Alex Michelsen and Strong Kirchheimer will fight against each other in the 2nd round of the Cary 2 Challenger for the 1st time in their career. They are scheduled to play on Wednesday at 7:15 pm on STADIUM. In this post, we analyze their head to head performance and prediction.
Prediction, odds and live streaming
The pick for Tennis Tonic is Alex Michelsen who should win in 2 sets.
As per the initial odds, Alex Michelsen is the pick to win this match.
Alex Michelsen -> 1.095
Strong Kirchheimer -> 6.25
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Prediction and head to head Alex Michelsen vs. Strong Kirchheimer
There is no head to head record between Alex Michelsen and Strong Kirchheimer since this will be the first time that they will face off in the main tour.
Alex Michelsen
| Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 42-33 | 26-14 | 4-9 | 5-4 | 7-6 | 0-0 |
| 2023 | 61-27 | 30-13 | 4-3 | 19-7 | 8-4 | 0-0 |
| 2022 | 23-10 | 14-8 | 0-1 | 9-1 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
Ranked no. 117 (career-high), the American reached the 2nd round after beating Maxime Janvier 5-7 7-67 6-3.
In the 1st round against Janvier, Alex recovered from a 1-set down deficit before winning (5-7 7-67 6-3). During the match, Michelsen scored 105 points vs Janvier’s 102. Alex was very aggressive to blast 51 winners.
Talking about the service games, Michelsen managed to score 2 aces and he committed only 2 double faults. Overall, Alex Michelsen was pretty effective on serve to win 71% (51/72) of his 1st serve and 65% (17/26) on the second serve. However, this didn’t prevent his to concede the serve 3 times. Michelsen broke Janvier 3 times after converting 33% of his break points (3/9).
Michelsen has a fantastic win-loss record in the last 2 years having won 71% of his matches (70-29). 25-10 on hard in 2023. Talking about his performance on the same surface of this competition, Michelsen has a compiled39-18 match record in the last 2 years on hard.
His best result of the current year was winning the title the Chicago Challenger where he beat Yuta Shimizu in the final 7-5 6-2.
Michelsen has an aggregate 47-19 win-loss record in 2023, 25-10 on hard (See FULL STATS).
Previously in the Cary 2 Challenger
Alex has never competed in this tournament before.
Strong Kirchheimer
| Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 24-31 | 14-18 | 2-4 | 8-9 | 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. 426, Strong reached the 2nd round after beating Connor Thomson 7-63 6-3, Alex Rybakov 6-72 7-5 7-63 and Tristan Schoolkate 6-75 6-3 7-63.
In the 1st round against Schoolkate, Kirchheimer recovered from a 1-set down deficit before winning (6-75 6-3 7-63). During the match Kirchheimer scored 122 points vs Schoolkate’s 116. Kirchheimer was exceptionally aggressive to blast 65 winners.
Talking about serving, Kirchheimer fired 8 aces and he committed only 4 double faults. Overall, Strong Kirchheimer was extremely efficient on serve to win 74% (65/88) of his 1st serve and 51% (22/43) on the second serve. However, this didn’t prevent his to concede the serve once. Strong broke Schoolkate twice after converting 20% of his break points (2/10).
The American’s best result of the current year was reaching the final in M25 Montreal and M15 South Bend.
The American has a composed 27-21 win-loss record in 2023, 14-12 on hard (See FULL STATS).
H2H Performance in the tournament
Matches, sets, games and points
| Points | Michelsen | Kirchheimer |
|---|---|---|
| Match played | 1 | 3 |
| Tot Set | 3 | 8 |
| Tot Games | 34 | 95 |
| Pts | 105-102 | 327-293 |
| Total Points | 207 | 620 |
| Winners | 51 | 146 |
| %Winners | 49% | 45% |
Michelsen played 1 match while Kirchheimer competed in 3 matches. Kirchheimer started his run from the qualifications while Michelsen had a direct access to the main draw. Both players lost a set in the event. Alex Michelsen dropped 1 set, while Strong Kirchheimer dropped 2 sets. Michelsen has played 5 set(s) less than Kirchheimer (3 vs 8). Therefore, Michelsen played 61 games less than Kirchheimer. Alex scored 51 winners (49% of the total points). On the other side, Strong made 146 winners (45%).
