Tyler Zink and Patrick Kypson will clash against each other in the 2^nd round of the Little Rock Challenger for the 1^st time in their career. They are scheduled to play on Thursday at 5:00 pm on STADIUM. In this post, we analyze their head to head performance and prediction.

Prediction, odds and live streaming

The pick for Tennis Tonic is Patrick Kypson who should win in 2 sets.

As per the initial odds, Patrick Kypson is the pick to win this match.
Patrick Kypson -> 1.4
Tyler Zink -> 2.77

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Prediction and head to head Tyler Zink vs. Patrick Kypson

There is no head to head record between Tyler Zink and Patrick Kypson since this will be the first time that they will face off in the main tour.

Tyler Zink

Ranked no. 334 (career-high), the American reached the 2^nd round after defeating Tung-Lin Wu 7-6(3) 5-4 ret..

In the 1^st round against Wu, the American had a free pass after Wu retired on a 7-6³ 5-4 . scoreline.

Zink has a winning win-loss record in the last 7 years having won 58% of his matches (88-64). 4-2 on hard in 2025. Regarding his performance on the same surface of this tournament, Zink has a composed41-34 win-loss record in the last 7 years on hard.

Zink’s best result of the current season was reaching the final in M15 Orange Park.

Tyler has a compiled 24-12 win-loss record in 2025, 4-2 on hard (See FULL STATS).

Previously in the Little Rock Challenger

Tyler has never competed in this tournament before.

Patrick Kypson

Ranked no. 344, the American reached the 2^nd round after beating Dane Sweeny 6-3 7-5, Alvin Nicholas Tudorica 6-1 6-1 and Mitchell Krueger 6-3 4-6 6-4.

In the 1^st round, Patrick defeated Krueger (6-3 4-6 6-4). During the match Kypson scored 98 points vs Krueger’s 89. Kypson was extremely aggressive to blast 39 winners.

Talking about serving, Kypson bagged 13 aces and he committed only 3 double faults. Overall, Patrick Kypson was exceptionally efficient on serve to win 76% (39/51) of his 1st serve and 66% (23/35) on the second serve. However, this didn’t prevent his to concede the serve once. The American broke Krueger twice after converting 20% of his break points (2/10).

His best result of the current season was winning the title the Bogota Challenger where he overcame Pedro Sakamoto in the final 6-1 6-3.

Patrick has an aggregate 13-4 win-loss record in 2025, 6-2 on hard (See FULL STATS).

H2H Performance in the tournament

Matches, sets, games and points

Points	Zink	Kypson
Match played	1	3
Tot Set	3	7
Tot Games	22	64
Pts	80-65	225-172
Total Points	145	397
Winners	26	93
%Winners	33%	41%

Zink played 1 match while Kypson competed in 3 matches. Kypson started his run from the qualifications while Zink had a direct access to the main draw. At the moment, Patrick Kypson surrendered 1 set while Tyler Zink hasn’t surrendered a set so far. Zink has played 4 set(s) less than Kypson (3 vs 7). Therefore, Zink played 42 games less than Kypson. The American scored 26 winners (33% of the total points). On the other side, Kypson managed to score 93 winners (41%).

Serve Performance

Serve	Zink	Kypson
Aces	14	25
Avg per match	14	8.3
1st in	30/61	117/196
%1st in	49%	60%
1st pts	26/30	93/117
%1st pts	87%	79%
2nd pts	17/31	46/79
%2nd pts	55%	58%

Zink blasted 14 aces . Kypson blasted 25 aces (8.3 per match). Zink won 87% points on his first serve. He pretty effective on his second serve to win 55% of the points. On the other side, Kypson won 79% of the points behind his first serve. He had a solid display on his second serve to win 58% of the points.

How they played the important points

Breaks	Zink	Kypson
Won	3	11
Converted	3/9	11/27
% Converted	33%	41%
Conceded	3	12
Saved	1	9
% Saved	33%	75%
Times Broken	2	3

Zink broke his opponent 3 times with a 33% conversion rate. Tyler conceded his serve twice and he saved 33% of the break points that he conceded. Patrick broke his opponents 11 times with a 41% conversion rate. The American conceded his serve 3 times and he saved 75% of the break points that he conceded.

