Aleksandar Vukic and Evan Zhu will play each other in the qualifications of the Jingshan Challenger for the 2nd time in their career. They are scheduled to compete on Tuesday at 1:30 pm on Court 1. Here the head to head stats and relative prediction.
Prediction, odds and live streaming
The pick for Tennis Tonic is Aleksandar Vukic who should win in 2 sets.
As per the initial odds, Aleksandar Vukic is the pick to win this match.
Aleksandar Vukic -> 1.26
Evan Zhu -> 3.4
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Prediction and head to head Aleksandar Vukic vs. Evan Zhu
This will be the 2nd time that Aleksandar Vukic and Evan Zhu square off. The head to head is 1-0 for Vukic (see full H2H stats), but they have never competed against each other on hard.
The last time that they locked horns, Vukic won 6-2 7-5 in the quarter in USA F38 (Columbus) back in 2017.
Aleksandar Vukic
24 - 27win/loss
112
48
WLLLWLWLWL | Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | 24-27 | 18-15 | 2-8 | 0-0 | 4-4 | 0-0 |
| 2025 | 29-38 | 15-20 | 4-8 | 5-5 | 5-5 | 0-0 |
| 2024 | 34-36 | 13-18 | 5-9 | 6-2 | 10-7 | 0-0 |
| 2023 | 48-33 | 34-20 | 9-4 | 1-3 | 4-6 | 0-0 |
| 2022 | 30-25 | 14-15 | 4-5 | 12-5 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
Ranked no. 112, Vukic got to the qualifications after defeating Ryan Seggerman 6-4 6-4.
In the qualifications, Vukic had a good straight sets win against Seggerman (6-4 6-4). During the match, Vukic scored 62 points vs Seggerman’s 51. The Australian was very aggressive to blast 30 winners.
Talking about the service games, Vukic managed to score 6 aces and he committed only 1 double fault. Aleksandar Vukic was very efficient on serve to win 79% (30/38) of his 1st serve and 60% (12/20) on the second serve. This was the main reason for not conceding a single break during the match. The Australian broke Seggerman twice after converting 25% of his break points (2/8).
Vukic has favorable record in the last 10 years having won 53% of his matches (292-257). 18-15 on hard in 2026. Talking about his performance on the same surface of this tournament, Vukic has an overall 153-133 win-loss record in the last years on hard.
His best result of the year was winning the title the Granby Challenger where he defeated Arthur Gea in the final 6-4 1-6 6-1.
Vukic has an overall 24-27 win-loss record in 2026, 18-15 on hard (See FULL STATS).
Previously in the Jingshan Challenger
The Australian has never competed in this tournament before.
Evan Zhu
| Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | 40-26 | 28-16 | 5-1 | 7-9 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2025 | 26-33 | 23-26 | 2-4 | 1-2 | 0-1 | 0-0 |
| 2024 | 24-22 | 22-16 | 1-4 | 1-2 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2023 | 31-32 | 21-21 | 9-7 | 1-3 | 0-1 | 0-0 |
| 2022 | 44-31 | 14-13 | 25-12 | 5-5 | 0-1 | 0-0 |
Ranked no. 502, Evan reached the qualifications after defeating Zhiheng Xia 6-1 6-0.
In the qualifications, The American had a good straight sets win against Xia (6-1 6-0). During the match Zhu scored 52 points vs Xia’s 26. Evan was quite aggressive to blast 21 winners.
About the serving games, Zhu scored 3 aces and he committed only 1 double fault for the entire match. Evan Zhu conceded no breaks for the entire match to save 2 break points. Furthermore, Zhu put 69% of his first serves in, winning 78% (21/27) of the points behind his 1st serve and 50% (6/12) on the 2nd serve. Evan broke Xia 6 times after converting 75% of his break points (6/8).
Zhu’s best result of the year was getting to the final in M15 Karuizawa.
Zhu has a compiled 40-26 win-loss record in 2026, 28-16 on hard (See FULL STATS).
Previously in the Jingshan Challenger
Previously, his best result was reaching the qualifications in 2025. See his history.
