Mitchell Krueger and James Kent Trotter will play each other in the 2^nd round of the Knoxville Challenger for the 2^nd time in their career. They are scheduled to play on Wednesday at 1:30 pm on COURT 3. 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 James Kent Trotter who should win in 2 sets.

As per the initial odds, James Kent Trotter is the pick to win this match.
James Kent Trotter -> 1.4
Mitchell Krueger -> 2.77

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Prediction and head to head Mitchell Krueger vs. James Kent Trotter

This will be the 2^nd time that Mitchell Krueger and James Kent Trotter fight against each other. The head to head is 1-0 for Kent (see full H2H stats), 1-0 on indoor hard courts.

The last time that they fought against each other, Kent won 7-5 7-6(6) in the 1^st round in the Charlottesville Challenger back in October 2024.

Mitchell Krueger

Ranked no. 145, Mitchell reached the 2^nd round after defeating Denis Kudla 6-4 1-0 ret..

In the 1^st round against Kudla, Krueger had a free pass after Kudla retired on a 6-4 1-0 . scoreline.

Krueger has positive match record in the last 10 years having won 51% of his matches (303-286). 2-4 on indoor hard courts in 2024. Regarding his performance on the same surface of this event, Krueger has an overall 30-39 match record in the last years on indoor hard courts.

His best result of the year was winning the title the Indian Wells 1 Challenger where he defeated Brandon Holt in the final 4-6 6-3 6-4 and the Little Rock Challenger where he overcame Yuta Shimizu in the final 6-3 6-4.

Krueger has an aggregate 42-29 win-loss record in 2024, 2-4 on indoor hard courts (See FULL STATS).

Previously in the Knoxville Challenger

James Kent Trotter

Ranked no. 198 (career-high), Kent reached the 2^nd round after beating Kenta Miyoshi 6-4 6-4.

In the 1^st round, James had a good straight sets win against Miyoshi (6-4 6-4). During the match Kent scored 66 points vs Miyoshi’s 58. Kent was very aggressive to blast 29 winners.

Talking about serving, Kent scored 15 aces and he committed only 1 double fault for the entire match. James Kent Trotter was extremely efficient on serve to win 91% (29/32) of his 1st serve and 57% (13/23) on the second serve. This was the main reason for not conceding a single break during the match. The Japanese broke Miyoshi twice after converting 29% of his break points (2/7).

His best result of the year was winning the title the Tyler Challenger where he defeated Brandon Holt in the final 6-2 7-6(3) and the Charlottesville Challenger where he defeated Nishesh Basavareddy in the final 6-3 6-4.

The Japanese has a composed 37-21 win-loss record in 2024, 17-5 on indoor hard courts (See FULL STATS).

Previously in the Knoxville Challenger

Kent has never competed in this tournament before.

H2H Performance in the tournament

Matches, sets, games and points

Points	Krueger	Kent
Match played	1	1
Tot Set	3	2
Tot Games	11	20
Pts	36-32	66-58
Total Points	68	124
Winners	13	29
%Winners	36%	44%

Both Krueger and Kent played 1 match. Both players have not lost a single set in this event so far. Krueger has played 1 set more than Kent (3 vs 2). However, it’s interesting to notice that Krueger played 9 games less than Kent. Krueger scored 13 winners (36% of the total points). On the other side, Kent fired 29 winners (44%).

Serve Performance

Serve	Krueger	Kent
Aces	5	15
Avg per match	5	15
1st in	19/30	32/55
%1st in	63%	58%
1st pts	13/19	29/32
%1st pts	68%	91%
2nd pts	6/11	13/23
%2nd pts	55%	57%

Krueger bagged 5 aces . Kent made 15 aces . Krueger won 68% points on his first serve. He had a solid display on his second serve to win 55% of the points. On the other side, Kent won 91% of the points behind his first serve. He had a solid display on his second serve to win 57% of the points.

How they played the important points

Breaks	Krueger	Kent
Won	3	2
Converted	3/5	2/7
% Converted	60%	29%
Conceded	2	0
Saved	1	0
% Saved	50%	0%
Times Broken	1	0

Krueger broke his opponent 3 times with a 60% conversion rate. The American lost his serve once and he saved 50% of the break points that he conceded. James broke his opponent twice with a 29% conversion rate. Kent was rock solid on his serve as he has never conceded a single service game after saving 0 break points.

