Zhizhen Zhang and Julian Ocleppo will square off in the 2nd round of the Bengalaru Challenger for the 1st time in their career. They are scheduled to compete on Wednesday at 11:00 am on COURT 1. In this post, we analyze their head to head performance and the prediction.
Prediction, odds and live streaming
The pick for Tennis Tonic is Zhizhen Zhang who should win in 2 sets.
As per the initial odds, Zhizhen Zhang is the pick to win this match.
Zhizhen Zhang -> 1.30
Julian Ocleppo -> 3.40
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Zhizhen Zhang
Ranked no. 136 (career high), the Chinese will start his run in the Bengalaru Challenger after he played his last match in Pune where he lost 6-3 6-2 to Ebden in the qualifications the 1st of February.
Zhang has a 1-4 win-loss record in 2020, 1-4 on hard (See FULL STATS).
Talking about his overall career, The Chinese has an overall 40-61 record. He has negative 29-46 record on hard.
Last year in the Bengalaru Challenger
Zhizhen didn’t play in the Bengalaru Challenger in 2019.
Julian Ocleppo
Ranked no. 391 (career high), the Italian got to the 2nd round after beating Anirudh Chandrasekar 6-2 6-1.
In the 1st round, Ocleppo had a good straight sets win against Chandrasekar (6-2 6-1). During the match Ocleppo scored 61 points vs Chandrasekar’s 38. The Italian was extremely aggressive to blast 19 winners.
Talking about serving, Ocleppo blasted 6 aces and he committed only 4 double faults. Julian Ocleppo was extremely effective on serve to win 95% (19/20) of his 1st serve and 56% (9/16) on the second serve. This was the main reason for not conceding a single break during the match. Julian broke Chandrasekar 5 times after converting 42% of his break points (5/12).
Ocleppo has a fantastic win-loss record in the last 5 years having won 71% of his matches (5-2). 1-0 on hard in 2020. Talking about his performance on the same surface of this tournament, Ocleppo has a 8-23 win-loss record in the last 5 years on hard.
Julian’s best result of the season was getting to the semi-finals in M25 Nussloch.
The Italian has a 4-3 win-loss record in 2020, 1-0 on hard (See FULL STATS).
Last year in the Bengalaru Challenger
The Italian didn’t play in the Bengalaru Challenger in 2019.
Head 2 Head
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LWWLLLWWLW Tennis Scores in Bengalaru Challenger
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- Stefano TravagliaTravaglia – Filippo BaldiBaldi (6-2 6-1) – See score progression
- Saketh-Sai MyneniMyneni – Evgeny DonskoyDonskoy (6-3 6-3) – See score progression
- Yuichi SugitaSugita – Vaclav SafranekSafranek (6-4 6-3) – See score progression
- Ilya IvashkaIlya – Sasi Kumar MukundSasi (7-5 6-3) – See score progression
- Niki Kaliyanda PoonachaNiki – Lukas RosolLukas (6-4 2-6 6-3) – See score progression
- Sumit NagalSumit – Malek JaziriMalek (6-0 6-4) – See score progression
Upcoming matches
- Thomas FabbianoFabbiano – Saketh-Sai MyneniMyneni (2-2) – See H2H details
- Mohamed SafwatSafwat – Matthew EbdenEbden (0-0) – See H2H details
- James DuckworthDuckworth – Khumoun SultanovSultanov (0-0) – See H2H details
- Prajnesh GunneswaranGunneswaran – Sebastian FanselowFanselow (1-0) – See H2H details
- Frederico Ferreira SilvaFerreira Silva – Kimmer CoppejansCoppejans (0-1) – See H2H details
- Ramkumar RamanathanRamanathan – Abhinav Sanjeev ShanmugamSanjeev Shanmugam (0-0) – See H2H details
- Sidharth RawatRawat – Rishi ReddyReddy (0-0) – See H2H details
- Zhizhen ZhangZhang – Julian OcleppoOcleppo (0-0) – See H2H details
- Sumit NagalNagal – Blaz RolaRola (0-0) – See H2H details
- Benjamin BonziBonzi – Nikola MilojevicMilojevic (0-0) – See H2H details
- Niki Kaliyanda PoonachaKaliyanda Poonacha – Yuichi SugitaSugita (0-0) – See H2H details