Zink
	R1 Wu	Total
Score	7-63 5-4 ret.
Tot Set	2	2
Tot Games	22	22
pts	80-65	80-65
Total points	145	145
Winners	26	26
%Winners	33%	33%
SERVE
Aces	14	14
Double Faults	0	0
1st in	30/61	30/61
% 1st in	49%	49%
1st pts	26/30	26/30
% 1st pts	87%	87%
2nd pts	17/31	17/31
% 2nd pts	55%	55%
Breaks
Won	3	3
Converted	3/9	3/9
Converted %	33%	33%
Conceded	3	3
Saved	1/3	1
Saved %	33%	33%
Times Broken	2	2

Kypson
	Q1 Sweeny	Q3 Nicholas	R1 Krueger	Total
Score	6-3 7-5	6-1 6-1	6-3 4-6 6-4
Tot Set	2	2	3	7
Tot Games	21	14	29	64
pts	69-55	58-28	98-89	225-172
Total points	124	86	187	397
Winners	33	21	39	93
%Winners	48%	36%	40%	41%
SERVE
Aces	5	7	13	25
Double Faults	1	1	3	5
1st in	40/66	26/44	51/86	117/196
% 1st in	61%	59%	59%	60%
1st pts	33/40	21/26	39/51	93/117
% 1st pts	83%	81%	76%	79%
2nd pts	14/26	9/18	23/35	46/79
% 2nd pts	54%	50%	66%	58%
Breaks
Won	3	6	2	11
Converted	3/8	6/9	2/10	11/27
Converted %	38%	67%	20%	41%
Conceded	3	4	5	12
Saved	2/3	3/4	4/5	9
Saved %	67%	75%	80%	222%
Times Broken	1	1	1	3

Tennis Scores in Little Rock Challenger

• Andres MartinMartin – Hyeon ChungChung (6-3 6-2) – See score progression
• Adria Soriano BarreraSoriano Barrera – Antoine EscoffierEscoffier (7-5 7-6⁴) – See score progression
• Tyler ZinkZink – Tung-Lin WuWu (7-6³ 5-4 ret.) – See score progression
• Alexis GalarneauGalarneau – Govind NandaNanda (6-3 6-3) – See score progression
• Michael ZhengZheng – Christian LangmoLangmo (6-2 6-2) – See score progression
• Stefan KozlovKozlov – Aziz DougazDougaz (5-7 6-3 6-2) – See score progression
• Kenta MiyoshiMiyoshi – Santiago Rodriguez TavernaRodriguez Taverna (7-5 5-1 ret.) – See score progression
• Patrick KypsonKypson – Mitchell KruegerKrueger (6-3 4-6 6-4) – See score progression
• Daniel MilavskyMilavsky – Moerani BouzigeBouzige (6-4 6-4) – See score progression
• Rio NoguchiNoguchi – Yi ZhouZhou (6-4 6-4) – See score progression
• Paul JubbJubb – Karue SellSell (7-5 6-3) – See score progression
• Patrick MaloneyMaloney – Nicolas KickerKicker (5-7 6-2 6-3) – See score progression
• Andres AndradeAndrade – Ilya IvashkaIvashka (7-6⁴ 6-2) – See score progression
• Naoki NakagawaNakagawa – Alexander KotzenKotzen (6-4 6-4) – See score progression
• Liam DraxlDraxl – Rafael JodarJodar (7-5 6-2) – See score progression
• Yuta ShimizuShimizu – Nicolas MejiaMejia (7-6⁴ 6-0) – See score progression
• Patrick KypsonKypson – Mitchell KruegerKrueger (6-3 4-6 6-4) – See score progression
• Daniel MilavskyMilavsky – Moerani BouzigeBouzige (6-4 6-4) – See score progression
• Patrick MaloneyMaloney – Nicolas KickerKicker (5-7 6-2 6-3) – See score progression
• Liam DraxlDraxl – Rafael JodarJodar (7-5 6-2) – See score progression

Upcoming matches in the draw

• Adria Soriano BarreraSoriano Barrera – (0-0) – H2H and prediction
• Andres AndradeAndrade – Stefan KozlovKozlov (0-0) – H2H and prediction
• Alexis GalarneauGalarneau – Naoki NakagawaNakagawa (1-0) – H2H and prediction
• Patrick KypsonKypson – Tyler ZinkZink (0-0) – H2H and prediction
• Rio NoguchiNoguchi – Paul JubbJubb (0-2) – H2H and prediction
• Patrick MaloneyMaloney – Liam DraxlDraxl (0-4) – H2H and prediction