Nick Chappell and Vasil Kirkov will play each other in the 2nd round of the Champaign Challenger for the 2nd time in their career. They are scheduled to play on Wednesday at 10:00 am on COURT 5. Here the head to head stats and relative prediction.
Prediction, odds and live streaming
The pick for Tennis Tonic is Vasil Kirkov who should win in 3 sets.
As per the initial odds, Vasil Kirkov is the pick to win this match.
Vasil Kirkov -> 1.9
Nick Chappell -> 1.9
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Prediction and head to head Nick Chappell vs. Vasil Kirkov
This will be the 2nd time that Nick Chappell and Vasil Kirkov face off. The head to head is 1-0 for Kirkov (see full H2H stats), but they have never competed against each other on indoor hard courts.
The last time that they squared off, Kirkov won 6-7(3) 7-6(8) 7-6(1) in the final in M15 Cancun back in 2019.
Nick Chappell
Ranked no. 338, Nick got to the 2nd round after beating Emilio Nava 6-3 7-65.
In the 1st round, Nick had a good straight sets win against Nava (6-3 7-65). During the match, Chappell scored 87 points vs Nava’s 78. Chappell was exceptionally aggressive to blast 27 winners.
Regarding the service games, Chappell bagged 2 aces and he committed only 2 double faults. Overall, Nick Chappell was quite efficient on serve to win 73% (27/37) of his 1st serve and 51% (19/37) on the second serve. However, this didn’t prevent his to concede the serve twice. The American broke Nava 3 times after converting 25% of his break points (3/12).
Chappell has a winning match record in the last 9 years having won 53% of his matches (117-103). 3-5 on indoor hard courts in 2021. Talking about his performance on the same surface of this event, Chappell has a compiled18-20 record in the last 9 years on indoor hard courts.
The American’s best result of the current season was reaching the semifinal in the Potchefstroom 1 Challenger.
The American has an overall 21-31 win-loss record in 2021, 3-5 on indoor hard courts (See FULL STATS).
Previously in the Champaign Challenger
Previously, his best result was reaching the qualifications in 2013. See his history.
Vasil Kirkov
Ranked no. 491 (career-high), Kirkov reached the 2nd round after beating Prajnesh Gunneswaran 7-5 6-1.
In the 1st round, Vasil had a good straight sets win against Gunneswaran (7-5 6-1). During the match Kirkov scored 71 points vs Gunneswaran’s 47. Kirkov was quite aggressive to blast 25 winners.
About the serving games, Kirkov blasted 2 aces and he committed only 2 double faults. Vasil Kirkov lost the serve once and he saved 1 break points. Furthermore, Kirkov put 64% of his first serves in, winning 69% (25/36) of the points behind his 1st serve and 75% (15/20) on the 2nd serve. Vasil broke Gunneswaran 4 times after converting 67% of his break points (4/6).
The American’s best result of the season was reaching the final in M15 Tallahassee.
Vasil has an aggregate 26-13 win-loss record in 2021, 16-4 on indoor hard courts (See FULL STATS).
H2H Performance in the tournament
Matches, sets, games and points
| Points | Chappell | Kirkov |
|---|---|---|
| Match played | 1 | 1 |
| Tot Set | 2 | 2 |
| Tot Games | 22 | 19 |
| Pts | 87-78 | 71-47 |
| Total Points | 165 | 118 |
| Winners | 27 | 25 |
| %Winners | 31% | 35% |
Both Chappell and Kirkov played 1 match. Both players have not lost a single set in this event so far. Talking about their workload, Chappell and Kirkov have played the same amount of sets 2. However, Chappell played 3 games more than Kirkov. The American scored 27 winners (31% of the total points). On the other side, The American made 25 winners (35%).
Serve Performance
| Serve | Chappell | Kirkov |
|---|---|---|
| Aces | 2 | 2 |
| Avg per match | 2 | 2 |
| 1st in | 37/74 | 36/56 |
| %1st in | 50% | 64% |
| 1st pts | 27/37 | 25/36 |
| %1st pts | 73% | 69% |
| 2nd pts | 19/37 | 15/20 |
| %2nd pts | 51% | 75% |
Chappell managed to score 2 aces . Kirkov fired 2 aces . Chappell won 73% points behind his first serve. He extremely effective on his second serve to win 51% of the points. On the other side, Kirkov won 69% of the points behind his first serve. He had a solid display on his second serve to win 75% of the points.
