Strong Kirchheimer and Alafia Ayeni will fight against each other in the qualifications of the Winnipeg Challenger for the 2nd time in their career. They are scheduled to compete on Monday at 1:00 pm on COURT 1. Here the head to head stats and relative prediction.
Prediction, odds and live streaming
The pick for Tennis Tonic is Strong Kirchheimer who should win in 3 sets.
As per the initial odds, Strong Kirchheimer is the pick to win this match.
Strong Kirchheimer -> 1.71
Alafia Ayeni -> 2.05
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Prediction and head to head Strong Kirchheimer vs. Alafia Ayeni
This will be the 2nd time that Strong Kirchheimer and Alafia Ayeni fight against each other. The head to head is 1-0 for Kirchheimer (see full H2H stats), 1-0 on hard.
The last time that they competed against each other, Kirchheimer won 7-6(4) 6-2 in the 1st round in M15 Castelo Branco back in 2020.
Strong Kirchheimer
Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
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2024 | 16-25 | 12-16 | 2-4 | 2-5 | 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. 427, Strong reached the qualifications after beating Juan Carlos Manuel Aguilar 1-6 6-4 6-4.
In the qualifications against Carlos Manuel Aguilar, Strong recovered from a 1-set down deficit before winning (1-6 6-4 6-4).During the match, Kirchheimer scored less points (3) than Carlos Manuel Aguilar. In fact, the world no. 427 won 78 points vs Carlos Manuel Aguilar’s. That means that Kirchheimer was more focused during the important points. Strong was exceptionally aggressive to blast 35 winners.
Talking about the service games, Kirchheimer bagged 4 aces and he was very consistent in conceding no double faults. Strong Kirchheimer lost the serve 4 times and he saved 3 break points. Furthermore, Kirchheimer put 62% of his first serves in, winning 66% (35/53) of the points behind his 1st serve and 50% (16/32) on the 2nd serve. Strong broke Carlos Manuel Aguilar 3 times after converting 38% of his break points (3/8).
Kirchheimer has a winning win-loss record in the last 8 years having won 56% of his matches (221-171). 9-9 on hard in 2023. Regarding his performance on the same surface of this tournament, Kirchheimer has a composed111-92 match record in the last 8 years on hard.
The American’s best result of the current season was reaching the final in M25 Montreal and M15 South Bend.
Kirchheimer has an overall 22-18 win-loss record in 2023, 9-9 on hard (See FULL STATS).
Previously in the Winnipeg Challenger
Alafia Ayeni
Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
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2024 | 25-26 | 19-17 | 6-8 | 0-1 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
2023 | 23-22 | 17-13 | 1-3 | 5-4 | 0-2 | 0-0 |
2022 | 24-19 | 22-15 | 0-0 | 2-4 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
2021 | 27-20 | 12-10 | 3-2 | 11-7 | 0-0 | 1-1 |
2020 | 5-7 | 3-3 | 0-1 | 1-1 | 0-0 | 1-2 |
Ranked no. 498, the American got to the qualifications after beating A.j. Catanzariti 6-3 3-6 6-1.
In the qualifications, Ayeni defeated Catanzariti (6-3 3-6 6-1). During the match Ayeni scored 86 points vs Catanzariti’s 69. Ayeni was exceptionally aggressive to blast 36 winners.
Talking about serving, Ayeni struck 13 aces and he committed only 3 double faults. Overall, Alafia Ayeni was extremely efficient on serve to win 80% (36/45) of his 1st serve and 59% (16/27) on the second serve. However, this didn’t prevent his to concede the serve once. The American broke Catanzariti 3 times after converting 60% of his break points (3/5).
The American’s best result of the season was getting to the semifinal in M15 Los Angeles.
Ayeni has an overall 11-11 win-loss record in 2023, 11-8 on hard (See FULL STATS).
Previously in the Winnipeg Challenger
Previously, his best result was reaching the quarter in 2022. See his history.
