Mitchell Krueger and Philip Sekulic will square off in the 2^nd round of the Chicago Challenger for the 1^st time in their career. They are scheduled to play on Wednesday at 3:00 pm on COURT 1. In the following paragraphs, you can find the head to head analysis and prediction.

Prediction, odds and live streaming

The pick for Tennis Tonic is Mitchell Krueger who should win in 3 sets.

As per the initial odds, Mitchell Krueger is the pick to win this match.
Mitchell Krueger -> 1.63
Philip Sekulic -> 2.19

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Prediction and head to head Mitchell Krueger vs. Philip Sekulic

There is no head to head record between Mitchell Krueger and Philip Sekulic since this will be the first time that they will fight against each other in the main tour.

Mitchell Krueger

Mitchell Krueger

31 - 18win/loss

Hard

20-8

I Hard

1-2

Clay

9-7

Grass

1-1

Rank
202

High
135

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Year	Total	Hard	Clay	I.hard	Grass	Carpet
2024	31-19	20-9	9-7	1-2	1-1	0-0
2023	29-29	15-19	4-4	10-6	0-0	0-0
2022	29-28	18-15	6-5	1-6	4-2	0-0
2021	29-24	19-12	5-5	3-5	2-2	0-0
2020	17-13	14-8	1-3	2-2	0-0	0-0

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Ranked no. 202, Krueger got to the 2^nd round after beating Arthur Gea 6-4 6-4.

In the 1^st round, The American had a good straight sets win against Gea (6-4 6-4). During the match, Krueger scored 71 points vs Gea’s 64. Krueger was very aggressive to blast 23 winners.

Regarding the service games, Krueger scored just 1 ace throughout the encounter and he committed only 2 double faults. Mitchell Krueger lost the serve twice and he saved 2 break points. Furthermore, Krueger put 58% of his first serves in, winning 68% (23/34) of the points behind his 1st serve and 52% (13/25) on the 2nd serve. Krueger broke Gea 4 times after converting 40% of his break points (4/10).

Krueger has positive match record in the last 10 years having won 51% of his matches (291-275). 19-8 on hard in 2024. Regarding his performance on the same surface of this event, Krueger has a composed 202-166 win-loss record in the last years on hard.

His best result of the current year was conquering the title the Indian Wells 1 Challenger where he beat Brandon Holt in the final 4-6 6-3 6-4 and the Little Rock Challenger where he defeated Yuta Shimizu in the final 6-3 6-4.

The American has a composed 30-18 win-loss record in 2024, 19-8 on hard (See FULL STATS).

Previously in the Chicago Challenger

Chicago Challenger

Krueger's Record

Philip Sekulic

Philip Sekulic

22 - 22win/loss

Hard

22-18

I Hard

0-0

Clay

0-3

Grass

0-1

Rank
276

High
225

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Year	Total	Hard	Clay	I.hard	Grass	Carpet
2024	22-22	22-18	0-3	0-0	0-1	0-0
2023	37-28	33-24	0-1	0-1	4-2	0-0
2022	29-23	19-15	10-8	0-0	0-0	0-0
2021	8-3	8-3	0-0	0-0	0-0	0-0
2020	0-0	0-0	0-0	0-0	0-0	0-0

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Ranked no. 276, Philip reached the 2^nd round after defeating Chak Lam Coleman Wong 6-2 6-1.

In the 1^st round, Philip had a good straight sets win against Lam Coleman Wong (6-2 6-1). During the match Sekulic scored 57 points vs Lam Coleman Wong’s 36. Philip was extremely aggressive to blast 17 winners.

About the serving games, Sekulic wasn’t able to score even 1 ace for the entire match and he committed only 6 double faults. Philip Sekulic lost the serve once. Furthermore, Sekulic put 51% of his first serves in, winning 89% (17/19) of the points behind his 1st serve and 44% (8/18) on the 2nd serve. Sekulic broke Lam Coleman Wong 6 times after converting 43% of his break points (6/14).

Sekulic’s best result of the year was getting to the semifinal in the Wuxi Challenger and the Kachreti Challenger.

