Bernard Tomic and Strong Kirchheimer will play each other in the qualifications of the Palmas del Mar Challenger for the 1st time in their career. They are scheduled to compete on Monday at 1:30 pm on STADIUM COURT. In the following lines you can find the head to head analysis and prediction.
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The pick for Tennis Tonic is Bernard Tomic who should win in 3 sets.
As per the initial odds, Bernard Tomic is the pick to win this match.
Bernard Tomic -> 1.45
Strong Kirchheimer -> 2.61
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Prediction and head to head Bernard Tomic vs. Strong Kirchheimer
There is no head to head record between Bernard Tomic and Strong Kirchheimer since this will be the first time that they will square off in the main tour.
Bernard Tomic
| Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 32-15 | 24-12 | 8-3 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2023 | 41-27 | 35-19 | 4-4 | 2-4 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2022 | 26-12 | 24-7 | 2-4 | 0-0 | 0-1 | 0-0 |
| 2021 | 9-12 | 4-4 | 2-4 | 2-3 | 1-1 | 0-0 |
| 2020 | 3-6 | 2-4 | 0-0 | 1-2 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
Ranked no. 390, the Australian got to the qualifications after beating Donald Young 6-4 6-2.
In the qualifications, Tomic had a good straight sets win against Young (6-4 6-2). During the match, Tomic scored 63 points vs Young’s 46. Tomic was very aggressive to blast 23 winners.
Regarding the service games, Tomic blasted 9 aces and he committed only 1 double fault. Bernard Tomic was exceptionally effective on serve to win 77% (23/30) of his 1st serve and 65% (15/23) on the second serve. This was the main reason for not conceding a single break during the match. The Australian broke Young 3 times after converting 75% of his break points (3/4).
Tomic has good record in the last 10 years having won 54% of his matches (207-173). 14-7 on hard in 2023. Regarding his performance on the same surface of this event, Tomic has an aggregate 132-81 match record in the last years on hard.
Bernard’s best result of the season was reaching the final in M15 Doha.
The Australian has an overall 16-10 win-loss record in 2023, 14-7 on hard (See FULL STATS).
Previously in the Palmas del Mar Challenger
The Australian has never competed in this tournament before.
Strong Kirchheimer
| 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 |
Ranked no. 392, Strong got to the qualifications after defeating Gage Brymer 6-4 6-4.
In the qualifications, Kirchheimer had a good straight sets win against Brymer (6-4 6-4). During the match Kirchheimer scored 61 points vs Brymer’s 54. Strong was quite aggressive to blast 30 winners.
Talking about serving, Kirchheimer blasted 2 aces and he committed only 2 double faults. Strong Kirchheimer was exceptionally effective on serve to win 75% (30/40) of his 1st serve and 65% (13/20) on the second serve. This was the main reason for not conceding a single break during the match. The American broke Brymer twice after converting 33% of his break points (2/6).
Kirchheimer’s best result of the current year was reaching the final in M25 Montreal.
Strong has an overall 16-11 win-loss record in 2023, 3-2 on hard (See FULL STATS).
H2H Performance in the tournament
Matches, sets, games and points
| Points | Tomic | Kirchheimer |
|---|---|---|
| Match played | 1 | 1 |
| Tot Set | 2 | 2 |
| Tot Games | 18 | 20 |
| Pts | 63-46 | 61-54 |
| Total Points | 109 | 115 |
| Winners | 23 | 30 |
| %Winners | 37% | 49% |
Both Tomic and Kirchheimer played 1 match. Also both players started their run from the qualifications.Both players have not conceded a single set in this event so far. Talking about their workload, Tomic and Kirchheimer have played the same amount of sets 2. However, Tomic played 2 games less than Kirchheimer. Tomic scored 23 winners (37% of the total points). On the other side, The American scored 30 winners (49%).
Serve Performance
| Serve | Tomic | Kirchheimer |
|---|---|---|
| Aces | 9 | 2 |
| Avg per match | 9 | 2 |
| 1st in | 30/53 | 40/60 |
| %1st in | 57% | 67% |
| 1st pts | 23/30 | 30/40 |
| %1st pts | 77% | 75% |
| 2nd pts | 15/23 | 13/20 |
| %2nd pts | 65% | 65% |
Tomic fired 9 aces . Kirchheimer scored 2 aces . Tomic won 77% points on his first serve. He quite strong on his second serve to win 65% of the points. On the other side, Kirchheimer won 75% of the points behind his first serve. He had a solid display on his second serve to win 65% of the points.
How they played the important points
| Breaks | Tomic | Kirchheimer |
|---|---|---|
| Won | 3 | 2 |
| Converted | 3/4 | 2/6 |
| % Converted | 75% | 33% |
| Conceded | 0 | 0 |
| Saved | 0 | 0 |
| % Saved | 0% | 0% |
| Times Broken | 0 | 0 |
Bernard broke his opponent 3 times with a 75% conversion rate. Tomic pretty solid on his serve as he has never surrendered a single service game after saving 0 break points. The American broke his opponent twice with a 33% conversion rate. Kirchheimer was rock solid on his serve as he has never conceded a single service game after saving 0 break points.
| Tomic | |||
| Q1 Young |
Total | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Score | 6-4 6-2 | ||
| Tot Set | 2 | 2 | |
| Tot Games | 18 | 18 | |
| pts | 63-46 | 63-46 | |
| Total points | 109 | 109 | |
| Winners | 23 | 23 | |
| %Winners | 37% | 37% | |
| SERVE | |||
| Aces | 9 | 9 | |
| Double Faults | 1 | 1 | |
| 1st in | 30/53 | 30/53 | |
| % 1st in | 57% | 57% | |
| 1st pts | 23/30 | 23/30 | |
| % 1st pts | 77% | 77% | |
| 2nd pts | 15/23 | 15/23 | |
| % 2nd pts | 65% | 65% | |
| Breaks | |||
| Won | 3 | 3 | |
| Converted | 3/4 | 3/4 | |
| Converted % | 75% | 75% | |
| Conceded | 0 | 0 | |
| Saved | 0/0 | 0 | |
| Saved % | – | 0% | |
| Times Broken | 0 | 0 | |
| Kirchheimer | |||
| Q1 Brymer |
Total | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Score | 6-4 6-4 | ||
| Tot Set | 2 | 2 | |
| Tot Games | 20 | 20 | |
| pts | 61-54 | 61-54 | |
| Total points | 115 | 115 | |
| Winners | 30 | 30 | |
| %Winners | 49% | 49% | |
| SERVE | |||
| Aces | 2 | 2 | |
| Double Faults | 2 | 2 | |
| 1st in | 40/60 | 40/60 | |
| % 1st in | 67% | 67% | |
| 1st pts | 30/40 | 30/40 | |
| % 1st pts | 75% | 75% | |
| 2nd pts | 13/20 | 13/20 | |
| % 2nd pts | 65% | 65% | |
| Breaks | |||
| Won | 2 | 2 | |
| Converted | 2/6 | 2/6 | |
| Converted % | 33% | 33% | |
| Conceded | 0 | 0 | |
| Saved | 0/0 | 0 | |
| Saved % | – | 0% | |
| Times Broken | 0 | 0 | |
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