Karen Khachanov and Seong Chan Hong will clash against each other in the 2^nd round of the Citi Open for the 1^st time in their career. They are scheduled to compete on Wednesday at 1:30 pm on JOHN HARRIS. In the following lines you can find the head to head analysis and prediction.

Prediction, odds and live streaming

The pick for Tennis Tonic is Karen Khachanov who should win in 2 sets.

As per the initial odds, Karen Khachanov is the pick to win this match.
Karen Khachanov -> 1.172
Seong Chan Hong -> 5.05

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Prediction and head to head Karen Khachanov vs. Seong Chan Hong

There is no head to head record between Karen Khachanov and Seong Chan Hong since this will be the first time that they will square off in the main tour.

Karen Khachanov

Ranked no. 21, Karen will start his run in Washington after he played his last match at Wimbledon where he lost 4-6 6-3 3-6 6-3 6-4 to Halys in the 2^nd round on the 4^th of July.

Khachanov has an overall 21-13 win-loss record in 2024, 10-5 on hard (See FULL STATS).

His best result of the season was winning the title in Doha where he overcame Jakub Mensik in the final 7-6(12) 6-4.

Talking about his overall career, Karen has an overall 401-263 record. He has a positive 160-98 record on hard.

Previously in Washington

Previously, his best result was reaching the 3^rd round in 2022. See his history.

Seong Chan Hong

Ranked no. 175, Seong got to the 2^nd round after beating Alex Bolt 6-4 6-4, Paul Jubb 6-4 7-5 and Adam Walton 7-6(6) 7-6(4).

In the 1^st round, The Korean had a good straight sets win against Walton (7-6⁶ 7-6⁴).During the match Chan Hong scored less points (1) than Walton. In fact, the world no. 21 won 83 points vs Walton’s. That means that Chan Hong was more focused during the important points. The Korean was pretty aggressive to blast 40 winners.

Talking about serving, Chan Hong managed to score 6 aces and he committed only 1 double fault for the entire match. Overall, Seong Chan Hong was exceptionally efficient on serve to win 73% (40/55) of his 1st serve and 65% (22/34) on the second serve. However, this didn’t prevent his to concede the serve once. Chan Hong broke Walton once after converting 25% of his break points (1/4).

Seong’s best result of the season was getting to the final in the Nonthaburi 3 Challenger,the Bengaluru Challenger and the Busan Challenger.

Seong has a compiled 32-21 win-loss record in 2024, 32-16 on hard (See FULL STATS).

Tennis Scores in Washington

• Frances TiafoeTiafoe – Daniel Elahi GalanElahi Galan (6-7⁸ 6-3 6-3) – Stats, scores, rankings
• Miomir KecmanovicKecmanovic – Jeff WolfWolf (6-2 6-3) – Stats, scores, rankings
• Denis ShapovalovShapovalov – Adrian MannarinoMannarino (6-2 6-1) – Stats, scores, rankings
• Sebastian KordaKorda – Cristian GarinGarin (6-3 6-2) – Stats, scores, rankings
• Brandon NakashimaNakashima – Christopher O ConnellO Connell (6-2 6-2) – Stats, scores, rankings

Upcoming matches in the draw

• Radu AlbotAlbot – (0-0) – H2H and prediction
• David GoffinGoffin – Flavio CobolliCobolli (0-0) – H2H and prediction
• Roberto Carballes BaenaCarballes Baena – Aleksandar KovacevicKovacevic (0-0) – H2H and prediction
• Thanasi KokkinakisKokkinakis – Aleksandar VukicVukic (1-0) – H2H and prediction
• Seong Chan HongChan Hong – Karen KhachanovKhachanov (0-0) – H2H and prediction
• Reilly OpelkaOpelka – Jordan ThompsonThompson (1-1) – H2H and prediction
• Andrey RublevRublev – (0-0) – H2H and prediction
• Denis ShapovalovShapovalov – Miomir KecmanovicKecmanovic (4-0) – H2H and prediction
• Alejandro Davidovich FokinaDavidovich Fokina – Mitchell KruegerKrueger (0-0) – H2H and prediction