H2H, prediction of Zhizhen Zhang vs Marin Cilic in Hangzhou with odds, preview, pick | 24th September 2024

PREVIEW. Hangzhou. Zhang and Cilic will play each other in the final of the Hangzhou Open. See the prediction, H2H stats, odds, and preview of their next match on Tuesday the 24th of September

Prediction and head to head Zhizhen Zhang vs. Marin Cilic

Zhizhen Zhang and Marin Cilic will fight against each other in the final of the Hangzhou Open for the 1st time in their career. They are scheduled to compete on Tuesday at 7:30 pm on CENTER COURT. Here the head to head stats and relative prediction.

Prediction, odds and live streaming

The pick for Tennis Tonic is Marin Cilic who should win in 3 sets.

See updated oddsAs per the initial odds, Marin Cilic is the pick to win this match.
Marin Cilic -> 1.9
Zhizhen Zhang -> 1.9

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Soccer Tonic Predictions

Prediction and head to head Zhizhen Zhang vs. Marin Cilic

There is no head to head record between Zhizhen Zhang and Marin Cilic since this will be the first time that they will fight against each other in the main tour.

Zhizhen Zhang

Zhizhen Zhang
Zhizhen Zhang

24 - 22win/loss

Hard
9-9
I Hard
2-2
Clay
9-7
Grass
4-4
Rank
45
High
31
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Year Total Hard Clay I.hard Grass Carpet
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
2020 1-6 1-6 0-0 0-0 0-0 0-0

Ranked no. 43, the Chinese got to the final after defeating Denis Yevseyev 6-2 1-6 6-4, Mattia Bellucci 6-3 6-0, Roberto Carballes Baena 6-3 6-3 and Bu Yunchaokete 7-6(3) 6-4.

In the semifinal, Zhizhen had a good straight sets win against Yunchaokete (7-63 6-4). During the match, Zhang scored 73 points vs Yunchaokete’s 66. Zhang was extremely aggressive to blast 44 winners.

Regarding the service games, Zhang blasted 10 aces and he was exceptionally solid in conceding no double faults. Zhizhen Zhang was pretty effective on serve to win 75% (44/59) of his 1st serve and 63% (12/19) on the second serve. This was the main reason for not conceding a single break during the match. The Chinese broke Yunchaokete once after converting 50% of his break points (1/2).

Overall Performance in this tournament

Zhizhen has dropped 1 set in this tournament to win 55% of the points he played.

Zhang has good record in the last 10 years having won 55% of his matches (259-208). 9-9 on hard in 2024. Regarding his performance on the same surface of this tournament, Zhang has an overall 126-108 win-loss record in the last years on hard.

Zhizhen’s best result of the current year was getting to the semifinal in Halle and Hangzhou.

Zhang has a compiled 24-22 win-loss record in 2024, 9-9 on hard (See FULL STATS).

Previously in Hangzhou

The Chinese has never competed in this tournament before.

Zhang
Hangzhou
Zhang's Record

Marin Cilic

Marin Cilic
Marin Cilic

7 - 6win/loss

Hard
7-4
I Hard
0-1
Clay
0-1
Rank
184
High
3
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Year Total Hard Clay I.hard Grass Carpet
2024 9-11 8-6 0-1 1-4 0-0 0-0
2023 1-1 1-0 0-1 0-0 0-0 0-0
2022 32-21 16-10 9-5 4-5 3-1 0-0
2021 33-23 6-9 5-5 13-7 9-2 0-0
2020 14-12 7-5 2-2 5-5 0-0 0-0

Ranked no. 373, Marin reached the final after beating Zachary Svajda 5-7 6-3 6-0, Yoshihito Nishioka 6-4 6-1, Yasutaka Uchiyama 6-2 6-7(4) 7-6(5) and Brandon Nakashima 6-4 7-6(6).

In the semifinal, The Croatian had a good straight sets win against Nakashima (6-4 7-66). During the match Cilic scored 75 points vs Nakashima’s 65. Cilic was exceptionally aggressive to blast 34 winners.

About the serving games, Cilic struck 8 aces and he committed only 1 double fault for the entire match. Marin Cilic was exceptionally efficient on serve to win 83% (34/41) of his 1st serve and 57% (17/30) on the second serve. This was the main reason for not conceding a single break during the match. Marin was clinical in his return game without wasting any break point and break Nakashima once.

Overall Performance in this tournament

The Croatian has conceded 2 set in the tournament to win 55% of the points he played.

Marin’s best result of the season was reaching the semifinal in Hangzhou.

Cilic has a composed 7-6 win-loss record in 2024, 7-4 on hard (See FULL STATS).

