Mikael Torpegaard and Zhizhen Zhang will square off in the qualifications of the Australian Open Qualifying for the 1st time in their career. They are scheduled to compete on Tuesday at 1.30 pm on Court 4. In the following lines you can find the head to head analysis and the prediction.

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The pick for Tennis Tonic is Mikael Torpegaard who should win in 5 sets.

As per the initial odds, Mikael Torpegaard is the pick to win this match.
Mikael Torpegaard -> 1.5
Zhizhen Zhang -> 2.59

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Prediction and head to head Mikael Torpegaard vs. Zhizhen Zhang

There is no head to head record between Mikael Torpegaard and Zhizhen Zhang since this will be the first time that they will play each other in the main tour.

Mikael Torpegaard

Ranked no. 192, Mikael got to the qualifications after defeating Mats Moraing 6-1 6-0.

In the qualifications, Mikael had a good straight sets win against Moraing (6-1 6-0). During the match Torpegaard scored 51 points vs Moraing’s 13. The Dane was pretty aggressive to blast 18 winners.

Regarding the service games, Torpegaard blasted 6 aces and he was exceptionally solid in conceding no double faults. Mikael Torpegaard was exceptionally efficient on serve to win 100% (18/18) of his 1st serve and 91% (10/11) on the second serve. This was the main reason for not conceding a single break during the match. The Dane broke Moraing 5 times after converting 83% of his break points (5/6).

Torpegaard has a solid win-loss record in the last 7 years having won 66% of his matches (126-66). 1-0 on hard in 2021. Regarding his performance on the same surface of this event, Torpegaard has a 35-24 match record in the last 7 years on hard.

Torpegaard has a 1-0 win-loss record in 2021, 1-0 on hard (See FULL STATS).

Last year at the Australian Open Qualifying

Torpegaard didn’t play at the Australian Open Qualifying in 2020.

Zhizhen Zhang

Ranked no. 419, the Chinese got to the qualifications after defeating Evgeny Donskoy 7-5 6-3.

In the qualifications, Zhizhen had a good straight sets win against Donskoy (7-5 6-3). During the match Zhang scored 67 points vs Donskoy’s 53. Zhizhen was quite aggressive to blast 24 winners.

Talking about serving, Zhang scored 6 aces and he committed only 2 double faults. Overall, Zhizhen Zhang was very efficient on serve to win 77% (24/31) of his 1st serve and 67% (18/27) on the second serve. However, this didn’t prevent his to concede the serve once. The Chinese broke Donskoy 3 times after converting 75% of his break points (3/4).

Zhizhen has a 1-0 win-loss record in 2021, 1-0 on hard (See FULL STATS).

H2H Performance in the tournament

Matches, sets, games and points

Points Torpegaard Zhang
Match played 1 1
Tot Set 2 2
Tot Games 13 21
Pts 51-13 67-53
Total Points 64 120
Winners 18 24
%Winners 35% 36%

Both Torpegaard and Zhang played 1 match. Also both players started their run from the qualifications.Both players have not lost a single set in this event so far. Talking about their workload, Torpegaard and Zhang have played the same amount of sets 2. However, Torpegaard played 8 games less than Zhang. The Dane scored 18 winners (35% of the total points). On the other side, The Chinese scored 24 winners (36%).

Serve Performance

Serve Torpegaard Zhang
Aces 6 6
Avg per match 6 6
1st in 18/29 31/58
%1st in 62% 53%
1st pts 18/18 24/31
%1st pts 100% 77%
2nd pts 10/11 18/27
%2nd pts 91% 67%

Torpegaard bagged 6 aces . Zhang blasted 6 aces . Torpegaard won 100% points behind his first serve. He quite strong on his second serve to win 91% of the points. On the other side, Zhang won 77% of the points behind his first serve. He had a solid display on his second serve to win 67% of the points.

How they played the important points

Breaks Torpegaard Zhang
Won 5 3
Converted 5/6 3/4
% Converted 83% 75%
Conceded 0 1
Saved 0 0
% Saved NAN% 0%
Times Broken 0 1

Mikael broke his opponent 5 times with a 83% conversion rate. Mikael very solid his serve as he has never surrendered a single service game after saving 0 break points. Zhizhen broke his opponent 3 times with a 75% conversion rate. Zhizhen conceded his serve once and he saved 0% of the break points that he conceded.

Torpegaard
Q1
Moraing
Total
Score 6-1 6-0
Tot Set 2 2
Tot Games 13 13
pts 51-13 51-13
Total points 64 64
Winners 18 18
%Winners 35% 35%
SERVE
Aces 6 6
Double Faults 0 0
1st in 18/29 18/29
% 1st in 62% 62%
1st pts 18/18 18/18
% 1st pts 100% 100%
2nd pts 10/11 10/11
% 2nd pts 91% 91%
Breaks
Won 5 5
Converted 5/6 5/6
Converted % 83% 83%
Conceded 0 0
Saved 0/0 0
Saved % 0%
Times Broken 0 0
Zhang
Q1
Donskoy
Total
Score 7-5 6-3
Tot Set 2 2
Tot Games 21 21
pts 67-53 67-53
Total points 120 120
Winners 24 24
%Winners 36% 36%
SERVE
Aces 6 6
Double Faults 2 2
1st in 31/58 31/58
% 1st in 53% 53%
1st pts 24/31 24/31
% 1st pts 77% 77%
2nd pts 18/27 18/27
% 2nd pts 67% 67%
Breaks
Won 3 3
Converted 3/4 3/4
Converted % 75% 75%
Conceded 1 1
Saved 0/1 0
Saved % 0% 0%
Times Broken 1 1

Tennis Scores at the Australian Open Qualifying

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