Zhizhen Zhang and Alexei Popyrin will clash against each other in the 1st round of the BNP Paribas Open for the 3rd time in their career. They are scheduled to compete on Thursday at 9:00 pm on STADIUM 5. In this post, we analyze their head to head performance and prediction.
Prediction, odds and live streaming
The pick for Tennis Tonic is Alexei Popyrin who should win in 3 sets.
As per the initial odds, Alexei Popyrin is the pick to win this match.
Alexei Popyrin -> 1.52
Zhizhen Zhang -> 2.53
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Prediction and head to head Zhizhen Zhang vs. Alexei Popyrin
This will be the 3rd time that Zhizhen Zhang and Alexei Popyrin clash against each other. The head to head is 2-0 for Popyrin (see full H2H stats), 2-0 on hard.
The last time that they fought against each other, Popyrin won 6-2 6-3 in the qualifications in Adelaide back in 2022.
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, Zhizhen got to the 1st round after beating Elias Ymer 6-3 7-66 and Juncheng Shang 6-710 6-3 7-65.
In the qualifications against Shang, The Chinese recovered from a 1-set down deficit before winning (6-710 6-3 7-65). During the match, Zhang scored 135 points vs Shang’s 120. The Chinese was quite aggressive to blast 59 winners.
Regarding the service games, Zhang overwhelmed his opponent with 20 aces and he committed only 6 double faults. Overall, Zhizhen Zhang was pretty effective on serve to win 79% (59/75) of his 1st serve and 51% (24/47) on the second serve. However, this didn’t prevent his to concede the serve twice. Zhang broke Shang 3 times after converting 21% of his break points (3/14).
Overall Performance in this tournament
Zhang started his run at this tournament from the qualifications. In the main draw, he has surrendered 1 set in this competition to win 53% of the points he played.
Zhang has positive match record in the last 10 years having won 57% of his matches (235-180). 2-4 on hard in 2023. Regarding his performance on the same surface of this competition, Zhang has a composed 126-103 match record in the last years on hard.
Zhizhen has an aggregate 3-6 win-loss record in 2023, 2-4 on hard (See FULL STATS).
Previously in Indian Wells
The Chinese has never competed in this tournament before.
Alexei Popyrin
| Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 15-17 | 5-7 | 9-6 | 0-1 | 1-3 | 0-0 |
| 2024 | 30-22 | 17-8 | 4-8 | 4-3 | 5-3 | 0-0 |
| 2023 | 36-29 | 18-14 | 15-6 | 1-4 | 2-5 | 0-0 |
| 2022 | 24-31 | 7-16 | 7-4 | 3-5 | 7-6 | 0-0 |
| 2021 | 32-26 | 13-11 | 8-6 | 10-5 | 1-4 | 0-0 |
Ranked no. 101, the Australian reached the 1st round after beating Bradley Klahn 6-4 7-63.
Popyrin has an overall 9-6 win-loss record in 2023, 9-6 on hard (See FULL STATS).
Previously in Indian Wells
Previously, his best result was reaching the 2nd round in 2019 and 2021. See his history.
H2H Performance in the tournament
Matches, sets, games and points
| Points | Zhang | Popyrin |
|---|---|---|
| Match played | 2 | 1 |
| Tot Set | 5 | 2 |
| Tot Games | 57 | 23 |
| Pts | 213-191 | 68-57 |
| Total Points | 404 | 125 |
| Winners | 88 | 35 |
| %Winners | 41% | 51% |
Zhang played 2 matches while Popyrin competed in 1 match. At the moment, Zhizhen Zhang conceded 1 set while Alexei Popyrin hasn’t lost a set so far. Zhang has played 3 sets more than Popyrin (5 vs 2). Therefore, Zhang played 34 games more than Popyrin. Zhang scored 88 winners (41% of the total points). On the other side, The Australian blasted 35 winners (51%).
