Ben Shelton and Alex Bolt will square off in the 1st round of Wimbledon for the 1st time in their career. They are scheduled to play on Tuesday at 6:00 pm on Court 2. In the following paragraphs, you can find the head to head analysis and prediction.

Prediction, odds and live streaming

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

As per the initial odds, Ben Shelton is the pick to win this match.
Ben Shelton -> 1.186
Alex Bolt -> 4.75

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Prediction and head to head Ben Shelton vs. Alex Bolt

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

Ben Shelton

Ben Shelton

19 - 14win/loss

Hard
9-5
I Hard
1-1
Clay
7-5
Grass
2-3
Rank
9
High
5
LLLLWWLWLL
Year Total Hard Clay I.hard Grass Carpet
2025 40-24 23-9 7-5 4-6 6-4 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. 10 (career-high), Ben will start his run in Wimbledon after he played his last match in Mallorca where he lost 6-4 7-6(2) to Tien in the 2nd round on the 25th of June.

Shelton has an aggregate 19-14 win-loss record in 2025, 2-3 on grass (See FULL STATS).

Ben’s best result of the year was reaching the final in Munich.

Talking about his overall career, The American has an overall 147-84 record. He has a negative 8-10 record on grass.

Previously in Wimbledon

Previously, his best result was reaching the 4th round in 2024. See his history.

Wimbledon
Shelton's Record

Alex Bolt

Alex Bolt

18 - 13win/loss

Hard
9-9
I Hard
0-0
Clay
0-1
Grass
9-3
Rank
188
High
125
WWWWWWLLWW
Year Total Hard Clay I.hard Grass Carpet
2025 31-21 22-15 0-1 0-0 9-5 0-0
2024 48-78 26-21 0-0 1-1 21-56 0-0
2023 27-22 22-17 0-2 0-0 5-3 0-0
2022 11-10 11-10 0-0 0-0 0-0 0-0
2021 19-18 7-6 0-7 2-2 10-3 0-0

Ranked no. 179, Bolt got to the 1st round after beating Harold Mayot 6-3 6-4, Eliot Spizzirri 7-6(5) 2-6 6-2 and Martin Landaluce 6-1 6-2 6-4.

In the qualifications, The Australian had a good straight sets win against Landaluce (6-1 6-2 6-4). During the match Bolt scored 98 points vs Landaluce’s 66. Bolt was quite aggressive to blast 39 winners.

Talking about serving, Bolt managed to score 6 aces and he committed only 2 double faults. Alex Bolt was pretty efficient on serve to win 81% (39/48) of his 1st serve and 60% (18/30) on the second serve. This was the main reason for not conceding a single break during the match. Alex broke Landaluce 5 times after converting 38% of his break points (5/13).

Overall Performance in this tournament

The Australian started his run at this tournament from the qualifications. In the main draw, he has conceded 1 set in the tournament to win 56% of the points he played.

Bolt’s best result of the season was getting to the final in the Wuxi Challenger.

The Australian has an overall 18-13 win-loss record in 2025, 9-3 on grass (See FULL STATS).

Previously in Wimbledon

Previously, his best result was reaching the 2nd round in 2021. See his history.

Wimbledon
Bolt's Record

Tennis Scores – Wimbledon

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