Evan Zhu and Taha Baadi will face off in the qualifications of the Winnipeg Challenger for the 1st time in their career. They are scheduled to compete on Monday at 10:30 am on COURT 1. In the following lines 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 2 sets.
Evan Zhu -> 1.16
Taha Baadi -> 4.50
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Prediction and head to head Evan Zhu vs. Taha Baadi
There is no head to head record between Evan Zhu and Taha Baadi since this will be the first time that they will play each other in the main tour.
Evan Zhu
| Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 13-19 | 11-13 | 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 |
| 2020 | 11-6 | 5-3 | 6-2 | 0-1 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
Ranked no. 367 (career-high), Evan will start his run in the Winnipeg Challenger after he played his last match in the Indianapolis Challenger where he lost 6-7(2) 7-6(5) 7-6(3) to Van Rijthoven in the 1st round on the 19th of July.
The American has an overall 34-18 win-loss record in 2022, 7-4 on hard (See FULL STATS).
The American’s best result of the season was reaching the final in M15 Naples and M15 Sunrise.
Talking about his overall career, Zhu has an overall 143-129 record. He has a negative 80-81 record on hard.
Previously in the Winnipeg Challenger
Zhu has never competed in this tournament before.
Taha Baadi
| Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 13-16 | 7-8 | 1-3 | 5-5 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2023 | 6-12 | 3-8 | 0-0 | 3-4 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2022 | 9-13 | 5-7 | 0-0 | 4-6 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2021 | 7-4 | 3-1 | 0-1 | 4-2 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2020 | 4-4 | 3-2 | 0-0 | 1-2 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
Ranked no. 845 (career-high), Taha got to the qualifications after beating Marko Stakusic 6-4 6-4.
In the qualifications, Taha had a good straight sets win against Stakusic (6-4 6-4). During the match Baadi scored 75 points vs Stakusic’s 62. Baadi was extremely aggressive to blast 36 winners.
Talking about serving, Baadi bagged 6 aces and he committed only 4 double faults. Taha Baadi lost the serve once and he saved 6 break points. Furthermore, Baadi put 70% of his first serves in, winning 73% (36/49) of the points behind his 1st serve and 48% (10/21) on the 2nd serve. The Canadian broke Stakusic 3 times after converting 43% of his break points (3/7).
Baadi has an overall 5-6 win-loss record in 2022, 4-4 on hard (See FULL STATS).
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