Serve Performance
| Serve | Michelsen | Kirchheimer |
|---|---|---|
| Aces | 2 | 18 |
| Avg per match | 2 | 6 |
| 1st in | 72/98 | 196/302 |
| %1st in | 73% | 65% |
| 1st pts | 51/72 | 146/196 |
| %1st pts | 71% | 74% |
| 2nd pts | 17/26 | 62/106 |
| %2nd pts | 65% | 58% |
Michelsen fired 2 aces . Kirchheimer scored 18 aces (6 per match). Michelsen won 71% points on his first serve. He extremely effective on his second serve to win 65% of the points. On the other side, Kirchheimer won 74% of the points behind 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 | Michelsen | Kirchheimer |
|---|---|---|
| Won | 3 | 9 |
| Converted | 3/9 | 9/37 |
| % Converted | 33% | 24% |
| Conceded | 6 | 26 |
| Saved | 3 | 21 |
| % Saved | 50% | 81% |
| Times Broken | 3 | 5 |
The American broke his opponent 3 times with a 33% conversion rate. Alex conceded his serve 3 times and he saved 50% of the break points that he conceded. The American broke his opponents 9 times with a 24% conversion rate. The American conceded his serve 5 times and he saved 81% of the break points that he conceded.
| Michelsen | |||
| R1 Janvier |
Total | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Score | 5-7 7-67 6-3 | ||
| Tot Set | 3 | 3 | |
| Tot Games | 34 | 34 | |
| pts | 105-102 | 105-102 | |
| Total points | 207 | 207 | |
| Winners | 51 | 51 | |
| %Winners | 49% | 49% | |
| SERVE | |||
| Aces | 2 | 2 | |
| Double Faults | 2 | 2 | |
| 1st in | 72/98 | 72/98 | |
| % 1st in | 73% | 73% | |
| 1st pts | 51/72 | 51/72 | |
| % 1st pts | 71% | 71% | |
| 2nd pts | 17/26 | 17/26 | |
| % 2nd pts | 65% | 65% | |
| Breaks | |||
| Won | 3 | 3 | |
| Converted | 3/9 | 3/9 | |
| Converted % | 33% | 33% | |
| Conceded | 6 | 6 | |
| Saved | 3/6 | 3 | |
| Saved % | 50% | 50% | |
| Times Broken | 3 | 3 | |
| Kirchheimer | |||||
| Q1 Thomson |
Q3 Rybakov |
R1 Schoolkate |
Total | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Score | 7-63 6-3 | 6-72 7-5 7-63 | 6-75 6-3 7-63 | ||
| Tot Set | 2 | 3 | 3 | 8 | |
| Tot Games | 22 | 38 | 35 | 95 | |
| pts | 88-68 | 117-109 | 122-116 | 327-293 | |
| Total points | 156 | 226 | 238 | 620 | |
| Winners | 31 | 50 | 65 | 146 | |
| %Winners | 35% | 43% | 53% | 45% | |
| SERVE | |||||
| Aces | 4 | 6 | 8 | 18 | |
| Double Faults | 1 | 5 | 4 | 10 | |
| 1st in | 40/61 | 68/110 | 88/131 | 196/302 | |
| % 1st in | 66% | 62% | 67% | 65% | |
| 1st pts | 31/40 | 50/68 | 65/88 | 146/196 | |
| % 1st pts | 78% | 74% | 74% | 74% | |
| 2nd pts | 15/21 | 25/42 | 22/43 | 62/106 | |
| % 2nd pts | 71% | 60% | 51% | 58% | |
| Breaks | |||||
| Won | 3 | 4 | 2 | 9 | |
| Converted | 3/16 | 4/11 | 2/10 | 9/37 | |
| Converted % | 19% | 36% | 20% | 24% | |
| Conceded | 4 | 10 | 12 | 26 | |
| Saved | 3/4 | 7/10 | 11/12 | 21 | |
| Saved % | 75% | 70% | 92% | 237% | |
| Times Broken | 1 | 3 | 1 | 5 | |
Head 2 Head
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LWLWLWWWLW Tennis Scores in Cary 2 Challenger
- Guido AndreozziAndreozzi – Jaimee Floyd AngeleFloyd Angele (6-2 6-2) – See score progression
- Strong KirchheimerKirchheimer – Tristan SchoolkateSchoolkate (6-75 6-3 7-63) – See score progression
- Pedro Vives MarcosVives Marcos – Elmar EjupovicEjupovic (6-2 4-6 6-2) – See score progression
- Garrett JohnsJohns – Darwin BlanchBlanch (6-2 3-6 7-62) – See score progression
- Alex MichelsenMichelsen – Maxime JanvierJanvier (5-7 7-67 6-3) – See score progression
- Bernard TomicTomic – Cannon KingsleyKingsley (7-5 6-3) – See score progression
- Zachary SvajdaSvajda – Ethan QuinnQuinn (4-6 6-3 6-4) – See score progression
- Christian HarrisonHarrison – Aidan MayoMayo (4-6 6-4 6-2) – See score progression
- Illya MarchenkoMarchenko – Enzo CouacaudCouacaud (6-4 7-62) – See score progression
- Toby SamuelSamuel – Brayden SchnurSchnur (6-3 6-75 6-3) – See score progression
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