Alexandre Muller and Zhizhen Zhang will play each other in the semifinal of the Cordenons Challenger for the 3rd time in their career. They are scheduled to compete on Saturday at 4:30 pm on CENTER SERENA WINES 1881. 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 -> 1.58
Alexandre Muller -> 2.32

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Prediction and head to head Alexandre Muller vs. Zhizhen Zhang

This will be the 3rd time that Alexandre Muller and Zhizhen Zhang clash against each other. The head to head is 1-1 for Muller and Zhang (see full H2H stats),but they are 1-1 on clay.

The last time that they competed against each other, Zhang won 6-3 6-2 in the semifinal in the Trieste Challenger back in July 2022.

Alexandre Muller

Alexandre Muller

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Rank
42
High
38
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Year Total Hard Clay I.hard Grass Carpet
2025 26-29 12-12 11-10 3-4 0-3 0-0
2024 35-32 11-14 20-12 3-5 1-1 0-0
2023 46-33 20-13 18-12 7-7 1-1 0-0
2022 38-31 6-6 27-20 4-4 1-1 0-0
2021 27-31 6-7 16-15 5-7 0-2 0-0
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Ranked no. 157, Muller got to the semifinal after defeating Riccardo Bonadio 6-4 7-63, Ernests Gulbis 6-3 2-0 ret. and Andrea Pellegrino 6-4 7-5.

In the quarter, The French player had a good straight sets win against Pellegrino (6-4 7-5). During the match, Muller scored 73 points vs Pellegrino’s 63. Muller was extremely aggressive to blast 31 winners.

Talking about the service games, Muller scored just 1 ace for the entire match and he committed only 3 double faults. Alexandre Muller lost the serve once and he saved 1 break points. Furthermore, Muller put 59% of his first serves in, winning 79% (31/39) of the points behind his 1st serve and 48% (13/27) on the 2nd serve. Alexandre broke Pellegrino 3 times after converting 60% of his break points (3/5).

Overall Performance in this tournament

Muller hasn’t dropped yet a set in this competition to win 54% of the points he played.

Muller has a solid match record in the last 8 years having won 61% of his matches (309-197). 19-12 on clay in 2022. Talking about his performance on the same surface of this competition, Muller has an aggregate186-113 match record in the last 8 years on clay.

Muller’s best result of the current season was getting to the final in the Blois Challenger.

Alexandre has a composed 30-22 win-loss record in 2022, 19-12 on clay (See FULL STATS).

Previously in the Cordenons Challenger

Cordenons Challenger
Muller's Record

Zhizhen Zhang

Zhizhen Zhang

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Rank
411
High
31
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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
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Ranked no. 197, Zhizhen reached the semifinal after beating Pavel Kotov 6-2 6-4

, Nikola Milojevic 5-7 6-3 6-3 and Andrey Chepelev 7-65 6-4.

In the quarter, Zhang had a good straight sets win against Chepelev (7-65 6-4). During the match Zhang scored 92 points vs Chepelev’s 86. Zhizhen was quite aggressive to blast 30 winners.

About the serving games, Zhang managed to score 4 aces and he committed only 2 double faults. Zhizhen Zhang was very efficient on serve to win 71% (30/42) of his 1st serve and 65% (24/37) on the second serve. This was the main reason for not conceding a single break during the match. The Chinese broke Chepelev once after converting 10% of his break points (1/10).

Overall Performance in this tournament

Zhizhen has conceded 1 set in the tournament to win 53% of the points he played.

Zhang’s best result of the year was reaching the final in the Luedenscheid Challenger and the Trieste Challenger.

Zhang has a compiled 32-20 win-loss record in 2022, 27-11 on clay (See FULL STATS)

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Cordenons Challenger
Zhang's Record

H2H Performance in the tournament (main draw)

A.Muller
Z.Zhang
5h:03
5h:03
Time on court​
6h:08
6h:08
1h:45
1h:45
Last match​
!
2h:18
2h:18
3
3
Match played
3
3
56
56
Games Played​
71
71
7
7
Set played​​
7
7
223
223
Total points​
254
254
74.3
74.3
Avg point​
84.7
84.7
81
81
Winners
94
94
27
27
Avg Winners​
31.3
31.3
36%
36%
Ratio winners
37%
37%
-- Serve --
2
2
Aces
11
11
0.7
0.7
Avg Aces
3.7
3.7
6
6
Double Faults
4
4
2
2
Avg Double Faults
1.3
1.3
81/109
81/109
1st won total​
94/128
94/128
!
74%
74%
1st won %
!
73%
73%
40/70
40/70
2nd won total​
55/96
55/96
57%
57%
2nd won %
57%
57%
-- Break Points --
8/25
8/25
BP won
10/29
10/29
2.7/8.3
2.7/8.3
Avg BP won
3.3/9.7
3.3/9.7
32%
32%
Won
34%
34%
12
12
Conceded
13
13
4
4
Avg Conceded
4.3
4.3
3
3
Broken
4
4
1
1
Avg Broken
1.3
1.3
9
9
Saved
9
9
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Matches, sets, games and points

