Nikola Milojevic and Zhizhen Zhang will square off in the 2nd round of the Cordenons Challenger for the 2nd time in their career. They are scheduled to compete on Thursday at 4:30 pm on SERENA 2. In this post, we analyze their head to head performance and prediction.
Prediction, odds and live streaming
The pick for Tennis Tonic is Zhizhen Zhang who should win in 2 sets.
As per the initial odds, Zhizhen Zhang is the pick to win this match.
Zhizhen Zhang -> 1.36
Nikola Milojevic -> 3.04
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Prediction and head to head Nikola Milojevic vs. Zhizhen Zhang
This will be the 2nd time that Nikola Milojevic and Zhizhen Zhang fight against each other. The head to head is 1-0 for Milojevic (see full H2H stats), but they have never competed against each other on clay.
The last time that they played each other, Milojevic won 7-5 6-2 in the 2nd round in China F8.
Nikola Milojevic
| Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 10-9 | 0-0 | 10-9 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2023 | 7-13 | 6-6 | 1-7 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2022 | 24-33 | 3-3 | 21-29 | 0-0 | 0-1 | 0-0 |
| 2021 | 39-25 | 1-3 | 34-18 | 2-3 | 2-1 | 0-0 |
| 2020 | 15-11 | 6-4 | 5-3 | 4-4 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
Ranked no. 178, the Serbian got to the 2nd round after defeating Raul Brancaccio 6-2 4-6 6-2.
In the 1st round, Milojevic defeated Brancaccio (6-2 4-6 6-2). During the match, Milojevic scored 93 points vs Brancaccio’s 76. The Serbian was exceptionally aggressive to blast 24 winners.
Regarding the service games, Milojevic made 4 aces and he committed only 4 double faults. Nikola Milojevic lost the serve 5 times and he saved 5 break points. Furthermore, Milojevic put 51% of his first serves in, winning 60% (24/40) of the points behind his 1st serve and 47% (18/38) on the 2nd serve. Nikola broke Brancaccio 8 times after converting 44% of his break points (8/18).
Milojevic has a solid match record in the last 10 years having won 62% of his matches (341-210). 9-17 on clay in 2022. Regarding his performance on the same surface of this competition, Milojevic has an overall 128-92 record in the last years on clay.
Milojevic’s best result of the current year was reaching the final in the Blois Challenger.
The Serbian has an overall 12-20 win-loss record in 2022, 9-17 on clay (See FULL STATS).
Previously in the Cordenons Challenger
Nikola has never competed in this tournament before.
Zhizhen Zhang
| Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 12-13 | 4-7 | 6-4 | 2-2 | 0-0 | 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 |
| 2020 | 1-6 | 1-6 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
Ranked no. 197, Zhang reached the 2nd round after defeating Pavel Kotov 6-2 6-4.
In the 1st round, The Chinese had a good straight sets win against Kotov (6-2 6-4). During the match Zhang scored 67 points vs Kotov’s 50. The Chinese was pretty aggressive to blast 22 winners.
Talking about serving, Zhang bagged 2 aces and he committed only 1 double fault for the entire match. Zhizhen Zhang was quite effective on serve to win 79% (22/28) of his 1st serve and 73% (16/22) on the second serve. This was the main reason for not conceding a single break during the match. Zhang broke Kotov 3 times after converting 25% of his break points (3/12).
Zhizhen’s best result of the year was reaching the final in the Luedenscheid Challenger and the Trieste Challenger.
Zhizhen has an overall 30-20 win-loss record in 2022, 25-11 on clay (See FULL STATS).
