Zhizhen Zhang and Francesco Passaro will fight against each other in the 1st round of the Perugia Challenger for the 1st time in their career. They are scheduled to compete on Tuesday at 5:30 pm on CENTER COURT. In this post, we analyze their head to head performance and prediction.
Prediction, odds and live streaming
The pick for Tennis Tonic is Zhizhen Zhang who should win in 3 sets.
Zhizhen Zhang -> 1.61
Francesco Passaro -> 2.26
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Prediction and head to head Zhizhen Zhang vs. Francesco Passaro
There is no head to head record between Zhizhen Zhang and Francesco Passaro since this will be the first time that they will fight against each other in the main tour.
Zhizhen Zhang
Ranked no. 175, Zhizhen will start his run in the Perugia Challenger after he played his last match at Wimbledon where he lost 4-6 7-6(5) 6-7(5) 6-3 6-2 to Hoang in the 1st round on the 29th of June.
The Chinese has a composed 12-10 win-loss record in 2021, 6-4 on clay (See FULL STATS).
Zhizhen’s best result of the current year was reaching the semifinal in the Biella 6 Challenger.
Talking about his overall career, Zhizhen has an overall 190-157 record. He has a positive 65-51 record on clay.
Previously in the Perugia Challenger
Zhang has never competed in this tournament before.
Francesco Passaro
Ranked no. 748, the Italian reached the 1st round after defeating Thiago Agustin Tirante 6-74 6-3 6-4 and Bogdan Bobrov 5-7 6-1 6-4.
In the qualifications against Bobrov, The Italian recovered from a 1-set down deficit before winning (5-7 6-1 6-4). During the match Passaro scored 102 points vs Bobrov’s 86. Francesco was exceptionally aggressive to blast 42 winners.
About the serving games, Passaro scored just 1 ace during the entire match and he committed only 2 double faults. Francesco Passaro lost the serve 3 times and he saved 5 break points. Furthermore, Passaro put 74% of his first serves in, winning 68% (42/62) of the points behind his 1st serve and 59% (13/22) on the 2nd serve. The Italian broke Bobrov 5 times after converting 36% of his break points (5/14).
Overall Performance in this tournament
Francesco started his run at this tournament from the qualifications. In the main draw, he has conceded 2 set in the tournament to win 53% of the points he played.
The Italian’s best result of the season was getting to the final in M15 Cairo.
Passaro has a compiled 29-16 win-loss record in 2021, 25-11 on clay (See FULL STATS).
Tennis Scores in Perugia Challenger
- Dimitar KuzmanovKuzmanov – Federico GaioGaio (2-6 6-3 7-62) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Dominic Stephan StrickerStephan Stricker – Yannick MadenMaden (7-63 6-1) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Francesco FortiForti – Andrea CollariniCollarini (4-6 7-5 6-1) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Filippo BaldiBaldi – Nuno BorgesBorges (3-6 3-5 ret.) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Tomas Martin EtcheverryMartin Etcheverry – Andrea ArnaboldiArnaboldi (7-63 6-2) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Salvatore CarusoCaruso – Luca VanniVanni (7-65 6-4) – Stats, scores, rankings
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- Salvatore CarusoCaruso – Francesco FortiForti (0-0) – H2H and prediction
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