Strong Kirchheimer and Stefan Kozlov will square off in the 1st round of the Cleveland Challenger for the 2nd time in their career. They are scheduled to play on Tuesday at 12:30 pm on STADIUM. Here the head to head stats and relative prediction.
Prediction, odds and live streaming
The pick for Tennis Tonic is Stefan Kozlov who should win in 3 sets.
As per the initial odds, Stefan Kozlov is the pick to win this match.
Stefan Kozlov -> 1.49
Strong Kirchheimer -> 2.5
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Prediction and head to head Strong Kirchheimer vs. Stefan Kozlov
This will be the 2nd time that Strong Kirchheimer and Stefan Kozlov fight against each other. The head to head is 1-0 for Kozlov (see full H2H stats), but they have never competed against each other on indoor hard courts.
The last time that they played each other, Kozlov won 6-3 6-2 in the qualifications in the Little Rock Challenger back in 2021.
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. 406, the American will start his run in the Cleveland Challenger after he played his last match in the Indian Wells 2 Challenger where he lost 6-2 6-1 to Svajda in the 2nd round on the 25th of January.
Kirchheimer has an overall 2-2 win-loss record in 2024, 0-0 on indoor hard courts (See FULL STATS).
This will be the first match of the season on indoor hard courts.
Talking about his overall career, The American has an overall 239-184 record. He has a positive 51-35 record on indoor hard courts.
Previously in the Cleveland Challenger
Previously, his best result was reaching the 2nd round in 2023. See his history.
Stefan Kozlov
| Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 24-12 | 4-3 | 17-8 | 3-1 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2023 | 6-12 | 1-6 | 0-0 | 5-6 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2022 | 21-34 | 14-18 | 0-5 | 4-5 | 3-6 | 0-0 |
| 2021 | 41-15 | 20-12 | 5-2 | 16-1 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2020 | 13-13 | 7-8 | 0-0 | 6-5 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
Ranked no. 722, Kozlov reached the 1st round after defeating Ajay Mahenthiran 7-5 6-1 and Ezekiel Clark 6-1 6-4.
In the qualifications, Kozlov had a good straight sets win against Clark (6-1 6-4). During the match Kozlov scored 61 points vs Clark’s 36. Kozlov was very aggressive to blast 23 winners.
About the serving games, Kozlov recorded 4 aces and he committed only 3 double faults. Overall, Stefan Kozlov was extremely efficient on serve to win 74% (23/31) of his 1st serve and 62% (13/21) on the second serve. However, this didn’t prevent his to concede the serve once. Stefan was clinical in his return game without wasting any break point and break Clark 4 times.
Overall Performance in this tournament
Stefan started his run at this tournament from the qualifications. In the main draw, he hasn’t dropped yet a set in this competition to win 59% of the points he played.
The American has an aggregate 6-2 win-loss record in 2024, 2-0 on indoor hard courts (See FULL STATS).
Previously in the Cleveland Challenger
Previously, his best result was reaching the quarter in 2023. See his history.
Head 2 Head
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- James DuckworthDuckworth – Toby Alex KodatAlex Kodat (6-3 6-0) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Patrick KypsonKypson – Nathan PonwithPonwith (6-3 6-2) – Stats, scores, rankings
Upcoming matches in the draw
- Sebastian FanselowFanselow – William GrantGrant (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Thai KwiatkowskiKwiatkowski – Nick ChappellChappell (1-0) – H2H and prediction
- Noah RubinRubin – Matija PecoticPecotic (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Stefan KozlovKozlov – Strong KirchheimerKirchheimer (1-0) – H2H and prediction
- Lucas GerchGerch – (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Thomas FancuttFancutt – Mitchell KruegerKrueger (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Emilio NavaNava – Gabi Adrian BoitanAdrian Boitan (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Keegan SmithSmith – Denis KudlaKudla (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Patrick MaloneyMaloney – Ezekiel ClarkClark (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- James Kent TrotterKent Trotter – (0-0) – H2H and prediction
