Abdella Shelbayh - Ivan Gakhov: forecast and bet on the tournament in Girona

In the 1/16 finals of the clay challenger in Girona, Russian tennis player Ivan Gakhov will play against Abdell Shelbayh from Jordan.

Abdella ShelbeichThe 19-year-old representative of Jordan made his way to the main draw of the tournament in Spain through qualification.

He started at the tournament in Girona Shelbeich the day before yesterday, in the semi-finals of the qualification Abdella won a strong-willed victory over the Italian Alexander Weiss in three sets – 6:7 (3:7); 6:3; 7:6 (7:4). And yesterday, in the qualifying final, Shelbeich made a sensation and won a strong-willed victory over Paul-Martin Tiffon from Spain in three sets – 3:6; 7:5; 6:2. At the very beginning of the match, Abdella lost a game on his serve and settled for a score of 0:2 on games. However, Shelbeich added very quickly and was able to make a return break, which allowed him to reach the score 2:2. But Abdella could not find his tennis in the first set, from the score 3:3, the representative of Jordan lost a game twice in a row on his serve and eventually lost the set. In the second set, Shelbeich was again the first to lose a game on his serve, it happened with the score 1:2 on games. However, after that, Abdella was able to quickly gather himself again and as a result, due to the break, he managed to reach the score of 4:4. The set eventually turned out to be protracted, but with a score of 5:5 by games, Shelbeich made another break, and then the representative of Jordan confidently served for a set and equalized the score in the match. In the deciding set, Abdella immediately made two consecutive breaks and went 3-0 on games. Immediately after that, the tennis players exchanged breaks, and then Shelbeich stabilized the game on his serve and calmly brought the match to victory. The tennis players spent two hours and fifteen minutes on the court.

Ivan GakhovThe 26-year-old Russian tennis player, in turn, is just getting ready to start at the tournament in Girona.

The last time Gakhov played last week at the challenger in Spain, which was on hard. At that tournament in Spain, Ivan reached the quarterfinals, where the Russian tennis player lost in three sets to a much more statuesque Frenchman Hugo Grenier – 6:4; 3:6; 3:6. This game was on March 24.

ForecastThe bookmakers don't have a particular favorite in this match.

At the same time, Gakhov is quite capable of showing good tennis on the ground, and therefore here we suggest you bet on a Russian tennis player.