Hyeon Chung and Strong Kirchheimer will face off in the qualifications of the Winnipeg Challenger for the 2nd time in their career. They are scheduled to compete on Tuesday at 1:30 pm 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 Hyeon Chung who should win in 2 sets.
As per the initial odds, Hyeon Chung is the pick to win this match.
Hyeon Chung -> 1.25
Strong Kirchheimer -> 3.64
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Prediction and head to head Hyeon Chung vs. Strong Kirchheimer
This will be the 2nd time that Hyeon Chung and Strong Kirchheimer play each other. The head to head is 1-0 for Kirchheimer (see full H2H stats), 1-0 on hard.
The last time that they fought against each other, Kirchheimer won 6-2 1-6 7-6(4) in the qualifications in the Cary Challenger back in June 2025.
Hyeon Chung
| Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 29-15 | 29-15 | 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, Chung got to the qualifications after defeating Benjamin Thomas George 6-2 6-4.
In the qualifications, Hyeon had a good straight sets win against Thomas George (6-2 6-4). During the match, Chung scored 74 points vs Thomas George’s 59. Chung was pretty aggressive to blast 26 winners.
Regarding the service games, Chung couldn’t to score even 1 ace throughout the encounter and he committed only 6 double faults. Hyeon Chung lost the serve 3 times and he saved 8 break points. Furthermore, Chung put 57% of his first serves in, winning 62% (26/42) of the points behind his 1st serve and 47% (15/32) on the 2nd serve. Chung broke Thomas George 6 times after converting 67% of his break points (6/9).
Chung has a solid win-loss record in the last 10 years having won 62% of his matches (154-95). 28-12 on hard in 2025. Regarding his performance on the same surface of this event, Chung has a compiled 114-62 match record in the last years on hard.
Chung’s best result of the current year was reaching the final in M25 Luan,Tokyo and M15 Tsukuba.
Chung has an overall 28-12 win-loss record in 2025, 28-12 on hard (See FULL STATS).
Previously in the Winnipeg Challenger
Chung has never competed in this tournament before.
Strong Kirchheimer
11 - 18win/loss
658
375
LLLWLWWLLW | Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 11-21 | 7-13 | 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, the American reached the qualifications after beating Adam Farag Cao 6-0 6-1.
In the qualifications, Strong had a good straight sets win against Farag Cao (6-0 6-1). During the match Kirchheimer scored 54 points vs Farag Cao’s 20. The American was pretty aggressive to blast 22 winners.
Talking about serving, Kirchheimer scored just 1 ace during the entire match and he committed only 1 double fault for the entire match. Strong Kirchheimer was very efficient on serve to win 92% (22/24) of his 1st serve and 67% (6/9) on the second serve. This was the main reason for not conceding a single break during the match. Kirchheimer broke Farag Cao 5 times after converting 83% of his break points (5/6).
Kirchheimer has a compiled 11-18 win-loss record in 2025, 7-10 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 | 2 |
| Tot Games | 18 | 13 |
| Pts | 74-59 | 54-20 |
| Total Points | 133 | 74 |
| Winners | 26 | 22 |
| %Winners | 35% | 41% |
Both Chung and Kirchheimer played 1 match. Also both players started their run from the qualifications.Both players have not dropped a single set in this event so far. Talking about their workload, Chung and Kirchheimer have played the same amount of sets 2. However, Chung played 5 games more than Kirchheimer. Chung scored 26 winners (35% of the total points). On the other side, The American struck 22 winners (41%).
Serve Performance
| Serve | Chung | Kirchheimer |
|---|---|---|
| Aces | 0 | 1 |
| Avg per match | 0 | 1 |
| 1st in | 42/74 | 24/33 |
| %1st in | 57% | 73% |
| 1st pts | 26/42 | 22/24 |
| %1st pts | 62% | 92% |
| 2nd pts | 15/32 | 6/9 |
| %2nd pts | 47% | 67% |
Chung didn’t manage to fire a single ace to far. Kirchheimer recorded 1 ace . Chung won 62% points behind his first serve. He pretty solid on his second serve to win 47% of the points. On the other side, Kirchheimer won 92% of the points on his first serve. He had a solid display on his second serve to win 67% of the points.
How they played the important points
| Breaks | Chung | Kirchheimer |
|---|---|---|
| Won | 6 | 5 |
| Converted | 6/9 | 5/6 |
| % Converted | 67% | 83% |
| Conceded | 11 | 0 |
| Saved | 8 | 0 |
| % Saved | 73% | 0% |
| Times Broken | 3 | 0 |
The Korean broke his opponent 6 times with a 67% conversion rate. Hyeon conceded his serve 3 times and he saved 73% of the break points that he conceded. The American broke his opponent 5 times with a 83% conversion rate. Kirchheimer was rock solid on his serve as he has never conceded a single service game after saving 0 break points.
| Chung | |||
| Q1 Thomas |
Total | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Score | 6-2 6-4 | ||
| Tot Set | 2 | 2 | |
| Tot Games | 18 | 18 | |
| pts | 74-59 | 74-59 | |
| Total points | 133 | 133 | |
| Winners | 26 | 26 | |
| %Winners | 35% | 35% | |
| SERVE | |||
| Aces | 0 | 0 | |
| Double Faults | 6 | 6 | |
| 1st in | 42/74 | 42/74 | |
| % 1st in | 57% | 57% | |
| 1st pts | 26/42 | 26/42 | |
| % 1st pts | 62% | 62% | |
| 2nd pts | 15/32 | 15/32 | |
| % 2nd pts | 47% | 47% | |
| Breaks | |||
| Won | 6 | 6 | |
| Converted | 6/9 | 6/9 | |
| Converted % | 67% | 67% | |
| Conceded | 11 | 11 | |
| Saved | 8/11 | 8 | |
| Saved % | 73% | 73% | |
| Times Broken | 3 | 3 | |
| Kirchheimer | |||
| Q1 Farag |
Total | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Score | 6-0 6-1 | ||
| Tot Set | 2 | 2 | |
| Tot Games | 13 | 13 | |
| pts | 54-20 | 54-20 | |
| Total points | 74 | 74 | |
| Winners | 22 | 22 | |
| %Winners | 41% | 41% | |
| SERVE | |||
| Aces | 1 | 1 | |
| Double Faults | 1 | 1 | |
| 1st in | 24/33 | 24/33 | |
| % 1st in | 73% | 73% | |
| 1st pts | 22/24 | 22/24 | |
| % 1st pts | 92% | 92% | |
| 2nd pts | 6/9 | 6/9 | |
| % 2nd pts | 67% | 67% | |
| Breaks | |||
| Won | 5 | 5 | |
| Converted | 5/6 | 5/6 | |
| Converted % | 83% | 83% | |
| Conceded | 0 | 0 | |
| Saved | 0/0 | 0 | |
| Saved % | – | 0% | |
| Times Broken | 0 | 0 | |
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