Ben Shelton vs Jannik Sinner Prediction & Betting Tips - ATP Indian Wells

Prediction published on 11/03/2024, 06:31  by Steve Ashfield | Modified on 12/03/2024 at 13:00 in ATP Indian Wells Prediction

Third seed Jannik Sinner bids to make it 15-0 for this year. He takes on the 16th seed Ben Shelton in the fourth round of this outdoor hard court ATP Masters 1000 tournament. For the winner there's a quarter final against either 11th seed Stefanos Tsitsipas or 32nd seed Jiri Lehecka. Sinner just keeps on winning this year and is up to second in the live rankings. He's earned more ranking points than any other player this year and therefore tops the Live ATP Race. The Italian has won the Australian Open and the indoors event in Rotterdam. Just one of his last 22 matches has ended in defeat and that was to Novak Djokovic in the Paris Masters. 17 successive matches have been won since that loss. This tournament has seen him win both of his matches in straight sets with only ten games dropped against Thanasi Kokkinakis and the 25th seed Jan-Lennard Struff.

It's 1-1 in previous meetings between these two players. Shelton beat Sinner in Shanghai last October but then lost to SInner 15 days later in VIenna. The American is 16th in the live rankings and can move up a place if beating Sinner. He's 23rd in the Live ATP Race, 1600 points behind his opponent. Shelton has reached two semi-finals this year in Adelaide and most recently, Dallas. His last tournament was in Acapulco where he lost in the quarter finals. He's played two matches in Indian Wells and had to go to a final set in both of them. Round two saw him beat Jakub Mensik after losing the first set. His most recent match saw him beat 22nd seed Francisco Cerundolo, losing the middle one. Both of the sets Shelton won were via tie-breaks. We tip Sinner to win this match in straight sets.