H2H Performance in the tournament
Matches, sets, games and points
Points | Kirchheimer | Ayeni |
---|---|---|
Match played | 1 | 1 |
Tot Set | 3 | 3 |
Tot Games | 27 | 25 |
Pts | 78-81 | 86-69 |
Total Points | 159 | 155 |
Winners | 35 | 36 |
%Winners | 45% | 42% |
Both Kirchheimer and Ayeni played 1 match. Also both players started their run from the qualifications.Both players lost a set in the event. Strong Kirchheimer surrendered 1 set, while Alafia Ayeni dropped 1 set. Talking about their workload, Kirchheimer and Ayeni have played the same amount of sets 3. However, Kirchheimer played 2 games more than Ayeni. The American scored 35 winners (45% of the total points). On the other side, Alafia managed to score 36 winners (42%).
Serve Performance
Serve | Kirchheimer | Ayeni |
---|---|---|
Aces | 4 | 13 |
Avg per match | 4 | 13 |
1st in | 53/85 | 45/72 |
%1st in | 62% | 63% |
1st pts | 35/53 | 36/45 |
%1st pts | 66% | 80% |
2nd pts | 16/32 | 16/27 |
%2nd pts | 50% | 59% |
Kirchheimer fired 4 aces . Ayeni fired 13 aces . Kirchheimer won 66% points behind his first serve. He was rock solid on his second serve to win 50% of the points. On the other side, Ayeni won 80% of the points behind his first serve. He had a solid display on his second serve to win 59% of the points.
How they played the important points
Breaks | Kirchheimer | Ayeni |
---|---|---|
Won | 3 | 3 |
Converted | 3/8 | 3/5 |
% Converted | 38% | 60% |
Conceded | 7 | 3 |
Saved | 3 | 2 |
% Saved | 43% | 67% |
Times Broken | 4 | 1 |
Kirchheimer broke his opponent 3 times with a 38% conversion rate. The American dropped his serve 4 times and he saved 43% of the break points that he conceded. Alafia broke his opponent 3 times with a 60% conversion rate. Ayeni conceded his serve once and he saved 67% of the break points that he conceded.
Kirchheimer | |||
Q1 Carlos Manuel Aguilar |
Total | ||
---|---|---|---|
Score | 1-6 6-4 6-4 | ||
Tot Set | 3 | 3 | |
Tot Games | 27 | 27 | |
pts | 78-81 | 78-81 | |
Total points | 159 | 159 | |
Winners | 35 | 35 | |
%Winners | 45% | 45% | |
SERVE | |||
Aces | 4 | 4 | |
Double Faults | 0 | 0 | |
1st in | 53/85 | 53/85 | |
% 1st in | 62% | 62% | |
1st pts | 35/53 | 35/53 | |
% 1st pts | 66% | 66% | |
2nd pts | 16/32 | 16/32 | |
% 2nd pts | 50% | 50% | |
Breaks | |||
Won | 3 | 3 | |
Converted | 3/8 | 3/8 | |
Converted % | 38% | 38% | |
Conceded | 7 | 7 | |
Saved | 3/7 | 3 | |
Saved % | 43% | 43% | |
Times Broken | 4 | 4 |
Ayeni | |||
Q1 Catanzariti |
Total | ||
---|---|---|---|
Score | 6-3 3-6 6-1 | ||
Tot Set | 3 | 3 | |
Tot Games | 25 | 25 | |
pts | 86-69 | 86-69 | |
Total points | 155 | 155 | |
Winners | 36 | 36 | |
%Winners | 42% | 42% | |
SERVE | |||
Aces | 13 | 13 | |
Double Faults | 3 | 3 | |
1st in | 45/72 | 45/72 | |
% 1st in | 63% | 63% | |
1st pts | 36/45 | 36/45 | |
% 1st pts | 80% | 80% | |
2nd pts | 16/27 | 16/27 | |
% 2nd pts | 59% | 59% | |
Breaks | |||
Won | 3 | 3 | |
Converted | 3/5 | 3/5 | |
Converted % | 60% | 60% | |
Conceded | 3 | 3 | |
Saved | 2/3 | 2 | |
Saved % | 67% | 67% | |
Times Broken | 1 | 1 |
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