Thai Kwiatkowski and Strong Kirchheimer will fight against each other in the 1st round of the Knoxville Challenger for the 2nd time in their career. They are scheduled to compete on Tuesday at 3:00 pm on COURT 2. In this post, we analyze their head to head performance and prediction.
Prediction, odds and live streaming
The pick for Tennis Tonic is Thai Kwiatkowski who should win in 3 sets.
As per the initial odds, Thai Kwiatkowski is the pick to win this match.
Thai Kwiatkowski -> 1.53
Strong Kirchheimer -> 2.38
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Prediction and head to head Thai Kwiatkowski vs. Strong Kirchheimer
This will be the 2nd time that Thai Kwiatkowski and Strong Kirchheimer square off. The head to head is 1-0 for Kwiatkowski (see full H2H stats), but they have never played each other on indoor hard courts.
The last time that they locked horns, Kwiatkowski won 7-6(2) 6-3 in the qualifications in USA F1.
Thai Kwiatkowski
| Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 20-9 | 15-2 | 1-4 | 4-3 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2023 | 36-24 | 23-15 | 7-3 | 6-6 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2022 | 2-5 | 2-4 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-1 | 0-0 |
| 2021 | 19-24 | 5-9 | 9-6 | 5-7 | 0-2 | 0-0 |
| 2020 | 11-9 | 11-7 | 0-1 | 0-1 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
Ranked no. 355, the American got to the 1st round after beating Chris Rodesch 3-6 6-3 6-4 and Christian Harrison 6-1 6-3.
In the qualifications, Thai had a good straight sets win against Harrison (6-1 6-3). During the match, Kwiatkowski scored 63 points vs Harrison’s 39. Kwiatkowski was extremely aggressive to blast 19 winners.
Regarding the service games, Kwiatkowski scored 3 aces and he committed only 2 double faults. Overall, Thai Kwiatkowski was exceptionally efficient on serve to win 79% (19/24) of his 1st serve and 62% (16/26) on the second serve. However, this didn’t prevent his to concede the serve once. The American broke Harrison 5 times after converting 83% of his break points (5/6).
Overall Performance in this tournament
Kwiatkowski started his run at this tournament from the qualifications. In the main draw, he has lost 1 set in this tournament to win 56% of the points he played.
Kwiatkowski has favorable win-loss record in the last 10 years having won 59% of his matches (201-142). 4-4 on indoor hard courts in 2023. Talking about his performance on the same surface of this competition, Kwiatkowski has an aggregate 27-25 record in the last years on indoor hard courts.
The American’s best result of the year was getting to the final in M15 Sunrise and M15 Las Vegas.
The American has an overall 34-22 win-loss record in 2023, 4-4 on indoor hard courts (See FULL STATS).
Previously in the Knoxville Challenger
Strong Kirchheimer
| Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 6-10 | 2-3 | 2-3 | 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. 375 (career-high), Strong will start his run in the Knoxville Challenger after he played his last match in Augustin where he lost 6-4 6-2 to Broom in the semifinal on the 28th of October.
Kirchheimer has an overall 37-27 win-loss record in 2023, 16-7 on indoor hard courts (See FULL STATS).
Strong’s best result of the season was getting to the final in M25 Montreal and M15 South Bend.
In terms of his career, Strong has an overall 236-180 record. He has a positive 50-33 record on indoor hard courts.
Previously in the Knoxville Challenger
Previously, his best result was reaching the 2nd round in 2022. See his history.
Head 2 Head
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- Martin DammDamm – Michael MmohMmoh (6-4 6-3) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Alexander RitschardRitschard – Juncheng ShangShang (3-6 7-69 6-2) – Stats, scores, rankings
Upcoming matches in the draw
- Emilio GomezGomez – (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Tennys SandgrenSandgren – (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Denis KudlaKudla – Patrick KypsonKypson (2-1) – H2H and prediction
- Sebastian FanselowFanselow – Cannon KingsleyKingsley (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Thai KwiatkowskiKwiatkowski – Strong KirchheimerKirchheimer (1-0) – H2H and prediction
- Evgeny KarlovskiyKarlovskiy – Mitchell KruegerKrueger (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Nino SerdarusicSerdarusic – Emilio NavaNava (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Mats RosenkranzRosenkranz – (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Aidan MchughMchugh – Adam WaltonWalton (0-1) – H2H and prediction
- Titouan DroguetDroguet – Beibit ZhukayevZhukayev (0-0) – H2H and prediction
