Jason Jung and Evan Zhu will fight against each other in the 2nd round of the Monterrey Challenger for the 1st time in their career. They are scheduled to compete on Wednesday at 12:00 pm on CANCHA 1. In this post, we analyze their head to head performance and prediction.
Prediction, odds and live streaming
The pick for Tennis Tonic is Jason Jung who should win in 2 sets.
As per the initial odds, Jason Jung is the pick to win this match.
Jason Jung -> 1.26
Evan Zhu -> 3.85
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Prediction and head to head Jason Jung vs. Evan Zhu
There is no head to head record between Jason Jung and Evan Zhu since this will be the first time that they will face off in the main tour.
Jason Jung
| Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 4-2 | 4-2 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2023 | 42-25 | 40-23 | 0-1 | 2-1 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2022 | 25-28 | 13-14 | 2-5 | 4-4 | 6-5 | 0-0 |
| 2021 | 12-25 | 5-12 | 1-4 | 2-6 | 4-3 | 0-0 |
| 2020 | 16-18 | 7-8 | 2-4 | 7-6 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
Ranked no. 223, the Chinese reached the 2nd round after defeating Strong Kirchheimer 6-4 6-1.
In the 1st round, The Chinese had a good straight sets win against Kirchheimer (6-4 6-1). During the match, Jung scored 61 points vs Kirchheimer’s 40. Jung was quite aggressive to blast 26 winners.
Regarding the service games, Jung made 3 aces and he committed only 1 double fault. Jason Jung conceded no breaks for the entire match to save 8 break points. Furthermore, Jung put 58% of his first serves in, winning 84% (26/31) of the points behind his 1st serve and 50% (11/22) on the 2nd serve. Jung was clinical in his return game without wasting any break point and break Kirchheimer 4 times.
Jung has a good match record in the last 10 years having won 56% of his matches (308-243). 3-3 on hard in 2022. In connection with his performance on the same surface of this competition, Jung has a compiled 220-152 match record in the last years on hard.
Jason has a compiled 4-6 win-loss record in 2022, 3-3 on hard (See FULL STATS).
Previously in the Monterrey Challenger
Evan Zhu
| Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 6-17 | 4-11 | 1-4 | 1-2 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2023 | 31-32 | 21-21 | 9-7 | 1-3 | 0-1 | 0-0 |
| 2022 | 44-31 | 14-13 | 25-12 | 5-5 | 0-1 | 0-0 |
| 2021 | 13-20 | 9-15 | 4-4 | 0-1 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2020 | 11-6 | 5-3 | 6-2 | 0-1 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
Ranked no. 664, Zhu reached the 2nd round after beating Adrian Andreev 6-3 3-6 6-3, Gage Brymer 2-6 6-4 6-1 and Milledge Cossu 6-1 6-2.
In the 1st round, Evan had a good straight sets win against Cossu (6-1 6-2). During the match Zhu scored 60 points vs Cossu’s 39. The American was extremely aggressive to blast 28 winners.
Talking about serving, Zhu struck 2 aces and he committed only 1 double fault for the entire match. Evan Zhu conceded no breaks for the entire match to save 2 break points. Furthermore, Zhu put 70% of his first serves in, winning 88% (28/32) of the points behind his 1st serve and 36% (5/14) on the 2nd serve. Evan broke Cossu 4 times after converting 57% of his break points (4/7).
Zhu’s best result of the current season was getting to the final in M15 Naples.
Zhu has an overall 11-5 win-loss record in 2022, 6-2 on hard (See FULL STATS).
H2H Performance in the tournament
Matches, sets, games and points
| Points | Jung | Zhu |
|---|---|---|
| Match played | 1 | 3 |
| Tot Set | 2 | 8 |
| Tot Games | 17 | 67 |
| Pts | 61-40 | 242-211 |
| Total Points | 101 | 453 |
| Winners | 26 | 111 |
| %Winners | 43% | 46% |
Jung played 1 match while Zhu competed in 3 matches. Zhu started his run from the qualifications while Jung had a direct access to the main draw. At the moment, Evan Zhu dropped 2 sets while Jason Jung hasn’t surrendered a set so far. Jung has played 6 set(s) less than Zhu (2 vs 8). Therefore, Jung played 50 games less than Zhu. Jung scored 26 winners (43% of the total points). On the other side, Evan scored 111 winners (46%).
Serve Performance
| Serve | Jung | Zhu |
|---|---|---|
| Aces | 3 | 22 |
| Avg per match | 3 | 7.3 |
| 1st in | 31/53 | 141/238 |
| %1st in | 58% | 59% |
| 1st pts | 26/31 | 111/141 |
| %1st pts | 84% | 79% |
| 2nd pts | 11/22 | 38/97 |
| %2nd pts | 50% | 39% |
Jung made 3 aces . Zhu made 22 aces (7.3 per match). Jung won 84% points behind his first serve. He had a solid display on his second serve to win 50% of the points. On the other side, Zhu won 79% of the points behind his first serve. He had a solid display on his second serve to win 39% of the points.
