Brandon Holt and Cannon Kingsley will face off in the 2nd round of the Charlottesville Challenger for the 2nd time in their career. They are scheduled to play on Wednesday at 5:00 pm on BRENDA MYERS COURT. In this post, we analyze their head to head performance and prediction.
Prediction, odds and live streaming
The pick for Tennis Tonic is Cannon Kingsley who should win in 3 sets.
Cannon Kingsley -> 1.77
Brandon Holt -> 1.97
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Prediction and head to head Brandon Holt vs. Cannon Kingsley
This will be the 2nd time that Brandon Holt and Cannon Kingsley face off. The head to head is 1-0 for Kingsley (see full H2H stats), but they have never played each other on indoor hard courts.
The last time that they squared off, Kingsley won 3-6 6-1 6-3 in the qualifications in the Tiburon Challenger back in October 2023.
Brandon Holt
Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
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2024 | 43-31 | 37-24 | 1-1 | 5-6 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
2023 | 22-24 | 14-16 | 1-2 | 7-5 | 0-1 | 0-0 |
2022 | 52-21 | 48-17 | 0-0 | 3-3 | 1-1 | 0-0 |
2021 | 3-6 | 2-4 | 1-2 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
2020 | 8-5 | 8-5 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
Ranked no. 285, the American got to the 2nd round after beating Emilio Gomez 6-2 6-2.
In the 1st round, Brandon had a good straight sets win against Gomez (6-2 6-2). During the match, Holt scored 65 points vs Gomez’s 43. Brandon was pretty aggressive to blast 23 winners.
Talking about the service games, Holt bagged 4 aces and he was very solid in conceding no double faults. Brandon Holt lost the serve once. Furthermore, Holt put 72% of his first serves in, winning 70% (23/33) of the points behind his 1st serve and 69% (9/13) on the 2nd serve. Holt broke Gomez 5 times after converting 42% of his break points (5/12).
Holt has a solid win-loss record in the last 8 years having won 61% of his matches (129-82). 4-2 on indoor hard courts in 2023. In connection with his performance on the same surface of this competition, Holt has a composed7-5 win-loss record in the last 8 years on indoor hard courts.
Brandon’s best result of the year was reaching the semifinal in the Busan Challenger.
Holt has a compiled 19-21 win-loss record in 2023, 4-2 on indoor hard courts (See FULL STATS).
Previously in the Charlottesville Challenger
Cannon Kingsley
Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
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2024 | 23-18 | 16-12 | 3-2 | 4-4 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
2023 | 23-17 | 17-12 | 0-1 | 6-4 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
2022 | 19-12 | 7-6 | 2-1 | 10-5 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
2021 | 23-10 | 13-5 | 2-1 | 8-4 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
2020 | 0-2 | 0-1 | 0-0 | 0-1 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
Ranked no. 432, Cannon reached the 2nd round after beating Alex Michelsen 7-5 6-3.
In the 1st round, The American had a good straight sets win against Michelsen (7-5 6-3). During the match Kingsley scored 68 points vs Michelsen’s 55. Kingsley was exceptionally aggressive to blast 30 winners.
Talking about serving, Kingsley managed to score 8 aces and he committed only 3 double faults. Cannon Kingsley was very efficient on serve to win 86% (30/35) of his 1st serve and 57% (17/30) on the second serve. This was the main reason for not conceding a single break during the match. The American broke Michelsen twice after converting 33% of his break points (2/6).
The American’s best result of the year was reaching the final in M25 Champaign.
Cannon has a compiled 21-14 win-loss record in 2023, 4-1 on indoor hard courts (See FULL STATS).
Previously in the Charlottesville Challenger
Previously, his best result was reaching the qualifications in 2019 and 2022. See his history.
H2H Performance in the tournament
Matches, sets, games and points
Points | Holt | Kingsley |
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Match played | 1 | 1 |
Tot Set | 2 | 2 |
Tot Games | 16 | 21 |
Pts | 65-43 | 68-55 |
Total Points | 108 | 123 |
Winners | 23 | 30 |
%Winners | 35% | 44% |
Both Holt and Kingsley played 1 match. Both players have not surrendered a single set in this event so far. Talking about their workload, Holt and Kingsley have played the same amount of sets 2. However, Holt played 5 games less than Kingsley. The American scored 23 winners (35% of the total points). On the other side, Kingsley fired 30 winners (44%).
Serve Performance
Serve | Holt | Kingsley |
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Aces | 4 | 8 |
Avg per match | 4 | 8 |
1st in | 33/46 | 35/65 |
%1st in | 72% | 54% |
1st pts | 23/33 | 30/35 |
%1st pts | 70% | 86% |
2nd pts | 9/13 | 17/30 |
%2nd pts | 69% | 57% |
Holt bagged 4 aces . Kingsley struck 8 aces . Holt won 70% points behind his first serve. He extremely effective on his second serve to win 69% of the points. On the other side, Kingsley won 86% of the points behind his first serve. He had a solid display on his second serve to win 57% of the points.
