Joris De Loore and Jerome Kym will play each other in the semifinal of the Zug Challenger for the 1st time in their career. They are scheduled to play on Saturday at 4:30 pm on CENTER COURT. In this post, we analyze their head to head performance and prediction.

Prediction, odds and live streaming

The pick for Tennis Tonic is Jerome Kym who should win in 3 sets.

As per the initial odds, Jerome Kym is the pick to win this match.
Jerome Kym -> 1.533
Joris De Loore -> 2.35

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Prediction and head to head Joris De Loore vs. Jerome Kym

There is no head to head record between Joris De Loore and Jerome Kym since this will be the first time that they will square off in the main tour.

Joris De Loore

Joris De Loore

15 - 18win/loss

Hard
1-2
I Hard
5-5
Clay
7-9
Grass
2-2
Rank
192
High
142
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Year Total Hard Clay I.hard Grass Carpet
2024 15-18 1-2 7-9 5-5 2-2 0-0
2023 45-25 5-3 10-8 27-11 3-3 0-0
2022 40-18 14-4 22-10 4-4 0-0 0-0
2021 15-8 0-1 5-6 10-1 0-0 0-0
2020 0-0 0-0 0-0 0-0 0-0 0-0
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Ranked no. 192, the Belgian got to the semifinal after defeating Maxime Janvier 6-2 7-6(3), Omar Jasika 6-4 7-6(7) and Geoffrey Blancaneaux 6-3 6-4.

In the quarter, The Belgian had a good straight sets win against Blancaneaux (6-3 6-4). During the match, De Loore scored 65 points vs Blancaneaux’s 49. De Loore was very aggressive to blast 33 winners.

Regarding the service games, De Loore blasted 4 aces and he committed only 4 double faults. Joris De Loore conceded no breaks for the entire match to save 1 break points. Furthermore, De Loore put 63% of his first serves in, winning 92% (33/36) of the points behind his 1st serve and 38% (8/21) on the 2nd serve. De Loore broke Blancaneaux 3 times after converting 50% of his break points (3/6).

Overall Performance in this tournament

The Belgian hasn’t conceded yet a set in this event to conquer 55% of the points he played.

De Loore has a solid win-loss record in the last 10 years having won 64% of his matches (276-152). 7-9 on clay in 2024. Talking about his performance on the same surface of this tournament, De Loore has an overall 115-70 match record in the last years on clay.

Joris’s best result of the current year was reaching the final in the Lille Challenger.

De Loore has a compiled 15-18 win-loss record in 2024, 7-9 on clay (See FULL STATS).

Previously in the Zug Challenger

Zug Challenger
De Loore's Record

Jerome Kym

Jerome Kym

40 - 12win/loss

Hard
6-1
I Hard
2-2
Clay
32-9
Rank
278
High
278
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Year Total Hard Clay I.hard Grass Carpet
2024 40-12 6-1 32-9 2-2 0-0 0-0
2023 23-9 0-0 18-9 0-0 0-0 5-0
2022 41-22 17-5 12-9 9-5 0-0 3-3
2021 5-6 0-0 3-2 1-3 0-0 1-1
2020 0-2 0-0 0-2 0-0 0-0 0-0
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Ranked no. 278 (career-high), Jerome reached the semifinal after defeating Juan Manuel Cerundolo 6-4 6-0, Kamil Majchrzak 6-4 7-6(5) and Marko Topo 5-7 7-6(10) 7-6(6).

In the quarter against Topo, Jerome recovered from a 1-set down deficit before winning (5-7 7-610 7-66).During the match Kym scored less points (4) than Topo. In fact, the world no. 192 won 136 points vs Topo’s. That means that Kym was more focused during the important points. Kym was pretty aggressive to blast 66 winners.

Talking about serving, Kym blasted 19 aces and he committed only 4 double faults. Overall, Jerome Kym was very efficient on serve to win 75% (66/88) of his 1st serve and 52% (24/46) on the second serve. However, this didn’t prevent his to concede the serve once.

Overall Performance in this tournament

Kym has conceded 1 set in the tournament to win 52% of the points he played.

His best result of the year was winning the title the Prostejov Challenger where he overcame Chun Hsin Tseng in the final 6-2 3-6 6-2.

Jerome has a composed 40-12 win-loss record in 2024, 32-9 on clay (See FULL STATS)

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Previously in the Zug Challenger

Previously, his best result was reaching the 1st round in 2022. See his history.

