Denis Istomin and Evan Zhu will fight against each other in the 1st round of the Shymkent 1 Challenger for the 1st time in their career. They are scheduled to play on Tuesday at 5:00 pm on CENTER COURT. 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 Denis Istomin who should win in 3 sets.
Denis Istomin -> 1.79
Evan Zhu -> 1.98
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Prediction and head to head Denis Istomin vs. Evan Zhu
There is no head to head record between Denis Istomin and Evan Zhu since this will be the first time that they will fight against each other in the main tour.
Denis Istomin
| Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 0-1 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-1 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2024 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2023 | 1-2 | 0-1 | 1-1 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2022 | 13-26 | 8-10 | 4-7 | 1-9 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2021 | 17-29 | 2-8 | 7-8 | 7-12 | 1-1 | 0-0 |
Ranked no. 299, the Uzbek will start his run in the Shymkent 1 Challenger after he played his last match in the Morelos Challenger where he lost 6-4 6-4 to Escobedo in the 1st round on the 25th of April.
The Uzbek has an overall 6-11 win-loss record in 2022, 2-4 on clay (See FULL STATS).
Talking about his overall career, The Uzbek has an overall 571-484 record. He has a negative 148-151 record on clay.
Previously in the Shymkent 1 Challenger
Denis has never competed in this tournament before.
Evan Zhu
| Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 26-33 | 23-26 | 2-4 | 1-2 | 0-1 | 0-0 |
| 2024 | 24-22 | 22-16 | 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 |
Ranked no. 495, Evan got to the 1st round after defeating Petros Tsitsipas 6-1 6-1 and Alibek Kachmazov 7-65 6-1.
In the qualifications, Zhu had a good straight sets win against Kachmazov (7-65 6-1). During the match Zhu scored 71 points vs Kachmazov’s 58. The American was extremely aggressive to blast 28 winners.
Talking about serving, Zhu fired 5 aces and he committed only 3 double faults. Evan Zhu was quite efficient on serve to win 90% (28/31) of his 1st serve and 57% (17/30) on the second serve. This was the main reason for not conceding a single break during the match. The American broke Kachmazov twice after converting 22% of his break points (2/9).
Overall Performance in this tournament
The American started his run at this tournament from the qualifications. In the main draw, he hasn’t dropped yet a set in this event to conquer 58% of the points he played.
The American’s best result of the season was reaching the final in M15 Naples and M15 Sunrise.
The American has an aggregate 24-10 win-loss record in 2022, 18-7 on clay (See FULL STATS)
.Tennis Scores in Shymkent 1 Challenger
- Emilio NavaNava – Tennys SandgrenSandgren (6-3 6-4) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Nicolas Alvarez VaronaAlvarez Varona – Aleksandre MetreveliMetreveli (6-3 6-1) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Mikael TorpegaardTorpegaard – Kaichi UchidaUchida (6-3 4-6 6-3) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Ulises BlanchBlanch – Yshai OlielOliel (7-5 7-65) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Illya MarchenkoMarchenko – Gabriel DecampsDecamps (6-3 6-1) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Viktor DurasovicDurasovic – Beibit ZhukayevZhukayev (6-4 6-2) – Stats, scores, rankings
Upcoming matches in the draw
- Robin HaaseHaase – Ergi KirkinKirkin (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Denis YevseyevYevseyev – Sasi Kumar MukundKumar Mukund (1-1) – H2H and prediction
- Evgeny KarlovskiyKarlovskiy – Matteo DonatiDonati (1-0) – H2H and prediction
- Viktor DurasovicDurasovic – Mikael TorpegaardTorpegaard (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Antoine BellierBellier – Evgeny TyurnevTyurnev (1-0) – H2H and prediction
- Ulises BlanchBlanch – Nicolas Alvarez VaronaAlvarez Varona (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Evan ZhuZhu – Denis IstominIstomin (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Dragos Nicolae MadarasNicolae Madaras – Altug CelikbilekCelikbilek (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Yan BondarevskiyBondarevskiy – Alexandar LazarovLazarov (1-0) – H2H and prediction
- Filip Cristian JianuCristian Jianu – Sebastian FanselowFanselow (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Nicholas David IonelDavid Ionel – Grigoriy LomakinLomakin (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Alexander ShevchenkoShevchenko – Eric VanshelboimVanshelboim (0-0) – H2H and prediction