Alexander Ritschard and Strong Kirchheimer will fight against each other in the qualifications of the Tallahassee Challenger for the 2nd time of their career. They are scheduled to compete on Monday at 1 pm on COURT 5. In the following lines you can find the head to head analysis and prediction.
Prediction, odds and live streaming
The pick for Tennis Tonic is Alexander Ritschard who should win in 3 sets.
As per the initial odds, Alexander Ritschard is the pick to win this match.
Alexander Ritschard -> 1.61
Strong Kirchheimer -> 2.26
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Prediction and head to head Alexander Ritschard vs. Strong Kirchheimer
This will be the 2nd time that Alexander Ritschard and Strong Kirchheimer square off. The head to head is 1-0 for Ritschard (see full H2H stats), but they have never played each other on clay.
The last time that they played, Ritschard won 6-3 6-4 in the qualifications in the Cary Challenger back in 2020.
Alexander Ritschard
Ranked no. 319, Alexander got to the qualifications after beating Ozan Colak 6-2 6-2.
In the qualifications, Alexander had a good straight sets win against Colak (6-2 6-2). During the match Ritschard scored 57 points vs Colak’s 31. The Swiss was quite aggressive to blast 19 winners.
Talking about the service games, Ritschard scored just 1 ace during the match and he committed only 2 double faults. Alexander Ritschard was extremely effective on serve to win 83% (19/23) of his 1st serve and 81% (13/16) on the second serve. This was the main reason for not conceding a single break during the match. Ritschard broke Colak 4 times after converting 80% of his break points (4/5).
Ritschard has a solid record in the last 9 years having won 63% of his matches (201-120). 2-1 on clay in 2021. Regarding his performance on the same surface of this event, Ritschard has a 114-54 win-loss record in the last 9 years on clay.
The Swiss has a 3-4 win-loss record in 2021, 2-1 on clay (See FULL STATS).
Previously in the Tallahassee Challenger
Previously, his best result was reaching the 2nd round in 2019. See his history.
Strong Kirchheimer
Ranked no. 504, will start his run in the Tallahassee Challenger after he played his last match in the Tallahassee Challenger where he beat 6-4 4-6 6-4 to Yevseyev in the qualifications on the 18th of April.
Kirchheimer has a 3-3 win-loss record in 2021, 2-2 on clay (See FULL STATS).
In terms of his career, Strong has an overall 32-30 record. He has a negative 3-4 record on clay.
H2H Performance in the tournament (main draw)
Matches, sets, games and points
| Points | Ritschard | Kirchheimer |
|---|---|---|
| Match played | 1 | 1 |
| Tot Set | 2 | 3 |
| Tot Games | 16 | 30 |
| Pts | 57-31 | 83-86 |
| Total Points | 88 | 169 |
| Winners | 19 | 37 |
| %Winners | 33% | 45% |
Both Ritschard and Kirchheimer played 1 match. Also both players started their run from the qualifications.At the moment, Strong Kirchheimer dropped 1 set while Alexander Ritschard hasn’t dropped a set so far. Ritschard has played 1 set(s) less than Kirchheimer (2 vs 3). Therefore, Ritschard played 14 games less than Kirchheimer. Alexander scored 19 winners (33% of the total points). On the other side, Strong fired 37 winners (45%).
Serve Performance
| Serve | Ritschard | Kirchheimer |
|---|---|---|
| Aces | 1 | 2 |
| Avg per match | 1 | 2 |
| 1st in | 23/39 | 58/86 |
| %1st in | 59% | 67% |
| 1st pts | 19/23 | 37/58 |
| %1st pts | 83% | 64% |
| 2nd pts | 13/16 | 14/28 |
| %2nd pts | 81% | 50% |
Ritschard blasted 1 ace . Kirchheimer also bagged 2 aces . Ritschard won 83% points behind his first serve. He was rock solid on his second serve to win 81% of the points. On the other side, Kirchheimer won 64% of the points behind his first serve. He had a solid display on his second serve to win 50% of the points.
How they played the important points
| Breaks | Ritschard | Kirchheimer |
|---|---|---|
| Won | 4 | 5 |
| Converted | 4/5 | 5/9 |
| % Converted | 80% | 56% |
| Conceded | 0 | 8 |
| Saved | 0 | 4 |
| % Saved | NAN% | 50% |
| Times Broken | 0 | 4 |
The Swiss broke his opponent 4 times with a 80% conversion rate. The Swiss was rock solid on his serve as he has never lost a single service game after saving 0 break points. Kirchheimer broke his opponent 5 times with a 56% conversion rate. The American conceded his serve 4 times and he saved 50% of the break points that he conceded.
| Ritschard | |||
| Q1 Colak |
Total | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Score | 6-2 6-2 | ||
| Tot Set | 2 | 2 | |
| Tot Games | 16 | 16 | |
| pts | 57-31 | 57-31 | |
| Total points | 88 | 88 | |
| Winners | 19 | 19 | |
| %Winners | 33% | 33% | |
| SERVE | |||
| Aces | 1 | 1 | |
| Double Faults | 2 | 2 | |
| 1st in | 23/39 | 23/39 | |
| % 1st in | 59% | 59% | |
| 1st pts | 19/23 | 19/23 | |
| % 1st pts | 83% | 83% | |
| 2nd pts | 13/16 | 13/16 | |
| % 2nd pts | 81% | 81% | |
| Breaks | |||
| Won | 4 | 4 | |
| Converted | 4/5 | 4/5 | |
| Converted % | 80% | 80% | |
| Conceded | 0 | 0 | |
| Saved | 0/0 | 0 | |
| Saved % | – | 0% | |
| Times Broken | 0 | 0 | |
| Kirchheimer | |||
| Total | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Score | |||
| Tot Set | 0 | ||
| Tot Games | 0 | ||
| pts | 0-0 | ||
| Total points | 0 | ||
| Winners | 0 | ||
| %Winners | – | ||
| SERVE | |||
| Aces | 0 | ||
| Double Faults | 0 | ||
| 1st in | 0/0 | ||
| % 1st in | NAN% | ||
| 1st pts | 0/0 | ||
| % 1st pts | NAN% | ||
| 2nd pts | 0/0 | ||
| % 2nd pts | NAN% | ||
| Breaks | |||
| Won | 0 | ||
| Converted | 0/0 | ||
| Converted % | NAN% | ||
| Conceded | 0 | ||
| Saved | 0 | ||
| Saved % | 0% | ||
| Times Broken | 0 | ||
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