How they played the important points
| Breaks | Chappell | Kirkov |
|---|---|---|
| Won | 3 | 4 |
| Converted | 3/12 | 4/6 |
| % Converted | 25% | 67% |
| Conceded | 5 | 2 |
| Saved | 3 | 1 |
| % Saved | 60% | 50% |
| Times Broken | 2 | 1 |
Chappell broke his opponent 3 times with a 25% conversion rate. Chappell dropped his serve twice and he saved 60% of the break points that he conceded. Kirkov broke his opponent 4 times with a 67% conversion rate. Vasil conceded his serve once and he saved 50% of the break points that he conceded.
| Chappell | |||
| R1 Nava |
Total | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Score | 6-3 7-65 | ||
| Tot Set | 2 | 2 | |
| Tot Games | 22 | 22 | |
| pts | 87-78 | 87-78 | |
| Total points | 165 | 165 | |
| Winners | 27 | 27 | |
| %Winners | 31% | 31% | |
| SERVE | |||
| Aces | 2 | 2 | |
| Double Faults | 2 | 2 | |
| 1st in | 37/74 | 37/74 | |
| % 1st in | 50% | 50% | |
| 1st pts | 27/37 | 27/37 | |
| % 1st pts | 73% | 73% | |
| 2nd pts | 19/37 | 19/37 | |
| % 2nd pts | 51% | 51% | |
| Breaks | |||
| Won | 3 | 3 | |
| Converted | 3/12 | 3/12 | |
| Converted % | 25% | 25% | |
| Conceded | 5 | 5 | |
| Saved | 3/5 | 3 | |
| Saved % | 60% | 60% | |
| Times Broken | 2 | 2 | |
| Kirkov | |||
| R1 Gunneswaran |
Total | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Score | 7-5 6-1 | ||
| Tot Set | 2 | 2 | |
| Tot Games | 19 | 19 | |
| pts | 71-47 | 71-47 | |
| Total points | 118 | 118 | |
| Winners | 25 | 25 | |
| %Winners | 35% | 35% | |
| SERVE | |||
| Aces | 2 | 2 | |
| Double Faults | 2 | 2 | |
| 1st in | 36/56 | 36/56 | |
| % 1st in | 64% | 64% | |
| 1st pts | 25/36 | 25/36 | |
| % 1st pts | 69% | 69% | |
| 2nd pts | 15/20 | 15/20 | |
| % 2nd pts | 75% | 75% | |
| Breaks | |||
| Won | 4 | 4 | |
| Converted | 4/6 | 4/6 | |
| Converted % | 67% | 67% | |
| Conceded | 2 | 2 | |
| Saved | 1/2 | 1 | |
| Saved % | 50% | 50% | |
| Times Broken | 1 | 1 | |
Head 2 Head
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Tennis Scores in Champaign Challenger
- Ben SheltonShelton – Blaz RolaRola (3-6 6-4 6-4) – See score progression
- Keegan SmithSmith – Michael MmohMmoh (5-3 ret.) – See score progression
- Jason JungJung – Mikael TorpegaardTorpegaard (6-2 3-6 6-4) – See score progression
- Daniel AltmaierAltmaier – Malek JaziriJaziri (6-3 6-4) – See score progression
- Go SoedaSoeda – Thai KwiatkowskiKwiatkowski (6-1 6-4) – See score progression
- Yosuke WatanukiWatanuki – Alexis GalarneauGalarneau (6-4 4-6 6-0) – See score progression
- Vasil KirkovKirkov – Prajnesh GunneswaranGunneswaran (7-5 6-1) – See score progression
- Stefan KozlovKozlov – Jc AragoneAragone (3-6 6-3 6-4) – See score progression
- Kaichi UchidaUchida – Yasutaka UchiyamaUchiyama (6-4 3-1 ret.) – See score progression
- Mitchell KruegerKrueger – Nicolas MejiaMejia (6-3 6-3) – See score progression
- Nick ChappellChappell – Emilio NavaNava (6-3 7-65) – See score progression
- Jeff WolfWolf – Tatsuma ItoIto (6-3 3-6 6-3) – See score progression
- Christian HarrisonHarrison – Ezekiel ClarkClark (4-6 6-3 6-3) – See score progression
- Daniel AltmaierAltmaier – Malek JaziriJaziri (6-3 6-4) – See score progression
- Yosuke WatanukiWatanuki – Alexis GalarneauGalarneau (6-4 4-6 6-0) – See score progression
- Ben SheltonShelton – Blaz RolaRola (3-6 6-4 6-4) – See score progression
- Aleksandar VukicVukic – Tung-Lin WuWu (6-3 6-3) – See score progression
- Go SoedaSoeda – Thai KwiatkowskiKwiatkowski (6-1 6-4) – See score progression
- Jason JungJung – Mikael TorpegaardTorpegaard (6-2 3-6 6-4) – See score progression
- Keegan SmithSmith – Michael MmohMmoh (5-3 ret.) – See score progression
Upcoming matches in the draw
- Go SoedaSoeda – Jason JungJung (6-2) – H2H and prediction
- Kaichi UchidaUchida – Jeff WolfWolf (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Christian HarrisonHarrison – Mitchell KruegerKrueger (1-0) – H2H and prediction
- Pedja KrstinKrstin – Arjun KadheKadhe (0-1) – H2H and prediction
- Stefan KozlovKozlov – Keegan SmithSmith (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Daniel AltmaierAltmaier – Yosuke WatanukiWatanuki (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Aleksandar KovacevicKovacevic – Gijs BrouwerBrouwer (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Vasil KirkovKirkov – Nick ChappellChappell (1-0) – H2H and prediction