Krueger
	R1 Kudla	Total
Score	6-4 1-0 ret.
Tot Set	2	2
Tot Games	11	11
pts	36-32	36-32
Total points	68	68
Winners	13	13
%Winners	36%	36%
SERVE
Aces	5	5
Double Faults	0	0
1st in	19/30	19/30
% 1st in	63%	63%
1st pts	13/19	13/19
% 1st pts	68%	68%
2nd pts	6/11	6/11
% 2nd pts	55%	55%
Breaks
Won	3	3
Converted	3/5	3/5
Converted %	60%	60%
Conceded	2	2
Saved	1/2	1
Saved %	50%	50%
Times Broken	1	1

Kent
	R1 Miyoshi	Total
Score	6-4 6-4
Tot Set	2	2
Tot Games	20	20
pts	66-58	66-58
Total points	124	124
Winners	29	29
%Winners	44%	44%
SERVE
Aces	15	15
Double Faults	1	1
1st in	32/55	32/55
% 1st in	58%	58%
1st pts	29/32	29/32
% 1st pts	91%	91%
2nd pts	13/23	13/23
% 2nd pts	57%	57%
Breaks
Won	2	2
Converted	2/7	2/7
Converted %	29%	29%
Conceded	0	0
Saved	0/0	0
Saved %	–	0%
Times Broken	0	0

Tennis Scores in Knoxville Challenger

• Marcelo Demoliner/Christian HarrisonDemoliner/Christian Harrison – Juan Pablo Ficovich/Tennyson WhitingPablo Ficovich/Tennyson Whiting (6-3 6-1) – See score progression
• Learner TienTien – Max WiskandtWiskandt (6-4 6-2) – See score progression
• Murphy CassoneCassone – Stefan DostanicDostanic (6-3 2-6 6-3) – See score progression
• Karue SellSell – Shunsuke MitsuiMitsui (6-0 6-1) – See score progression
• Johannus MondayMonday – Nicolas MejiaMejia (3-6 6-4 6-3) – See score progression
• James Kent TrotterKent Trotter – Kenta MiyoshiMiyoshi (6-4 6-4) – See score progression
• Eliot SpizzirriSpizzirri – Juan Pablo FicovichPablo Ficovich (3-6 6-3 6-3) – See score progression
• Patrick KypsonKypson – Alexander KotzenKotzen (3-6 6-3 7-6⁷) – See score progression
• Bernard TomicTomic – Toby Alex KodatAlex Kodat (7-5 7-5) – See score progression
• Nishesh BasavareddyBasavareddy – Colton SmithSmith (6-2 6-4) – See score progression
• Micah BraswellBraswell – Beibit ZhukayevZhukayev (7-5 6-4) – See score progression
• Christopher EubanksEubanks – Joel SchwaerzlerSchwaerzler (6-4 6-1) – See score progression
• Brandon HoltHolt – Adam WaltonWalton (6-4 6-3) – See score progression
• Mitchell KruegerKrueger – Denis KudlaKudla (6-4 1-0 ret.) – See score progression
• Jay ClarkeClarke – Dmitry PopkoPopko (6-3 2-6 7-6⁰) – See score progression
• Zachary SvajdaSvajda – Ethan QuinnQuinn (3-6 6-3 7-5) – See score progression
• Mark LajalLajal – Paul JubbJubb (6-3 7-5) – See score progression
• Nishesh BasavareddyBasavareddy – Colton SmithSmith (6-2 6-4) – See score progression
• Learner TienTien – Max WiskandtWiskandt (6-4 6-2) – See score progression
• Micah BraswellBraswell – Beibit ZhukayevZhukayev (7-5 6-4) – See score progression
• Patrick KypsonKypson – Alexander KotzenKotzen (3-6 6-3 7-6(7)) – See score progression
• Johannus MondayMonday – Nicolas MejiaMejia (3-6 6-4 6-3) – See score progression
• Eliot SpizzirriSpizzirri – Juan Pablo FicovichPablo Ficovich (3-6 6-3 6-3) – See score progression
• Christopher EubanksEubanks – Joel SchwaerzlerSchwaerzler (6-4 6-1) – See score progression

Upcoming matches in the draw

• Bernard TomicTomic – Jay ClarkeClarke (2-1) – H2H and prediction
• Patrick KypsonKypson – (0-0) – H2H and prediction
• Brandon HoltHolt – (0-0) – H2H and prediction
• James Kent TrotterKent Trotter – Mitchell KruegerKrueger (1-0) – H2H and prediction