Alexandre Muller and Jerome Kym will play each other in the 2nd round of the Verona Challenger for the 2nd time in their career. They are scheduled to play on Thursday at 3:00 pm on CENTER. In the following paragraphs, you can find the head to head analysis and prediction.
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The pick for Tennis Tonic is Alexandre Muller who should win in 2 sets.
As per the initial odds, Alexandre Muller is the pick to win this match.
Alexandre Muller -> 1.32
Jerome Kym -> 3.38
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Prediction and head to head Alexandre Muller vs. Jerome Kym
This will be the 2nd time that Alexandre Muller and Jerome Kym square off. The head to head is 1-0 for Kym (see full H2H stats), but they have never played each other on clay.
The last time that they squared off, Kym won 6-3 7-6(2) in the 1st round in the Lugano Challenger back in March 2022.
Alexandre Muller
Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
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2024 | 33-27 | 11-13 | 20-12 | 1-1 | 1-1 | 0-0 |
2023 | 46-33 | 20-13 | 18-12 | 7-7 | 1-1 | 0-0 |
2022 | 38-31 | 6-6 | 27-20 | 4-4 | 1-1 | 0-0 |
2021 | 27-31 | 6-7 | 16-15 | 5-7 | 0-2 | 0-0 |
2020 | 21-13 | 3-2 | 15-9 | 3-2 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
Ranked no. 162, Muller got to the 2nd round after defeating Santiago Fa Rodriguez Taverna 6-1 4-2 ret..
In the 1st round, Muller had a good straight sets win against Fa Rodriguez Taverna (6-1 4-2 ret.). During the match, Muller scored 46 points vs Fa Rodriguez Taverna’s 27. Alexandre was exceptionally aggressive to blast 21 winners.
Regarding the service games, Muller blasted 2 aces and he committed only 1 double fault. Alexandre Muller was exceptionally efficient on serve to win 81% (21/26) of his 1st serve and 64% (7/11) on the second serve. This was the main reason for not conceding a single break during the match. Alexandre broke Fa Rodriguez Taverna 3 times after converting 43% of his break points (3/7).
Muller has a solid win-loss record in the last 8 years having won 61% of his matches (303-195). 13-10 on clay in 2022. In connection with his performance on the same surface of this event, Muller has a composed180-111 record in the last 8 years on clay.
Muller’s best result of the year was getting to the final in the Blois Challenger.
Muller has an overall 24-20 win-loss record in 2022, 13-10 on clay (See FULL STATS).
Previously in the Verona Challenger
The French player has never competed in this tournament before.
Jerome Kym
Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
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2024 | 54-16 | 14-3 | 37-11 | 3-2 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
2023 | 23-9 | 0-0 | 18-9 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 5-0 |
2022 | 41-22 | 17-5 | 12-9 | 9-5 | 0-0 | 3-3 |
2021 | 5-6 | 0-0 | 3-2 | 1-3 | 0-0 | 1-1 |
2020 | 0-2 | 0-0 | 0-2 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
Ranked no. 578, Jerome got to the 2nd round after beating Hamad Medjedovic 7-5 3-1 ret., Remy Bertola 5-7 6-2 6-4 and Bernard Tomic 6-4 7-61.
In the 1st round, The Swiss had a good straight sets win against Tomic (6-4 7-61). During the match Kym scored 76 points vs Tomic’s 63. Kym was pretty aggressive to blast 31 winners.
Talking about serving, Kym scored 9 aces and he committed only 3 double faults. Overall, Jerome Kym was extremely effective on serve to win 78% (31/40) of his 1st serve and 67% (16/24) on the second serve. However, this didn’t prevent his to concede the serve once. The Swiss broke Tomic twice after converting 22% of his break points (2/9).
The Swiss’s best result of the current year was getting to the final in M15 Heraklion.
The Swiss has an overall 27-12 win-loss record in 2022, 9-5 on clay (See FULL STATS).
