Evan Zhu and Matteo Donati will square off in the qualifications of the Shymkent 2 Challenger for the 1st time in their career. They are scheduled to compete on Monday at 12:30 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 Evan Zhu who should win in 3 sets.
As per the initial odds, Evan Zhu is the pick to win this match.
Evan Zhu -> 1.68
Matteo Donati -> 2.13
Click here to see the updated quotes and live streaming (only selected countries - USA excluded).
To be able to watch live streaming bet365, a funded account is required or you need to have placed a bet in the last 24 hours. 18+ BeGambleAware.
Here where top tennis events are broadcasted or streamed online (ATP, WTA).
At the challenger level, there will be free live streaming on Challenger TV.
Â
Prediction and head to head Evan Zhu vs. Matteo Donati
There is no head to head record between Evan Zhu and Matteo Donati since this will be the first time that they will clash against each other in the main tour.
Evan Zhu
| Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 6-14 | 4-9 | 1-4 | 1-1 | 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. 495, the American reached the qualifications after beating Roman Konovalov 6-2 6-0.
In the qualifications, Zhu had a good straight sets win against Konovalov (6-2 6-0). During the match, Zhu scored 54 points vs Konovalov’s 22. Evan was extremely aggressive to blast 15 winners.
Regarding the service games, Zhu made 2 aces and he committed only 2 double faults. Evan Zhu was extremely efficient on serve to win 71% (15/21) of his 1st serve and 88% (14/16) on the second serve. This was the main reason for not conceding a single break during the match. The American broke Konovalov 5 times after converting 63% of his break points (5/8).
Zhu has a winning record in the last 7 years having won 53% of his matches (135-122). 20-8 on clay in 2022. Regarding his performance on the same surface of this competition, Zhu has a composed51-30 record in the last 7 years on clay.
Zhu’s best result of the current season was reaching the final in M15 Naples and M15 Sunrise.
Evan has an aggregate 26-11 win-loss record in 2022, 20-8 on clay (See FULL STATS).
Previously in the Shymkent 2 Challenger
Evan has never competed in this tournament before.
Matteo Donati
| Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2023 | 1-5 | 0-0 | 1-5 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2022 | 13-11 | 0-0 | 13-11 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2021 | 12-13 | 0-0 | 9-11 | 3-2 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2020 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2019 | 4-11 | 0-2 | 4-7 | 0-2 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
Ranked no. 764, Donati got to the qualifications after beating Timur Maulenov 6-2 6-1.
In the qualifications, Matteo had a good straight sets win against Maulenov (6-2 6-1). During the match Donati scored 56 points vs Maulenov’s 35. Matteo was pretty aggressive to blast 22 winners.
Talking about serving, Donati struck 2 aces and he was pretty consistent in conceding no double faults for the entire match. Matteo Donati conceded no breaks for the entire match to put 83% of his first serves in, win 67% (22/33) of the points behind his 1st serve and 86% (6/7) on the 2nd serve. Donati broke Maulenov 5 times after converting 56% of his break points (5/9).
Matteo has an aggregate 4-6 win-loss record in 2022, 4-6 on clay (See FULL STATS).
H2H Performance in the tournament
Matches, sets, games and points
| Points | Zhu | Donati |
|---|---|---|
| Match played | 1 | 1 |
| Tot Set | 2 | 2 |
| Tot Games | 14 | 15 |
| Pts | 54-22 | 56-35 |
| Total Points | 76 | 91 |
| Winners | 15 | 22 |
| %Winners | 28% | 39% |
Both Zhu and Donati played 1 match. Also both players started their run from the qualifications.Both players have not lost a single set in this event so far. Talking about their workload, Zhu and Donati have played the same amount of sets 2. However, Zhu played 1 game less than Donati. Evan scored 15 winners (28% of the total points). On the other side, The Italian blasted 22 winners (39%).
Serve Performance
| Serve | Zhu | Donati |
|---|---|---|
| Aces | 2 | 2 |
| Avg per match | 2 | 2 |
| 1st in | 21/37 | 33/40 |
| %1st in | 57% | 83% |
| 1st pts | 15/21 | 22/33 |
| %1st pts | 71% | 67% |
| 2nd pts | 14/16 | 6/7 |
| %2nd pts | 88% | 86% |
Zhu fired 2 aces . Donati made 2 aces . Zhu won 71% points behind his first serve. He extremely effective on his second serve to win 88% of the points. On the other side, Donati won 67% of the points on his first serve. He had a solid display on his second serve to win 86% of the points.
