Damir Dzumhur and Ergi Kirkin will face off in the 1st round of the Matsuyama Challenger for the 1st time in their career. They are scheduled to play on Tuesday at 3:00 pm on COURT 8. 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 Damir Dzumhur who should win in 3 sets.
As per the initial odds, Damir Dzumhur is the pick to win this match.
Damir Dzumhur -> 1.44
Ergi Kirkin -> 2.62
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Prediction and head to head Damir Dzumhur vs. Ergi Kirkin
There is no head to head record between Damir Dzumhur and Ergi Kirkin since this will be the first time that they will square off in the main tour.
Damir Dzumhur
| Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 29-17 | 6-8 | 17-5 | 4-1 | 2-3 | 0-0 |
| 2023 | 41-34 | 15-5 | 18-18 | 8-9 | 0-1 | 0-1 |
| 2022 | 34-28 | 5-5 | 19-12 | 10-11 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2021 | 32-32 | 6-6 | 17-17 | 6-6 | 3-3 | 0-0 |
| 2020 | 18-15 | 4-7 | 6-4 | 8-4 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
Ranked no. 180, Dzumhur will start his run in the Matsuyama Challenger after he played his last match in the Yokohama Challenger where he lost 6-4 6-1 to Shimabukuro in the quarter on the 3rd of November.
Dzumhur has an aggregate 32-26 win-loss record in 2022, 4-4 on hard (See FULL STATS).
The Bosnian’s best result of the season was reaching the final in the Banja Luka Challenger and the Sibiu Challenger.
Talking about his overall career, Damir has an overall 476-329 record. He has a positive 100-92 record on hard.
Previously in the Matsuyama Challenger
Dzumhur has never competed in this tournament before.
Ergi Kirkin
| Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 37-17 | 11-4 | 25-12 | 1-1 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2023 | 47-26 | 3-4 | 39-15 | 5-7 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2022 | 34-28 | 3-5 | 27-19 | 4-4 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2021 | 35-27 | 4-8 | 29-16 | 2-3 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2020 | 18-8 | 14-3 | 2-2 | 2-2 | 0-0 | 0-1 |
Ranked no. 396, Ergi got to the 1st round after beating Renta Tokuda 4-6 6-3 7-5 and Naoki Nakagawa 4-6 6-2 6-1.
In the qualifications against Nakagawa, Kirkin recovered from a 1-set down deficit before winning (4-6 6-2 6-1). During the match Kirkin scored 76 points vs Nakagawa’s 57. The Turk was extremely aggressive to blast 28 winners.
Talking about serving, Kirkin blasted 4 aces and he committed only 3 double faults. Overall, Ergi Kirkin was pretty effective on serve to win 78% (28/36) of his 1st serve and 58% (18/31) on the second serve. However, this didn’t prevent his to concede the serve twice. The Turk broke Nakagawa 5 times after converting 50% of his break points (5/10).
Overall Performance in this tournament
Ergi started his run at this tournament from the qualifications. In the main draw, he has conceded 2 set in the tournament to win 54% of the points he played.
Ergi’s best result of the season was reaching the final in M25 Telfs.
The Turk has a compiled 34-26 win-loss record in 2022, 3-4 on hard (See FULL STATS).
Head 2 Head
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- Shintaro MochizukiMochizuki – Filip Cristian JianuCristian Jianu (6-3 6-4) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Sho ShimabukuroShimabukuro – Zdenek KolarKolar (6-3 6-1) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Seong Chan HongChan Hong – Mukund SasikumarSasikumar (6-2 6-1) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Tung-Lin WuWu – Rio NoguchiNoguchi (6-2 6-3) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Nam Hoang LyHoang Ly – Yuichi SugitaSugita (6-75 6-3 6-4) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Kaichi UchidaUchida – Yasutaka UchiyamaUchiyama (6-3 7-64) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Hiroki MoriyaMoriya – Yusuke KusuharaKusuhara (6-1 6-1) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Li TuTu – Ramkumar RamanathanRamanathan (6-3 7-63) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Shuichi SekiguchiShuichi – Koki MatsudaKoki (7-6(4) 6-7(4) 2-3 ret. (Sekiguchi ret.)) – See score progression
Upcoming matches in the draw
- Jason JungJung – Yosuke WatanukiWatanuki (1-1) – H2H and prediction
- Hiroki MoriyaMoriya – Tung-Lin WuWu (1-1) – H2H and prediction
- Damir DzumhurDzumhur – Ergi KirkinKirkin (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Shuichi SekiguchiSekiguchi – (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Frederico Ferreira SilvaFerreira Silva – John MillmanMillman (0-1) – H2H and prediction
- Kaichi UchidaUchida – Sho ShimabukuroShimabukuro (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Nino SerdarusicSerdarusic – Rinky HijikataHijikata (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Yu Hsiou HsuHsiou Hsu – Sho KatayamaKatayama (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Dane SweenySweeny – Benoit PairePaire (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Nicholas David IonelDavid Ionel – Yuta ShimizuShimizu (0-0) – H2H and prediction
