Nicolas Mejia and Strong Kirchheimer will fight against each other in the 2^nd round of the Lexington Challenger for the 2^nd time in their career. They are scheduled to compete on Thursday at 10:00 am on CENTER COURT 1. In the following lines you can find the head to head analysis and prediction.

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The pick for Tennis Tonic is Nicolas Mejia who should win in 3 sets.

As per the initial odds, Nicolas Mejia is the pick to win this match.
Nicolas Mejia -> 1.68
Strong Kirchheimer -> 2.13

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Prediction and head to head Nicolas Mejia vs. Strong Kirchheimer

This will be the 2^nd time that Nicolas Mejia and Strong Kirchheimer square off. The head to head is 1-0 for Mejia (see full H2H stats), but they have never competed against each other on hard.

The last time that they competed against each other, Mejia won 6-4 6-4 in the final in USA F30 (Niceville) back in 2018.

Nicolas Mejia

Nicolas Mejia

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Year	Total	Hard	Clay	I.hard	Grass	Carpet
2024	30-15	10-9	20-6	0-0	0-0	0-0
2023	24-33	6-13	18-18	0-0	0-2	0-0
2022	31-35	13-12	15-13	3-10	0-0	0-0
2021	24-28	16-10	5-13	3-5	0-0	0-0
2020	4-7	2-4	2-3	0-0	0-0	0-0

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Ranked no. 313, the Colombian reached the 2^nd round after defeating Hady Habib 6-3 6-4.

In the 1^st round, Nicolas had a good straight sets win against Habib (6-3 6-4). During the match, Mejia scored 62 points vs Habib’s 50. Mejia was exceptionally aggressive to blast 33 winners.

Regarding the service games, Mejia managed to score 2 aces and he committed only 1 double fault. Nicolas Mejia was extremely effective on serve to win 75% (33/44) of his 1st serve and 60% (12/20) on the second serve. This was the main reason for not conceding a single break during the match. Nicolas was clinical in his return game without wasting any break point and break Habib twice.

Mejia has a winning record in the last 7 years having won 56% of his matches (127-101). 6-6 on hard in 2022. Regarding his performance on the same surface of this competition, Mejia has a compiled52-34 record in the last 7 years on hard.

Mejia’s best result of the current year was reaching the semifinal in M25 Anapoima and the Cali Challenger.

Nicolas has an aggregate 19-23 win-loss record in 2022, 6-6 on hard (See FULL STATS).

Previously in the Lexington Challenger

Lexington Challenger

Mejia's Record

Strong Kirchheimer

Strong Kirchheimer

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High
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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

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Ranked no. 550, Kirchheimer got to the 2^nd round after beating Saketh-Sai Myneni 6-1 6-1, Aidan Mayo 6-3 6-1 and Genaro Alberto Olivieri 6-1 6-1.

In the 1^st round, The American had a good straight sets win against Alberto Olivieri (6-1 6-1). During the match Kirchheimer scored 57 points vs Alberto Olivieri’s 28. Strong was very aggressive to blast 17 winners.

Talking about serving, Kirchheimer blasted 3 aces and he was extremely consistent in conceding no double faults for the entire match. Strong Kirchheimer was quite effective on serve to win 77% (17/22) of his 1st serve and 79% (11/14) on the second serve. This was the main reason for not conceding a single break during the match. Strong broke Alberto Olivieri 5 times after converting 63% of his break points (5/8).

Strong has a composed 20-18 win-loss record in 2022, 10-5 on hard (See FULL STATS).

Previously in the Lexington Challenger

Previously, his best result was reaching the 1^st round in 2019. See his history.

Lexington Challenger

Kirchheimer's Record

H2H Performance in the tournament

Matches, sets, games and points

Mejia played 1 match while Kirchheimer competed in 3 matches. Kirchheimer started his run from the qualifications while Mejia had a direct access to the main draw. Both players have not lost a single set in this event so far. Mejia has played 4 set(s) less than Kirchheimer (2 vs 6). Therefore, Mejia played 25 games less than Kirchheimer. Nicolas scored 33 winners (53% of the total points). On the other side, Strong blasted 57 winners (31%).

Serve Performance

Mejia blasted 2 aces . Kirchheimer struck 9 aces (3 per match). Mejia won 75% points behind his first serve. He pretty effective on his second serve to win 60% of the points. On the other side, Kirchheimer won 71% of the points behind his first serve. He had a solid display on his second serve to win 64% of the points.

How they played the important points

Nicolas broke his opponent twice with a 100% conversion rate. Mejia pretty solid on his serve as he has never dropped a single service game after saving 2 break points. The American broke his opponents 17 times with a 59% conversion rate. The American conceded his serve 3 times and he saved 57% of the break points that he conceded.

Head 2 Head

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Nicolas
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Strong
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264

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228

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498

High

375

Win Loss

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2024 2023 2022

29 - 14

13 - 16

10-9

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9-8

0-0

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2-4

19-5

Clay

2-4

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