Kris Van Wyk and Kasidit Samrej will square off in the qualifications of the Seoul Challenger for the 1st time in their career. They are scheduled to play on Monday at 1:30 pm on COURT 13. Here the head to head stats and relative prediction.
Prediction, odds and live streaming
The pick for Tennis Tonic is Kasidit Samrej who should win in 3 sets.
As per the initial odds, Kasidit Samrej is the pick to win this match.
Kasidit Samrej -> 1.82
Kris Van Wyk -> 1.9
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Prediction and head to head Kris Van Wyk vs. Kasidit Samrej
There is no head to head record between Kris Van Wyk and Kasidit Samrej since this will be the first time that they will face off in the main tour.
Kris Van Wyk
| Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 65-39 | 64-38 | 0-0 | 1-1 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2023 | 55-32 | 54-30 | 1-2 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2022 | 52-17 | 52-17 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
Ranked no. 354 (career-high), the South African reached the qualifications after defeating Suk Ann 6-0 6-2.
In the qualifications, Kris had a good straight sets win against Ann (6-0 6-2). During the match, Van Wyk scored 56 points vs Ann’s 30. Kris was exceptionally aggressive to blast 19 winners.
Regarding the service games, Van Wyk made 3 aces and he was pretty steady in conceding no double faults. Kris Van Wyk was extremely effective on serve to win 76% (19/25) of his 1st serve and 82% (9/11) on the second serve. This was the main reason for not conceding a single break during the match. The South African broke Ann 5 times after converting 50% of his break points (5/10).
Van Wyk has a solid record in the last 3 years having won 67% of his matches (163-81). 56-32 on hard in 2024. Talking about his performance on the same surface of this event, Van Wyk has a composed162-79 win-loss record in the last 3 years on hard.
The South African’s best result of the current season was reaching the final in M15 Sharm ElSheikh,M15 Monastir,M15 Hillcrest and M25 Guiyang.
Kris has an aggregate 56-32 win-loss record in 2024, 56-32 on hard (See FULL STATS).
Previously in the Seoul Challenger
Van Wyk has never competed in this tournament before.
Kasidit Samrej
33 - 20win/loss
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413
LLWWLWWWWL | Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 38-23 | 34-19 | 0-1 | 4-3 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2023 | 23-20 | 23-19 | 0-0 | 0-1 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2022 | 25-16 | 25-16 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2021 | 2-4 | 2-4 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2020 | 6-6 | 6-6 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
Ranked no. 470 (career-high), Kasidit got to the qualifications after beating Seung Min Lee 6-2 6-1.
In the qualifications, Samrej had a good straight sets win against Min Lee (6-2 6-1). During the match Samrej scored 59 points vs Min Lee’s 29. Samrej was very aggressive to blast 21 winners.
Talking about serving, Samrej struck 5 aces and he committed only 3 double faults. Kasidit Samrej was exceptionally efficient on serve to win 91% (21/23) of his 1st serve and 63% (10/16) on the second serve. This was the main reason for not conceding a single break during the match. Kasidit broke Min Lee 5 times after converting 50% of his break points (5/10).
The Thai’s best result of the current season was getting to the final in M15 Nakhon Si Thammarat and M25 Nakhon Si Thammarat.
The Thai has an aggregate 33-20 win-loss record in 2024, 31-17 on hard (See FULL STATS).
H2H Performance in the tournament
Matches, sets, games and points
| Points | Van Wyk | Samrej |
|---|---|---|
| Match played | 1 | 1 |
| Tot Set | 2 | 2 |
| Tot Games | 14 | 15 |
| Pts | 56-30 | 59-29 |
| Total Points | 86 | 88 |
| Winners | 19 | 21 |
| %Winners | 34% | 36% |
Both Van Wyk and Samrej played 1 match. Also both players started their run from the qualifications.Both players have not dropped a single set in this event so far. Talking about their workload, Van Wyk and Samrej have played the same amount of sets 2. However, Van Wyk played 1 game less than Samrej. Van Wyk scored 19 winners (34% of the total points). On the other side, The Thai made 21 winners (36%).
Serve Performance
| Serve | Van Wyk | Samrej |
|---|---|---|
| Aces | 3 | 5 |
| Avg per match | 3 | 5 |
| 1st in | 25/36 | 23/39 |
| %1st in | 69% | 59% |
| 1st pts | 19/25 | 21/23 |
| %1st pts | 76% | 91% |
| 2nd pts | 9/11 | 10/16 |
| %2nd pts | 82% | 63% |
Van Wyk bagged 3 aces . Samrej struck 5 aces . Van Wyk won 76% points on his first serve. He very solid his second serve to win 82% of the points. On the other side, Samrej won 91% of the points behind his first serve. He had a solid display on his second serve to win 63% of the points.
How they played the important points
| Breaks | Van Wyk | Samrej |
|---|---|---|
| Won | 5 | 5 |
| Converted | 5/10 | 5/10 |
| % Converted | 50% | 50% |
| Conceded | 0 | 1 |
| Saved | 0 | 1 |
| % Saved | 0% | 100% |
| Times Broken | 0 | 0 |
Kris broke his opponent 5 times with a 50% conversion rate. The South African pretty solid on his serve as he has never lost a single service game after saving 0 break points. The Thai broke his opponent 5 times with a 50% conversion rate. Kasidit was rock solid on his serve as he has never conceded a single service game after saving 1 break points.
| Van Wyk | |||
| Q1 Ann |
Total | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Score | 6-0 6-2 | ||
| Tot Set | 2 | 2 | |
| Tot Games | 14 | 14 | |
| pts | 56-30 | 56-30 | |
| Total points | 86 | 86 | |
| Winners | 19 | 19 | |
| %Winners | 34% | 34% | |
| SERVE | |||
| Aces | 3 | 3 | |
| Double Faults | 0 | 0 | |
| 1st in | 25/36 | 25/36 | |
| % 1st in | 69% | 69% | |
| 1st pts | 19/25 | 19/25 | |
| % 1st pts | 76% | 76% | |
| 2nd pts | 9/11 | 9/11 | |
| % 2nd pts | 82% | 82% | |
| Breaks | |||
| Won | 5 | 5 | |
| Converted | 5/10 | 5/10 | |
| Converted % | 50% | 50% | |
| Conceded | 0 | 0 | |
| Saved | 0/0 | 0 | |
| Saved % | – | 0% | |
| Times Broken | 0 | 0 | |
| Samrej | |||
| Q1 Min |
Total | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Score | 6-2 6-1 | ||
| Tot Set | 2 | 2 | |
| Tot Games | 15 | 15 | |
| pts | 59-29 | 59-29 | |
| Total points | 88 | 88 | |
| Winners | 21 | 21 | |
| %Winners | 36% | 36% | |
| SERVE | |||
| Aces | 5 | 5 | |
| Double Faults | 3 | 3 | |
| 1st in | 23/39 | 23/39 | |
| % 1st in | 59% | 59% | |
| 1st pts | 21/23 | 21/23 | |
| % 1st pts | 91% | 91% | |
| 2nd pts | 10/16 | 10/16 | |
| % 2nd pts | 63% | 63% | |
| Breaks | |||
| Won | 5 | 5 | |
| Converted | 5/10 | 5/10 | |
| Converted % | 50% | 50% | |
| Conceded | 1 | 1 | |
| Saved | 1/1 | 1 | |
| Saved % | 100% | 100% | |
| Times Broken | 0 | 0 | |
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