Who Will Win: Albot Vs Shelton? Prediction For ATP Mubadala Citi Dc Open 2024

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Albot and Shelton are on the Day 3 Schedule at Mubadala Citi Dc Open 2024 on Wednesday 31 July 2024. Lets breakdown the career, past stats and recent form of these players and predict who will get the victory.

Who Will Win In This Head-To-Head?

Radu Albot from Moldova will be facing Ben Shelton from the United States for the first time. Albot is 34 years old and currently ranked 152 in the world, with a career-high ranking of 39. In 2019, he achieved his career-best 31 wins and won his first ATP Tour title at Delray Beach, defeating Evans after saving 3 match points. At the age of 33, Albot earned his 100th career win by beating Coria in the first round of the 2023 Banja Luka tournament.

Albot has reached the third round of Grand Slam events before, including the 2017 US Open, 2018 and 2021 Australian Open, and 2022 Australian Open, all as a qualifier. In the Challenger circuit, he has a record of 216 wins and 159 losses, with 9 wins in finals. His most recent Challenger title was in Istanbul in 2022. As a junior, Albot reached a career-high ranking of 11 in 2007 and defeated future ATP No. 3 players Dimitrov and Raonic.

Albot is multilingual and can speak Romanian, Russian, English, and a little bit of German and Spanish. He has trained in Romania, the United States, Germany, and Spain. Currently, he has qualified for the Washington tournament and has reached the second round for the second consecutive year after defeating Diaz Acosta in the first round. Albot has a record of 7 wins and 26 losses against top 20 players and is aiming to get his first win against a top 20 player since defeating No. 18 Paul in the 2023 Delray Beach quarterfinals.

On the other hand, Ben Shelton is 21 years old and currently ranked 14th in the world, which is his career-high ranking. In 2024, he has a record of 23 wins and 16 losses, including

winning the Houston title. In the Washington tournament, Shelton has a record of 0 wins and 1 loss, having lost in the second round in 2023.

Shelton was a former top-10 junior and earned his first ranking point just 8 days after his 15th birthday in 2011. He achieved his career-high ranking of 65 at the age of 27 in 2023, surpassing his previous career-high of 69 that he set at the age of 19 in 2015. He won his first ATP Tour title in his hometown at the 2022 Adelaide-2 tournament as a wildcard ranked 145th, after reaching his first quarterfinal, semifinal, and final at the 2017 Los Cabos tournament as a wildcard ranked 454th. He caused an upset by defeating defending champion Federer in the second round of the 2018 Miami tournament when he was ranked 175th as a qualifier, becoming the lowest-ranked player to beat a World No. 1 since No. 178 Clavet defeated Hewitt in the 2003 Miami tournament second round. In the 2022 Australian Open, Shelton won the doubles title with his countryman Kyrgios, ranked 434th, by defeating Ebden and Purcell in the first all-Aussie Grand Slam doubles final since the 1980 Australian Open. In his junior career, he reached three Grand Slam finals in 2013, including winning the Wimbledon boys’ doubles title with Kyrgios and finishing as the boys’ singles runner-up at the Australian Open and US Open.

Shelton is the highest-ranked American player in the Washington draw and is attempting to become the first American man to win the title since Roddick in 2007. He is looking to record his first win in Washington after losing in the second round to Shang last year.

My Conclusion / Prediction:

My pick is that Albot will win.
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