Nicolas Mejia and Strong Kirchheimer will fight against each other in the 2nd round of the Lexington Challenger for the 2nd 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 2nd 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
Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
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2024 | 41-28 | 18-20 | 23-8 | 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 |
Ranked no. 313, the Colombian reached the 2nd round after defeating Hady Habib 6-3 6-4.
In the 1st 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
Strong Kirchheimer
Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
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2024 | 16-23 | 12-14 | 2-4 | 2-5 | 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. 550, Kirchheimer got to the 2nd 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 1st 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 1st round in 2019. See his history.
H2H Performance in the tournament
Matches, sets, games and points
Points | Mejia | Kirchheimer |
---|---|---|
Match played | 1 | 3 |
Tot Set | 2 | 6 |
Tot Games | 19 | 44 |
Pts | 62-50 | 182-105 |
Total Points | 112 | 287 |
Winners | 33 | 57 |
%Winners | 53% | 31% |
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
Serve | Mejia | Kirchheimer |
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Aces | 2 | 9 |
Avg per match | 2 | 3 |
1st in | 44/64 | 80/130 |
%1st in | 69% | 62% |
1st pts | 33/44 | 57/80 |
%1st pts | 75% | 71% |
2nd pts | 12/20 | 32/50 |
%2nd pts | 60% | 64% |
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
Breaks | Mejia | Kirchheimer |
---|---|---|
Won | 2 | 17 |
Converted | 2/2 | 17/29 |
% Converted | 100% | 59% |
Conceded | 2 | 7 |
Saved | 2 | 4 |
% Saved | 100% | 57% |
Times Broken | 0 | 3 |
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.
Mejia | |||
R1 Habib |
Total | ||
---|---|---|---|
Score | 6-3 6-4 | ||
Tot Set | 2 | 2 | |
Tot Games | 19 | 19 | |
pts | 62-50 | 62-50 | |
Total points | 112 | 112 | |
Winners | 33 | 33 | |
%Winners | 53% | 53% | |
SERVE | |||
Aces | 2 | 2 | |
Double Faults | 1 | 1 | |
1st in | 44/64 | 44/64 | |
% 1st in | 69% | 69% | |
1st pts | 33/44 | 33/44 | |
% 1st pts | 75% | 75% | |
2nd pts | 12/20 | 12/20 | |
% 2nd pts | 60% | 60% | |
Breaks | |||
Won | 2 | 2 | |
Converted | 2/2 | 2/2 | |
Converted % | 100% | 100% | |
Conceded | 2 | 2 | |
Saved | 2/2 | 2 | |
Saved % | 100% | 100% | |
Times Broken | 0 | 0 |
Kirchheimer | |||||
Q1 Myneni |
Q3 Mayo |
R1 Alberto |
Total | ||
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Score | 6-1 6-1 | 6-3 6-1 | 6-1 6-1 | ||
Tot Set | 2 | 2 | 2 | 6 | |
Tot Games | 14 | 16 | 14 | 44 | |
pts | 59-28 | 66-49 | 57-28 | 182-105 | |
Total points | 87 | 115 | 85 | 287 | |
Winners | 17 | 23 | 17 | 57 | |
%Winners | 29% | 35% | 30% | 31% | |
SERVE | |||||
Aces | 4 | 2 | 3 | 9 | |
Double Faults | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | |
1st in | 19/32 | 39/62 | 22/36 | 80/130 | |
% 1st in | 59% | 63% | 61% | 62% | |
1st pts | 17/19 | 23/39 | 17/22 | 57/80 | |
% 1st pts | 89% | 59% | 77% | 71% | |
2nd pts | 11/13 | 10/23 | 11/14 | 32/50 | |
% 2nd pts | 85% | 43% | 79% | 64% | |
Breaks | |||||
Won | 5 | 7 | 5 | 17 | |
Converted | 5/8 | 7/13 | 5/8 | 17/29 | |
Converted % | 63% | 54% | 63% | 59% | |
Conceded | 0 | 7 | 0 | 7 | |
Saved | 0/0 | 4/7 | 0/0 | 4 | |
Saved % | – | 57% | – | 57% | |
Times Broken | 0 | 3 | 0 | 3 |
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