Nicolas Mejia and Zhizhen Zhang will square off in the 2nd round of the San Luis Potosi Challenger for the 2nd time in their career. They are scheduled to play on Thursday at 2:00 pm on CANCHA 8. In the following lines you can find the head to head analysis and prediction.
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The pick for Tennis Tonic is Zhizhen Zhang who should win in 3 sets.
As per the initial odds, Zhizhen Zhang is the pick to win this match.
Zhizhen Zhang -> 1.61
Nicolas Mejia -> 2.32
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Prediction and head to head Nicolas Mejia vs. Zhizhen Zhang
This will be the 2nd time that Nicolas Mejia and Zhizhen Zhang fight against each other. The head to head is 1-0 for Zhang (see full H2H stats), but they have never played each other on clay.
The last time that they squared off, Zhang won 6-3 2-6 6-3 in the qualifications in the Forli 4 Challenger back in February 2022.
Nicolas Mejia
| Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 41-33 | 21-19 | 18-6 | 2-8 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2024 | 44-33 | 18-21 | 23-8 | 3-4 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2023 | 24-33 | 6-13 | 18-18 | 0-0 | 0-2 | 0-0 |
| 2022 | 31-35 | 13-12 | 15-13 | 3-10 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2021 | 24-28 | 16-10 | 5-13 | 3-5 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
Ranked no. 250 (career-high), the Colombian reached the 2nd round after beating Viktor Durasovic 7-5 6-73 7-63.
In the 1st round, Nicolas defeated Durasovic (7-5 6-73 7-63). During the match, Mejia scored 128 points vs Durasovic’s 124. Nicolas was very aggressive to blast 57 winners.
Regarding the service games, Mejia made 14 aces and he committed only 8 double faults. Nicolas Mejia was pretty effective on serve to win 75% (57/76) of his 1st serve and 64% (37/58) on the second serve. This was the main reason for not conceding a single break during the match. Mejia broke Durasovic once after converting 20% of his break points (1/5).
Mejia has a winning match record in the last 7 years having won 57% of his matches (117-90). 5-3 on clay in 2022. Regarding his performance on the same surface of this tournament, Mejia has a compiled64-47 record in the last 7 years on clay.
Nicolas’s best result of the year was reaching the semifinal in M25 Anapoima.
Mejia has an aggregate 9-12 win-loss record in 2022, 5-3 on clay (See FULL STATS).
Previously in the San Luis Potosi Challenger
Zhizhen Zhang
| Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 4-12 | 2-10 | 0-0 | 2-2 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2024 | 24-28 | 9-12 | 9-7 | 2-5 | 4-4 | 0-0 |
| 2023 | 30-29 | 12-13 | 15-10 | 1-2 | 2-4 | 0-0 |
| 2022 | 52-28 | 11-5 | 31-11 | 9-11 | 1-1 | 0-0 |
| 2021 | 15-12 | 1-1 | 9-6 | 0-1 | 5-4 | 0-0 |
Ranked no. 305, Zhang reached the 2nd round after beating Facundo Mena 7-63 6-1.
In the 1st round, Zhang had a good straight sets win against Mena (7-63 6-1). During the match Zhang scored 74 points vs Mena’s 53. Zhizhen was extremely aggressive to blast 28 winners.
Talking about serving, Zhang made 8 aces and he committed only 2 double faults. Zhizhen Zhang was exceptionally efficient on serve to win 76% (28/37) of his 1st serve and 62% (13/21) on the second serve. This was the main reason for not conceding a single break during the match. Zhizhen broke Mena 3 times after converting 33% of his break points (3/9).
Zhizhen has a composed 6-8 win-loss record in 2022, 2-2 on clay (See FULL STATS).
