Zhizhen Zhang and Arthur Fils will fight against each other in the 1^st round of the Pau Challenger for the 1^st time in their career. They are scheduled to compete on Tuesday at 1:30 pm on CENTRAL. In the following paragraphs, you can find the head to head analysis and prediction.

Prediction, odds and live streaming

The pick for Tennis Tonic is Zhizhen Zhang who should win in 3 sets.

As per the initial odds, Zhizhen Zhang is the pick to win this match.
Zhizhen Zhang -> 1.533
Arthur Fils -> 2.43

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Prediction and head to head Zhizhen Zhang vs. Arthur Fils

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

Zhizhen Zhang

Zhizhen Zhang

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Year	Total	Hard	Clay	I.hard	Grass	Carpet
2024	24-25	9-12	9-7	2-2	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
2021	15-12	1-1	9-6	0-1	5-4	0-0
2020	1-6	1-6	0-0	0-0	0-0	0-0

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Ranked no. 308, Zhang got to the 1^st round after defeating Arthur Reymond 6-4 3-6 6-1.

Zhang has a winning match record in the last 9 years having won 55% of his matches (197-163). 4-4 on indoor hard courts in 2022. Talking about his performance on the same surface of this event, Zhang has an aggregate4-6 record in the last 9 years on indoor hard courts.

Zhang has a compiled 4-4 win-loss record in 2022, 4-4 on indoor hard courts (See FULL STATS).

Previously in the Pau Challenger

The Chinese has never competed in this tournament before.

Pau Challenger

Zhang's Record

Arthur Fils

Arthur Fils

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Year	Total	Hard	Clay	I.hard	Grass	Carpet
2024	36-24	15-9	14-10	1-2	6-3	0-0
2023	43-24	5-4	13-8	21-10	4-2	0-0
2022	43-28	0-1	23-15	20-12	0-0	0-0
2021	33-26	3-2	29-17	1-7	0-0	0-0
2020	1-2	0-0	1-1	0-1	0-0	0-0

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Ranked no. 606 (career-high), Fils got to the 1^st round after beating Nikolas Sanchez-Izquierdo 6-4 6-7² 6-1 and Diego Hidalgo 6-4 6-3.

In the qualifications, Fils had a good straight sets win against Hidalgo (6-4 6-3). During the match Fils scored 61 points vs Hidalgo’s 50. Arthur was quite aggressive to blast 25 winners.

Talking about serving, Fils recorded 5 aces and he committed only 1 double fault for the entire match. Arthur Fils was extremely efficient on serve to win 74% (25/34) of his 1st serve and 71% (20/28) on the second serve. This was the main reason for not conceding a single break during the match. Fils broke Hidalgo twice after converting 33% of his break points (2/6).

Overall Performance in this tournament

Arthur started his run at this tournament from the qualifications. In the main draw, he has conceded 1 set in the tournament to win 54% of the points he played.

Arthur has a composed 2-1 win-loss record in 2022, 2-1 on indoor hard courts (See FULL STATS).

Pau Challenger

Fils's Record

H2H Performance in the tournament

Matches, sets, games and points

Zhang played 1 match while Fils competed in 2 matches. Both players lost a set in the event. Zhizhen Zhang conceded 1 set, while Arthur Fils surrendered 1 set. Zhang has played 2 set(s) less than Fils (3 vs 5). Therefore, Zhang played 23 games less than Fils. The Chinese scored 39 winners (45% of the total points). On the other side, Arthur bagged 76 winners (43%).

Serve Performance

Zhang recorded 7 aces . Fils fired 16 aces (8 per match). Zhang won 81% points behind his first serve. He quite strong on his second serve to win 42% of the points. On the other side, Fils won 77% of the points behind his first serve. He had a solid display on his second serve to win 57% of the points.

How they played the important points

Zhizhen broke his opponent 4 times with a 31% conversion rate. Zhang surrendered his serve twice and he saved 50% of the break points that he conceded. Fils broke his opponents 6 times with a 38% conversion rate. The French player conceded his serve once and he saved 88% of the break points that he conceded.

Head 2 Head

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2024 2023 2022

24 - 25

35 - 22

9-12

Hard

15-9

2-2

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0-0

9-7

Clay

14-10

4-4

Grass

6-3

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