How they played the important points
| Breaks | Jung | Zhu |
|---|---|---|
| Won | 4 | 12 |
| Converted | 4/4 | 12/24 |
| % Converted | 100% | 50% |
| Conceded | 8 | 29 |
| Saved | 8 | 23 |
| % Saved | 100% | 79% |
| Times Broken | 0 | 6 |
The Chinese broke his opponent 4 times with a 100% conversion rate. The Chinese quite strong on his serve as he has never conceded a single service game after saving 8 break points. Evan broke his opponents 12 times with a 50% conversion rate. The American conceded his serve 6 times and he saved 79% of the break points that he conceded.
| Jung | |||
| R1 Kirchheimer |
Total | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Score | 6-4 6-1 | ||
| Tot Set | 2 | 2 | |
| Tot Games | 17 | 17 | |
| pts | 61-40 | 61-40 | |
| Total points | 101 | 101 | |
| Winners | 26 | 26 | |
| %Winners | 43% | 43% | |
| SERVE | |||
| Aces | 3 | 3 | |
| Double Faults | 1 | 1 | |
| 1st in | 31/53 | 31/53 | |
| % 1st in | 58% | 58% | |
| 1st pts | 26/31 | 26/31 | |
| % 1st pts | 84% | 84% | |
| 2nd pts | 11/22 | 11/22 | |
| % 2nd pts | 50% | 50% | |
| Breaks | |||
| Won | 4 | 4 | |
| Converted | 4/4 | 4/4 | |
| Converted % | 100% | 100% | |
| Conceded | 8 | 8 | |
| Saved | 8/8 | 8 | |
| Saved % | 100% | 100% | |
| Times Broken | 0 | 0 | |
| Zhu | |||||
| Q1 Andreev |
Q3 Brymer |
R1 Cossu |
Total | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Score | 6-3 3-6 6-3 | 2-6 6-4 6-1 | 6-1 6-2 | ||
| Tot Set | 3 | 3 | 2 | 8 | |
| Tot Games | 27 | 25 | 15 | 67 | |
| pts | 91-88 | 91-84 | 60-39 | 242-211 | |
| Total points | 179 | 175 | 99 | 453 | |
| Winners | 42 | 41 | 28 | 111 | |
| %Winners | 46% | 45% | 47% | 46% | |
| SERVE | |||||
| Aces | 6 | 14 | 2 | 22 | |
| Double Faults | 3 | 4 | 1 | 8 | |
| 1st in | 53/97 | 56/95 | 32/46 | 141/238 | |
| % 1st in | 55% | 59% | 70% | 59% | |
| 1st pts | 42/53 | 41/56 | 28/32 | 111/141 | |
| % 1st pts | 79% | 73% | 88% | 79% | |
| 2nd pts | 17/44 | 16/39 | 5/14 | 38/97 | |
| % 2nd pts | 39% | 41% | 36% | 39% | |
| Breaks | |||||
| Won | 4 | 4 | 4 | 12 | |
| Converted | 4/9 | 4/8 | 4/7 | 12/24 | |
| Converted % | 44% | 50% | 57% | 50% | |
| Conceded | 15 | 12 | 2 | 29 | |
| Saved | 12/15 | 9/12 | 2/2 | 23 | |
| Saved % | 80% | 75% | 100% | 255% | |
| Times Broken | 3 | 3 | 0 | 6 | |
Head 2 Head
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LLLLWLWLLW Tennis Scores in Monterrey Challenger
- Jason JungJung – Strong KirchheimerKirchheimer (6-4 6-1) – See score progression
- Go SoedaSoeda – Viktor DurasovicDurasovic (6-2 6-70 6-3) – See score progression
- Michael MmohMmoh – Maxime JanvierJanvier (6-4 6-4) – See score progression
- Geoffrey BlancaneauxBlancaneaux – Juan Alejandro HernandezAlejandro Hernandez (6-2 2-6 6-4) – See score progression
- Prajnesh GunneswaranGunneswaran – Ryan HarrisonHarrison (6-3 6-4) – See score progression
- Evan ZhuZhu – Milledge CossuCossu (6-1 6-2) – See score progression
- Aleksandar KovacevicKovacevic – Naoki NakagawaNakagawa (6-2 6-2) – See score progression
- Rinky HijikataHijikata – William BlumbergBlumberg (2-6 6-3 6-0) – See score progression
- Fernando VerdascoVerdasco – Zhe LiLi (6-4 6-2) – See score progression
- Ulises BlanchBlanch – Julian LenzLenz (6-3 4-6 6-2) – See score progression
- Tommy RobredoRobredo – Kaichi UchidaUchida (6-3 6-3) – See score progression
- Juan Pablo FicovichPablo Ficovich – Pedja KrstinKrstin (6-2 7-5) – See score progression
- Bernard TomicTomic – Cedrik-Marcel StebeStebe (6-2 6-2) – See score progression
- Fernando VerdascoVerdasco – Zhe LiLi (6-4 6-2) – See score progression
- Aleksandar KovacevicKovacevic – Naoki NakagawaNakagawa (6-2 6-2) – See score progression
- Michael MmohMmoh – Maxime JanvierJanvier (6-4 6-4) – See score progression
- Geoffrey BlancaneauxBlancaneaux – Juan Alejandro HernandezAlejandro Hernandez (6-2 2-6 6-4) – See score progression
- Prajnesh GunneswaranGunneswaran – Ryan HarrisonHarrison (6-3 6-4) – See score progression
- Alex RybakovRybakov – Jose StathamStatham (7-5 6-3) – See score progression
- Evan ZhuZhu – Milledge CossuCossu (6-1 6-2) – See score progression
- Jason JungJung – Strong KirchheimerKirchheimer (6-4 6-1) – See score progression
- Jay ClarkeClarke – Tung-Lin WuWu (6-4 6-3) – See score progression
Upcoming matches in the draw
- Tommy RobredoRobredo – Geoffrey BlancaneauxBlancaneaux (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Fernando VerdascoVerdasco – Aleksandar KovacevicKovacevic (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Bernard TomicTomic – Christian HarrisonHarrison (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Prajnesh GunneswaranGunneswaran – Alex RybakovRybakov (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Juan Pablo FicovichPablo Ficovich – Go SoedaSoeda (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Ulises BlanchBlanch – Jay ClarkeClarke (1-0) – H2H and prediction
- Evan ZhuZhu – Jason JungJung (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Rinky HijikataHijikata – Michael MmohMmoh (0-0) – H2H and prediction
