Zhizhen Zhang and Yi Zhou will play each other in the 2^nd round of the Guangzhou Challenger for the 1^st time in their career. They are scheduled to play on Wednesday at 6:00 pm on Center Court. In the following lines you can find the head to head analysis and prediction.

Prediction, odds and live streaming

The pick for Tennis Tonic is Yi Zhou who should win in 3 sets.

As per the initial odds, Yi Zhou is the pick to win this match.
Yi Zhou -> 1.82
Zhizhen Zhang -> 1.86

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Prediction and head to head Zhizhen Zhang vs. Yi Zhou

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

Zhizhen Zhang

Zhizhen Zhang

22 - 24win/loss

Hard

9-13

I Hard

1-0

Clay

3-7

Grass

9-4

Rank
170

High
31

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Year	Total	Hard	Clay	I.hard	Grass	Carpet
2026	22-24	9-13	3-7	1-0	9-4	0-0
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

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Ranked no. 170, the Chinese reached the 2^nd round after defeating Kaichi Uchida 7-6(1) 6-3.

In the 1^st round, Zhizhen had a good straight sets win against Uchida (7-6¹ 6-3). During the match, Zhang scored 71 points vs Uchida’s 56. The Chinese was exceptionally aggressive to blast 37 winners.

Regarding the service games, Zhang fired 11 aces and he committed only 2 double faults. Zhizhen Zhang was pretty effective on serve to win 84% (37/44) of his 1st serve and 62% (8/13) on the second serve. This was the main reason for not conceding a single break during the match. Zhang broke Uchida twice after converting 33% of his break points (2/6).

Zhang has positive match record in the last 10 years having won 53% of his matches (233-209). 9-13 on hard in 2026. Regarding his performance on the same surface of this event, Zhang has a compiled 109-112 record in the last years on hard.

His best result of the season was conquering the title the Brisbane 2 Challenger where he beat Alex Bolt in the final 6-2 6-4.

Zhang has a composed 22-24 win-loss record in 2026, 9-13 on hard (See FULL STATS).

Previously in the Guangzhou Challenger

Zhang has never competed in this tournament before.

Guangzhou Challenger

Zhang's Record

Yi Zhou

Yi Zhou

24 - 23win/loss

Hard

16-17

I Hard

0-0

Clay

0-2

Grass

8-4

Rank
280

High
217

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Year	Total	Hard	Clay	I.hard	Grass	Carpet
2026	24-23	16-17	0-2	0-0	8-4	0-0
2025	25-27	25-27	0-0	0-0	0-0	0-0
2024	29-25	29-23	0-0	0-2	0-0	0-0
2023	10-17	9-12	1-5	0-0	0-0	0-0
2022	1-1	1-1	0-0	0-0	0-0	0-0

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Ranked no. 280, Zhou reached the 2^nd round after defeating Koki Matsuda 6-1 6-3.

In the 1^st round, Yi had a good straight sets win against Matsuda (6-1 6-3). During the match Zhou scored 61 points vs Matsuda’s 34. The Chinese was extremely aggressive to blast 25 winners.

About the serving games, Zhou managed to score 7 aces and he committed only 2 double faults. Yi Zhou was pretty efficient on serve to win 86% (25/29) of his 1st serve and 67% (8/12) on the second serve. This was the main reason for not conceding a single break during the match. Zhou broke Matsuda 4 times after converting 67% of his break points (4/6).

Yi’s best result of the current season was reaching the semifinal in the Phan Thiet 2 Challenger.

Zhou has a composed 24-23 win-loss record in 2026, 16-17 on hard (See FULL STATS).

Previously in the Guangzhou Challenger

Previously, his best result was reaching the 1^st round in 2024. See his history.

Guangzhou Challenger

Zhou's Record

H2H Performance in the tournament

Matches, sets, games and points

Both Zhang and Zhou played 1 match. Both players have not conceded a single set in this event so far. Talking about their workload, Zhang and Zhou have played the same amount of sets 2. However, Zhang played 6 games more than Zhou. Zhizhen scored 37 winners (52% of the total points). On the other side, Zhou bagged 25 winners (41%).

Serve Performance

Zhang managed to score 11 aces . Zhou managed to score 7 aces . Zhang won 84% points behind his first serve. He extremely effective on his second serve to win 62% of the points. On the other side, Zhou won 86% 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

Zhizhen broke his opponent twice with a 33% conversion rate. The Chinese extremely effective on his serve as he has never conceded a single service game after saving 0 break points. Yi broke his opponent 4 times with a 67% conversion rate. Zhou was rock solid on his serve as he has never conceded a single service game after saving 2 break points.

Head 2 Head

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Zhizhen
Zhang

0:0

Yi
Zhou

Rank

170

High

31

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Rank

280

High

217

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Win Loss

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2026 2025 2024

21 - 24

24 - 23

9-13

Hard

16-17

3-7

Clay

0-2

9-4

Grass

8-4

Tennis Scores in Guangzhou Challenger

• Yi ZhouZhou – Koki MatsudaMatsuda (6-1 6-3) – See score progression
• Zhizhen ZhangZhang – Kaichi UchidaUchida (7-6¹ 6-3) – See score progression
• Fajing SunSun – Qian SunSun (6-4 6-2) – See score progression
• Jay Dylan Hara FriendDylan Hara Friend – Ognjen MilicMilic (6-4 6-7³ 7-6⁵) – See score progression
• Kasidit SamrejSamrej – Rio NoguchiNoguchi (2-6 6-1 7-6³) – See score progression
• Cruz HewittHewitt – Rigele TeTe (4-6 6-4 7-6¹¹) – See score progression
• Khumoun SultanovSultanov – Luca CastelnuovoCastelnuovo (7-6⁵ 7-6⁵) – See score progression
• James McCabeMcCabe – Elias YmerYmer (6-0 6-7² 7-6⁶) – See score progression
• Andre IlaganIlagan – Mert AlkayaAlkaya (6-4 3-6 6-1) – See score progression
• Chak Lam Coleman WongLam Coleman Wong – Jake DelaneyDelaney (6-4 7-6⁴) – See score progression
• Kasidit SamrejSamrej – Rio NoguchiNoguchi (2-6 6-1 7-6(3)) – See score progression
• Jay Dylan Hara FriendDylan Hara Friend – Ognjen MilicMilic (6-4 6-7(3) 7-6(5)) – See score progression
• Zhizhen ZhangZhang – Kaichi UchidaUchida (7-6(1) 6-3) – See score progression
• Yi ZhouZhou – Koki MatsudaMatsuda (6-1 6-3) – See score progression
• Khumoun SultanovSultanov – Luca CastelnuovoCastelnuovo (7-6(5) 7-6(5)) – See score progression
• Fajing SunSun – Qian SunSun (6-4 6-2) – See score progression
• Cruz HewittHewitt – Rigele TeTe (4-6 6-4 7-6(11)) – See score progression

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