H2H Performance in the tournament
Matches, sets, games and points
Points | Muller | Kym |
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Match played | 1 | 3 |
Tot Set | 3 | 8 |
Tot Games | 13 | 69 |
Pts | 46-27 | 245-211 |
Total Points | 73 | 456 |
Winners | 21 | 111 |
%Winners | 46% | 45% |
Muller played 1 match while Kym competed in 3 matches. Kym started his run from the qualifications while Muller had a direct access to the main draw. At the moment, Jerome Kym surrendered 1 set while Alexandre Muller hasn’t surrendered a set so far. Muller has played 5 set(s) less than Kym (3 vs 8). Therefore, Muller played 56 games less than Kym. Muller scored 21 winners (46% of the total points). On the other side, Jerome managed to score 111 winners (45%).
Serve Performance
Serve | Muller | Kym |
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Aces | 2 | 25 |
Avg per match | 2 | 8.3 |
1st in | 26/37 | 145/221 |
%1st in | 70% | 66% |
1st pts | 21/26 | 111/145 |
%1st pts | 81% | 77% |
2nd pts | 7/11 | 37/76 |
%2nd pts | 64% | 49% |
Muller struck 2 aces . Kym bagged 25 aces (8.3 per match). Muller won 81% points behind his first serve. He pretty solid on his second serve to win 64% of the points. On the other side, Kym won 77% of the points behind his first serve. He had a solid display on his second serve to win 49% of the points.
How they played the important points
Breaks | Muller | Kym |
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Won | 3 | 9 |
Converted | 3/7 | 9/31 |
% Converted | 43% | 29% |
Conceded | 0 | 18 |
Saved | 0 | 14 |
% Saved | 0% | 78% |
Times Broken | 0 | 4 |
Muller broke his opponent 3 times with a 43% conversion rate. The French player was rock solid on his serve as he has never surrendered a single service game after saving 0 break points. The Swiss broke his opponents 9 times with a 29% conversion rate. The Swiss conceded his serve 4 times and he saved 78% of the break points that he conceded.
Muller | |||
R1 Fa Rodriguez Taverna |
Total | ||
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Score | 6-1 4-2 ret. | ||
Tot Set | 2 | 2 | |
Tot Games | 13 | 13 | |
pts | 46-27 | 46-27 | |
Total points | 73 | 73 | |
Winners | 21 | 21 | |
%Winners | 46% | 46% | |
SERVE | |||
Aces | 2 | 2 | |
Double Faults | 1 | 1 | |
1st in | 26/37 | 26/37 | |
% 1st in | 70% | 70% | |
1st pts | 21/26 | 21/26 | |
% 1st pts | 81% | 81% | |
2nd pts | 7/11 | 7/11 | |
% 2nd pts | 64% | 64% | |
Breaks | |||
Won | 3 | 3 | |
Converted | 3/7 | 3/7 | |
Converted % | 43% | 43% | |
Conceded | 0 | 0 | |
Saved | 0/0 | 0 | |
Saved % | – | 0% | |
Times Broken | 0 | 0 |
Kym | |||||
Q1 Medjedovic |
Q3 Bertola |
R1 Tomic |
Total | ||
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Score | 7-5 3-1 ret. | 5-7 6-2 6-4 | 6-4 7-61 | ||
Tot Set | 2 | 3 | 2 | 7 | |
Tot Games | 16 | 30 | 23 | 69 | |
pts | 73-59 | 96-89 | 76-63 | 245-211 | |
Total points | 132 | 185 | 139 | 456 | |
Winners | 29 | 51 | 31 | 111 | |
%Winners | 40% | 53% | 41% | 45% | |
SERVE | |||||
Aces | 7 | 9 | 9 | 25 | |
Double Faults | 4 | 7 | 3 | 14 | |
1st in | 39/57 | 66/100 | 40/64 | 145/221 | |
% 1st in | 68% | 66% | 63% | 66% | |
1st pts | 29/39 | 51/66 | 31/40 | 111/145 | |
% 1st pts | 74% | 77% | 78% | 77% | |
2nd pts | 6/18 | 15/34 | 16/24 | 37/76 | |
% 2nd pts | 33% | 44% | 67% | 49% | |
Breaks | |||||
Won | 4 | 3 | 2 | 9 | |
Converted | 4/14 | 3/8 | 2/9 | 9/31 | |
Converted % | 29% | 38% | 22% | 29% | |
Conceded | 9 | 6 | 3 | 18 | |
Saved | 7/9 | 5/6 | 2/3 | 14 | |
Saved % | 78% | 83% | 67% | 228% | |
Times Broken | 2 | 1 | 1 | 4 |
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