Mitchell Krueger and Darian King will face off in the 2nd round of the Little Rock Challenger for the 5th time in their career. They are scheduled to compete on Wednesday at 3:00 pm on COURT 13. In the following lines you can find the head to head analysis and prediction.
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The pick for Tennis Tonic is Mitchell Krueger who should win in 3 sets.
Mitchell Krueger -> 1.64
Darian King -> 2.26
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Prediction and head to head Mitchell Krueger vs. Darian King
This will be the 5th time that Mitchell Krueger and Darian King face off. The head to head is 3-1 for King (see full H2H stats), 2-0 on hard.
The last time that they played, King won 6-3 5-7 7-5 in the 1st round in the Cleveland Challenger back in March 2021.
Mitchell Krueger
Ranked no. 207, Mitchell got to the 2nd round after beating Zane Khan 6-2 6-4.
In the 1st round, Krueger had a good straight sets win against Khan (6-2 6-4). During the match, Krueger scored 60 points vs Khan’s 47. Krueger was extremely aggressive to blast 26 winners.
Regarding the service games, Krueger struck 8 aces and he was extremely consistent in conceding no double faults. Mitchell Krueger lost the serve once and he saved 3 break points. Furthermore, Krueger put 69% of his first serves in, winning 70% (26/37) of the points behind his 1st serve and 59% (10/17) on the 2nd serve. Mitchell was clinical in his return game without wasting any break point and break Khan 4 times.
Krueger has a favorable match record in the last 10 years having won 54% of his matches (308-267). 3-3 on hard in 2021. Regarding his performance on the same surface of this tournament, Krueger has an aggregate 186-161 win-loss record in the last years on hard.
Krueger’s best result of the current year was getting to the semifinal in M25 Naples.
Krueger has a composed 8-9 win-loss record in 2021, 3-3 on hard (See FULL STATS).
Previously in the Little Rock Challenger
Previously, his best result was reaching the quarter in 2019. See his history.
Darian King
Ranked no. 318, King got to the 2nd round after defeating Thiago Agustin Tirante 6-4 6-4.
In the 1st round, King had a good straight sets win against Agustin Tirante (6-4 6-4). During the match King scored 70 points vs Agustin Tirante’s 62. King was quite aggressive to blast 37 winners.
About the serving games, King was unable to score even 1 ace for the entire match and he committed only 1 double fault for the entire match. Darian King lost the serve once and he saved 1 break points. Furthermore, King put 79% of his first serves in, winning 70% (37/53) of the points behind his 1st serve and 50% (7/14) on the 2nd serve. Darian broke Agustin Tirante 3 times after converting 38% of his break points (3/8).
King has an aggregate 5-5 win-loss record in 2021, 1-1 on hard (See FULL STATS).
H2H Performance in the tournament
Matches, sets, games and points
| Points | Krueger | King |
|---|---|---|
| Match played | 1 | 1 |
| Tot Set | 2 | 2 |
| Tot Games | 18 | 20 |
| Pts | 60-47 | 70-62 |
| Total Points | 107 | 132 |
| Winners | 26 | 37 |
| %Winners | 43% | 53% |
Both Krueger and King played 1 match. Both players have not dropped a single set in this event so far. Talking about their workload, Krueger and King have played the same amount of sets 2. However, Krueger played 2 games less than King. Krueger scored 26 winners (43% of the total points). On the other side, The Barbadian blasted 37 winners (53%).
Serve Performance
| Serve | Krueger | King |
|---|---|---|
| Aces | 8 | 0 |
| Avg per match | 8 | 0 |
| 1st in | 37/54 | 53/67 |
| %1st in | 69% | 79% |
| 1st pts | 26/37 | 37/53 |
| %1st pts | 70% | 70% |
| 2nd pts | 10/17 | 7/14 |
| %2nd pts | 59% | 50% |
Krueger managed to score 8 aces . King didn’t manage to fire a single ace to far. Krueger won 70% points on his first serve. He had a solid display on his second serve to win 59% of the points. On the other side, King won 70% of the points on 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 | Krueger | King |
|---|---|---|
| Won | 4 | 3 |
| Converted | 4/4 | 3/8 |
| % Converted | 100% | 38% |
| Conceded | 4 | 2 |
| Saved | 3 | 1 |
| % Saved | 75% | 50% |
| Times Broken | 1 | 1 |
Mitchell broke his opponent 4 times with a 100% conversion rate. The American surrendered his serve once and he saved 75% of the break points that he conceded. Darian broke his opponent 3 times with a 38% conversion rate. The Barbadian conceded his serve once and he saved 50% of the break points that he conceded.
