Hyeon Chung and Strong Kirchheimer will square off in the qualifications of the Cary Challenger for the 1st time in their career. They are scheduled to play on Monday at 3:00 pm on COURT 15. In this post, we analyze their head to head performance and prediction.
Prediction, odds and live streaming
The pick for Tennis Tonic is Hyeon Chung who should win in 2 sets.
As per the initial odds, Hyeon Chung is the pick to win this match.
Hyeon Chung -> 1.119
Strong Kirchheimer -> 5.5
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Prediction and head to head Hyeon Chung vs. Strong Kirchheimer
There is no head to head record between Hyeon Chung and Strong Kirchheimer since this will be the first time that they will clash against each other in the main tour.
Hyeon Chung
| Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 27-12 | 27-12 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2024 | 8-6 | 8-5 | 0-0 | 0-1 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2023 | 1-6 | 0-2 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 1-4 | 0-0 |
| 2022 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2021 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
Ranked no. 381, Hyeon reached the qualifications after defeating Leo Vithoontien 6-2 6-4.
In the qualifications, The Korean had a good straight sets win against Vithoontien (6-2 6-4). During the match, Chung scored 65 points vs Vithoontien’s 55. The Korean was quite aggressive to blast 21 winners.
Regarding the service games, Chung bagged 3 aces and he committed only 4 double faults. Overall, Hyeon Chung was very effective on serve to win 72% (21/29) of his 1st serve and 52% (15/29) on the second serve. However, this didn’t prevent his to concede the serve once. Hyeon broke Vithoontien 4 times after converting 44% of his break points (4/9).
Chung has a solid win-loss record in the last 10 years having won 62% of his matches (153-94). 27-11 on hard in 2025. Regarding his performance on the same surface of this tournament, Chung has a compiled 113-61 win-loss record in the last years on hard.
The Korean’s best result of the season was getting to the final in M25 Luan,Tokyo and M15 Tsukuba.
Chung has an aggregate 27-11 win-loss record in 2025, 27-11 on hard (See FULL STATS).
Previously in the Cary Challenger
The Korean has never competed in this tournament before.
Strong Kirchheimer
10 - 17win/loss
664
375
LWWLLWLLLL | Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 10-18 | 6-10 | 1-4 | 3-4 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2024 | 25-32 | 15-19 | 2-4 | 8-9 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2023 | 38-29 | 19-16 | 2-4 | 17-9 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2022 | 33-30 | 17-12 | 7-11 | 9-7 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2021 | 19-21 | 12-15 | 6-5 | 1-1 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
Ranked no. 664, Kirchheimer reached the qualifications after beating Kris Van Wyk 6-2 4-6 6-2.
In the qualifications, The American defeated Van Wyk (6-2 4-6 6-2). During the match Kirchheimer scored 98 points vs Van Wyk’s 83. Strong was quite aggressive to blast 38 winners.
Talking about serving, Kirchheimer made 4 aces and he committed only 3 double faults. Overall, Strong Kirchheimer was exceptionally effective on serve to win 73% (38/52) of his 1st serve and 58% (19/33) on the second serve. However, this didn’t prevent his to concede the serve once. Strong broke Van Wyk 4 times after converting 27% of his break points (4/15).
Strong has a composed 9-17 win-loss record in 2025, 5-9 on hard (See FULL STATS).
H2H Performance in the tournament
Matches, sets, games and points
| Points | Chung | Kirchheimer |
|---|---|---|
| Match played | 1 | 1 |
| Tot Set | 2 | 3 |
| Tot Games | 18 | 26 |
| Pts | 65-55 | 98-83 |
| Total Points | 120 | 181 |
| Winners | 21 | 38 |
| %Winners | 32% | 39% |
Both Chung and Kirchheimer played 1 match. Also both players started their run from the qualifications.At the moment, Strong Kirchheimer lost 1 set while Hyeon Chung hasn’t surrendered a set so far. Chung has played 1 set(s) less than Kirchheimer (2 vs 3). Therefore, Chung played 8 games less than Kirchheimer. Chung scored 21 winners (32% of the total points). On the other side, Kirchheimer recorded 38 winners (39%).
Serve Performance
| Serve | Chung | Kirchheimer |
|---|---|---|
| Aces | 3 | 4 |
| Avg per match | 3 | 4 |
| 1st in | 29/58 | 52/85 |
| %1st in | 50% | 61% |
| 1st pts | 21/29 | 38/52 |
| %1st pts | 72% | 73% |
| 2nd pts | 15/29 | 19/33 |
| %2nd pts | 52% | 58% |
Chung scored 3 aces . Kirchheimer made 4 aces . Chung won 72% points behind his first serve. He was rock solid on his second serve to win 52% of the points. On the other side, Kirchheimer won 73% 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 | Chung | Kirchheimer |
|---|---|---|
| Won | 4 | 4 |
| Converted | 4/9 | 4/15 |
| % Converted | 44% | 27% |
| Conceded | 2 | 8 |
| Saved | 1 | 7 |
| % Saved | 50% | 88% |
| Times Broken | 1 | 1 |
The Korean broke his opponent 4 times with a 44% conversion rate. Chung dropped his serve once and he saved 50% of the break points that he conceded. The American broke his opponent 4 times with a 27% conversion rate. Strong conceded his serve once and he saved 88% of the break points that he conceded.
| Chung | |||
| Q1 Vithoontien |
Total | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Score | 6-2 6-4 | ||
| Tot Set | 2 | 2 | |
| Tot Games | 18 | 18 | |
| pts | 65-55 | 65-55 | |
| Total points | 120 | 120 | |
| Winners | 21 | 21 | |
| %Winners | 32% | 32% | |
| SERVE | |||
| Aces | 3 | 3 | |
| Double Faults | 4 | 4 | |
| 1st in | 29/58 | 29/58 | |
| % 1st in | 50% | 50% | |
| 1st pts | 21/29 | 21/29 | |
| % 1st pts | 72% | 72% | |
| 2nd pts | 15/29 | 15/29 | |
| % 2nd pts | 52% | 52% | |
| Breaks | |||
| Won | 4 | 4 | |
| Converted | 4/9 | 4/9 | |
| Converted % | 44% | 44% | |
| Conceded | 2 | 2 | |
| Saved | 1/2 | 1 | |
| Saved % | 50% | 50% | |
| Times Broken | 1 | 1 | |
| Kirchheimer | |||
| Q1 Van |
Total | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Score | 6-2 4-6 6-2 | ||
| Tot Set | 3 | 3 | |
| Tot Games | 26 | 26 | |
| pts | 98-83 | 98-83 | |
| Total points | 181 | 181 | |
| Winners | 38 | 38 | |
| %Winners | 39% | 39% | |
| SERVE | |||
| Aces | 4 | 4 | |
| Double Faults | 3 | 3 | |
| 1st in | 52/85 | 52/85 | |
| % 1st in | 61% | 61% | |
| 1st pts | 38/52 | 38/52 | |
| % 1st pts | 73% | 73% | |
| 2nd pts | 19/33 | 19/33 | |
| % 2nd pts | 58% | 58% | |
| Breaks | |||
| Won | 4 | 4 | |
| Converted | 4/15 | 4/15 | |
| Converted % | 27% | 27% | |
| Conceded | 8 | 8 | |
| Saved | 7/8 | 7 | |
| Saved % | 88% | 88% | |
| Times Broken | 1 | 1 | |
Head 2 Head
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