Murphy Cassone and Evan Zhu will face off in the qualifications of the Little Rock Challenger for the 1st time in their career. They are scheduled to compete on Monday at 12:30 pm on STADIUM. In this post, we analyze their head to head performance and prediction.
Prediction, odds and live streaming
The pick for Tennis Tonic is Evan Zhu who should win in 2 sets.
As per the initial odds, Evan Zhu is the pick to win this match.
Evan Zhu -> 1.39
Murphy Cassone -> 2.9
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Prediction and head to head Murphy Cassone vs. Evan Zhu
There is no head to head record between Murphy Cassone and Evan Zhu since this will be the first time that they will clash against each other in the main tour.
Murphy Cassone
| Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 2-6 | 1-5 | 0-0 | 1-1 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2023 | 6-8 | 2-5 | 0-0 | 4-3 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2022 | 20-9 | 12-7 | 0-0 | 8-2 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2021 | 2-2 | 2-2 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2020 | 4-2 | 4-2 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
Currently unranked, the American got to the qualifications after defeating Adrian Andreev 6-4 3-6 6-3.
In the qualifications, Cassone defeated Andreev (6-4 3-6 6-3). During the match, Cassone scored 95 points vs Andreev’s 89. Cassone was quite aggressive to blast 40 winners.
Regarding the service games, Cassone struck 15 aces and he committed only 4 double faults. Overall, Murphy Cassone was quite efficient on serve to win 78% (40/51) of his 1st serve and 57% (21/37) on the second serve. However, this didn’t prevent his to concede the serve once. Cassone broke Andreev twice after converting 22% of his break points (2/9).
Cassone has a winning record in the last 4 years having won 58% of his matches (7-5). 1-1 on hard in 2022. Talking about his performance on the same surface of this competition, Cassone has an overall7-5 record in the last 4 years on hard.
The American has a compiled 1-1 win-loss record in 2022, 1-1 on hard (See FULL STATS).
Previously in the Little Rock Challenger
Murphy has never competed in this tournament before.
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. 380 (career-high), the American reached the qualifications after beating John Mcnally 6-1 7-65.
In the qualifications, The American had a good straight sets win against Mcnally (6-1 7-65). During the match Zhu scored 68 points vs Mcnally’s 51. Evan was extremely aggressive to blast 29 winners.
Talking about serving, Zhu scored 11 aces and he was pretty consistent in conceding no double faults for the entire match. Overall, Evan Zhu was exceptionally effective on serve to win 76% (29/38) of his 1st serve and 67% (16/24) on the second serve. However, this didn’t prevent his to concede the serve once. Zhu broke Mcnally 3 times after converting 75% of his break points (3/4).
Zhu’s best result of the year was getting to the final in M15 Naples and M15 Sunrise.
Evan has an aggregate 31-12 win-loss record in 2022, 7-3 on hard (See FULL STATS).
H2H Performance in the tournament
Matches, sets, games and points
| Points | Cassone | Zhu |
|---|---|---|
| Match played | 1 | 1 |
| Tot Set | 3 | 2 |
| Tot Games | 28 | 20 |
| Pts | 95-89 | 68-51 |
| Total Points | 184 | 119 |
| Winners | 40 | 29 |
| %Winners | 42% | 43% |
Both Cassone and Zhu played 1 match. Also both players started their run from the qualifications.At the moment, Murphy Cassone conceded 1 set while Evan Zhu hasn’t surrendered a set so far. Cassone has played 1 set more than Zhu (3 vs 2). Therefore, Cassone played 8 games more than Zhu. Cassone scored 40 winners (42% of the total points). On the other side, The American made 29 winners (43%).
Serve Performance
| Serve | Cassone | Zhu |
|---|---|---|
| Aces | 15 | 11 |
| Avg per match | 15 | 11 |
| 1st in | 51/88 | 38/62 |
| %1st in | 58% | 61% |
| 1st pts | 40/51 | 29/38 |
| %1st pts | 78% | 76% |
| 2nd pts | 21/37 | 16/24 |
| %2nd pts | 57% | 67% |
Cassone bagged 15 aces . Zhu struck 11 aces . Cassone won 78% points on his first serve. He pretty effective on his second serve to win 57% of the points. On the other side, Zhu won 76% of the points on his first serve. He had a solid display on his second serve to win 67% of the points.
How they played the important points
| Breaks | Cassone | Zhu |
|---|---|---|
| Won | 2 | 3 |
| Converted | 2/9 | 3/4 |
| % Converted | 22% | 75% |
| Conceded | 7 | 3 |
| Saved | 6 | 2 |
| % Saved | 86% | 67% |
| Times Broken | 1 | 1 |
Cassone broke his opponent twice with a 22% conversion rate. Murphy lost his serve once and he saved 86% of the break points that he conceded. The American broke his opponent 3 times with a 75% conversion rate. Zhu conceded his serve once and he saved 67% of the break points that he conceded.
| Cassone | |||
| Q1 Andreev |
Total | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Score | 6-4 3-6 6-3 | ||
| Tot Set | 3 | 3 | |
| Tot Games | 28 | 28 | |
| pts | 95-89 | 95-89 | |
| Total points | 184 | 184 | |
| Winners | 40 | 40 | |
| %Winners | 42% | 42% | |
| SERVE | |||
| Aces | 15 | 15 | |
| Double Faults | 4 | 4 | |
| 1st in | 51/88 | 51/88 | |
| % 1st in | 58% | 58% | |
| 1st pts | 40/51 | 40/51 | |
| % 1st pts | 78% | 78% | |
| 2nd pts | 21/37 | 21/37 | |
| % 2nd pts | 57% | 57% | |
| Breaks | |||
| Won | 2 | 2 | |
| Converted | 2/9 | 2/9 | |
| Converted % | 22% | 22% | |
| Conceded | 7 | 7 | |
| Saved | 6/7 | 6 | |
| Saved % | 86% | 86% | |
| Times Broken | 1 | 1 | |
| Zhu | |||
| Q1 Mcnally |
Total | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Score | 6-1 7-65 | ||
| Tot Set | 2 | 2 | |
| Tot Games | 20 | 20 | |
| pts | 68-51 | 68-51 | |
| Total points | 119 | 119 | |
| Winners | 29 | 29 | |
| %Winners | 43% | 43% | |
| SERVE | |||
| Aces | 11 | 11 | |
| Double Faults | 0 | 0 | |
| 1st in | 38/62 | 38/62 | |
| % 1st in | 61% | 61% | |
| 1st pts | 29/38 | 29/38 | |
| % 1st pts | 76% | 76% | |
| 2nd pts | 16/24 | 16/24 | |
| % 2nd pts | 67% | 67% | |
| Breaks | |||
| Won | 3 | 3 | |
| Converted | 3/4 | 3/4 | |
| Converted % | 75% | 75% | |
| Conceded | 3 | 3 | |
| Saved | 2/3 | 2 | |
| Saved % | 67% | 67% | |
| Times Broken | 1 | 1 | |
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