Denis Kudla and Strong Kirchheimer will fight against each other in the 1st round of the Columbus Challenger for the 1st time in their career. They are scheduled to play on Tuesday at 2:30 pm on COURT 1. Here the head to head stats and relative prediction.
Prediction, odds and live streaming
The pick for Tennis Tonic is Denis Kudla who should win in 2 sets.
As per the initial odds, Denis Kudla is the pick to win this match.
Denis Kudla -> 1.36
Strong Kirchheimer -> 2.96
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Prediction and head to head Denis Kudla vs. Strong Kirchheimer
There is no head to head record between Denis Kudla and Strong Kirchheimer since this will be the first time that they will square off in the main tour.
Denis Kudla
| Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 17-15 | 5-3 | 6-6 | 5-3 | 1-3 | 0-0 |
| 2023 | 30-28 | 13-17 | 1-3 | 11-4 | 5-4 | 0-0 |
| 2022 | 33-33 | 21-19 | 3-5 | 2-3 | 7-6 | 0-0 |
| 2021 | 40-27 | 20-14 | 4-5 | 4-4 | 12-4 | 0-0 |
| 2020 | 19-9 | 13-6 | 0-1 | 6-2 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
Ranked no. 205, Kudla will start his run in the Columbus Challenger after he played his last match at the Us Open where he lost 7-6(6) 6-4 to Sandgren in the qualifications on the 23rd of August.
Denis has a compiled 18-22 win-loss record in 2023, 1-1 on indoor hard courts (See FULL STATS).
Talking about his overall career, Denis has an overall 479-374 record. He has a positive 87-56 record on indoor hard courts.
Previously in the Columbus Challenger
Previously, his best result was reaching the quarter in 2017. See his history.
Strong Kirchheimer
| Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 12-15 | 8-7 | 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. 402, Strong reached the 1st round after beating Kiranpal Pannu 6-2 6-1 and Alfredo Perez 6-4 6-3.
In the qualifications, The American had a good straight sets win against Perez (6-4 6-3). During the match Kirchheimer scored 69 points vs Perez’s 50. Strong was quite aggressive to blast 28 winners.
About the serving games, Kirchheimer blasted 2 aces and he committed only 1 double fault for the entire match. Overall, Strong Kirchheimer was exceptionally efficient on serve to win 80% (28/35) of his 1st serve and 61% (11/18) on the second serve. However, this didn’t prevent his to concede the serve once. Kirchheimer broke Perez 4 times after converting 57% of his break points (4/7).
Overall Performance in this tournament
Strong started his run at this tournament from the qualifications. In the main draw, he hasn’t surrendered yet a set in this tournament to conquer 61% of the points he played.
Kirchheimer’s best result of the season was reaching the final in M25 Montreal and M15 South Bend.
Kirchheimer has a compiled 29-22 win-loss record in 2023, 13-5 on indoor hard courts (See FULL STATS).
Head 2 Head
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