H2H Performance in the tournament
Matches, sets, games and points
| Points | Mejia | Zhang |
|---|---|---|
| Match played | 1 | 1 |
| Tot Set | 3 | 2 |
| Tot Games | 38 | 20 |
| Pts | 128-124 | 74-53 |
| Total Points | 252 | 127 |
| Winners | 57 | 28 |
| %Winners | 45% | 38% |
Both Mejia and Zhang played 1 match. At the moment, Nicolas Mejia surrendered 1 set while Zhizhen Zhang hasn’t lost a set so far. Mejia has played 1 set more than Zhang (3 vs 2). Therefore, Mejia played 18 games more than Zhang. Nicolas scored 57 winners (45% of the total points). On the other side, The Chinese managed to score 28 winners (38%).
Serve Performance
| Serve | Mejia | Zhang |
|---|---|---|
| Aces | 14 | 8 |
| Avg per match | 14 | 8 |
| 1st in | 76/134 | 37/58 |
| %1st in | 57% | 64% |
| 1st pts | 57/76 | 28/37 |
| %1st pts | 75% | 76% |
| 2nd pts | 37/58 | 13/21 |
| %2nd pts | 64% | 62% |
Mejia scored 14 aces . Zhang blasted 8 aces . Mejia won 75% points behind his first serve. He pretty effective on his second serve to win 64% of the points. On the other side, Zhang won 76% of the points on his first serve. He had a solid display on his second serve to win 62% of the points.
How they played the important points
| Breaks | Mejia | Zhang |
|---|---|---|
| Won | 1 | 3 |
| Converted | 1/5 | 3/9 |
| % Converted | 20% | 33% |
| Conceded | 4 | 2 |
| Saved | 4 | 2 |
| % Saved | 100% | 100% |
| Times Broken | 0 | 0 |
The Colombian broke his opponent once with a 20% conversion rate. The Colombian pretty effective on his serve as he has never dropped a single service game after saving 4 break points. Zhang broke his opponent 3 times with a 33% conversion rate. The Chinese was rock solid on his serve as he has never conceded a single service game after saving 2 break points.
| Mejia | |||
| R1 Durasovic |
Total | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Score | 7-5 6-73 7-63 | ||
| Tot Set | 3 | 3 | |
| Tot Games | 38 | 38 | |
| pts | 128-124 | 128-124 | |
| Total points | 252 | 252 | |
| Winners | 57 | 57 | |
| %Winners | 45% | 45% | |
| SERVE | |||
| Aces | 14 | 14 | |
| Double Faults | 8 | 8 | |
| 1st in | 76/134 | 76/134 | |
| % 1st in | 57% | 57% | |
| 1st pts | 57/76 | 57/76 | |
| % 1st pts | 75% | 75% | |
| 2nd pts | 37/58 | 37/58 | |
| % 2nd pts | 64% | 64% | |
| Breaks | |||
| Won | 1 | 1 | |
| Converted | 1/5 | 1/5 | |
| Converted % | 20% | 20% | |
| Conceded | 4 | 4 | |
| Saved | 4/4 | 4 | |
| Saved % | 100% | 100% | |
| Times Broken | 0 | 0 | |
| Zhang | |||
| R1 Mena |
Total | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Score | 7-63 6-1 | ||
| Tot Set | 2 | 2 | |
| Tot Games | 20 | 20 | |
| pts | 74-53 | 74-53 | |
| Total points | 127 | 127 | |
| Winners | 28 | 28 | |
| %Winners | 38% | 38% | |
| SERVE | |||
| Aces | 8 | 8 | |
| Double Faults | 2 | 2 | |
| 1st in | 37/58 | 37/58 | |
| % 1st in | 64% | 64% | |
| 1st pts | 28/37 | 28/37 | |
| % 1st pts | 76% | 76% | |
| 2nd pts | 13/21 | 13/21 | |
| % 2nd pts | 62% | 62% | |
| Breaks | |||
| Won | 3 | 3 | |
| Converted | 3/9 | 3/9 | |
| Converted % | 33% | 33% | |
| Conceded | 2 | 2 | |
| Saved | 2/2 | 2 | |
| Saved % | 100% | 100% | |
| Times Broken | 0 | 0 | |
Head 2 Head
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