How they played the important points
| Breaks | Zhu | Donati |
|---|---|---|
| Won | 5 | 5 |
| Converted | 5/8 | 5/9 |
| % Converted | 63% | 56% |
| Conceded | 1 | 0 |
| Saved | 1 | 0 |
| % Saved | 100% | 0% |
| Times Broken | 0 | 0 |
The American broke his opponent 5 times with a 63% conversion rate. The American had a solid display on his serve as he has never surrendered a single service game after saving 1 break points. The Italian broke his opponent 5 times with a 56% conversion rate. Matteo was rock solid on his serve as he has never conceded a single service game after saving 0 break points.
| Zhu | |||
| Q1 Konovalov |
Total | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Score | 6-2 6-0 | ||
| Tot Set | 2 | 2 | |
| Tot Games | 14 | 14 | |
| pts | 54-22 | 54-22 | |
| Total points | 76 | 76 | |
| Winners | 15 | 15 | |
| %Winners | 28% | 28% | |
| SERVE | |||
| Aces | 2 | 2 | |
| Double Faults | 2 | 2 | |
| 1st in | 21/37 | 21/37 | |
| % 1st in | 57% | 57% | |
| 1st pts | 15/21 | 15/21 | |
| % 1st pts | 71% | 71% | |
| 2nd pts | 14/16 | 14/16 | |
| % 2nd pts | 88% | 88% | |
| Breaks | |||
| Won | 5 | 5 | |
| Converted | 5/8 | 5/8 | |
| Converted % | 63% | 63% | |
| Conceded | 1 | 1 | |
| Saved | 1/1 | 1 | |
| Saved % | 100% | 100% | |
| Times Broken | 0 | 0 | |
| Donati | |||
| Q1 Maulenov |
Total | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Score | 6-2 6-1 | ||
| Tot Set | 2 | 2 | |
| Tot Games | 15 | 15 | |
| pts | 56-35 | 56-35 | |
| Total points | 91 | 91 | |
| Winners | 22 | 22 | |
| %Winners | 39% | 39% | |
| SERVE | |||
| Aces | 2 | 2 | |
| Double Faults | 0 | 0 | |
| 1st in | 33/40 | 33/40 | |
| % 1st in | 83% | 83% | |
| 1st pts | 22/33 | 22/33 | |
| % 1st pts | 67% | 67% | |
| 2nd pts | 6/7 | 6/7 | |
| % 2nd pts | 86% | 86% | |
| Breaks | |||
| Won | 5 | 5 | |
| Converted | 5/9 | 5/9 | |
| Converted % | 56% | 56% | |
| Conceded | 0 | 0 | |
| Saved | 0/0 | 0 | |
| Saved % | – | 0% | |
| Times Broken | 0 | 0 | |
Head 2 Head
LWLWLLWLWL
Upcoming matches in the draw
- Robin HaaseHaase – Evgeny TyurnevTyurnev (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Sebastian FanselowFanselow – Denis IstominIstomin (0-1) – H2H and prediction
- Mikael TorpegaardTorpegaard – Gabriel DecampsDecamps (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Ivan GakhovGakhov – Petros TsitsipasTsitsipas (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Bogdan BobrovBobrov – Eric VanshelboimVanshelboim (1-1) – H2H and prediction
- Sasi Kumar MukundKumar Mukund – Vladyslav ManafovManafov (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Grigoriy LomakinLomakin – Arjun KadheKadhe (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Ulises BlanchBlanch – Denis YevseyevYevseyev (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Evan ZhuZhu – Matteo DonatiDonati (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Dragos Nicolae MadarasNicolae Madaras – Nicolas Alvarez VaronaAlvarez Varona (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Yan BondarevskiyBondarevskiy – Sergey FominFomin (1-1) – H2H and prediction
- Filip Cristian JianuCristian Jianu – Dostanbek TashbulatovTashbulatov (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Emilio NavaNava – Yshai OlielOliel (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Nicholas David IonelDavid Ionel – Ergi KirkinKirkin (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Saba PurtseladzePurtseladze – Illya MarchenkoMarchenko (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Alexander ShevchenkoShevchenko – Edoardo LavagnoLavagno (0-1) – H2H and prediction