The Australian has a compiled 22-21 win-loss record in 2024, 22-17 on hard (See FULL STATS).

Chicago Challenger

Sekulic's Record

H2H Performance in the tournament

Matches, sets, games and points

Both Krueger and Sekulic played 1 match. Both players have not lost a single set in this event so far. Talking about their workload, Krueger and Sekulic have played the same amount of sets 2. However, Krueger played 5 games more than Sekulic. Mitchell scored 23 winners (32% of the total points). On the other side, Philip scored 17 winners (30%).

Serve Performance

Krueger scored 1 ace . Sekulic didn’t manage to fire a single ace to far. Krueger won 68% points behind his first serve. He very solid his second serve to win 52% of the points. On the other side, Sekulic won 89% of the points behind his first serve. He had a solid display on his second serve to win 44% of the points.

How they played the important points

Krueger broke his opponent 4 times with a 40% conversion rate. Mitchell conceded his serve twice and he saved 50% of the break points that he conceded. Philip broke his opponent 6 times with a 43% conversion rate. Sekulic conceded his serve once and he saved 0% of the break points that he conceded.

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Mitchell
Krueger

1:0

Philip
Sekulic

Rank

202

High

135

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Rank

276

High

225

Win Loss

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2024 2023 2022

31 - 19

22 - 22

20-9

Hard

22-18

1-2

I Hard

0-0

9-7

Clay

0-3

1-1

Grass

0-1

Tennis Scores in Chicago Challenger

• Brandon HoltHolt – Andrew FentyFenty (6-1 7-6⁴) – See score progression
• Bu YunchaoketeYunchaokete – Michael ZhengZheng (6-4 6-4) – See score progression
• Paul JubbJubb – Tung-Lin WuWu (6-4 2-6 6-1) – See score progression
• Gabriel DialloDiallo – James Kent TrotterKent Trotter (6-4 6-2) – See score progression
• Hugo GrenierGrenier – Bernard TomicTomic (6-2 6-4) – See score progression
• Nishesh BasavareddyBasavareddy – Mark LajalLajal (2-6 7-6⁶ 7-5) – See score progression
• Aidan MayoMayo – Juan Pablo FicovichPablo Ficovich (6-4 3-6 7-5) – See score progression
• Jacob FearnleyFearnley – Li TuTu (6-4 6-3) – See score progression
• Marc PolmansPolmans – Alexis GalarneauGalarneau (2-6 7-6⁵ 6-4) – See score progression
• Seong Chan HongChan Hong – Alex BoltBolt (6-4 6-3) – See score progression
• Learner TienTien – Benjamin BonziBonzi (6-4 6-4) – See score progression
• Charles BroomBroom – Sho ShimabukuroShimabukuro (6-7⁴ 6-2 7-6⁵) – See score progression
• Mitchell KruegerKrueger – Arthur GeaGea (6-4 6-4) – See score progression
• Joao FonsecaFonseca – Yuta ShimizuShimizu (6-3 6-4) – See score progression
• Philip SekulicSekulic – Chak Lam Coleman WongLam Coleman Wong (6-2 6-1) – See score progression
• Marc PolmansPolmans – Alexis GalarneauGalarneau (2-6 7-6(5) 6-4) – See score progression
• Bu YunchaoketeYunchaokete – Michael ZhengZheng (6-4 6-4) – See score progression
• Paul JubbJubb – Tung-Lin WuWu (6-4 2-6 6-1) – See score progression

Upcoming matches in the draw

• Mitchell KruegerKrueger – (0-0) – H2H and prediction
• Seong Chan HongChan Hong – Charles BroomBroom (0-0) – H2H and prediction
• Brandon HoltHolt – Marc PolmansPolmans (0-0) – H2H and prediction
• Bu YunchaoketeYunchaokete – Paul JubbJubb (0-0) – H2H and prediction
• Terence AtmaneAtmane – Micah BraswellBraswell (0-0) – H2H and prediction
• Gabriel DialloDiallo – (0-0) – H2H and prediction

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