Zhizhen Zhang and Strong Kirchheimer will square off in the 1st round of the Savannah Challenger for the 1st time in their career. They are scheduled to compete on Tuesday at 10:00 am on SAVANNAH TOYOTA COURT. 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 Zhizhen Zhang who should win in 2 sets.
As per the initial odds, Zhizhen Zhang is the pick to win this match.
Zhizhen Zhang -> 1.127
Strong Kirchheimer -> 5.65
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Prediction and head to head Zhizhen Zhang vs. Strong Kirchheimer
There is no head to head record between Zhizhen Zhang and Strong Kirchheimer since this will be the first time that they will play each other in the main tour.
Zhizhen Zhang
| Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 17-18 | 4-7 | 7-5 | 2-2 | 4-4 | 0-0 |
| 2023 | 30-29 | 12-13 | 15-10 | 1-2 | 2-4 | 0-0 |
| 2022 | 52-28 | 11-5 | 31-11 | 9-11 | 1-1 | 0-0 |
| 2021 | 15-12 | 1-1 | 9-6 | 0-1 | 5-4 | 0-0 |
| 2020 | 1-6 | 1-6 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
Ranked no. 267, the Chinese will start his run in the Savannah Challenger after he played his last match in the Tallahassee Challenger where he lost 6-4 7-6(7) to Wu in the semifinal on the 23rd of April.
Zhang has a composed 10-10 win-loss record in 2022, 6-4 on clay (See FULL STATS).
Zhizhen’s best result of the current year was reaching the semifinal in the Tallahassee Challenger.
Talking about his overall career, Zhizhen has an overall 203-169 record. He has a positive 74-57 record on clay.
Previously in the Savannah Challenger
Zhizhen has never competed in this tournament before.
Strong Kirchheimer
| Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 13-16 | 9-8 | 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, Kirchheimer reached the 1st round after defeating James Cerretani 6-1 6-3 and Evan Zhu 2-6 6-4 6-4.
In the qualifications against Zhu, The American recovered from a 1-set down deficit before winning (2-6 6-4 6-4).During the match Kirchheimer scored less points (2) than Zhu. In fact, the world no. 267 won 90 points vs Zhu’s. That means that Kirchheimer was more focused during the important points. Kirchheimer was pretty aggressive to blast 37 winners.
Talking about serving, Kirchheimer scored just 1 ace during the entire match and he committed only 2 double faults. Strong Kirchheimer lost the serve 5 times and he saved 11 break points. Furthermore, Kirchheimer put 65% of his first serves in, winning 54% (37/68) of the points behind his 1st serve and 57% (21/37) on the 2nd serve. Strong broke Zhu 5 times after converting 63% of his break points (5/8).
Overall Performance in this tournament
Strong started his run at this tournament from the qualifications. In the main draw, he has conceded 1 set in the tournament to win 56% of the points he played.
The American has an overall 9-11 win-loss record in 2022, 7-10 on clay (See FULL STATS).
Head 2 Head
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- Tomas Martin EtcheverryMartin Etcheverry – (0-0) – H2H and prediction
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