Jelle Sels and Aziz Ouakaa will clash against each other in the 1st round of the Soma Bay Challenger for the 1st time in their career. They are scheduled to compete on Tuesday at 4:00 pm on COURT 2. In the following lines you can find the head to head analysis and prediction.

Prediction, odds and live streaming

The pick for Tennis Tonic is Jelle Sels who should win in 2 sets.

As per the initial odds, Jelle Sels is the pick to win this match.
Jelle Sels -> 1.24
Aziz Ouakaa -> 3.56

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Prediction and head to head Jelle Sels vs. Aziz Ouakaa

There is no head to head record between Jelle Sels and Aziz Ouakaa since this will be the first time that they will clash against each other in the main tour.

Jelle Sels

Jelle Sels

41 - 34win/loss

Hard
5-6
I Hard
15-9
Clay
21-18
Grass
0-1
Rank
352
High
127
LWWLWWWWLW
Year Total Hard Clay I.hard Grass Carpet
2025 41-34 5-6 21-18 15-9 0-1 0-0
2024 48-30 13-6 28-16 7-8 0-0 0-0
2023 11-27 5-4 3-14 3-6 0-3 0-0
2022 48-33 0-0 26-17 22-15 0-1 0-0
2021 37-31 2-3 14-13 20-14 0-0 1-1

Ranked no. 352, Sels will start his run in the Soma Bay Challenger after he played his last match in M25 Manama where he lost 7-5 6-1 to Pieczkowski in the quarter on the 14th of November.

Jelle has a composed 41-34 win-loss record in 2025, 5-6 on hard (See FULL STATS).

The Dutch’s best result of the current season was reaching the final in the Cherbourg Challenger,M25 Carnac and M25 Glasgow.

Talking about his overall career, Sels has an overall 390-318 record. He has a positive 63-53 record on hard.

Previously in the Soma Bay Challenger

Jelle has never competed in this tournament before.

Soma Bay Challenger
Sels's Record

Aziz Ouakaa

Aziz Ouakaa

39 - 36win/loss

Hard
34-31
I Hard
0-2
Clay
5-3
Rank
676
High
603
WWLWWLLLWL
Year Total Hard Clay I.hard Grass Carpet
2025 39-36 34-31 5-3 0-2 0-0 0-0
2024 33-33 19-17 14-16 0-0 0-0 0-0
2023 28-33 28-32 0-1 0-0 0-0 0-0
2022 11-34 11-32 0-2 0-0 0-0 0-0
2021 13-28 11-21 2-7 0-0 0-0 0-0

Ranked no. 676, Aziz got to the 1st round after beating Kelsey Stevenson 6-3 6-3 and Tom Zeuch 6-3 6-4.

In the qualifications, Aziz had a good straight sets win against Zeuch (6-3 6-4). During the match Ouakaa scored 67 points vs Zeuch’s 53. The Tunisian was exceptionally aggressive to blast 25 winners.

Talking about serving, Ouakaa recorded 3 aces and he committed only 2 double faults. Overall, Aziz Ouakaa was exceptionally effective on serve to win 71% (25/35) of his 1st serve and 62% (13/21) on the second serve. However, this didn’t prevent his to concede the serve once. Aziz broke Zeuch 3 times after converting 30% of his break points (3/10).

Overall Performance in this tournament

Ouakaa started his run at this tournament from the qualifications. In the main draw, he hasn’t conceded yet a set in this event to win 56% of the points he played.

Ouakaa’s best result of the current season was getting to the semifinal in M15 Monastir and M25 Brazzaville.

Aziz has an aggregate 39-36 win-loss record in 2025, 34-31 on hard (See FULL STATS).

Soma Bay Challenger
Ouakaa's Record

Tennis Scores in Soma Bay Challenger

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