Serve Performance
| Serve | Zhang | Popyrin |
|---|---|---|
| Aces | 24 | 8 |
| Avg per match | 12 | 8 |
| 1st in | 112/197 | 40/62 |
| %1st in | 57% | 65% |
| 1st pts | 88/112 | 35/40 |
| %1st pts | 79% | 88% |
| 2nd pts | 45/85 | 16/22 |
| %2nd pts | 53% | 73% |
Zhang bagged 24 aces (12 per match). Popyrin bagged 8 aces . Zhang won 79% points behind his first serve. He very solid his second serve to win 53% of the points. On the other side, Popyrin won 88% 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 | Zhang | Popyrin |
|---|---|---|
| Won | 5 | 1 |
| Converted | 5/20 | 1/1 |
| % Converted | 25% | 100% |
| Conceded | 12 | 0 |
| Saved | 9 | 0 |
| % Saved | 75% | 0% |
| Times Broken | 3 | 0 |
Zhang broke his opponents 5 times with a 25% conversion rate. The Chinese conceded his serve 3 times and he saved 75% of the break points that he conceded. Popyrin broke his opponent once with a 100% conversion rate. Alexei was rock solid on his serve as he has never conceded a single service game after saving 0 break points.
| Zhang | ||||
| Q1 Ymer |
Q3 Shang |
Total | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Score | 6-3 7-66 | 6-710 6-3 7-65 | ||
| Tot Set | 2 | 3 | 5 | |
| Tot Games | 22 | 35 | 57 | |
| pts | 78-71 | 135-120 | 213-191 | |
| Total points | 149 | 255 | 404 | |
| Winners | 29 | 59 | 88 | |
| %Winners | 37% | 44% | 41% | |
| SERVE | ||||
| Aces | 4 | 20 | 24 | |
| Double Faults | 5 | 6 | 11 | |
| 1st in | 37/75 | 75/122 | 112/197 | |
| % 1st in | 49% | 61% | 57% | |
| 1st pts | 29/37 | 59/75 | 88/112 | |
| % 1st pts | 78% | 79% | 79% | |
| 2nd pts | 21/38 | 24/47 | 45/85 | |
| % 2nd pts | 55% | 51% | 53% | |
| Breaks | ||||
| Won | 2 | 3 | 5 | |
| Converted | 2/6 | 3/14 | 5/20 | |
| Converted % | 33% | 21% | 25% | |
| Conceded | 7 | 5 | 12 | |
| Saved | 6/7 | 3/5 | 9 | |
| Saved % | 86% | 60% | 73% | |
| Times Broken | 1 | 2 | 3 | |
| Popyrin | ||||
| Q1 Klahn |
Q3 Daniel |
Total | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Score | 6-4 7-63 | 6-4 4-6 6-1 | ||
| Tot Set | 2 | 3 | 5 | |
| Tot Games | 23 | 27 | 50 | |
| pts | 68-57 | – | 68-57 | |
| Total points | 125 | 0 | 125 | |
| Winners | 35 | 35 | ||
| %Winners | 51% | 0% | 51% | |
| SERVE | ||||
| Aces | 8 | 0 | 8 | |
| Double Faults | 0 | 0 | ||
| 1st in | 40/62 | / | 40/62 | |
| % 1st in | 65% | 0% | 65% | |
| 1st pts | 35/40 | / | 35/40 | |
| % 1st pts | 88% | 0% | 88% | |
| 2nd pts | 16/22 | / | 16/22 | |
| % 2nd pts | 73% | 0% | 73% | |
| Breaks | ||||
| Won | 1 | 1 | ||
| Converted | 1/1 | / | 1/1 | |
| Converted % | 100% | 0% | 100% | |
| Conceded | 0 | 0 | ||
| Saved | 0/0 | 0/ | 0 | |
| Saved % | – | – | 0% | |
| Times Broken | 0 | 0 | ||
Head 2 Head
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