Frederico Ferreira Silva and Zhizhen Zhang will face off in the quarter of the Tunis Challenger for the 2nd time in their career. They are scheduled to compete on Thursday at 11:00 am on COURT 1. Here the head to head stats and relative 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 -> 1.71
Frederico Ferreira Silva -> 2.14
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Prediction and head to head Frederico Ferreira Silva vs. Zhizhen Zhang
This will be the 2nd time that Frederico Ferreira Silva and Zhizhen Zhang play each other. The head to head is 1-0 for Zhang (see full H2H stats), but they have never played each other on clay.
The last time that they squared off, Zhang won 6-1 4-1 ret. in the semifinal in the Shenzhen Challenger back in 2019.
Frederico Ferreira Silva
| Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 37-24 | 20-7 | 13-13 | 4-4 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2024 | 51-27 | 37-13 | 14-14 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2023 | 20-32 | 5-13 | 9-12 | 4-6 | 2-1 | 0-0 |
| 2022 | 30-26 | 11-10 | 11-12 | 8-3 | 0-1 | 0-0 |
| 2021 | 28-28 | 11-10 | 8-10 | 7-7 | 2-1 | 0-0 |
Ranked no. 262, the Portuguese reached the quarter after defeating Skander Mansouri 6-4 6-2 and Carlos Sanchez Jover 6-3 7-66.
In the 2nd round, Ferreira Silva had a good straight sets win against Sanchez Jover (6-3 7-66). During the match, Ferreira Silva scored 76 points vs Sanchez Jover’s 67. Ferreira Silva was extremely aggressive to blast 32 winners.
Talking about the service games, Ferreira Silva recorded 2 aces and he committed only 1 double fault. Frederico Ferreira Silva lost the serve 4 times. Furthermore, Ferreira Silva put 67% of his first serves in, winning 63% (32/51) of the points behind his 1st serve and 40% (10/25) on the 2nd serve. The Portuguese broke Sanchez Jover 5 times after converting 71% of his break points (5/7).
Overall Performance in this tournament
Ferreira Silva hasn’t dropped yet a set in this tournament to win 56% of the points he played.
Ferreira Silva has a solid record in the last 10 years having won 65% of his matches (391-215). 2-0 on clay in 2022. Talking about his performance on the same surface of this competition, Ferreira Silva has an aggregate 158-102 record in the last years on clay.
Frederico’s best result of the year was reaching the semifinal in the Forli 3 Challenger.
The Portuguese has a composed 7-4 win-loss record in 2022, 2-0 on clay (See FULL STATS).
Previously in the Tunis Challenger
The Portuguese has never competed in this tournament before.
Zhizhen Zhang
| Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 4-12 | 2-10 | 0-0 | 2-2 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 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 |
Ranked no. 266, Zhizhen reached the quarter after defeating Ruben Bemelmans 6-3 6-1 and Nikolas Sanchez-Izquierdo 6-3 7-5.
In the 2nd round, The Chinese had a good straight sets win against Sanchez-Izquierdo (6-3 7-5). During the match Zhang scored 59 points vs Sanchez-Izquierdo’s 46. The Chinese was extremely aggressive to blast 29 winners.
About the serving games, Zhang made 5 aces and he committed only 3 double faults. Overall, Zhizhen Zhang was pretty effective on serve to win 88% (29/33) of his 1st serve and 57% (12/21) on the second serve. However, this didn’t prevent his to concede the serve once. Zhizhen broke Sanchez-Izquierdo 3 times after converting 60% of his break points (3/5).
Overall Performance in this tournament
The Chinese hasn’t dropped yet a set in the tournament to win 59% of the points he played.
The Chinese’s best result of the season was reaching the semifinal in the Tallahassee Challenger.
The Chinese has an aggregate 14-13 win-loss record in 2022, 10-7 on clay (See FULL STATS).
H2H Performance in the tournament (main draw)
Matches, sets, games and points
| Points | Ferreira Silva | Zhang |
|---|---|---|
| Match played | 2 | 2 |
| Tot Set | 4 | 4 |
| Tot Games | 40 | 37 |
| Pts | 135-108 | 119-83 |
| Total Points | 243 | 202 |
| Winners | 56 | 48 |
| %Winners | 41% | 40% |
Both Ferreira Silva and Zhang played 2 matches. Both players have not conceded a single set in this event so far. Talking about their workload, Ferreira Silva and Zhang have played the same amount of sets 4. However, Ferreira Silva played 3 games more than Zhang. The Portuguese scored 56 winners (41% of the total points). On the other side, Zhizhen scored 48 winners (40%).
