Zhizhen Zhang and Jurij Rodionov will face off in the 1st round of the Mutua Madrid Open for the 2nd time in their career. They are scheduled to compete on Thursday at 1:30 pm on COURT 4. In the following paragraphs, you can find the head to head analysis 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 -> 1.81
Jurij Rodionov -> 2
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Prediction and head to head Zhizhen Zhang vs. Jurij Rodionov
This will be the 2nd time that Zhizhen Zhang and Jurij Rodionov fight against each other. The head to head is 1-0 for Rodionov (see full H2H stats), but they have never competed against each other on clay.
The last time that they played each other, Rodionov won 6-4 6-4 in the qualifications in Egypt F2 (Sharm El Sheikh).
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. 99, Zhang will start his run in Madrid after he played his last match in the Tallahassee Challenger where he lost 6-3 7-5 to Bergs in the quarter on the 21st of April.
Zhang has a compiled 8-12 win-loss record in 2023, 3-3 on clay (See FULL STATS).
Talking about his overall career, Zhizhen has an overall 253-199 record. He has a positive 102-67 record on clay.
Previously in Madrid
Zhang has never competed in this tournament before.
Jurij Rodionov
| Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 12-18 | 1-4 | 5-8 | 6-3 | 0-3 | 0-0 |
| 2023 | 44-33 | 3-6 | 15-13 | 21-11 | 5-3 | 0-0 |
| 2022 | 45-31 | 5-5 | 16-11 | 21-11 | 3-4 | 0-0 |
| 2021 | 20-28 | 2-4 | 2-7 | 13-13 | 3-3 | 0-1 |
| 2020 | 25-16 | 5-1 | 7-6 | 12-8 | 0-0 | 1-1 |
Ranked no. 119, Rodionov got to the 1st round after beating Laurent Lokoli 2-6 6-2 6-4 and Daniel Altmaier 6-4 6-3.
In the qualifications, Rodionov had a good straight sets win against Altmaier (6-4 6-3). During the match Rodionov scored 72 points vs Altmaier’s 66. Rodionov was very aggressive to blast 24 winners.
Talking about serving, Rodionov scored just 1 ace during the entire match and he was quite consistent in conceding no double faults for the entire match. Jurij Rodionov lost the serve 3 times and he saved 4 break points. Furthermore, Rodionov put 52% of his first serves in, winning 65% (24/37) of the points behind his 1st serve and 44% (15/34) on the 2nd serve. Rodionov broke Altmaier 6 times after converting 46% of his break points (6/13).
Overall Performance in this tournament
Jurij started his run at this tournament from the qualifications. In the main draw, he has conceded 1 set in the tournament to win 52% of the points he played.
His best result of the current season was conquering the title the Biel Challenger where he defeated Liam Broady in the final 6-3 ret..
Rodionov has an aggregate 19-10 win-loss record in 2023, 3-2 on clay (See FULL STATS).
Head 2 Head
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