Cilic
Hangzhou
Cilic's Record
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Soccer Tonic Predictions

H2H Performance in the tournament (main draw)

Z.Zhang
M.Cilic
6h:11
6h:11
Time on court​
7h:37
7h:37
1h:41
1h:41
Last match​
1h:44
1h:44
4
4
Match played
4
4
81
81
Games Played​
101
101
9
9
Set played​​
10
10
288
288
Total points​
324
324
72
72
Avg point​
81
81
130
130
Winners
144
144
32.5
32.5
Avg Winners​
36
36
45%
45%
Ratio winners
44%
44%
-- Serve --
30
30
Aces
56
56
7.5
7.5
Avg Aces
!
14
14
1
1
Double Faults
15
15
0.3
0.3
Avg Double Faults
3.8
3.8
130/181
130/181
1st won total​
144/168
144/168
!
72%
72%
1st won %
!
86%
86%
45/70
45/70
2nd won total​
62/128
62/128
!
64%
64%
2nd won %
48%
48%
-- Break Points --
11/33
11/33
BP won
15/25
15/25
2.8/8.3
2.8/8.3
Avg BP won
3.8/6.3
3.8/6.3
33%
33%
Won
!
60%
60%
9
9
Conceded
17
17
2.3
2.3
Avg Conceded
4.3
4.3
3
3
Broken
6
6
!
0.8
0.8
Avg Broken
1.5
1.5
6
6
Saved
11
11

Matches, sets, games and points

Points Zhang Cilic
Match played 4 4
Tot Set 9 10
Tot Games 81 101
Pts 288-235 324-269
Total Points 523 593
Winners 130 144
%Winners 45% 44%

Both Zhang and Cilic played 4 matches. Both players lost a set in the event. Zhizhen Zhang lost 1 set, while Marin Cilic lost 2 sets. Zhang has played 1 set(s) less than Cilic (9 vs 10). Therefore, Zhang played 20 games less than Cilic. Zhang scored 130 winners (45% of the total points). On the other side, The Croatian scored 144 winners (44%).

Serve Performance

Serve Zhang Cilic
Aces 30 56
Avg per match 7.5 14
1st in 181/251 168/296
%1st in 72% 57%
1st pts 130/181 144/168
%1st pts 72% 86%
2nd pts 45/70 62/128
%2nd pts 64% 48%

Zhang fired 30 aces (7.5 per match). Cilic recorded 56 aces (14 per match). Zhang won 72% points on his first serve. He very solid his second serve to win 64% of the points. On the other side, Cilic won 86% of the points behind his first serve. He had a solid display on his second serve to win 48% of the points.

How they played the important points

Breaks Zhang Cilic
Won 11 15
Converted 11/33 15/25
% Converted 33% 60%
Conceded 9 17
Saved 6 11
% Saved 67% 65%
Times Broken 3 6

Zhang broke his opponents 11 times with a 33% conversion rate. Zhang surrendered his serve 3 times and he saved 67% of the break points that he conceded. The Croatian broke his opponents 15 times with a 60% conversion rate. Cilic conceded his serve 6 times and he saved 65% of the break points that he conceded.

Zhang
R1
Yevseyev
R2
Bellucci
1/4
Carballes Baena
1/2
Yunchaokete
Total
Score 6-2 1-6 6-4 6-3 6-0 6-3 6-3 7-63 6-4
Tot Set 3 2 2 2 9
Tot Games 25 15 18 23 81
pts 90-87 67-42 58-40 73-66 288-235
Total points 177 109 98 139 523
Winners 33 26 27 44 130
%Winners 37% 39% 47% 60% 45%
SERVE
Aces 7 6 7 10 30
Double Faults 1 0 0 0 1
1st in 55/84 32/41 35/48 59/78 181/251
% 1st in 65% 78% 73% 76% 72%
1st pts 33/55 26/32 27/35 44/59 130/181
% 1st pts 60% 81% 77% 75% 72%
2nd pts 17/29 6/9 10/13 12/19 45/70
% 2nd pts 59% 67% 77% 63% 64%
Breaks
Won 3 4 3 1 11
Converted 3/14 4/11 3/6 1/2 11/33
Converted % 21% 36% 50% 50% 33%
Conceded 5 0 0 4 9
Saved 2/5 0/0 0/0 4/4 6
Saved % 40% 100% 35%
Times Broken 3 0 0 0 3
Cilic
R1
Svajda
R2
Nishioka
1/4
Uchiyama
1/2
Nakashima
Total
Score 5-7 6-3 6-0 6-4 6-1 6-2 6-74 7-65 6-4 7-66
Tot Set 3 2 3 2 10
Tot Games 27 17 34 23 101
pts 85-70 55-36 109-98 75-65 324-269
Total points 155 91 207 140 593
Winners 35 26 49 34 144
%Winners 41% 47% 45% 45% 44%
SERVE
Aces 14 15 19 8 56
Double Faults 7 2 5 1 15
1st in 40/78 28/45 59/102 41/71 168/296
% 1st in 51% 62% 58% 58% 57%
1st pts 35/40 26/28 49/59 34/41 144/168
% 1st pts 88% 93% 83% 83% 86%
2nd pts 12/38 8/17 25/43 17/30 62/128
% 2nd pts 32% 47% 58% 57% 48%
Breaks
Won 7 4 3 1 15
Converted 7/12 4/6 3/6 1/1 15/25
Converted % 58% 67% 50% 100% 60%
Conceded 5 1 9 2 17
Saved 1/5 0/1 8/9 2/2 11
Saved % 20% 0% 89% 100% 52%
Times Broken 4 1 1 0 6

Head 2 Head

Win Loss
Zhang
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Cilic
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2024 2023 2022
24 - 28
9 - 10
9-12
Hard
8-6
2-5
I Hard
1-3
9-7
Clay
0-1
4-4
Grass
0-0
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