Strong Kirchheimer and Ajeet Rai will face off in the 1st round of the Indian Wells 1 Challenger for the 1st time in their career. They are scheduled to compete on Tuesday at 12:30 pm on PC4. 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 2 sets.
As per the initial odds, Strong Kirchheimer is the pick to win this match.
Strong Kirchheimer -> 1.32
Ajeet Rai -> 3.2
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Prediction and head to head Strong Kirchheimer vs. Ajeet Rai
There is no head to head record between Strong Kirchheimer and Ajeet Rai since this will be the first time that they will face off in the main tour.
Strong Kirchheimer
| Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 7-12 | 3-4 | 1-4 | 3-4 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2024 | 25-32 | 15-19 | 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 |
Ranked no. 417, Kirchheimer will start his run in the Indian Wells 1 Challenger after he played his last match in the Champaign Challenger where he lost 6-1 6-4 to Quinn in the 2nd round on the 15th of November.
This will be the first match of the year on hard.
Talking about his overall career, Kirchheimer has an overall 237-182 record. He has a positive 121-99 record on hard.
Previously in the Indian Wells 1 Challenger
Kirchheimer has never competed in this tournament before.
Ajeet Rai
| Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 10-9 | 7-7 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 3-2 | 0-0 |
| 2024 | 37-57 | 33-25 | 3-5 | 0-1 | 1-26 | 0-0 |
| 2023 | 29-28 | 19-24 | 4-2 | 1-0 | 5-2 | 0-0 |
| 2022 | 38-25 | 38-24 | 0-0 | 0-1 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2021 | 22-19 | 22-19 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
Ranked no. 541, Rai got to the 1st round after beating Elijah Strode 6-2 6-3 and Keegan Smith 6-3 0-6 7-5.
In the qualifications, Rai defeated Smith (6-3 0-6 7-5).During the match Rai scored less points (6) than Smith. In fact, the world no. 417 won 79 points vs Smith’s. That means that Rai was more focused during the important points. Rai was exceptionally aggressive to blast 43 winners.
Talking about serving, Rai bagged 8 aces and he committed only 4 double faults. Ajeet Rai lost the serve 3 times and he saved 2 break points. Furthermore, Rai put 66% of his first serves in, winning 73% (43/59) of the points behind his 1st serve and 40% (12/30) on the 2nd serve. The Kiwi broke Smith twice after converting 40% of his break points (2/5).
Overall Performance in this tournament
Rai started his run at this tournament from the qualifications. In the main draw, he has conceded 1 set in the tournament to win 52% of the points he played.
Ajeet has an overall 2-1 win-loss record in 2024, 2-1 on hard (See FULL STATS).
Head 2 Head
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