Evgeny Donskoy and Zhizhen Zhang will fight against each other in the 2nd round of the Tallahassee Challenger for the 2nd time in their career. They are scheduled to compete on Thursday at 11:00 am on Court 1. 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 -> 1.57
Evgeny Donskoy -> 2.4
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Prediction and head to head Evgeny Donskoy vs. Zhizhen Zhang
This will be the 2nd time that Evgeny Donskoy and Zhizhen Zhang face off. The head to head is 1-0 for Zhang (see full H2H stats), but they have never competed against each other on clay.
The last time that they competed against each other, Zhang won 7-5 6-3 in the qualifications in at the Australian Open Qualifying back in 2021.
Evgeny Donskoy
| Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 23-20 | 23-20 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2023 | 48-31 | 39-17 | 3-4 | 6-9 | 0-1 | 0-0 |
| 2022 | 18-22 | 6-12 | 4-7 | 8-2 | 0-0 | 0-1 |
| 2021 | 19-28 | 8-8 | 2-7 | 7-9 | 2-4 | 0-0 |
| 2020 | 10-16 | 7-9 | 0-3 | 1-3 | 0-0 | 2-1 |
Ranked no. 203, Evgeny reached the 2nd round after beating Arthur Fils 6-0 6-4.
In the 1st round, Donskoy had a good straight sets win against Fils (6-0 6-4). During the match, Donskoy scored 63 points vs Fils’s 43. Donskoy was very aggressive to blast 14 winners.
Regarding the service games, Donskoy recorded 2 aces and he committed only 1 double fault. Overall, Evgeny Donskoy was pretty efficient on serve to win 82% (14/17) of his 1st serve and 59% (19/32) on the second serve. However, this didn’t prevent his to concede the serve once. Evgeny broke Fils 5 times after converting 71% of his break points (5/7).
Donskoy has a favorable record in the last 10 years having won 51% of his matches (286-270). 1-2 on clay in 2022. In connection with his performance on the same surface of this competition, Donskoy has an aggregate 35-58 match record in the last years on clay.
Evgeny has a composed 2-6 win-loss record in 2022, 1-2 on clay (See FULL STATS).
Previously in the Tallahassee Challenger
Evgeny has never competed in this tournament before.
Zhizhen Zhang
| Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 24-28 | 9-12 | 9-7 | 2-5 | 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 |
Ranked no. 296, Zhang reached the 2nd round after defeating Steve Johnson 2-6 6-3 7-5.
In the 1st round against Johnson, Zhizhen recovered from a 1-set down deficit before winning (2-6 6-3 7-5). During the match Zhang scored 99 points vs Johnson’s 94. Zhizhen was very aggressive to blast 38 winners.
Talking about serving, Zhang bagged 15 aces and he committed only 6 double faults. Zhizhen Zhang lost the serve 4 times and he saved 3 break points. Furthermore, Zhang put 54% of his first serves in, winning 76% (38/50) of the points behind his 1st serve and 47% (20/43) on the 2nd serve. The Chinese broke Johnson 4 times after converting 33% of his break points (4/12).
Zhang has an overall 8-9 win-loss record in 2022, 4-3 on clay (See FULL STATS).
H2H Performance in the tournament
Matches, sets, games and points
| Points | Donskoy | Zhang |
|---|---|---|
| Match played | 1 | 1 |
| Tot Set | 2 | 3 |
| Tot Games | 16 | 29 |
| Pts | 63-43 | 99-94 |
| Total Points | 106 | 193 |
| Winners | 14 | 38 |
| %Winners | 22% | 38% |
Both Donskoy and Zhang played 1 match. At the moment, Zhizhen Zhang dropped 1 set while Evgeny Donskoy hasn’t surrendered a set so far. Donskoy has played 1 set(s) less than Zhang (2 vs 3). Therefore, Donskoy played 13 games less than Zhang. The Russian scored 14 winners (22% of the total points). On the other side, The Chinese blasted 38 winners (38%).
Serve Performance
| Serve | Donskoy | Zhang |
|---|---|---|
| Aces | 2 | 15 |
| Avg per match | 2 | 15 |
| 1st in | 17/49 | 50/93 |
| %1st in | 35% | 54% |
| 1st pts | 14/17 | 38/50 |
| %1st pts | 82% | 76% |
| 2nd pts | 19/32 | 20/43 |
| %2nd pts | 59% | 47% |
Donskoy managed to score 2 aces . Zhang scored 15 aces . Donskoy won 82% points on his first serve. He extremely effective on his second serve to win 59% of the points. On the other side, Zhang won 76% of the points on his first serve. He had a solid display on his second serve to win 47% of the points.
How they played the important points
| Breaks | Donskoy | Zhang |
|---|---|---|
| Won | 5 | 4 |
| Converted | 5/7 | 4/12 |
| % Converted | 71% | 33% |
| Conceded | 5 | 7 |
| Saved | 4 | 3 |
| % Saved | 80% | 43% |
| Times Broken | 1 | 4 |
Donskoy broke his opponent 5 times with a 71% conversion rate. Evgeny lost his serve once and he saved 80% of the break points that he conceded. Zhizhen broke his opponent 4 times with a 33% conversion rate. Zhizhen conceded his serve 4 times and he saved 43% of the break points that he conceded.
| Donskoy | |||
| R1 Fils |
Total | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Score | 6-0 6-4 | ||
| Tot Set | 2 | 2 | |
| Tot Games | 16 | 16 | |
| pts | 63-43 | 63-43 | |
| Total points | 106 | 106 | |
| Winners | 14 | 14 | |
| %Winners | 22% | 22% | |
| SERVE | |||
| Aces | 2 | 2 | |
| Double Faults | 1 | 1 | |
| 1st in | 17/49 | 17/49 | |
| % 1st in | 35% | 35% | |
| 1st pts | 14/17 | 14/17 | |
| % 1st pts | 82% | 82% | |
| 2nd pts | 19/32 | 19/32 | |
| % 2nd pts | 59% | 59% | |
| Breaks | |||
| Won | 5 | 5 | |
| Converted | 5/7 | 5/7 | |
| Converted % | 71% | 71% | |
| Conceded | 5 | 5 | |
| Saved | 4/5 | 4 | |
| Saved % | 80% | 80% | |
| Times Broken | 1 | 1 | |
| Zhang | |||
| R1 Johnson |
Total | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Score | 2-6 6-3 7-5 | ||
| Tot Set | 3 | 3 | |
| Tot Games | 29 | 29 | |
| pts | 99-94 | 99-94 | |
| Total points | 193 | 193 | |
| Winners | 38 | 38 | |
| %Winners | 38% | 38% | |
| SERVE | |||
| Aces | 15 | 15 | |
| Double Faults | 6 | 6 | |
| 1st in | 50/93 | 50/93 | |
| % 1st in | 54% | 54% | |
| 1st pts | 38/50 | 38/50 | |
| % 1st pts | 76% | 76% | |
| 2nd pts | 20/43 | 20/43 | |
| % 2nd pts | 47% | 47% | |
| Breaks | |||
| Won | 4 | 4 | |
| Converted | 4/12 | 4/12 | |
| Converted % | 33% | 33% | |
| Conceded | 7 | 7 | |
| Saved | 3/7 | 3 | |
| Saved % | 43% | 43% | |
| Times Broken | 4 | 4 | |
Head 2 Head
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