Damien Wenger and Ergi Kirkin will fight against each other in the qualifications of the Zug Challenger for the 1st time in their career. They are scheduled to play on Monday at 12:30 pm on CENTRE COURT. In this post, we analyze their head to head performance and prediction.
Prediction, odds and live streaming
The pick for Tennis Tonic is Ergi Kirkin who should win in 3 sets.
As per the initial odds, Ergi Kirkin is the pick to win this match.
Ergi Kirkin -> 1.74
Damien Wenger -> 2.01
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Prediction and head to head Damien Wenger vs. Ergi Kirkin
There is no head to head record between Damien Wenger and Ergi Kirkin since this will be the first time that they will fight against each other in the main tour.
Damien Wenger
| Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 24-16 | 0-0 | 24-16 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2023 | 46-26 | 0-0 | 46-24 | 0-1 | 0-0 | 0-1 |
| 2022 | 46-24 | 0-0 | 46-24 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2021 | 63-22 | 0-0 | 63-22 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2020 | 17-12 | 0-1 | 16-6 | 1-4 | 0-0 | 0-1 |
Ranked no. 383, Wenger reached the qualifications after defeating Tommaso Compagnucci 6-3 6-4.
In the qualifications, The Swiss had a good straight sets win against Compagnucci (6-3 6-4). During the match, Wenger scored 60 points vs Compagnucci’s 49. Wenger was pretty aggressive to blast 22 winners.
Regarding the service games, Wenger scored just 1 ace and he committed only 4 double faults. Overall, Damien Wenger was quite effective on serve to win 71% (22/31) of his 1st serve and 57% (17/30) on the second serve. However, this didn’t prevent his to concede the serve twice. The Swiss broke Compagnucci 4 times after converting 67% of his break points (4/6).
Wenger has a solid win-loss record in the last 7 years having won 65% of his matches (216-115). 28-15 on clay in 2023. Talking about his performance on the same surface of this competition, Wenger has a compiled207-102 match record in the last 7 years on clay.
The Swiss’s best result of the current season was getting to the final in M15 Antalya and M25 Klosters.
The Swiss has a composed 28-16 win-loss record in 2023, 28-15 on clay (See FULL STATS).
Previously in the Zug Challenger
Ergi Kirkin
| Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 36-17 | 11-4 | 24-12 | 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. 400, Ergi reached the qualifications after beating Henri Laaksonen 6-4 6-2.
In the qualifications, Ergi had a good straight sets win against Laaksonen (6-4 6-2). During the match Kirkin scored 67 points vs Laaksonen’s 44. Kirkin was very aggressive to blast 20 winners.
Talking about serving, Kirkin blasted 5 aces and he was extremely solid in conceding no double faults for the entire match. Overall, Ergi Kirkin was extremely efficient on serve to win 77% (20/26) of his 1st serve and 58% (15/26) on the second serve. However, this didn’t prevent his to concede the serve twice. The Turk broke Laaksonen 5 times after converting 56% of his break points (5/9).
Kirkin’s best result of the year was getting to the final in M15 Doboj and M15 Belgrade.
The Turk has a composed 29-14 win-loss record in 2023, 24-10 on clay (See FULL STATS).
Previously in the Zug Challenger
The Turk has never competed in this tournament before.
H2H Performance in the tournament
Matches, sets, games and points
| Points | Wenger | Kirkin |
|---|---|---|
| Match played | 1 | 1 |
| Tot Set | 2 | 2 |
| Tot Games | 19 | 18 |
| Pts | 60-49 | 67-44 |
| Total Points | 109 | 111 |
| Winners | 22 | 20 |
| %Winners | 37% | 30% |
Both Wenger and Kirkin played 1 match. Also both players started their run from the qualifications.Both players have not dropped a single set in this event so far. Talking about their workload, Wenger and Kirkin have played the same amount of sets 2. However, Wenger played 1 game more than Kirkin. Damien scored 22 winners (37% of the total points). On the other side, The Turk struck 20 winners (30%).
Serve Performance
| Serve | Wenger | Kirkin |
|---|---|---|
| Aces | 1 | 5 |
| Avg per match | 1 | 5 |
| 1st in | 31/61 | 26/52 |
| %1st in | 51% | 50% |
| 1st pts | 22/31 | 20/26 |
| %1st pts | 71% | 77% |
| 2nd pts | 17/30 | 15/26 |
| %2nd pts | 57% | 58% |
Wenger scored 1 ace . Kirkin also made 5 aces . Wenger won 71% points on his first serve. He very solid his second serve to win 57% of the points. On the other side, Kirkin won 77% of the points on his first serve. He had a solid display on his second serve to win 58% of the points.
How they played the important points
| Breaks | Wenger | Kirkin |
|---|---|---|
| Won | 4 | 5 |
| Converted | 4/6 | 5/9 |
| % Converted | 67% | 56% |
| Conceded | 6 | 4 |
| Saved | 4 | 2 |
| % Saved | 67% | 50% |
| Times Broken | 2 | 2 |
Damien broke his opponent 4 times with a 67% conversion rate. Wenger conceded his serve twice and he saved 67% of the break points that he conceded. The Turk broke his opponent 5 times with a 56% conversion rate. Kirkin conceded his serve twice and he saved 50% of the break points that he conceded.
| Wenger | |||
| Q1 Compagnucci |
Total | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Score | 6-3 6-4 | ||
| Tot Set | 2 | 2 | |
| Tot Games | 19 | 19 | |
| pts | 60-49 | 60-49 | |
| Total points | 109 | 109 | |
| Winners | 22 | 22 | |
| %Winners | 37% | 37% | |
| SERVE | |||
| Aces | 1 | 1 | |
| Double Faults | 4 | 4 | |
| 1st in | 31/61 | 31/61 | |
| % 1st in | 51% | 51% | |
| 1st pts | 22/31 | 22/31 | |
| % 1st pts | 71% | 71% | |
| 2nd pts | 17/30 | 17/30 | |
| % 2nd pts | 57% | 57% | |
| Breaks | |||
| Won | 4 | 4 | |
| Converted | 4/6 | 4/6 | |
| Converted % | 67% | 67% | |
| Conceded | 6 | 6 | |
| Saved | 4/6 | 4 | |
| Saved % | 67% | 67% | |
| Times Broken | 2 | 2 | |
| Kirkin | |||
| Q1 Laaksonen |
Total | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Score | 6-4 6-2 | ||
| Tot Set | 2 | 2 | |
| Tot Games | 18 | 18 | |
| pts | 67-44 | 67-44 | |
| Total points | 111 | 111 | |
| Winners | 20 | 20 | |
| %Winners | 30% | 30% | |
| SERVE | |||
| Aces | 5 | 5 | |
| Double Faults | 0 | 0 | |
| 1st in | 26/52 | 26/52 | |
| % 1st in | 50% | 50% | |
| 1st pts | 20/26 | 20/26 | |
| % 1st pts | 77% | 77% | |
| 2nd pts | 15/26 | 15/26 | |
| % 2nd pts | 58% | 58% | |
| Breaks | |||
| Won | 5 | 5 | |
| Converted | 5/9 | 5/9 | |
| Converted % | 56% | 56% | |
| Conceded | 4 | 4 | |
| Saved | 2/4 | 2 | |
| Saved % | 50% | 50% | |
| Times Broken | 2 | 2 | |
Head 2 Head
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