Dominik Koepfer and Keegan Smith will play each other in the 2nd round of the Cary Challenger for the 1st time in their career. They are scheduled to play on Wednesday at 6:30 pm on COURT 15. 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 Dominik Koepfer who should win in 2 sets.
As per the initial odds, Dominik Koepfer is the pick to win this match.
Dominik Koepfer -> 1.222
Keegan Smith -> 4.1
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Prediction and head to head Dominik Koepfer vs. Keegan Smith
There is no head to head record between Dominik Koepfer and Keegan Smith since this will be the first time that they will play each other in the main tour.
Dominik Koepfer
| Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 17-12 | 10-5 | 4-6 | 3-1 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2023 | 40-19 | 7-6 | 24-5 | 6-6 | 3-2 | 0-0 |
| 2022 | 19-14 | 12-9 | 0-0 | 7-2 | 0-3 | 0-0 |
| 2021 | 27-30 | 10-12 | 10-9 | 5-6 | 2-3 | 0-0 |
| 2020 | 17-12 | 3-4 | 8-4 | 6-4 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
Ranked no. 194, Dominik reached the 2nd round after defeating Aleksandar Kovacevic 6-4 6-4.
In the 1st round, Dominik had a good straight sets win against Kovacevic (6-4 6-4). During the match, Koepfer scored 69 points vs Kovacevic’s 56. Dominik was pretty aggressive to blast 24 winners.
Regarding the service games, Koepfer blasted 7 aces and he committed only 3 double faults. Dominik Koepfer lost the serve twice and he saved 3 break points. Furthermore, Koepfer put 63% of his first serves in, winning 63% (24/38) of the points behind his 1st serve and 64% (14/22) on the 2nd serve. Dominik broke Kovacevic 4 times after converting 36% of his break points (4/11).
Koepfer has a winning win-loss record in the last 7 years having won 59% of his matches (227-158). 9-8 on hard in 2022. In connection with his performance on the same surface of this event, Koepfer has a compiled115-74 record in the last 7 years on hard.
The German has a composed 11-12 win-loss record in 2022, 9-8 on hard (See FULL STATS).
Previously in the Cary Challenger
Keegan Smith
| Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 12-10 | 12-8 | 0-1 | 0-1 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2023 | 35-26 | 31-20 | 0-0 | 4-6 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2022 | 30-24 | 26-14 | 3-4 | 1-6 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2021 | 16-5 | 8-2 | 0-0 | 8-3 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2020 | 7-4 | 7-4 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
Ranked no. 356, Keegan got to the 2nd round after beating Mitchell Krueger 6-3 7-62.
In the 1st round, The American had a good straight sets win against Krueger (6-3 7-62). During the match Smith scored 81 points vs Krueger’s 67. The American was quite aggressive to blast 37 winners.
Talking about serving, Smith managed to score 6 aces and he committed only 5 double faults. Overall, Keegan Smith was extremely effective on serve to win 73% (37/51) of his 1st serve and 57% (17/30) on the second serve. However, this didn’t prevent his to concede the serve twice. Keegan broke Krueger 3 times after converting 60% of his break points (3/5).
Keegan’s best result of the season was getting to the final in M25 Cancun and M25 Bakersfield.
The American has an aggregate 26-16 win-loss record in 2022, 23-8 on hard (See FULL STATS).
H2H Performance in the tournament
Matches, sets, games and points
| Points | Koepfer | Smith |
|---|---|---|
| Match played | 1 | 1 |
| Tot Set | 2 | 2 |
| Tot Games | 20 | 22 |
| Pts | 69-56 | 81-67 |
| Total Points | 125 | 148 |
| Winners | 24 | 37 |
| %Winners | 35% | 46% |
Both Koepfer and Smith played 1 match. Both players have not dropped a single set in this event so far. Talking about their workload, Koepfer and Smith have played the same amount of sets 2. However, Koepfer played 2 games less than Smith. Dominik scored 24 winners (35% of the total points). On the other side, The American struck 37 winners (46%).
Serve Performance
| Serve | Koepfer | Smith |
|---|---|---|
| Aces | 7 | 6 |
| Avg per match | 7 | 6 |
| 1st in | 38/60 | 51/81 |
| %1st in | 63% | 63% |
| 1st pts | 24/38 | 37/51 |
| %1st pts | 63% | 73% |
| 2nd pts | 14/22 | 17/30 |
| %2nd pts | 64% | 57% |
Koepfer blasted 7 aces . Smith fired 6 aces . Koepfer won 63% points behind his first serve. He was rock solid on his second serve to win 64% of the points. On the other side, Smith won 73% of the points on his first serve. He had a solid display on his second serve to win 57% of the points.
