Alex Michelsen and Seong Chan Hong will face off in the 3^rd round of the Citi Open for the 3^rd time in their career. They are scheduled to play on Thursday at 1:00 pm on JOHN HARRIS. In this post, we analyze their head to head performance and prediction.

Prediction, odds and live streaming

The pick for Tennis Tonic is Alex Michelsen who should win in 2 sets.

As per the initial odds, Alex Michelsen is the pick to win this match.
Alex Michelsen -> 1.31
Seong Chan Hong -> 3.46

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Prediction and head to head Alex Michelsen vs. Seong Chan Hong

This will be the 3^rd time that Alex Michelsen and Seong Chan Hong face off. The head to head is 2-0 for Michelsen (see full H2H stats), 1-0 on hard.

The last time that they squared off, Michelsen won 4-6 6-2 6-0 in the 1^st round in the Stanford Challenger back in 2023.

Alex Michelsen

Alex Michelsen

25 - 23win/loss

Hard

13-7

I Hard

1-1

Clay

4-9

Grass

7-6

Rank
41

High
41

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Year	Total	Hard	Clay	I.hard	Grass	Carpet
2024	42-33	26-14	4-9	5-4	7-6	0-0
2023	61-27	30-13	4-3	19-7	8-4	0-0
2022	23-10	14-8	0-1	9-1	0-0	0-0

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Ranked no. 60, Michelsen reached the 3^rd round after beating Unknown Player bye and Mattia Bellucci 6-3 7-6(1).

In the 2^nd round, The American had a good straight sets win against Bellucci (6-3 7-6¹). During the match, Michelsen scored 78 points vs Bellucci’s 62. Michelsen was very aggressive to blast 36 winners.

Talking about the service games, Michelsen fired 6 aces and he committed only 2 double faults. Alex Michelsen lost the serve once and he saved 5 break points. Furthermore, Michelsen put 72% of his first serves in, winning 69% (36/52) of the points behind his 1st serve and 75% (15/20) on the 2nd serve. The American broke Bellucci twice after converting 33% of his break points (2/6).

Michelsen has a solid match record in the last 3 years having won 64% of his matches (108-60). 12-7 on hard in 2024. Regarding his performance on the same surface of this competition, Michelsen has a compiled56-28 win-loss record in the last 3 years on hard.

Alex’s best result of the season was getting to the final in Newport.

The American has an overall 24-23 win-loss record in 2024, 12-7 on hard (See FULL STATS).

Previously in Washington

Alex has never competed in this tournament before.

Washington

Michelsen's Record

Seong Chan Hong

Seong Chan Hong

23 - 16win/loss

Hard

19-15

I Hard

0-0

Clay

4-1

Rank
685

High
566

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Year	Total	Hard	Clay	I.hard	Grass	Carpet
2024	26-24	21-19	5-5	0-0	0-0	0-0
2023	24-27	14-12	10-15	0-0	0-0	0-0
2022	27-26	4-7	23-19	0-0	0-0	0-0
2021	16-15	9-7	7-8	0-0	0-0	0-0
2020	14-8	8-3	6-5	0-0	0-0	0-0

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Ranked no. 175, Seong reached the 3^rd round after beating Alex Bolt 6-4 6-4, Paul Jubb 6-4 7-5, Adam Walton 7-6(6) 7-6(4) and Karen Khachanov 6-2 6-4.

In the 2^nd round, Seong had a good straight sets win against Khachanov (6-2 6-4). During the match Chan Hong scored 59 points vs Khachanov’s 41. Chan Hong was very aggressive to blast 25 winners.

Talking about serving, Chan Hong recorded 6 aces and he committed only 1 double fault for the entire match. Seong Chan Hong was quite effective on serve to win 78% (25/32) of his 1st serve and 76% (13/17) on the second serve. This was the main reason for not conceding a single break during the match. Chan Hong broke Khachanov 3 times after converting 75% of his break points (3/4).

Overall Performance in this tournament

The Korean started his run at this tournament from the qualifications. In the main draw, he hasn’t dropped yet a set in this tournament to conquer 53% of the points he played.

Chan Hong’s best result of the season was reaching the final in the Nonthaburi 3 Challenger,the Bengaluru Challenger and the Busan Challenger.

Seong has an overall 33-21 win-loss record in 2024, 33-16 on hard (See FULL STATS).

