Patrick Maloney and Nicolas Kicker will square off in the 1st round of the Little Rock Challenger for the 1st time in their career. They are scheduled to play on Wednesday at 8:00 pm on COURT 2. Here the head to head stats and relative prediction.
Prediction, odds and live streaming
The pick for Tennis Tonic is Patrick Maloney who should win in 3 sets.
As per the initial odds, Patrick Maloney is the pick to win this match.
Patrick Maloney -> 1.77
Nicolas Kicker -> 1.96
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Prediction and head to head Patrick Maloney vs. Nicolas Kicker
There is no head to head record between Patrick Maloney and Nicolas Kicker since this will be the first time that they will play each other in the main tour.
Patrick Maloney
27 - 10win/loss
325
325
LWWWLLWLWW | Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 30-13 | 5-5 | 15-8 | 10-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2024 | 38-21 | 18-10 | 7-2 | 13-9 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2023 | 11-8 | 5-3 | 1-2 | 5-3 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2022 | 18-10 | 4-3 | 7-3 | 7-4 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
Ranked no. 342, Maloney will start his run in the Little Rock Challenger after he played his last match in M25 Orlando where he lost 6-4 6-4 to Ganesan in the quarter on the 23rd of May.
Maloney has an aggregate 26-10 win-loss record in 2025, 1-2 on hard (See FULL STATS).
The American’s best result of the season was getting to the final in M25 Ithaca and M15 Sherbrooke.
Talking about his overall career, The American has an overall 93-49 record. He has a positive 28-18 record on hard.
Previously in the Little Rock Challenger
Maloney has never competed in this tournament before.
Nicolas Kicker
26 - 12win/loss
395
78
LLLLWWLWWW | Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 26-15 | 2-2 | 24-13 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2024 | 12-13 | 2-4 | 10-8 | 0-0 | 0-1 | 0-0 |
| 2023 | 11-10 | 1-1 | 10-9 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2022 | 27-28 | 6-6 | 20-21 | 0-0 | 1-1 | 0-0 |
| 2021 | 64-21 | 17-2 | 47-19 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
Ranked no. 397, Nicolas reached the 1st round after beating Strong Kirchheimer 6-4 6-4 and Rudy Quan 6-2 6-4.
In the qualifications, Kicker had a good straight sets win against Quan (6-2 6-4). During the match Kicker scored 59 points vs Quan’s 49. Kicker was quite aggressive to blast 29 winners.
About the serving games, Kicker scored just 1 ace during the entire match and he committed only 2 double faults. Nicolas Kicker lost the serve once and he saved 3 break points. Furthermore, Kicker put 74% of his first serves in, winning 69% (29/42) of the points behind his 1st serve and 53% (8/15) on the 2nd serve. Kicker broke Quan 4 times after converting 57% of his break points (4/7).
Overall Performance in this tournament
Nicolas started his run at this tournament from the qualifications. In the main draw, he hasn’t lost yet a set in this competition to win 55% of the points he played.
Nicolas’s best result of the season was getting to the final in M15 Santiago and the Concepcion Challenger.
The Argentine has a compiled 26-11 win-loss record in 2025, 2-0 on hard (See FULL STATS).
Head 2 Head
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LLLLWWLWWW Tennis Scores in Little Rock Challenger
- Paul JubbJubb – Karue SellSell (7-5 6-3) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Alexis GalarneauGalarneau – Govind NandaNanda (6-3 6-3) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Tyler ZinkZink – Tung-Lin WuWu (7-63 5-4 ret.) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Naoki NakagawaNakagawa – Alexander KotzenKotzen (6-4 6-4) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Rio NoguchiNoguchi – Yi ZhouZhou (6-4 6-4) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Andres AndradeAndrade – Ilya IvashkaIvashka (7-64 6-2) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Michael ZhengZheng – Christian LangmoLangmo (6-2 6-2) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Yuta ShimizuYuta – Nicolas MejiaNicolas (7-6(4) 6-0) – See score progression
Upcoming matches in the draw
- Antoine EscoffierEscoffier – Adria Soriano BarreraSoriano Barrera (1-0) – H2H and prediction
- Mitchell KruegerKrueger – Patrick KypsonKypson (1-0) – H2H and prediction
- Hyeon ChungChung – (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Stefan KozlovKozlov – Aziz DougazDougaz (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Santiago Fa Rodriguez TavernaFa Rodriguez Taverna – (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Alexis GalarneauGalarneau – Naoki NakagawaNakagawa (1-0) – H2H and prediction
- Rio NoguchiNoguchi – Paul JubbJubb (0-2) – H2H and prediction
- Patrick MaloneyMaloney – Nicolas KickerKicker (0-0) – H2H and prediction
