Rudolf Molleker and Ergi Kirkin will fight against each other in the 1st round of the Meerbusch Challenger for the 1st time in their career. They are scheduled to play on Wednesday at 11:00 am on VOBA MEERBUSCH COURT. In the following paragraphs, you can find the head to head analysis and prediction.
Prediction, odds and live streaming
The pick for Tennis Tonic is Rudolf Molleker who should win in 2 sets.
Rudolf Molleker -> 1.36
Ergi Kirkin -> 2.96
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Prediction and head to head Rudolf Molleker vs. Ergi Kirkin
There is no head to head record between Rudolf Molleker and Ergi Kirkin since this will be the first time that they will face off in the main tour.
Rudolf Molleker
| Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 28-33 | 4-8 | 15-18 | 7-5 | 2-2 | 0-0 |
| 2023 | 53-35 | 2-3 | 42-25 | 6-5 | 0-1 | 3-1 |
| 2022 | 47-28 | 2-1 | 45-24 | 0-3 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2021 | 8-23 | 0-1 | 6-16 | 2-4 | 0-2 | 0-0 |
| 2020 | 0-7 | 0-1 | 0-4 | 0-2 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
Ranked no. 243, Molleker will start his run in the Meerbusch Challenger after he played his last match in the Luedenscheid Challenger where he lost 6-2 6-4
to Ajdukovic in the quarter on the 4th of August.Molleker has a compiled 39-24 win-loss record in 2023, 31-17 on clay (See FULL STATS).
Rudolf’s best result of the year was reaching the final in M15 Oberhaching,M25 Palmanova and M25 Bodrum.
Talking about his overall career, The German has an overall 189-161 record. He has a positive 144-98 record on clay.
Previously in the Meerbusch Challenger
Previously, his best result was reaching the semifinal in 2018. See his history.
Ergi Kirkin
| Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 42-28 | 11-4 | 29-19 | 2-5 | 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. 444, Kirkin got to the 1st round after beating Marcelo Zormann 6-3 6-1 and John Sperle 7-62 6-3.
In the qualifications, Kirkin had a good straight sets win against Sperle (7-62 6-3). During the match Kirkin scored 73 points vs Sperle’s 63. Kirkin was quite aggressive to blast 24 winners.
Talking about serving, Kirkin scored just 1 ace during the entire match and he committed only 3 double faults. Overall, Ergi Kirkin was exceptionally efficient on serve to win 71% (24/34) of his 1st serve and 55% (16/29) on the second serve. However, this didn’t prevent his to concede the serve twice. Ergi broke Sperle 4 times after converting 67% of his break points (4/6).
Overall Performance in this tournament
Kirkin started his run at this tournament from the qualifications. In the main draw, he hasn’t surrendered yet a set in this competition to conquer 57% of the points he played.
Kirkin’s best result of the current season was reaching the final in M15 Doboj and M15 Belgrade.
Kirkin has a compiled 32-15 win-loss record in 2023, 27-11 on clay (See FULL STATS).
Previously in the Meerbusch Challenger
Ergi has never competed in this tournament before.
Tennis Scores in Meerbusch Challenger
- Dimitar KuzmanovKuzmanov – Oriol Roca BatallaRoca Batalla (6-2 6-4) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Michael GeertsGeerts – Marvin MoellerMoeller (7-5 6-73 6-4) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Gauthier OnclinOnclin – Gerard Campana LeeCampana Lee (2-6 7-5 6-1) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Max Hans RehbergHans Rehberg – Daniel MichalskiMichalski (2-6 6-1 6-4) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Jan ChoinskiChoinski – Nicola KuhnKuhn (7-64 6-4) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Sumit NagalNagal – Santiago Rodriguez TavernaRodriguez Taverna (6-3 6-3) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Benjamin HassanHassan – Henri LaaksonenLaaksonen (7-63 6-1) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Kilian FeldbauschFeldbausch – Max HoukesHoukes (7-5 6-4) – Stats, scores, rankings
Upcoming matches in the draw
- Dimitar KuzmanovKuzmanov – Michael GeertsGeerts (1-0) – H2H and prediction
- Sumit NagalNagal – Benjamin HassanHassan (1-0) – H2H and prediction
- Manuel GuinardGuinard – Orlando LuzLuz (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Ergi KirkinKirkin – Rudolf MollekerMolleker (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Miguel DamasDamas – Louis WesselsWessels (0-1) – H2H and prediction
- Jurij RodionovRodionov – Henri SquireSquire (1-0) – H2H and prediction
- Gauthier OnclinOnclin – (1-0) – H2H and prediction
- Tibo ColsonColson – Camilo Ugo CarabelliUgo Carabelli (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Martin KrumichKrumich – Denis YevseyevYevseyev (0-0) – H2H and prediction