Billy Harris and Ergi Kirkin will clash against each other in the 2^nd round of the Chennai Challenger for the 2^nd time in their career. They are scheduled to play on Thursday at 10:00 am on COURT 1. In this post, we analyze their head to head performance and prediction.

Prediction, odds and live streaming

The pick for Tennis Tonic is Billy Harris who should win in 2 sets.

As per the initial odds, Billy Harris is the pick to win this match.
Billy Harris -> 1.133
Ergi Kirkin -> 5.2

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Prediction and head to head Billy Harris vs. Ergi Kirkin

This will be the 2^nd time that Billy Harris and Ergi Kirkin face off. The head to head is 1-0 for Kirkin (see full H2H stats), but they have never played each other on hard.

The last time that they played, Kirkin won 7-6(6) 6-2

in the 1^st round in Italy F4 (Santa Margherita Di Pula) back in 2018.

Billy Harris

Ranked no. 129, Billy got to the 2^nd round after defeating Eric Vanshelboim 7-5 6-2.

In the 1^st round, Harris had a good straight sets win against Vanshelboim (7-5 6-2). During the match, Harris scored 64 points vs Vanshelboim’s 54. Billy was extremely aggressive to blast 23 winners.

Talking about the service games, Harris struck 2 aces and he committed only 2 double faults. Billy Harris lost the serve 3 times and he saved 5 break points. Furthermore, Harris put 55% of his first serves in, winning 66% (23/35) of the points behind his 1st serve and 45% (13/29) on the 2nd serve. Harris broke Vanshelboim 6 times after converting 86% of his break points (6/7).

Harris has a solid match record in the last 10 years having won 61% of his matches (358-232). 3-4 on hard in 2025. Regarding his performance on the same surface of this event, Harris has a composed 152-95 win-loss record in the last years on hard.

Harris has a composed 3-6 win-loss record in 2025, 3-4 on hard (See FULL STATS).

Previously in the Chennai Challenger

Harris has never competed in this tournament before.

Ergi Kirkin

Ranked no. 305, the Turk reached the 2^nd round after defeating Jiri Vesely 6-7(7) 7-6(3) ret..

In the 1^st round against Vesely, the Turk had a free pass after Vesely retired on a 6-7⁷

7-6³ . scoreline.

Kirkin has a compiled 6-2 win-loss record in 2025, 1-0 on hard (See FULL STATS).

H2H Performance in the tournament

Matches, sets, games and points

Points	Harris	Kirkin
Match played	1	1
Tot Set	2	3
Tot Games	20	26
Pts	64-54	93-91
Total Points	118	184
Winners	23	48
%Winners	36%	52%

Both Harris and Kirkin played 1 match. At the moment, Ergi Kirkin dropped 1 set while Billy Harris hasn’t surrendered a set so far. Harris has played 1 set(s) less than Kirkin (2 vs 3). Therefore, Harris played 6 games less than Kirkin. The Brit scored 23 winners (36% of the total points). On the other side, Ergi made 48 winners (52%).

Serve Performance

Serve	Harris	Kirkin
Aces	2	17
Avg per match	2	17
1st in	35/64	65/96
%1st in	55%	68%
1st pts	23/35	48/65
%1st pts	66%	74%
2nd pts	13/29	17/31
%2nd pts	45%	55%

Harris bagged 2 aces . Kirkin scored 17 aces . Harris won 66% points on his first serve. He very solid his second serve to win 45% of the points. On the other side, Kirkin won 74% of the points behind his first serve. He had a solid display on his second serve to win 55% of the points.

How they played the important points

Breaks	Harris	Kirkin
Won	6	1
Converted	6/7	1/4
% Converted	86%	25%
Conceded	8	8
Saved	5	7
% Saved	63%	88%
Times Broken	3	1

The Brit broke his opponent 6 times with a 86% conversion rate. Harris conceded his serve 3 times and he saved 63% of the break points that he conceded. Kirkin broke his opponent once with a 25% conversion rate. The Turk conceded his serve once and he saved 88% of the break points that he conceded.

Harris
	R1 Vanshelboim	Total
Score	7-5 6-2
Tot Set	2	2
Tot Games	20	20
pts	64-54	64-54
Total points	118	118
Winners	23	23
%Winners	36%	36%
SERVE
Aces	2	2
Double Faults	2	2
1st in	35/64	35/64
% 1st in	55%	55%
1st pts	23/35	23/35
% 1st pts	66%	66%
2nd pts	13/29	13/29
% 2nd pts	45%	45%
Breaks
Won	6	6
Converted	6/7	6/7
Converted %	86%	86%
Conceded	8	8
Saved	5/8	5
Saved %	63%	63%
Times Broken	3	3

Kirkin
	R1 Vesely	Total
Score	6-77 7-63 ret.
Tot Set	2	2
Tot Games	26	26
pts	93-91	93-91
Total points	184	184
Winners	48	48
%Winners	52%	52%
SERVE
Aces	17	17
Double Faults	2	2
1st in	65/96	65/96
% 1st in	68%	68%
1st pts	48/65	48/65
% 1st pts	74%	74%
2nd pts	17/31	17/31
% 2nd pts	55%	55%
Breaks
Won	1	1
Converted	1/4	1/4
Converted %	25%	25%
Conceded	8	8
Saved	7/8	7
Saved %	88%	88%
Times Broken	1	1

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