How they played the important points
Breaks | Holt | Kingsley |
---|---|---|
Won | 5 | 2 |
Converted | 5/12 | 2/6 |
% Converted | 42% | 33% |
Conceded | 1 | 4 |
Saved | 0 | 4 |
% Saved | 0% | 100% |
Times Broken | 1 | 0 |
The American broke his opponent 5 times with a 42% conversion rate. Holt conceded his serve once and he saved 0% of the break points that he conceded. Kingsley broke his opponent twice with a 33% conversion rate. Cannon was rock solid on his serve as he has never conceded a single service game after saving 4 break points.
Holt | |||
R1 Gomez | Total | ||
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Score | 6-2 6-2 | ||
Tot Set | 2 | 2 | |
Tot Games | 16 | 16 | |
pts | 65-43 | 65-43 | |
Total points | 108 | 108 | |
Winners | 23 | 23 | |
%Winners | 35% | 35% | |
SERVE | |||
Aces | 4 | 4 | |
Double Faults | 0 | 0 | |
1st in | 33/46 | 33/46 | |
% 1st in | 72% | 72% | |
1st pts | 23/33 | 23/33 | |
% 1st pts | 70% | 70% | |
2nd pts | 9/13 | 9/13 | |
% 2nd pts | 69% | 69% | |
Breaks | |||
Won | 5 | 5 | |
Converted | 5/12 | 5/12 | |
Converted % | 42% | 42% | |
Conceded | 1 | 1 | |
Saved | 0/1 | 0 | |
Saved % | 0% | 0% | |
Times Broken | 1 | 1 |
Kingsley | |||
R1 Michelsen | Total | ||
---|---|---|---|
Score | 7-5 6-3 | ||
Tot Set | 2 | 2 | |
Tot Games | 21 | 21 | |
pts | 68-55 | 68-55 | |
Total points | 123 | 123 | |
Winners | 30 | 30 | |
%Winners | 44% | 44% | |
SERVE | |||
Aces | 8 | 8 | |
Double Faults | 3 | 3 | |
1st in | 35/65 | 35/65 | |
% 1st in | 54% | 54% | |
1st pts | 30/35 | 30/35 | |
% 1st pts | 86% | 86% | |
2nd pts | 17/30 | 17/30 | |
% 2nd pts | 57% | 57% | |
Breaks | |||
Won | 2 | 2 | |
Converted | 2/6 | 2/6 | |
Converted % | 33% | 33% | |
Conceded | 4 | 4 | |
Saved | 4/4 | 4 | |
Saved % | 100% | 100% | |
Times Broken | 0 | 0 |
Tennis Scores in Charlottesville Challenger
- Denis KudlaKudla – Chris RodeschRodesch (7-65 6-1) – See score progression
- Cannon KingsleyKingsley – Alex MichelsenMichelsen (7-5 6-3) – See score progression
- Michael MmohMmoh – Steve JohnsonJohnson (7-66 7-5) – See score progression
- Ethan QuinnQuinn – Mitchell KruegerKrueger (3-6 7-62 6-4) – See score progression
- Emilio NavaNava – Bernard TomicTomic (2-6 7-61 7-5) – See score progression
- Lucas GerchGerch – Stefan KozlovKozlov (6-2 5-7 7-65) – See score progression
- Reilly OpelkaOpelka – Tennys SandgrenSandgren (6-4 7-5) – See score progression
- Inaki Montes-De La TorreMontes-De La Torre – Adam WaltonWalton (6-2 3-6 7-64) – See score progression
- Alexander RitschardRitschard – Aidan MchughMchugh (6-4 6-4) – See score progression
- Aidan MayoMayo – Alafia AyeniAyeni (7-5 6-2) – See score progression
- Beibit ZhukayevZhukayev – Thai KwiatkowskiKwiatkowski (4-6 7-63 7-63) – See score progression
- Martin DammDamm – Zachary SvajdaSvajda (2-6 6-3 7-63) – See score progression
- Brandon HoltHolt – Emilio GomezGomez (6-2 6-2) – See score progression
- Nino SerdarusicSerdarusic – Eliot SpizzirriSpizzirri (6-1 2-6 6-4) – See score progression
- Patrick KypsonKypson – Gabriel DebruDebru (6-4 7-5) – See score progression
- Benoit PairePaire – Darian KingKing (7-6(3) 6-2) – See score progression
Upcoming matches in the draw
- Benoit PairePaire – Lucas GerchGerch (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Denis KudlaKudla – Patrick KypsonKypson (2-0) – H2H and prediction
- Michael MmohMmoh – Alexander RitschardRitschard (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Nino SerdarusicSerdarusic – (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Brandon HoltHolt – Cannon KingsleyKingsley (0-1) – H2H and prediction