Ben Shelton and Ignacio Buse will square off in the 1st round of the U.S. Open for the 1st time in their career. They are scheduled to compete on Sunday at 12:00 pm on Arthur Ashe Stadium. 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.

As per the initial odds, Ben Shelton is the pick to win this match.
Ben Shelton -> 1.011
Ignacio Buse -> 15.5

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Prediction and head to head Ben Shelton vs. Ignacio Buse

There is no head to head record between Ben Shelton and Ignacio Buse since this will be the first time that they will square off in the main tour.

Ben Shelton

Ben Shelton

35 - 17win/loss

Hard
21-7
I Hard
1-1
Clay
7-5
Grass
6-4
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. 6 (career-high), Shelton will start his run at the U.S. Open after he played his last match in Cincinnati where he lost 6-2 6-2 to Zverev in the quarter on the 15th of August.

The American has an aggregate 35-17 win-loss record in 2025, 21-7 on hard (See FULL STATS).

His best result of the season was winning the title in Toronto where he beat Karen Khachanov in the final 6-7(5) 6-4 7-6(3).

Talking about his overall career, Ben has an overall 163-87 record. He has a positive 87-45 record on hard.

Previously at the U.S. Open

Previously, his best result was reaching the semifinal in 2023. See his history.

U.S. Open
Shelton's Record

Ignacio Buse

Ignacio Buse

32 - 21win/loss

Hard
6-4
I Hard
1-2
Clay
25-14
Grass
0-1
Rank
105
High
105
LWWWWLWLWW
Year Total Hard Clay I.hard Grass Carpet
2025 49-28 6-5 42-19 1-3 0-1 0-0
2024 47-28 3-3 44-24 0-1 0-0 0-0
2023 35-19 7-3 28-16 0-0 0-0 0-0
2022 13-8 4-2 9-6 0-0 0-0 0-0
2021 0-4 0-0 0-4 0-0 0-0 0-0

Ranked no. 136, Buse got to the 1st round after beating Lukas Neumayer 7-6(2) 6-7(5) 6-1, Rei Sakamoto 6-4 4-6 6-4 and Kimmer Coppejans 6-3 6-4.

In the qualifications, Ignacio had a good straight sets win against Coppejans (6-3 6-4). During the match Buse scored 72 points vs Coppejans’s 55. The Peruvian was very aggressive to blast 27 winners.

About the serving games, Buse struck 2 aces and he committed only 2 double faults. Ignacio Buse lost the serve once. Furthermore, Buse put 49% of his first serves in, winning 90% (27/30) of the points behind his 1st serve and 48% (15/31) on the 2nd serve. The Peruvian broke Coppejans 3 times after converting 23% of his break points (3/13).

Overall Performance in this tournament

Ignacio started his run at this tournament from the qualifications. In the main draw, he has conceded 2 set in the tournament to win 54% of the points he played.

His best result of the year was winning the title the Heilbronn Challenger where he defeated Guy Den Ouden in the final 7-5 7-5.

Ignacio has an overall 32-21 win-loss record in 2025, 6-4 on hard (See FULL STATS).

Previously at the U.S. Open

The Peruvian has never competed in this tournament before.

U.S. Open
Buse's Record

Tennis Scores – U.S. Open

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