Alexander Ritschard and Kenny de Schepper will fight against each other in the 1st round of the Hamburg Challenger for the 2nd time in their career. They are scheduled to play on Tuesday at 3:30 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 Alexander Ritschard who should win in 2 sets.
As per the initial odds, Alexander Ritschard is the pick to win this match.
Alexander Ritschard -> 1.35
Kenny de Schepper -> 3.04
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Prediction and head to head Alexander Ritschard vs. Kenny de Schepper
This will be the 2nd time that Alexander Ritschard and Kenny de Schepper square off. The head to head is 1-0 for de Schepper (see full H2H stats), 1-0 on indoor hard courts.
The last time that they played each other, de Schepper won 6-7(3) 6-1 6-4 in the 1st round in the Cherbourg Challenger back in 2023.
Alexander Ritschard
| Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 42-22 | 7-5 | 29-8 | 5-8 | 1-1 | 0-0 |
| 2023 | 28-30 | 6-8 | 13-11 | 9-9 | 0-2 | 0-0 |
| 2022 | 36-27 | 7-5 | 11-11 | 15-9 | 3-2 | 0-0 |
| 2021 | 25-23 | 1-4 | 20-14 | 4-5 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2020 | 24-13 | 11-5 | 12-7 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 1-1 |
Ranked no. 198, Ritschard will start his run in the Hamburg Challenger after he played his last match in the Lugano Challenger where he lost 1-6 6-4 6-4 to Albot in the 2nd round on the 6th of March.
The Swiss has an overall 10-6 win-loss record in 2024, 3-3 on indoor hard courts (See FULL STATS).
Talking about his overall career, Alexander has an overall 297-202 record. He has a positive 55-48 record on indoor hard courts.
Previously in the Hamburg Challenger
Previously, he won this tournament once in 2022. See his history.
Kenny de Schepper
| Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 28-29 | 11-7 | 4-8 | 13-14 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2023 | 27-29 | 7-4 | 8-14 | 12-10 | 0-1 | 0-0 |
| 2022 | 41-35 | 6-7 | 18-16 | 17-12 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2021 | 38-24 | 22-8 | 5-5 | 11-11 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2020 | 20-10 | 6-4 | 9-3 | 5-3 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
Ranked no. 493, the French player reached the 1st round after beating Robin Bertrand 7-64 1-6 6-2 and Altug Celikbilek 7-64 2-6 7-62.
In the qualifications, Kenny defeated Celikbilek (7-64 2-6 7-62).During the match de Schepper scored less points (6) than Celikbilek. In fact, the world no. 198 won 103 points vs Celikbilek’s. That means that de Schepper was more focused during the important points. The French player was pretty aggressive to blast 54 winners.
Talking about serving, de Schepper struck 8 aces and he committed only 4 double faults. Kenny de Schepper lost the serve 4 times and he saved 5 break points. Furthermore, de Schepper put 68% of his first serves in, winning 74% (54/73) of the points behind his 1st serve and 38% (13/34) on the 2nd serve. Kenny broke Celikbilek twice after converting 33% of his break points (2/6).
Overall Performance in this tournament
De Schepper started his run at this tournament from the qualifications. In the main draw, he has conceded 2 set in the tournament to win 49% of the points he played.
The French player best result of the year was reaching the semifinal in M15 Bressuire.
The French player has a compiled 10-8 win-loss record in 2024, 9-7 on indoor hard courts (See FULL STATS).
Head 2 Head
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Upcoming matches in the draw
- Kenny de Schepperde Schepper – Alexander RitschardRitschard (1-0) – H2H and prediction
- Yasutaka UchiyamaUchiyama – Henri SquireSquire (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Cem IlkelIlkel – (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Remy BertolaBertola – Jakub PaulPaul (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Ergi KirkinKirkin – Illya MarchenkoMarchenko (1-1) – H2H and prediction
- Yu Hsiou HsuHsiou Hsu – Richard BerankisBerankis (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Adrian AndreevAndreev – Clement ChidekhChidekh (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Yuta ShimizuShimizu – Sho ShimabukuroShimabukuro (0-1) – H2H and prediction
- Bu YunchaoketeYunchaokete – Sebastian FanselowFanselow (0-0) – H2H and prediction
