Zhizhen Zhang and Juncheng Shang will fight against each other in the qualifications of the BNP Paribas Open for the 1st time in their career. They are scheduled to play on Tuesday at 2:00 pm on STADIUM 5. 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 -> 1.75
Juncheng Shang -> 1.99
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Prediction and head to head Zhizhen Zhang vs. Juncheng Shang
There is no head to head record between Zhizhen Zhang and Juncheng Shang since this will be the first time that they will square off in the main tour.
Zhizhen Zhang
| Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 3-9 | 1-7 | 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. 93, Zhang got to the qualifications after beating Elias Ymer 6-3 7-66.
In the qualifications, The Chinese had a good straight sets win against Ymer (6-3 7-66). During the match, Zhang scored 78 points vs Ymer’s 71. The Chinese was pretty aggressive to blast 29 winners.
Talking about the service games, Zhang recorded 4 aces and he committed only 5 double faults. Overall, Zhizhen Zhang was pretty efficient on serve to win 78% (29/37) of his 1st serve and 55% (21/38) on the second serve. However, this didn’t prevent his to concede the serve once. Zhizhen broke Ymer twice after converting 33% of his break points (2/6).
Zhang has positive win-loss record in the last 10 years having won 57% of his matches (234-180). 1-4 on hard in 2023. In connection with his performance on the same surface of this event, Zhang has an aggregate 125-103 match record in the last years on hard.
The Chinese has an aggregate 2-6 win-loss record in 2023, 1-4 on hard (See FULL STATS).
Previously in Indian Wells
The Chinese has never competed in this tournament before.
Juncheng Shang
| Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 3-2 | 3-2 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2024 | 42-27 | 25-10 | 8-7 | 2-6 | 7-4 | 0-0 |
| 2023 | 31-23 | 21-14 | 3-3 | 0-2 | 7-4 | 0-0 |
| 2022 | 40-24 | 17-8 | 15-10 | 7-5 | 1-1 | 0-0 |
| 2021 | 18-5 | 6-3 | 12-2 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
Ranked no. 171, Shang got to the qualifications after defeating Yosuke Watanuki 7-61 7-63.
In the qualifications, Shang had a good straight sets win against Watanuki (7-61 7-63). During the match Shang scored 88 points vs Watanuki’s 80. The Chinese was very aggressive to blast 38 winners.
Talking about serving, Shang wasn’t able to score even 1 ace for the entire match and he committed only 5 double faults. Juncheng Shang lost the serve 3 times and he saved 5 break points. Furthermore, Shang put 62% of his first serves in, winning 68% (38/56) of the points behind his 1st serve and 51% (18/35) on the 2nd serve. Shang broke Watanuki 3 times after converting 60% of his break points (3/5).
Juncheng has an overall 5-3 win-loss record in 2023, 5-2 on hard (See FULL STATS).
Previously in Indian Wells
Previously, his best result was reaching the 1st round in 2022. See his history.
H2H Performance in the tournament
Matches, sets, games and points
| Points | Zhang | Shang |
|---|---|---|
| Match played | 1 | 1 |
| Tot Set | 2 | 2 |
| Tot Games | 22 | 26 |
| Pts | 78-71 | 88-80 |
| Total Points | 149 | 168 |
| Winners | 29 | 38 |
| %Winners | 37% | 43% |
Both Zhang and Shang played 1 match. Also both players started their run from the qualifications.Both players have not conceded a single set in this event so far. Talking about their workload, Zhang and Shang have played the same amount of sets 2. However, Zhang played 4 games less than Shang. Zhang scored 29 winners (37% of the total points). On the other side, Juncheng recorded 38 winners (43%).
Serve Performance
| Serve | Zhang | Shang |
|---|---|---|
| Aces | 4 | 0 |
| Avg per match | 4 | 0 |
| 1st in | 37/75 | 56/91 |
| %1st in | 49% | 62% |
| 1st pts | 29/37 | 38/56 |
| %1st pts | 78% | 68% |
| 2nd pts | 21/38 | 18/35 |
| %2nd pts | 55% | 51% |
Zhang recorded 4 aces . Shang didn’t manage to fire a single ace to far. Zhang won 78% points behind his first serve. He very solid his second serve to win 55% of the points. On the other side, Shang won 68% of the points behind his first serve. He had a solid display on his second serve to win 51% of the points.
How they played the important points
| Breaks | Zhang | Shang |
|---|---|---|
| Won | 2 | 3 |
| Converted | 2/6 | 3/5 |
| % Converted | 33% | 60% |
| Conceded | 7 | 8 |
| Saved | 6 | 5 |
| % Saved | 86% | 63% |
| Times Broken | 1 | 3 |
Zhizhen broke his opponent twice with a 33% conversion rate. Zhang conceded his serve once and he saved 86% of the break points that he conceded. The Chinese broke his opponent 3 times with a 60% conversion rate. Shang conceded his serve 3 times and he saved 63% of the break points that he conceded.
| Zhang | |||
| Q1 Ymer |
Total | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Score | 6-3 7-66 | ||
| Tot Set | 2 | 2 | |
| Tot Games | 22 | 22 | |
| pts | 78-71 | 78-71 | |
| Total points | 149 | 149 | |
| Winners | 29 | 29 | |
| %Winners | 37% | 37% | |
| SERVE | |||
| Aces | 4 | 4 | |
| Double Faults | 5 | 5 | |
| 1st in | 37/75 | 37/75 | |
| % 1st in | 49% | 49% | |
| 1st pts | 29/37 | 29/37 | |
| % 1st pts | 78% | 78% | |
| 2nd pts | 21/38 | 21/38 | |
| % 2nd pts | 55% | 55% | |
| Breaks | |||
| Won | 2 | 2 | |
| Converted | 2/6 | 2/6 | |
| Converted % | 33% | 33% | |
| Conceded | 7 | 7 | |
| Saved | 6/7 | 6 | |
| Saved % | 86% | 86% | |
| Times Broken | 1 | 1 | |
| Shang | |||
| Q1 Watanuki |
Total | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Score | 7-61 7-63 | ||
| Tot Set | 2 | 2 | |
| Tot Games | 26 | 26 | |
| pts | 88-80 | 88-80 | |
| Total points | 168 | 168 | |
| Winners | 38 | 38 | |
| %Winners | 43% | 43% | |
| SERVE | |||
| Aces | 0 | 0 | |
| Double Faults | 5 | 5 | |
| 1st in | 56/91 | 56/91 | |
| % 1st in | 62% | 62% | |
| 1st pts | 38/56 | 38/56 | |
| % 1st pts | 68% | 68% | |
| 2nd pts | 18/35 | 18/35 | |
| % 2nd pts | 51% | 51% | |
| Breaks | |||
| Won | 3 | 3 | |
| Converted | 3/5 | 3/5 | |
| Converted % | 60% | 60% | |
| Conceded | 8 | 8 | |
| Saved | 5/8 | 5 | |
| Saved % | 63% | 63% | |
| Times Broken | 3 | 3 | |
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