H2H Performance in the tournament
Matches, sets, games and points
| Points | Milojevic | Zhang |
|---|---|---|
| Match played | 1 | 1 |
| Tot Set | 3 | 2 |
| Tot Games | 26 | 18 |
| Pts | 93-76 | 67-50 |
| Total Points | 169 | 117 |
| Winners | 24 | 22 |
| %Winners | 26% | 33% |
Both Milojevic and Zhang played 1 match. At the moment, Nikola Milojevic dropped 1 set while Zhizhen Zhang hasn’t conceded a set so far. Milojevic has played 1 set more than Zhang (3 vs 2). Therefore, Milojevic played 8 games more than Zhang. The Serbian scored 24 winners (26% of the total points). On the other side, The Chinese struck 22 winners (33%).
Serve Performance
| Serve | Milojevic | Zhang |
|---|---|---|
| Aces | 4 | 2 |
| Avg per match | 4 | 2 |
| 1st in | 40/78 | 28/50 |
| %1st in | 51% | 56% |
| 1st pts | 24/40 | 22/28 |
| %1st pts | 60% | 79% |
| 2nd pts | 18/38 | 16/22 |
| %2nd pts | 47% | 73% |
Milojevic managed to score 4 aces . Zhang struck 2 aces . Milojevic won 60% points on his first serve. He had a solid display on his second serve to win 47% of the points. On the other side, Zhang won 79% of the points on his first serve. He had a solid display on his second serve to win 73% of the points.
How they played the important points
| Breaks | Milojevic | Zhang |
|---|---|---|
| Won | 8 | 3 |
| Converted | 8/18 | 3/12 |
| % Converted | 44% | 25% |
| Conceded | 10 | 4 |
| Saved | 5 | 4 |
| % Saved | 50% | 100% |
| Times Broken | 5 | 0 |
The Serbian broke his opponent 8 times with a 44% conversion rate. Milojevic lost his serve 5 times and he saved 50% of the break points that he conceded. The Chinese broke his opponent 3 times with a 25% conversion rate. Zhang was rock solid on his serve as he has never conceded a single service game after saving 4 break points.
| Milojevic | |||
| R1 Brancaccio |
Total | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Score | 6-2 4-6 6-2 | ||
| Tot Set | 3 | 3 | |
| Tot Games | 26 | 26 | |
| pts | 93-76 | 93-76 | |
| Total points | 169 | 169 | |
| Winners | 24 | 24 | |
| %Winners | 26% | 26% | |
| SERVE | |||
| Aces | 4 | 4 | |
| Double Faults | 4 | 4 | |
| 1st in | 40/78 | 40/78 | |
| % 1st in | 51% | 51% | |
| 1st pts | 24/40 | 24/40 | |
| % 1st pts | 60% | 60% | |
| 2nd pts | 18/38 | 18/38 | |
| % 2nd pts | 47% | 47% | |
| Breaks | |||
| Won | 8 | 8 | |
| Converted | 8/18 | 8/18 | |
| Converted % | 44% | 44% | |
| Conceded | 10 | 10 | |
| Saved | 5/10 | 5 | |
| Saved % | 50% | 50% | |
| Times Broken | 5 | 5 | |
| Zhang | |||
| R1 Kotov |
Total | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Score | 6-2 6-4 | ||
| Tot Set | 2 | 2 | |
| Tot Games | 18 | 18 | |
| pts | 67-50 | 67-50 | |
| Total points | 117 | 117 | |
| Winners | 22 | 22 | |
| %Winners | 33% | 33% | |
| SERVE | |||
| Aces | 2 | 2 | |
| Double Faults | 1 | 1 | |
| 1st in | 28/50 | 28/50 | |
| % 1st in | 56% | 56% | |
| 1st pts | 22/28 | 22/28 | |
| % 1st pts | 79% | 79% | |
| 2nd pts | 16/22 | 16/22 | |
| % 2nd pts | 73% | 73% | |
| Breaks | |||
| Won | 3 | 3 | |
| Converted | 3/12 | 3/12 | |
| Converted % | 25% | 25% | |
| Conceded | 4 | 4 | |
| Saved | 4/4 | 4 | |
| Saved % | 100% | 100% | |
| Times Broken | 0 | 0 | |
Head 2 Head
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