Shelton played 17 games less than Lehecka. Shelton scored 37 winners (45% of the total points). On the other side, Lehecka fired 64 winners (44%).

Serve Performance

Serve Shelton Lehecka
Aces 8 24
Avg per match 8 12
1st in 45/77 78/121
%1st in 58% 64%
1st pts 37/45 64/78
%1st pts 82% 82%
2nd pts 21/32 26/43
%2nd pts 66% 60%

Shelton struck 8 aces . Lehecka managed to score 24 aces (12 per match). Shelton won 82% points on his first serve. He very solid his second serve to win 66% of the points. On the other side, Lehecka won 82% of the points behind his first serve. He had a solid display on his second serve to win 60% of the points.

How they played the important points

Breaks Shelton Lehecka
Won 1 4
Converted 1/5 4/15
% Converted 20% 27%
Conceded 4 4
Saved 4 4
% Saved 100% 100%
Times Broken 0 0

Ben broke his opponent once with a 20% conversion rate. Shelton extremely effective on his serve as he has never lost a single service game after saving 4 break points. Jiri broke his opponents 4 times with a 27% conversion rate. Jiri was rock solid on his serve as he has never conceded a single service game after saving 4 break points.

Shelton
R2
Herbert
Total
Score 7-64 7-5
Tot Set 2 2
Tot Games 25 25
pts 82-72 82-72
Total points 154 154
Winners 37 37
%Winners 45% 45%
SERVE
Aces 8 8
Double Faults 3 3
1st in 45/77 45/77
% 1st in 58% 58%
1st pts 37/45 37/45
% 1st pts 82% 82%
2nd pts 21/32 21/32
% 2nd pts 66% 66%
Breaks
Won 1 1
Converted 1/5 1/5
Converted % 20% 20%
Conceded 4 4
Saved 4/4 4
Saved % 100% 100%
Times Broken 0 0
Lehecka
R1
Bonzi
R2
Struff
Total
Score 6-4 6-4 6-4 7-5
Tot Set 2 2 4
Tot Games 20 22 42
pts 70-55 74-66 144-121
Total points 125 140 265
Winners 33 31 64
%Winners 47% 42% 44%
SERVE
Aces 13 11 24
Double Faults 2 1 3
1st in 37/56 41/65 78/121
% 1st in 66% 63% 64%
1st pts 33/37 31/41 64/78
% 1st pts 89% 76% 82%
2nd pts 10/19 16/24 26/43
% 2nd pts 53% 67% 60%
Breaks
Won 2 2 4
Converted 2/6 2/9 4/15
Converted % 33% 22% 27%
Conceded 2 2 4
Saved 2/2 2/2 4
Saved % 100% 100% 200%
Times Broken 0 0 0

Tennis Scores in Stuttgart

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