Zug Challenger
Kym's Record

H2H Performance in the tournament (main draw)

J.De Loore
J.Kym
5h:01
5h:01
Time on court​
6h:27
6h:27
1h:36
1h:36
Last match​
!
3h:18
3h:18
3
3
Match played
3
3
63
63
Games Played​
77
77
6
6
Set played​​
7
7
211
211
Total points​
274
274
70.3
70.3
Avg point​
91.3
91.3
82
82
Winners
121
121
27.3
27.3
Avg Winners​
40.3
40.3
39%
39%
Ratio winners
44%
44%
-- Serve --
21
21
Aces
35
35
7
7
Avg Aces
!
11.7
11.7
11
11
Double Faults
8
8
3.7
3.7
Avg Double Faults
2.7
2.7
82/102
82/102
1st won total​
121/162
121/162
!
80%
80%
1st won %
!
75%
75%
52/86
52/86
2nd won total​
49/102
49/102
60%
60%
2nd won %
48%
48%
-- Break Points --
8/19
8/19
BP won
9/26
9/26
2.7/6.3
2.7/6.3
Avg BP won
3/8.7
3/8.7
42%
42%
Won
35%
35%
3
3
Conceded
19
19
1
1
Avg Conceded
6.3
6.3
2
2
Broken
5
5
!
0.7
0.7
Avg Broken
1.7
1.7
1
1
Saved
14
14
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Matches, sets, games and points

Points De Loore Kym
Match played 3 3
Tot Set 6 7
Tot Games 63 77
Pts 211-173 274-257
Total Points 384 531
Winners 82 121
%Winners 39% 44%

Both De Loore and Kym played 3 matches. At the moment, Jerome Kym dropped 1 set while Joris De Loore hasn’t surrendered a set so far. De Loore has played 1 set(s) less than Kym (6 vs 7). Therefore, De Loore played 14 games less than Kym. Joris scored 82 winners (39% of the total points). On the other side, Jerome made 121 winners (44%).

Serve Performance

Serve De Loore Kym
Aces 21 35
Avg per match 7 11.7
1st in 102/188 162/264
%1st in 54% 61%
1st pts 82/102 121/162
%1st pts 80% 75%
2nd pts 52/86 49/102
%2nd pts 60% 48%

De Loore blasted 21 aces (7 per match). Kym made 35 aces (11.7 per match). De Loore won 80% points behind his first serve. He extremely effective on his second serve to win 60% of the points. On the other side, Kym won 75% of the points on his first serve. He had a solid display on his second serve to win 48% of the points.

How they played the important points

Breaks De Loore Kym
Won 8 9
Converted 8/19 9/26
% Converted 42% 35%
Conceded 3 19
Saved 1 14
% Saved 33% 74%
Times Broken 2 5

De Loore broke his opponents 8 times with a 42% conversion rate. Joris dropped his serve twice and he saved 33% of the break points that he conceded. Kym broke his opponents 9 times with a 35% conversion rate. The Swiss conceded his serve 5 times and he saved 74% of the break points that he conceded.

De Loore
R1
Janvier		 R2
Jasika		 1/4
Blancaneaux		 Total
Score 6-2 7-63 6-4 7-67 6-3 6-4
Tot Set 2 2 2 6
Tot Games 21 23 19 63
pts 78-63 68-61 65-49 211-173
Total points 141 129 114 384
Winners 25 24 33 82
%Winners 32% 35% 51% 39%
SERVE
Aces 8 9 4 21
Double Faults 3 4 4 11
1st in 36/67 30/64 36/57 102/188
% 1st in 54% 47% 63% 54%
1st pts 25/36 24/30 33/36 82/102
% 1st pts 69% 80% 92% 80%
2nd pts 21/31 23/34 8/21 52/86
% 2nd pts 68% 68% 38% 60%
Breaks
Won 3 2 3 8
Converted 3/8 2/5 3/6 8/19
Converted % 38% 40% 50% 42%
Conceded 1 1 1 3
Saved 0/1 0/1 1/1 1
Saved % 0% 0% 100% 33%
Times Broken 1 1 0 2
Kym
R1
Manuel		 R2
Majchrzak		 1/4
Topo		 Total
Score 6-4 6-0 6-4 7-65 5-7 7-610 7-66
Tot Set 2 2 3 7
Tot Games 16 23 38 77
pts 54-36 84-81 136-140 274-257
Total points 90 165 276 531
Winners 17 38 66 121
%Winners 31% 45% 49% 44%
SERVE
Aces 3 13 19 35
Double Faults 1 3 4 8
1st in 22/45 52/85 88/134 162/264
% 1st in 49% 61% 66% 61%
1st pts 17/22 38/52 66/88 121/162
% 1st pts 77% 73% 75% 75%
2nd pts 13/23 12/33 24/46 49/102
% 2nd pts 57% 36% 52% 48%
Breaks
Won 5 4 0 9
Converted 5/9 4/14 0/3 9/26
Converted % 56% 29% 0% 35%
Conceded 5 7 7 19
Saved 4/5 4/7 6/7 14
Saved % 80% 57% 86% 74%
Times Broken 1 3 1 5

Tennis Scores in Zug Challenger

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