H2H Performance in the tournament
Matches, sets, games and points
| Points | Vukic | Zhu |
|---|---|---|
| Match played | 1 | 1 |
| Tot Set | 2 | 2 |
| Tot Games | 20 | 13 |
| Pts | 62-51 | 52-26 |
| Total Points | 113 | 78 |
| Winners | 30 | 21 |
| %Winners | 48% | 40% |
Both Vukic and Zhu 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, Vukic and Zhu have played the same amount of sets 2. However, Vukic played 7 games more than Zhu. Aleksandar scored 30 winners (48% of the total points). On the other side, Evan managed to score 21 winners (40%).
Serve Performance
| Serve | Vukic | Zhu |
|---|---|---|
| Aces | 6 | 3 |
| Avg per match | 6 | 3 |
| 1st in | 38/58 | 27/39 |
| %1st in | 66% | 69% |
| 1st pts | 30/38 | 21/27 |
| %1st pts | 79% | 78% |
| 2nd pts | 12/20 | 6/12 |
| %2nd pts | 60% | 50% |
Vukic bagged 6 aces . Zhu struck 3 aces . Vukic won 79% points on his first serve. He quite strong on his second serve to win 60% of the points. On the other side, Zhu won 78% of the points behind his first serve. He had a solid display on his second serve to win 50% of the points.
How they played the important points
| Breaks | Vukic | Zhu |
|---|---|---|
| Won | 2 | 6 |
| Converted | 2/8 | 6/8 |
| % Converted | 25% | 75% |
| Conceded | 2 | 2 |
| Saved | 2 | 2 |
| % Saved | 100% | 100% |
| Times Broken | 0 | 0 |
Vukic broke his opponent twice with a 25% conversion rate. Vukic very solid his serve as he has never dropped a single service game after saving 2 break points. The American broke his opponent 6 times with a 75% conversion rate. Zhu was rock solid on his serve as he has never conceded a single service game after saving 2 break points.
| Vukic | |||
| Q1 Seggerman |
Total | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Score | 6-4 6-4 | ||
| Tot Set | 2 | 2 | |
| Tot Games | 20 | 20 | |
| pts | 62-51 | 62-51 | |
| Total points | 113 | 113 | |
| Winners | 30 | 30 | |
| %Winners | 48% | 48% | |
| SERVE | |||
| Aces | 6 | 6 | |
| Double Faults | 1 | 1 | |
| 1st in | 38/58 | 38/58 | |
| % 1st in | 66% | 66% | |
| 1st pts | 30/38 | 30/38 | |
| % 1st pts | 79% | 79% | |
| 2nd pts | 12/20 | 12/20 | |
| % 2nd pts | 60% | 60% | |
| Breaks | |||
| Won | 2 | 2 | |
| Converted | 2/8 | 2/8 | |
| Converted % | 25% | 25% | |
| Conceded | 2 | 2 | |
| Saved | 2/2 | 2 | |
| Saved % | 100% | 100% | |
| Times Broken | 0 | 0 | |
| Zhu | |||
| Q1 Xia |
Total | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Score | 6-1 6-0 | ||
| Tot Set | 2 | 2 | |
| Tot Games | 13 | 13 | |
| pts | 52-26 | 52-26 | |
| Total points | 78 | 78 | |
| Winners | 21 | 21 | |
| %Winners | 40% | 40% | |
| SERVE | |||
| Aces | 3 | 3 | |
| Double Faults | 1 | 1 | |
| 1st in | 27/39 | 27/39 | |
| % 1st in | 69% | 69% | |
| 1st pts | 21/27 | 21/27 | |
| % 1st pts | 78% | 78% | |
| 2nd pts | 6/12 | 6/12 | |
| % 2nd pts | 50% | 50% | |
| Breaks | |||
| Won | 6 | 6 | |
| Converted | 6/8 | 6/8 | |
| Converted % | 75% | 75% | |
| Conceded | 2 | 2 | |
| Saved | 2/2 | 2 | |
| Saved % | 100% | 100% | |
| Times Broken | 0 | 0 | |
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