Washington

Chan Hong's Record

H2H Performance in the tournament (main draw)

Matches, sets, games and points

Michelsen played 1 match while Chan Hong competed in 4 matches. Chan Hong started his run from the qualifications while Michelsen had a direct access to the main draw. Both players have not dropped a single set in this event so far. Michelsen has played 6 set(s) less than Chan Hong (2 vs 8). Therefore, Michelsen played 64 games less than Chan Hong. Alex scored 36 winners (46% of the total points). On the other side, The Korean recorded 121 winners (43%).

Serve Performance

Michelsen struck 6 aces . Chan Hong scored 23 aces (5.8 per match). Michelsen won 69% points behind his first serve. He quite strong on his second serve to win 75% of the points. On the other side, Chan Hong won 72% of the points behind his first serve. He had a solid display on his second serve to win 65% of the points.

How they played the important points

Michelsen broke his opponent twice with a 33% conversion rate. Alex dropped his serve once and he saved 83% of the break points that he conceded. Chan Hong broke his opponents 10 times with a 40% conversion rate. The Korean conceded his serve 3 times and he saved 86% of the break points that he conceded.

Head 2 Head

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Alex
Michelsen

0:0

Rank

41

High

41

Rank

High

Win Loss

Michelsen

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Chan Hong

2024 2023 2022

42 - 33

0 - 0

26-14

Hard

0-0

5-4

I Hard

0-0

4-9

Clay

0-0

7-6

Grass

0-0

Tennis Scores in Washington

• Jordan ThompsonThompson – Reilly OpelkaOpelka (6-4 6-3) – See score progression
• Alex MichelsenMichelsen – Mattia BellucciBellucci (6-3 7-6¹) – See score progression
• Thanasi KokkinakisKokkinakis – Aleksandar VukicVukic (6-4 7-6⁴) – See score progression
• Flavio CobolliCobolli – David GoffinGoffin (7-6⁴ 6-3) – See score progression
• Andrey RublevRublev – Luca Van AsscheVan Assche (4-6 6-3 6-4) – See score progression
• Seong Chan HongChan Hong – Karen KhachanovKhachanov (6-2 6-4) – See score progression
• Ben SheltonShelton – Radu AlbotAlbot (6-4 6-7⁵ 6-3) – See score progression
• Aleksandar KovacevicKovacevic – Roberto Carballes BaenaCarballes Baena (7-6⁴ 7-6³) – See score progression
• Arthur RinderknechRinderknech – Juncheng ShangShang (2-3 ret.) – See score progression
• Giovanni Mpetshi PerricardMpetshi Perricard – Emil RuusuvuoriRuusuvuori (7-6⁶ 7-6⁶) – See score progression
• Alejandro Davidovich FokinaDavidovich Fokina – Mitchell KruegerKrueger (3-6 7-6³ 6-4) – See score progression
• Frances TiafoeTiafoe – Daniel Elahi GalanElahi Galan (6-7⁸ 6-3 6-3) – See score progression
• Denis ShapovalovShapovalov – Adrian MannarinoMannarino (6-2 6-1) – See score progression
• Miomir KecmanovicKecmanovic – Jeff WolfWolf (6-2 6-3) – See score progression
• Brandon NakashimaNakashima – Christopher O ConnellO Connell (6-2 6-2) – See score progression
• Sebastian KordaKorda – Cristian GarinGarin (6-3 6-2) – See score progression
• Jordan ThompsonThompson – Reilly OpelkaOpelka (6-4 6-3) – See score progression
• Ben SheltonShelton – Radu AlbotAlbot (6-4 6-7(5) 6-3) – See score progression

Upcoming matches in the draw

• Andrey RublevRublev – Arthur RinderknechRinderknech (1-0) – H2H and prediction
• Denis ShapovalovShapovalov – Miomir KecmanovicKecmanovic (4-0) – H2H and prediction
• Alejandro Davidovich FokinaDavidovich Fokina – Flavio CobolliCobolli (1-0) – H2H and prediction
• Aleksandar KovacevicKovacevic – Frances TiafoeTiafoe (0-0) – H2H and prediction
• Sebastian KordaKorda – Thanasi KokkinakisKokkinakis (2-0) – H2H and prediction
• Brandon NakashimaNakashima – (0-1) – H2H and prediction

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