How they played the important points
| Breaks | Koepfer | Smith |
|---|---|---|
| Won | 4 | 3 |
| Converted | 4/11 | 3/5 |
| % Converted | 36% | 60% |
| Conceded | 5 | 12 |
| Saved | 3 | 10 |
| % Saved | 60% | 83% |
| Times Broken | 2 | 2 |
Koepfer broke his opponent 4 times with a 36% conversion rate. Dominik lost his serve twice and he saved 60% of the break points that he conceded. Keegan broke his opponent 3 times with a 60% conversion rate. Keegan conceded his serve twice and he saved 83% of the break points that he conceded.
| Koepfer | |||
| R1 Kovacevic |
Total | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Score | 6-4 6-4 | ||
| Tot Set | 2 | 2 | |
| Tot Games | 20 | 20 | |
| pts | 69-56 | 69-56 | |
| Total points | 125 | 125 | |
| Winners | 24 | 24 | |
| %Winners | 35% | 35% | |
| SERVE | |||
| Aces | 7 | 7 | |
| Double Faults | 3 | 3 | |
| 1st in | 38/60 | 38/60 | |
| % 1st in | 63% | 63% | |
| 1st pts | 24/38 | 24/38 | |
| % 1st pts | 63% | 63% | |
| 2nd pts | 14/22 | 14/22 | |
| % 2nd pts | 64% | 64% | |
| Breaks | |||
| Won | 4 | 4 | |
| Converted | 4/11 | 4/11 | |
| Converted % | 36% | 36% | |
| Conceded | 5 | 5 | |
| Saved | 3/5 | 3 | |
| Saved % | 60% | 60% | |
| Times Broken | 2 | 2 | |
| Smith | |||
| R1 Krueger |
Total | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Score | 6-3 7-62 | ||
| Tot Set | 2 | 2 | |
| Tot Games | 22 | 22 | |
| pts | 81-67 | 81-67 | |
| Total points | 148 | 148 | |
| Winners | 37 | 37 | |
| %Winners | 46% | 46% | |
| SERVE | |||
| Aces | 6 | 6 | |
| Double Faults | 5 | 5 | |
| 1st in | 51/81 | 51/81 | |
| % 1st in | 63% | 63% | |
| 1st pts | 37/51 | 37/51 | |
| % 1st pts | 73% | 73% | |
| 2nd pts | 17/30 | 17/30 | |
| % 2nd pts | 57% | 57% | |
| Breaks | |||
| Won | 3 | 3 | |
| Converted | 3/5 | 3/5 | |
| Converted % | 60% | 60% | |
| Conceded | 12 | 12 | |
| Saved | 10/12 | 10 | |
| Saved % | 83% | 83% | |
| Times Broken | 2 | 2 | |
Head 2 Head
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LLWWLLWLWW Tennis Scores in Cary Challenger
- Yasutaka UchiyamaUchiyama – Donald YoungYoung (4-6 6-3 6-0) – See score progression
- Nick ChappellChappell – Daniil GlinkaGlinka (6-2 7-63) – See score progression
- Emilio NavaNava – Garrett JohnsJohns (6-1 6-4) – See score progression
- Juncheng ShangShang – Henry PattenPatten (7-5 7-68) – See score progression
- Facundo MenaMena – Oliver CrawfordCrawford (7-64 6-2) – See score progression
- Stefan KozlovKozlov – Cannon KingsleyKingsley (2-6 6-2 6-2) – See score progression
- Ryan HarrisonHarrison – Aleksandar VukicVukic (7-64 7-63) – See score progression
- Denis KudlaKudla – Zachary SvajdaSvajda (0-6 6-2 6-2) – See score progression
- Alex RybakovRybakov – Braden ShickShick (6-3 7-5) – See score progression
- Michael MmohMmoh – Daniel CoxCox (6-0 6-3) – See score progression
- Tennys SandgrenSandgren – Aidan MchughMchugh (6-4 6-2) – See score progression
- Juan Pablo FicovichPablo Ficovich – Martin DammDamm (6-3 7-64) – See score progression
- Jordan ThompsonThompson – Ryan SeggermanSeggerman (6-3 6-2) – See score progression
- Keegan SmithSmith – Mitchell KruegerKrueger (6-3 7-62) – See score progression
- Dominik KoepferKoepfer – Aleksandar KovacevicKovacevic (6-4 6-4) – See score progression
- Govind NandaNanda – Rinky HijikataHijikata (6-2 6-3) – See score progression
- Denis KudlaKudla – Zachary SvajdaSvajda (0-6 6-2 6-2) – See score progression
- Emilio NavaNava – Garrett JohnsJohns (6-1 6-4) – See score progression
- Alex RybakovRybakov – Braden ShickShick (6-3 7-5) – See score progression
- Yasutaka UchiyamaUchiyama – Donald YoungYoung (4-6 6-3 6-0) – See score progression
- Ryan HarrisonHarrison – Aleksandar VukicVukic (7-6(4) 7-6(3)) – See score progression
- Juncheng ShangShang – Henry PattenPatten (7-5 7-6(8)) – See score progression
Upcoming matches in the draw
- Ryan HarrisonHarrison – Nick ChappellChappell (0-1) – H2H and prediction
- Denis KudlaKudla – Emilio NavaNava (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Yasutaka UchiyamaUchiyama – Stefan KozlovKozlov (1-0) – H2H and prediction
- Michael MmohMmoh – Alex RybakovRybakov (1-0) – H2H and prediction
- Juan Pablo FicovichPablo Ficovich – Tennys SandgrenSandgren (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Govind NandaNanda – Facundo MenaMena (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Keegan SmithSmith – Dominik KoepferKoepfer (0-0) – H2H and prediction
