Patrick Maloney and Strong Kirchheimer will fight against each other in the 1^st round of the Cary Challenger for the 4^th time in their career. They are scheduled to compete on Tuesday at 3:00 pm on COURT 15. In the following paragraphs, you can find the head to head analysis and prediction.

Prediction, odds and live streaming

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

As per the initial odds, Patrick Maloney is the pick to win this match.
Patrick Maloney -> 1.36
Strong Kirchheimer -> 2.94

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Prediction and head to head Patrick Maloney vs. Strong Kirchheimer

This will be the 4^th time that Patrick Maloney and Strong Kirchheimer face off. The head to head is 2-1 for Maloney (see full H2H stats), 1-0 on hard.

The last time that they locked horns, Maloney won 6-4 6-3 in the qualifications in the Granby Challenger back in 2024.

Patrick Maloney

Ranked no. 325 (career-high), Maloney will start his run in the Cary Challenger after he played his last match in M25 Tulsa where he lost 6-4 6-4 to Rybakov in the semifinal on the 21^st of June.

The American has an overall 30-13 win-loss record in 2025, 5-5 on hard (See FULL STATS).

Patrick’s best result of the season was getting to the final in M25 Ithaca and M15 Sherbrooke.

Talking about his overall career, Maloney has an overall 97-52 record. He has a positive 32-21 record on hard.

Previously in the Cary Challenger

The American has never competed in this tournament before.

Strong Kirchheimer

Ranked no. 664, Strong got to the 1^st round after beating Kris Van Wyk 6-2 4-6 6-2 and Hyeon Chung 6-2 1-6 7-6(4).

In the qualifications, Strong defeated Chung (6-2 1-6 7-6⁴). During the match Kirchheimer scored 105 points vs Chung’s 96. Strong was exceptionally aggressive to blast 42 winners.

About the serving games, Kirchheimer fired 2 aces and he committed only 4 double faults. Strong Kirchheimer lost the serve 5 times and he saved 5 break points. Furthermore, Kirchheimer put 67% of his first serves in, winning 58% (42/72) of the points behind his 1st serve and 61% (22/36) on the 2nd serve. The American broke Chung 4 times after converting 50% of his break points (4/8).

Overall Performance in this tournament

The American started his run at this tournament from the qualifications. In the main draw, he has conceded 2 set in the tournament to win 53% of the points he played.

The American has a composed 10-17 win-loss record in 2025, 6-9 on hard (See FULL STATS).

Tennis Scores in Cary Challenger

• Andres MartinMartin – Stefan DostanicDostanic (6-4 5-7 6-3) – Stats, scores, rankings
• Patrick KypsonKypson – Masamichi ImamuraImamura (6-3 6-4) – Stats, scores, rankings
• Aidan MayoMayo – Andres AndradeAndrade (6-1 6-3) – Stats, scores, rankings
• Liam DraxlDraxl – Philip SekulicSekulic (6-2 6-2) – Stats, scores, rankings
• Tristan SchoolkateSchoolkate – Yi ZhouZhou (7-6⁵ 6-7⁴ 6-1) – Stats, scores, rankings
• Yibing WuWu – Ian MayewMayew (6-3 6-3) – Stats, scores, rankings

Upcoming matches in the draw

• Bernard TomicTomic – (0-0) – H2H and prediction
• Naoki NakagawaNakagawa – Karue SellSell (0-1) – H2H and prediction
• Alex RybakovRybakov – Andre IlaganIlagan (0-0) – H2H and prediction
• Alexis GalarneauGalarneau – (0-0) – H2H and prediction
• Rio NoguchiNoguchi – Hiroki MoriyaMoriya (2-2) – H2H and prediction
• Patrick MaloneyMaloney – Strong KirchheimerKirchheimer (2-1) – H2H and prediction
• Joshua SheehySheehy – Tung-Lin WuWu (0-0) – H2H and prediction