Tyler Zink and Strong Kirchheimer will play each other in the 1st round of the Champaign Challenger for the 2nd time in their career. They are scheduled to play on Tuesday at 12:30 pm on THE GOLDENBERG COURT. In the following paragraphs, you can find the head to head analysis and prediction.
Prediction, odds and live streaming
The pick for Tennis Tonic is Tyler Zink who should win in 3 sets.
As per the initial odds, Tyler Zink is the pick to win this match.
Tyler Zink -> 1.74
Strong Kirchheimer -> 2
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Prediction and head to head Tyler Zink vs. Strong Kirchheimer
This will be the 2nd time that Tyler Zink and Strong Kirchheimer clash against each other. The head to head is 1-0 for Zink (see full H2H stats), 1-0 on indoor hard courts.
The last time that they fought against each other, Zink won 6-4 6-7(7) 7-5 in the qualifications in the Columbus Challenger back in September 2024.
Tyler Zink
| Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 31-11 | 13-7 | 9-1 | 9-3 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2023 | 4-10 | 1-2 | 3-6 | 0-2 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2022 | 17-14 | 11-11 | 4-2 | 2-1 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2021 | 6-9 | 6-7 | 0-1 | 0-1 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2020 | 3-1 | 3-1 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
Ranked no. 497 (career-high), Zink will start his run in the Champaign Challenger after he played his last match in M25 Norman where he lost 6-4 6-3 to Carlos Manuel Aguilar in the semifinal on the 26th of October.
Tyler has an overall 31-11 win-loss record in 2024, 9-3 on indoor hard courts (See FULL STATS).
Zink’s best result of the season was getting to the final in M15 Rochester,M25 Southaven,M15 Huntsville and M25 Louisville.
Talking about his overall career, Zink has an overall 64-51 record. He has a positive 11-7 record on indoor hard courts.
Previously in the Champaign Challenger
Tyler has never competed in this tournament before.
Strong Kirchheimer
21 - 28win/loss
645
375
WWLWLWLWLL | Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 21-28 | 12-16 | 2-4 | 7-8 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2023 | 38-29 | 19-16 | 2-4 | 17-9 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2022 | 33-30 | 17-12 | 7-11 | 9-7 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2021 | 19-21 | 12-15 | 6-5 | 1-1 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2020 | 17-12 | 13-7 | 0-0 | 4-4 | 0-0 | 0-1 |
Ranked no. 645, Kirchheimer got to the 1st round after beating Reese Stalder 6-3 6-4 and Trey Hilderbrand 6-1 6-4.
In the qualifications, Kirchheimer had a good straight sets win against Hilderbrand (6-1 6-4). During the match Kirchheimer scored 59 points vs Hilderbrand’s 38. Kirchheimer was extremely aggressive to blast 28 winners.
Talking about serving, Kirchheimer bagged 7 aces and he committed only 2 double faults. Strong Kirchheimer was extremely effective on serve to win 88% (28/32) of his 1st serve and 67% (8/12) on the second serve. This was the main reason for not conceding a single break during the match. The American broke Hilderbrand 3 times after converting 60% of his break points (3/5).
Overall Performance in this tournament
The American started his run at this tournament from the qualifications. In the main draw, he hasn’t surrendered yet a set in this competition to conquer 56% of the points he played.
Kirchheimer’s best result of the year was reaching the semifinal in M15 San Diego.
The American has an overall 21-28 win-loss record in 2024, 7-8 on indoor hard courts (See FULL STATS).
Previously in the Champaign Challenger
Previously, his best result was reaching the 2nd round in 2022 and 2023. See his history.
Head 2 Head
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- Hady HabibHabib – Toby Alex KodatAlex Kodat (4-6 6-2 7-5) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Kenta MiyoshiMiyoshi – Evgeny KarlovskiyKarlovskiy (6-1 6-2) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Jack Pinnington JonesPinnington Jones – Mark LajalLajal (6-3 3-6 6-3) – Stats, scores, rankings
Upcoming matches in the draw
- Strong KirchheimerKirchheimer – Tyler ZinkZink (0-1) – H2H and prediction
- Felix CorwinCorwin – Jay ClarkeClarke (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Ezekiel ClarkClark – Alex RybakovRybakov (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Patrick KypsonKypson – Stefan KozlovKozlov (0-1) – H2H and prediction
- Govind NandaNanda – (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Patrick MaloneyMaloney – (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Saba PurtseladzePurtseladze – Christopher EubanksEubanks (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Micah BraswellBraswell – (0-0) – H2H and prediction