| Krueger | |||
| R1 Khan | Total | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Score | 6-2 6-4 | ||
| Tot Set | 2 | 2 | |
| Tot Games | 18 | 18 | |
| pts | 60-47 | 60-47 | |
| Total points | 107 | 107 | |
| Winners | 26 | 26 | |
| %Winners | 43% | 43% | |
| SERVE | |||
| Aces | 8 | 8 | |
| Double Faults | 0 | 0 | |
| 1st in | 37/54 | 37/54 | |
| % 1st in | 69% | 69% | |
| 1st pts | 26/37 | 26/37 | |
| % 1st pts | 70% | 70% | |
| 2nd pts | 10/17 | 10/17 | |
| % 2nd pts | 59% | 59% | |
| Breaks | |||
| Won | 4 | 4 | |
| Converted | 4/4 | 4/4 | |
| Converted % | 100% | 100% | |
| Conceded | 4 | 4 | |
| Saved | 3/4 | 3 | |
| Saved % | 75% | 75% | |
| Times Broken | 1 | 1 | |
| King | |||
| R1 Agustin | Total | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Score | 6-4 6-4 | ||
| Tot Set | 2 | 2 | |
| Tot Games | 20 | 20 | |
| pts | 70-62 | 70-62 | |
| Total points | 132 | 132 | |
| Winners | 37 | 37 | |
| %Winners | 53% | 53% | |
| SERVE | |||
| Aces | 0 | 0 | |
| Double Faults | 1 | 1 | |
| 1st in | 53/67 | 53/67 | |
| % 1st in | 79% | 79% | |
| 1st pts | 37/53 | 37/53 | |
| % 1st pts | 70% | 70% | |
| 2nd pts | 7/14 | 7/14 | |
| % 2nd pts | 50% | 50% | |
| Breaks | |||
| Won | 3 | 3 | |
| Converted | 3/8 | 3/8 | |
| Converted % | 38% | 38% | |
| Conceded | 2 | 2 | |
| Saved | 1/2 | 1 | |
| Saved % | 50% | 50% | |
| Times Broken | 1 | 1 | |
Tennis Scores in Little Rock Challenger
- Sasi Kumar MukundKumar Mukund – Roberto Cid SuberviCid Subervi (6-3 6-4) – See score progression
- Mitchell KruegerKrueger – Zane KhanKhan (6-2 6-4) – See score progression
- Jason JungJung – Christian HarrisonHarrison (6-1 6-2) – See score progression
- Goncalo OliveiraOliveira – Ryan HarrisonHarrison (7-5 7-66) – See score progression
- Darian KingKing – Thiago Agustin TiranteAgustin Tirante (6-4 6-4) – See score progression
- Hiroki MoriyaMoriya – Nicolas JarryJarry (6-4 6-2) – See score progression
Upcoming matches in the draw
- Jason JungJung – Hiroki MoriyaMoriya (2-1) – H2H and prediction
- Dayne KellyKelly – Nick ChappellChappell (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Agustin VelottiVelotti – Emilio GomezGomez (2-0) – H2H and prediction
- Jack SockSock – Roberto QuirozQuiroz (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Darian KingKing – Mitchell KruegerKrueger (3-1) – H2H and prediction
- Alexander RitschardRitschard – Kevin KingKing (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Stefan KozlovKozlov – Thai KwiatkowskiKwiatkowski (1-0) – H2H and prediction
- Christopher EubanksEubanks – Nicolas MejiaMejia (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Ernesto EscobedoEscobedo – Donald YoungYoung (1-2) – H2H and prediction
- Sasi Kumar MukundKumar Mukund – Goncalo OliveiraOliveira (1-0) – H2H and prediction
- Ulises BlanchBlanch – (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Alexis GalarneauGalarneau – Jc AragoneAragone (0-1) – H2H and prediction
- Oliver CrawfordCrawford – Peter PolanskyPolansky (0-0) – H2H and prediction