Points Muller Zhang
Match played 3 3
Tot Set 7 7
Tot Games 56 71
Pts 223-183 254-222
Total Points 406 476
Winners 81 94
%Winners 36% 37%

Both Muller and Zhang played 3 matches. At the moment, Zhizhen Zhang surrendered 1 set while Alexandre Muller hasn’t conceded a set so far. Talking about their workload, Muller and Zhang have played the same amount of sets 7. However, Muller played 15 games less than Zhang. Alexandre scored 81 winners (36% of the total points). On the other side, Zhang bagged 94 winners (37%).

Serve Performance

Serve Muller Zhang
Aces 2 11
Avg per match 0.7 3.7
1st in 109/179 128/224
%1st in 61% 57%
1st pts 81/109 94/128
%1st pts 74% 73%
2nd pts 40/70 55/96
%2nd pts 57% 57%

Muller scored 2 aces (0.7 per match). Zhang struck 11 aces (3.7 per match). Muller won 74% points behind his first serve. He was rock solid on his second serve to win 57% of the points. On the other side, Zhang won 73% of the points on his first serve. He had a solid display on his second serve to win 57% of the points.

How they played the important points

Breaks Muller Zhang
Won 8 10
Converted 8/25 10/29
% Converted 32% 34%
Conceded 12 13
Saved 9 9
% Saved 75% 69%
Times Broken 3 4

The French player broke his opponents 8 times with a 32% conversion rate. Muller dropped his serve 3 times and he saved 75% of the break points that he conceded. Zhang broke his opponents 10 times with a 34% conversion rate. The Chinese conceded his serve 4 times and he saved 69% of the break points that he conceded.

Muller
R1
Bonadio		 R2
Gulbis		 1/4
Pellegrino		 Total
Score 6-4 7-63 6-3 2-0 ret. 6-4 7-5
Tot Set 2 2 2 6
Tot Games 23 11 22 56
pts 105-88 45-32 73-63 223-183
Total points 193 77 136 406
Winners 34 16 31 81
%Winners 32% 36% 42% 36%
SERVE
Aces 1 0 1 2
Double Faults 3 0 3 6
1st in 45/79 25/34 39/66 109/179
% 1st in 57% 74% 59% 61%
1st pts 34/45 16/25 31/39 81/109
% 1st pts 76% 64% 79% 74%
2nd pts 18/34 9/9 13/27 40/70
% 2nd pts 53% 100% 48% 57%
Breaks
Won 3 2 3 8
Converted 3/17 2/3 3/5 8/25
Converted % 18% 67% 60% 32%
Conceded 10 0 2 12
Saved 8/10 0/0 1/2 9
Saved % 80% – 50% 43%
Times Broken 2 0 1 3
Zhang
R1
Kotov		 R2
Milojevic		 1/4
Chepelev		 Total
Score 6-2 6-4 5-7 6-3 6-3 7-65 6-4
Tot Set 2 3 2 7
Tot Games 18 30 23 71
pts 67-50 95-86 92-86 254-222
Total points 117 181 178 476
Winners 22 42 30 94
%Winners 33% 44% 33% 37%
SERVE
Aces 2 5 4 11
Double Faults 1 1 2 4
1st in 28/50 58/95 42/79 128/224
% 1st in 56% 61% 53% 57%
1st pts 22/28 42/58 30/42 94/128
% 1st pts 79% 72% 71% 73%
2nd pts 16/22 15/37 24/37 55/96
% 2nd pts 73% 41% 65% 57%
Breaks
Won 3 6 1 10
Converted 3/12 6/7 1/10 10/29
Converted % 25% 86% 10% 34%
Conceded 4 6 3 13
Saved 4/4 2/6 3/3 9
Saved % 100% 33% 100% 78%
Times Broken 0 4 0 4

Tennis Scores in Cordenons Challenger

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