Zhizhen Zhang and Alex Rybakov will play each other in the 1st round of the Sarasota Challenger for the 1st time in their career. They are scheduled to play on Wednesday at 4:30 pm on COURT 7. 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 3 sets.
As per the initial odds, Zhizhen Zhang is the pick to win this match.
Zhizhen Zhang -> 1.47
Alex Rybakov -> 2.54
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Prediction and head to head Zhizhen Zhang vs. Alex Rybakov
There is no head to head record between Zhizhen Zhang and Alex Rybakov since this will be the first time that they will play each other in the main tour.
Zhizhen Zhang
| Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 17-18 | 4-7 | 7-5 | 2-2 | 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 |
| 2020 | 1-6 | 1-6 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
Ranked no. 95, Zhizhen will start his run in the Sarasota Challenger after he played his last match in Houston where he lost 6-2 6-3 to Elahi Galan Riveros in the 1st round on the 3rd of April.
Zhizhen has an overall 5-10 win-loss record in 2023, 0-1 on clay (See FULL STATS).
Talking about his overall career, Zhizhen has an overall 250-197 record. He has a positive 99-65 record on clay.
Previously in the Sarasota Challenger
The Chinese has never competed in this tournament before.
Alex Rybakov
| Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 16-13 | 4-4 | 12-8 | 0-1 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2023 | 22-25 | 5-8 | 7-9 | 10-8 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2022 | 30-23 | 5-7 | 20-12 | 5-4 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2021 | 39-26 | 4-4 | 35-22 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2020 | 24-9 | 12-5 | 9-3 | 3-1 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
Ranked no. 386, the American got to the 1st round after defeating Lawrence Sciglitano 6-0 6-0 and Bruno Kuzuhara 5-7 6-3 6-4.
In the qualifications against Kuzuhara, Rybakov recovered from a 1-set down deficit before winning (5-7 6-3 6-4). During the match Rybakov scored 99 points vs Kuzuhara’s 96. Alex was very aggressive to blast 42 winners.
About the serving games, Rybakov managed to score 2 aces and he committed only 6 double faults. Alex Rybakov lost the serve 3 times and he saved 4 break points. Furthermore, Rybakov put 69% of his first serves in, winning 69% (42/61) of the points behind his 1st serve and 52% (14/27) on the 2nd serve. Alex broke Kuzuhara 4 times after converting 25% of his break points (4/16).
Overall Performance in this tournament
The American started his run at this tournament from the qualifications. In the main draw, he has conceded 1 set in the tournament to win 57% of the points he played.
Alex has an aggregate 6-6 win-loss record in 2023, 2-0 on clay (See FULL STATS).
Previously in the Sarasota Challenger
Previously, his best result was reaching the 1st round in 2022. See his history.
Head 2 Head
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- Mitchell KruegerKrueger – Emilio GomezGomez (7-5 6-3) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Enzo CouacaudCouacaud – Denis KudlaKudla (5-1 ret.) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Gabriel DialloDiallo – Facundo Diaz AcostaDiaz Acosta (3-6 6-2 7-65) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Toby Alex KodatAlex Kodat – Rio NoguchiNoguchi (6-3 1-6 7-5) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Daniel Elahi GalanElahi Galan – Juncheng ShangShang (6-3 6-2) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Yuki Bhambri/Saketh-Sai MyneniBhambri/Saketh-Sai Myneni – Martin Damm/Toby Alex KodatDamm/Toby Alex Kodat (3-6 6-4 10-5) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Bjorn FratangeloFratangelo – Juan Manuel CerundoloManuel Cerundolo (6-4 7-5) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Tomas MachacMachac – Gijs BrouwerBrouwer (6-3 6-2) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Genaro Alberto OlivieriAlberto Olivieri – Christian HarrisonHarrison (6-4 4-6 7-5) – Stats, scores, rankings
Upcoming matches in the draw
- Bjorn FratangeloFratangelo – Genaro Alberto OlivieriAlberto Olivieri (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Seong Chan HongChan Hong – (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Aleksandar VukicVukic – Dmitry PopkoPopko (2-0) – H2H and prediction
- Daniel AltmaierAltmaier – (1-0) – H2H and prediction
- Alex RybakovRybakov – Zhizhen ZhangZhang (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Zizou BergsBergs – Luca PotenzaPotenza (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Mateus De Carvalho CardosoDe Carvalho Cardoso – Camilo Ugo CarabelliUgo Carabelli (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Tristan BoyerBoyer – Jack SockSock (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Gabriel DialloDiallo – Mitchell KruegerKrueger (1-0) – H2H and prediction
