Evan Zhu and Strong Kirchheimer will fight against each other in the qualifications of the Savannah Challenger for the 2nd time in their career. They are scheduled to compete on Monday at 10:00 am on LANDINGS CLUB STADIUM. 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 Evan Zhu who should win in 3 sets.
As per the initial odds, Evan Zhu is the pick to win this match.
Evan Zhu -> 1.49
Strong Kirchheimer -> 2.54
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Prediction and head to head Evan Zhu vs. Strong Kirchheimer
This will be the 2nd time that Evan Zhu and Strong Kirchheimer fight against each other. The head to head is 1-0 for Zhu (see full H2H stats), but they have never competed against each other on clay.
The last time that they competed against each other, Zhu won 6-3 6-4 in the 2nd round in USA F38 (Columbus) back in 2017.
Evan Zhu
| Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 2-9 | 2-6 | 0-3 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2023 | 31-32 | 21-21 | 9-7 | 1-3 | 0-1 | 0-0 |
| 2022 | 44-31 | 14-13 | 25-12 | 5-5 | 0-1 | 0-0 |
| 2021 | 13-20 | 9-15 | 4-4 | 0-1 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2020 | 11-6 | 5-3 | 6-2 | 0-1 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
Ranked no. 477 (career-high), Evan reached the qualifications after beating Alex Lawson 5-7 6-1 6-1.
In the qualifications against Lawson, Evan recovered from a 1-set down deficit before winning (5-7 6-1 6-1). During the match, Zhu scored 98 points vs Lawson’s 80. The American was quite aggressive to blast 40 winners.
Regarding the service games, Zhu managed to score 6 aces and he committed only 3 double faults. Evan Zhu lost the serve 3 times and he saved 8 break points. Furthermore, Zhu put 61% of his first serves in, winning 67% (40/60) of the points behind his 1st serve and 47% (18/38) on the 2nd serve. Zhu broke Lawson 7 times after converting 70% of his break points (7/10).
Zhu has a winning win-loss record in the last 7 years having won 52% of his matches (131-120). 16-6 on clay in 2022. Regarding his performance on the same surface of this tournament, Zhu has an overall47-28 win-loss record in the last 7 years on clay.
Zhu’s best result of the season was getting to the final in M15 Naples and M15 Sunrise.
The American has an overall 22-9 win-loss record in 2022, 16-6 on clay (See FULL STATS).
Previously in the Savannah Challenger
Strong Kirchheimer
| Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 6-11 | 2-3 | 2-4 | 2-4 | 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. 566, Strong reached the qualifications after beating James Cerretani 6-1 6-3.
In the qualifications, Strong had a good straight sets win against Cerretani (6-1 6-3). During the match Kirchheimer scored 56 points vs Cerretani’s 25. The American was quite aggressive to blast 26 winners.
About the serving games, Kirchheimer struck 5 aces and he committed only 1 double fault for the entire match. Strong Kirchheimer was pretty efficient on serve to win 100% (26/26) of his 1st serve and 75% (6/8) on the second serve. This was the main reason for not conceding a single break during the match. The American broke Cerretani 4 times after converting 57% of his break points (4/7).
Kirchheimer has an aggregate 8-11 win-loss record in 2022, 6-10 on clay (See FULL STATS).
H2H Performance in the tournament
Matches, sets, games and points
| Points | Zhu | Kirchheimer |
|---|---|---|
| Match played | 1 | 1 |
| Tot Set | 3 | 2 |
| Tot Games | 26 | 16 |
| Pts | 98-80 | 56-25 |
| Total Points | 178 | 81 |
| Winners | 40 | 26 |
| %Winners | 41% | 46% |
Both Zhu and Kirchheimer played 1 match. Also both players started their run from the qualifications.At the moment, Evan Zhu dropped 1 set while Strong Kirchheimer hasn’t lost a set so far. Zhu has played 1 set more than Kirchheimer (3 vs 2). Therefore, Zhu played 10 games more than Kirchheimer. Evan scored 40 winners (41% of the total points). On the other side, Strong bagged 26 winners (46%).
Serve Performance
| Serve | Zhu | Kirchheimer |
|---|---|---|
| Aces | 6 | 5 |
| Avg per match | 6 | 5 |
| 1st in | 60/98 | 26/34 |
| %1st in | 61% | 76% |
| 1st pts | 40/60 | 26/26 |
| %1st pts | 67% | 100% |
| 2nd pts | 18/38 | 6/8 |
| %2nd pts | 47% | 75% |
Zhu recorded 6 aces . Kirchheimer recorded 5 aces . Zhu won 67% points on his first serve. He pretty effective on his second serve to win 47% of the points. On the other side, Kirchheimer won 100% of the points on 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 | Zhu | Kirchheimer |
|---|---|---|
| Won | 7 | 4 |
| Converted | 7/10 | 4/7 |
| % Converted | 70% | 57% |
| Conceded | 11 | 0 |
| Saved | 8 | 0 |
| % Saved | 73% | 0% |
| Times Broken | 3 | 0 |
The American broke his opponent 7 times with a 70% conversion rate. Evan surrendered his serve 3 times and he saved 73% of the break points that he conceded. Strong broke his opponent 4 times with a 57% conversion rate. Kirchheimer was rock solid on his serve as he has never conceded a single service game after saving 0 break points.
| Zhu | |||
| Q1 Lawson |
Total | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Score | 5-7 6-1 6-1 | ||
| Tot Set | 3 | 3 | |
| Tot Games | 26 | 26 | |
| pts | 98-80 | 98-80 | |
| Total points | 178 | 178 | |
| Winners | 40 | 40 | |
| %Winners | 41% | 41% | |
| SERVE | |||
| Aces | 6 | 6 | |
| Double Faults | 3 | 3 | |
| 1st in | 60/98 | 60/98 | |
| % 1st in | 61% | 61% | |
| 1st pts | 40/60 | 40/60 | |
| % 1st pts | 67% | 67% | |
| 2nd pts | 18/38 | 18/38 | |
| % 2nd pts | 47% | 47% | |
| Breaks | |||
| Won | 7 | 7 | |
| Converted | 7/10 | 7/10 | |
| Converted % | 70% | 70% | |
| Conceded | 11 | 11 | |
| Saved | 8/11 | 8 | |
| Saved % | 73% | 73% | |
| Times Broken | 3 | 3 | |
| Kirchheimer | |||
| Q1 Cerretani |
Total | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Score | 6-1 6-3 | ||
| Tot Set | 2 | 2 | |
| Tot Games | 16 | 16 | |
| pts | 56-25 | 56-25 | |
| Total points | 81 | 81 | |
| Winners | 26 | 26 | |
| %Winners | 46% | 46% | |
| SERVE | |||
| Aces | 5 | 5 | |
| Double Faults | 1 | 1 | |
| 1st in | 26/34 | 26/34 | |
| % 1st in | 76% | 76% | |
| 1st pts | 26/26 | 26/26 | |
| % 1st pts | 100% | 100% | |
| 2nd pts | 6/8 | 6/8 | |
| % 2nd pts | 75% | 75% | |
| Breaks | |||
| Won | 4 | 4 | |
| Converted | 4/7 | 4/7 | |
| Converted % | 57% | 57% | |
| Conceded | 0 | 0 | |
| Saved | 0/0 | 0 | |
| Saved % | – | 0% | |
| Times Broken | 0 | 0 | |
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