Jerome Kym and Andrew Paulson will face off in the 2nd round of the Liberec Challenger for the 3rd time in their career. They are scheduled to compete on Thursday at 4:30 pm on SVIJANY 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 2 sets.
As per the initial odds, Jerome Kym is the pick to win this match.
Jerome Kym -> 1.38
Andrew Paulson -> 2.89
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Prediction and head to head Jerome Kym vs. Andrew Paulson
This will be the 3rd time that Jerome Kym and Andrew Paulson face off. The head to head is 2-0 for Paulson (see full H2H stats), but they have never competed against each other on clay.
The last time that they played each other, Paulson won 3-6 6-3 6-4 in the qualifications in the Hamburg Challenger back in 2022.
Jerome Kym
Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
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2024 | 59-20 | 14-4 | 37-11 | 8-5 | 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 |
Ranked no. 181 (career-high), the Swiss got to the 2nd round after beating Jan Kumstat 6-3 6-0.
In the 1st round, Jerome had a good straight sets win against Kumstat (6-3 6-0). During the match, Kym scored 64 points vs Kumstat’s 40. Jerome was quite aggressive to blast 25 winners.
Talking about the service games, Kym made 6 aces and he committed only 1 double fault. Overall, Jerome Kym was extremely efficient on serve to win 74% (25/34) of his 1st serve and 53% (10/19) on the second serve. However, this didn’t prevent his to concede the serve once. Jerome broke Kumstat 5 times after converting 45% of his break points (5/11).
Kym has a solid match record in the last 6 years having won 68% of his matches (115-53). 35-9 on clay in 2024. Regarding his performance on the same surface of this competition, Kym has an aggregate69-32 match record in the last 6 years on clay.
His best result of the season was conquering the title the Prostejov Challenger where he defeated Chun Hsin Tseng in the final 6-2 3-6 6-2 and the Zug Challenger where he defeated Roman Andres Burruchaga in the final 6-4 6-4.
The Swiss has a compiled 43-12 win-loss record in 2024, 35-9 on clay (See FULL STATS).
Previously in the Liberec Challenger
Kym has never competed in this tournament before.
Andrew Paulson
Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
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2024 | 13-7 | 0-0 | 13-7 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
2023 | 37-22 | 1-3 | 31-13 | 1-5 | 0-0 | 4-1 |
2022 | 53-27 | 6-3 | 30-15 | 15-7 | 0-0 | 2-2 |
2021 | 47-26 | 19-8 | 11-11 | 15-6 | 0-0 | 2-1 |
2020 | 4-8 | 0-0 | 4-5 | 0-3 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
Ranked no. 388, the Czech reached the 2nd round after beating David Jorda Sanchis 7-5 7-6(4).
In the 1st round, The Czech had a good straight sets win against Jorda Sanchis (7-5 7-64). During the match Paulson scored 88 points vs Jorda Sanchis’s 81. Paulson was exceptionally aggressive to blast 36 winners.
About the serving games, Paulson bagged 3 aces and he committed only 4 double faults. Andrew Paulson lost the serve twice and he saved 2 break points. Furthermore, Paulson put 63% of his first serves in, winning 82% (36/44) of the points behind his 1st serve and 50% (13/26) on the 2nd serve. Andrew broke Jorda Sanchis 3 times after converting 20% of his break points (3/15).
Paulson has an aggregate 4-2 win-loss record in 2024, 4-2 on clay (See FULL STATS).
Previously in the Liberec Challenger
Previously, his best result was reaching the 2nd round in 2022. See his history.
H2H Performance in the tournament
Matches, sets, games and points
Points | Kym | Paulson |
---|---|---|
Match played | 1 | 1 |
Tot Set | 2 | 2 |
Tot Games | 15 | 25 |
Pts | 64-40 | 88-81 |
Total Points | 104 | 169 |
Winners | 25 | 36 |
%Winners | 39% | 41% |
Both Kym and Paulson played 1 match. Both players have not conceded a single set in this event so far. Talking about their workload, Kym and Paulson have played the same amount of sets 2. However, Kym played 10 games less than Paulson. Jerome scored 25 winners (39% of the total points). On the other side, The Czech fired 36 winners (41%).
Serve Performance
Serve | Kym | Paulson |
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Aces | 6 | 3 |
Avg per match | 6 | 3 |
1st in | 34/53 | 44/70 |
%1st in | 64% | 63% |
1st pts | 25/34 | 36/44 |
%1st pts | 74% | 82% |
2nd pts | 10/19 | 13/26 |
%2nd pts | 53% | 50% |
Kym scored 6 aces . Paulson bagged 3 aces . Kym won 74% points on his first serve. He pretty solid on his second serve to win 53% of the points. On the other side, Paulson won 82% of the points on his first serve. He had a solid display on his second serve to win 50% of the points.
How they played the important points
Breaks | Kym | Paulson |
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Won | 5 | 3 |
Converted | 5/11 | 3/15 |
% Converted | 45% | 20% |
Conceded | 8 | 4 |
Saved | 7 | 2 |
% Saved | 88% | 50% |
Times Broken | 1 | 2 |
Jerome broke his opponent 5 times with a 45% conversion rate. The Swiss dropped his serve once and he saved 88% of the break points that he conceded. Andrew broke his opponent 3 times with a 20% conversion rate. Paulson conceded his serve twice and he saved 50% of the break points that he conceded.
Kym | |||
R1 Kumstat |
Total | ||
---|---|---|---|
Score | 6-3 6-0 | ||
Tot Set | 2 | 2 | |
Tot Games | 15 | 15 | |
pts | 64-40 | 64-40 | |
Total points | 104 | 104 | |
Winners | 25 | 25 | |
%Winners | 39% | 39% | |
SERVE | |||
Aces | 6 | 6 | |
Double Faults | 1 | 1 | |
1st in | 34/53 | 34/53 | |
% 1st in | 64% | 64% | |
1st pts | 25/34 | 25/34 | |
% 1st pts | 74% | 74% | |
2nd pts | 10/19 | 10/19 | |
% 2nd pts | 53% | 53% | |
Breaks | |||
Won | 5 | 5 | |
Converted | 5/11 | 5/11 | |
Converted % | 45% | 45% | |
Conceded | 8 | 8 | |
Saved | 7/8 | 7 | |
Saved % | 88% | 88% | |
Times Broken | 1 | 1 |
Paulson | |||
R1 Jorda Sanchis |
Total | ||
---|---|---|---|
Score | 7-5 7-64 | ||
Tot Set | 2 | 2 | |
Tot Games | 25 | 25 | |
pts | 88-81 | 88-81 | |
Total points | 169 | 169 | |
Winners | 36 | 36 | |
%Winners | 41% | 41% | |
SERVE | |||
Aces | 3 | 3 | |
Double Faults | 4 | 4 | |
1st in | 44/70 | 44/70 | |
% 1st in | 63% | 63% | |
1st pts | 36/44 | 36/44 | |
% 1st pts | 82% | 82% | |
2nd pts | 13/26 | 13/26 | |
% 2nd pts | 50% | 50% | |
Breaks | |||
Won | 3 | 3 | |
Converted | 3/15 | 3/15 | |
Converted % | 20% | 20% | |
Conceded | 4 | 4 | |
Saved | 2/4 | 2 | |
Saved % | 50% | 50% | |
Times Broken | 2 | 2 |
Head 2 Head
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