Serve Performance
| Serve | Ferreira Silva | Zhang |
|---|---|---|
| Aces | 4 | 9 |
| Avg per match | 2 | 4.5 |
| 1st in | 79/128 | 56/97 |
| %1st in | 62% | 58% |
| 1st pts | 56/79 | 48/56 |
| %1st pts | 71% | 86% |
| 2nd pts | 22/49 | 26/41 |
| %2nd pts | 45% | 63% |
Ferreira Silva managed to score 4 aces (2 per match). Zhang bagged 9 aces (4.5 per match). Ferreira Silva won 71% points on his first serve. He extremely effective on his second serve to win 45% of the points. On the other side, Zhang won 86% of the points behind his first serve. He had a solid display on his second serve to win 63% of the points.
How they played the important points
| Breaks | Ferreira Silva | Zhang |
|---|---|---|
| Won | 9 | 7 |
| Converted | 9/11 | 7/13 |
| % Converted | 82% | 54% |
| Conceded | 7 | 1 |
| Saved | 2 | 0 |
| % Saved | 29% | 0% |
| Times Broken | 5 | 1 |
Ferreira Silva broke his opponents 9 times with a 82% conversion rate. The Portuguese surrendered his serve 5 times and he saved 29% of the break points that he conceded. Zhang broke his opponents 7 times with a 54% conversion rate. Zhizhen conceded his serve once and he saved 0% of the break points that he conceded.
| Ferreira Silva | ||||
| R1 Mansouri |
R2 Sanchez Jover |
Total | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Score | 6-4 6-2 | 6-3 7-66 | ||
| Tot Set | 2 | 2 | 4 | |
| Tot Games | 18 | 22 | 40 | |
| pts | 59-41 | 76-67 | 135-108 | |
| Total points | 100 | 143 | 243 | |
| Winners | 24 | 32 | 56 | |
| %Winners | 41% | 42% | 41% | |
| SERVE | ||||
| Aces | 2 | 2 | 4 | |
| Double Faults | 3 | 1 | 4 | |
| 1st in | 28/52 | 51/76 | 79/128 | |
| % 1st in | 54% | 67% | 62% | |
| 1st pts | 24/28 | 32/51 | 56/79 | |
| % 1st pts | 86% | 63% | 71% | |
| 2nd pts | 12/24 | 10/25 | 22/49 | |
| % 2nd pts | 50% | 40% | 45% | |
| Breaks | ||||
| Won | 4 | 5 | 9 | |
| Converted | 4/4 | 5/7 | 9/11 | |
| Converted % | 100% | 71% | 82% | |
| Conceded | 3 | 4 | 7 | |
| Saved | 2/3 | 0/4 | 2 | |
| Saved % | 67% | 0% | 34% | |
| Times Broken | 1 | 4 | 5 | |
| Zhang | ||||
| R1 Bemelmans |
R2 Sanchez-Izquierdo |
Total | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Score | 6-3 6-1 | 6-3 7-5 | ||
| Tot Set | 2 | 2 | 4 | |
| Tot Games | 16 | 21 | 37 | |
| pts | 60-37 | 59-46 | 119-83 | |
| Total points | 97 | 105 | 202 | |
| Winners | 19 | 29 | 48 | |
| %Winners | 32% | 49% | 40% | |
| SERVE | ||||
| Aces | 4 | 5 | 9 | |
| Double Faults | 2 | 3 | 5 | |
| 1st in | 23/43 | 33/54 | 56/97 | |
| % 1st in | 53% | 61% | 58% | |
| 1st pts | 19/23 | 29/33 | 48/56 | |
| % 1st pts | 83% | 88% | 86% | |
| 2nd pts | 14/20 | 12/21 | 26/41 | |
| % 2nd pts | 70% | 57% | 63% | |
| Breaks | ||||
| Won | 4 | 3 | 7 | |
| Converted | 4/8 | 3/5 | 7/13 | |
| Converted % | 50% | 60% | 54% | |
| Conceded | 0 | 1 | 1 | |
| Saved | 0/0 | 0/1 | 0 | |
| Saved % | – | 0% | 0% | |
| Times Broken | 0 | 1 | 1 | |
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