Prediction Of Vukic Vs Shelton H2H, Who Will Win At ATP Dallas Open 2025?

What Time Will Aleksandar Vukic Play Against Ben Shelton?

Vukic and Shelton are on the Day 2 Schedule at Dallas Open 2025 on Tuesday 4 February 2025. 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?

Aleksandar Vukic, a 28-year-old Australian player ranked 66th in the world, will be facing off against the fourth-seeded Ben Shelton from the United States. This will mark their first meeting at the tour-level. They have previously encountered each other at the 2022 Champaign Challenger event in the U.S., where Shelton emerged victorious with a score of 0-6, 6-3, 6-2 on the hard court.

Vukic’s tennis career has seen notable achievements, such as breaking into the top 200 in March 2020 before the ATP Tour was suspended due to the COVID-19 pandemic. He further climbed the rankings to reach the top 100 in May 2023 and achieved his career-high ranking of 48th in August 2023, shortly after reaching his first ATP Tour final in Atlanta. In the 2024 Eastbourne tournament, Vukic entered as a lucky loser and made it to the semifinals by defeating Nishioka in the quarterfinals, who had previously defeated him in the qualifying rounds. He also had a significant win in the 2024 ATP Masters 1000 Shanghai, where he qualified for and defeated the 9th-ranked Ruud, marking the biggest victory of his career. Vukic has won Challenger titles at the 2022 Bengaluru-2 and 2023 Busan events, and reached the finals in the Champaign Challenger in 2021 and 2022. During his time at the University of Illinois from 2015-2018, Vukic was a three-time All-American. Notably, he was born in Sydney after his parents and older brother fled Montenegro during the early 1990s breakup of Yugoslavia.

While Vukic has not yet secured a win at ATP 500 events in his career, with a record of 0-5, he has faced top-ranking opponents with a 3-15 record against the top 20 players, including a recent indoor win against the 15th-ranked Tiafoe in Almaty. His most significant victory came against the 9th-ranked Ruud at the ATP Masters 1000 Shanghai in October.

Ben Shelton, 22 years old and currently ranked 13th in the world, has achieved a career-high ranking of 13th in August 2024. He broke into the top 200 in August 2022, the top 100 in November 2022, and the top 20 in September 2023. Shelton’s career started off with impressive performances at the 2023 US Open, where he defeated his compatriots Paul and Tiafoe to become the youngest American man to reach the semifinals since Chang in 1992. He also defeated the 4th-ranked Sinner to reach his first ATP Masters quarterfinal in Shanghai. Shelton claimed his first ATP Tour title at the 2023 Tokyo event, making him the fourth father-son duo in the Open Era to achieve a tour-level championship, alongside Bryan Shelton. At the age of 20, on his first trip outside of the USA, Shelton advanced to the Australian Open quarterfinals, becoming the youngest American man to achieve this since Giammalva Jr. at 19 years old in 1982, and to reach a Grand Slam quarterfinal since Roddick at the 2002 US Open, also at 20 years old. In his ATP Masters 1000 debut at the age of 19 in Cincinnati, Shelton caused an upset by defeating the 5th-ranked Ruud, becoming the youngest American player to achieve a top-5 win since Roddick defeated Kuerten in 2001.

Before transitioning to the professional circuit, Shelton had a successful college career at the University of Florida. Coached by his father Bryan Shelton, a former World No. 55 player, he achieved a singles record of 65-10 in two seasons. Shelton contributed to his team’s victory in the 2021 NCAA team championship and also secured the NCAA singles title in 2022.

Notably, Shelton has been performing well in hard-court opening rounds since the start of the 2024 season. With a record of 15-3, he has had success, with the exception of a loss to No. 49 Mensik in Auckland last month. In the 2022 Champaign Challenger, Shelton defeated Vukic in the final, completing a winning streak of 15 matches. By achieving this feat at the young age of 20, Shelton became the youngest player to win three Challenger titles in three consecutive weeks.

My Conclusion / Prediction:

My pick is that Vukic will win.
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