Kaichi Uchida and Strong Kirchheimer will clash against each other in the 1st round of the Little Rock Challenger for the 5th time in their career. They are scheduled to compete on Tuesday at 11:00 am on COURT 13. In the following paragraphs, you can find the head to head analysis and prediction.
Prediction, odds and live streaming
The pick for Tennis Tonic is Kaichi Uchida who should win in 3 sets.
As per the initial odds, Kaichi Uchida is the pick to win this match.
Kaichi Uchida -> 1.79
Strong Kirchheimer -> 1.98
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Prediction and head to head Kaichi Uchida vs. Strong Kirchheimer
This will be the 5th time that Kaichi Uchida and Strong Kirchheimer play each other. The head to head is 4-0 for Uchida (see full H2H stats), but they have never competed against each other on hard.
The last time that they fought against each other, Uchida won 6-4 1-6 7-6(4) in the 3rd round in the Columbus Challenger back in 2020.
Kaichi Uchida
| Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 32-15 | 11-9 | 16-6 | 5-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2023 | 17-33 | 4-18 | 3-10 | 9-4 | 1-1 | 0-0 |
| 2022 | 35-34 | 24-23 | 8-5 | 3-6 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2021 | 35-26 | 27-13 | 6-11 | 1-2 | 1-0 | 0-0 |
| 2020 | 14-11 | 10-5 | 1-2 | 3-4 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
Ranked no. 275, Uchida will start his run in the Little Rock Challenger after he played his last match in M25 Netanya where he lost 6-3 6-3 to Seelig in the semifinal on the 28th of May.
Uchida has an overall 12-15 win-loss record in 2022, 6-5 on hard (See FULL STATS).
Kaichi’s best result of the season was reaching the semifinal in M25 Loule and M25 Netanya.
Talking about his overall career, The Japanese has an overall 313-293 record. He has a positive 176-169 record on hard.
Previously in the Little Rock Challenger
Uchida 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. 564, Kirchheimer got to the 1st round after beating Jc Aragone 3-6 6-3 6-3 and Mukund Sasikumar 6-2 6-3.
In the qualifications, Kirchheimer had a good straight sets win against Kumar Mukund (6-2 6-3). During the match Kirchheimer scored 59 points vs Kumar Mukund’s 39. Strong was pretty aggressive to blast 29 winners.
Talking about serving, Kirchheimer recorded 2 aces and he was very solid in conceding no double faults for the entire match. Strong Kirchheimer was exceptionally effective on serve to win 83% (29/35) of his 1st serve and 60% (6/10) on the second serve. This was the main reason for not conceding a single break during the match. Strong broke Kumar Mukund 4 times after converting 80% of his break points (4/5).
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 54% of the points he played.
The American has an overall 11-12 win-loss record in 2022, 4-1 on hard (See FULL STATS).
Previously in the Little Rock Challenger
Previously, his best result was reaching the qualifications in 2021. See his history.
Head 2 Head
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- Yasutaka UchiyamaUchiyama – Sebastian FanselowFanselow (4-6 6-3 6-1) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Ulises BlanchBlanch – Roberto QuirozQuiroz (6-4 7-65) – Stats, scores, rankings
Upcoming matches in the draw
- Adrian Menendez-MaceirasMenendez-Maceiras – Emilio GomezGomez (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Kaichi UchidaUchida – Strong KirchheimerKirchheimer (4-0) – H2H and prediction
- Andrew HarrisHarris – Brandon HoltHolt (1-0) – H2H and prediction
- Gonzalo VillanuevaVillanueva – Jason Murray KublerMurray Kubler (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Zhizhen ZhangZhang – Tung-Lin WuWu (0-3) – H2H and prediction
- Christopher EubanksEubanks – Yasutaka UchiyamaUchiyama (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Altug CelikbilekCelikbilek – Malek JaziriJaziri (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Aleksandar KovacevicKovacevic – Ulises BlanchBlanch (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Gilbert Soares Klier JuniorSoares Klier Junior – Hiroki MoriyaMoriya (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Rinky HijikataHijikata – Denis YevseyevYevseyev (0-0) – H2H and prediction
