Zhizhen Zhang and Thanasi Kokkinakis will play each other in the 1st round of the National Bank Open for the 2nd time in their career. They are scheduled to play on Monday at 1:30 pm on COURT 1. Here the head to head stats and relative prediction.
Prediction, odds and live streaming
The pick for Tennis Tonic is Thanasi Kokkinakis who should win in 3 sets.
Thanasi Kokkinakis -> 1.68
Zhizhen Zhang -> 2.19
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Prediction and head to head Zhizhen Zhang vs. Thanasi Kokkinakis
This will be the 2nd time that Zhizhen Zhang and Thanasi Kokkinakis play each other. The head to head is 1-0 for Kokkinakis (see full H2H stats), but they have never competed against each other on hard.
The last time that they locked horns, Kokkinakis won 6-2 4-6 6-3 in the semifinal in the Biella 6 Challenger back in 2021.
Zhizhen Zhang
| 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 |
Ranked no. 53, the Chinese will start his run in Montreal after he played his last match in Kitzbuhel where he lost 1-6 6-3 6-2 to Thiem in the 2nd round on the 2nd of August.
The Chinese has a compiled 22-23 win-loss record in 2023, 4-7 on hard (See FULL STATS).
Zhizhen’s best result of the year was getting to the semifinal in Hamburg.
Talking about his overall career, Zhizhen has an overall 267-210 record. He has a positive 135-112 record on hard.
Previously in Montreal
The Chinese has never competed in this tournament before.
Thanasi Kokkinakis
| Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 3-1 | 3-1 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2024 | 35-21 | 19-12 | 11-6 | 3-2 | 2-1 | 0-0 |
| 2023 | 40-26 | 31-18 | 8-5 | 1-1 | 0-2 | 0-0 |
| 2022 | 23-19 | 19-12 | 2-3 | 1-2 | 1-2 | 0-0 |
| 2021 | 33-21 | 15-11 | 18-7 | 0-0 | 0-3 | 0-0 |
Ranked no. 86, the Australian got to the 1st round after beating Borna Gojo 7-64 4-6 7-5 and Constant Lestienne 7-66 6-3.
In the qualifications, Kokkinakis had a good straight sets win against Lestienne (7-66 6-3). During the match Kokkinakis scored 82 points vs Lestienne’s 78. The Australian was exceptionally aggressive to blast 35 winners.
About the serving games, Kokkinakis struck 11 aces and he committed only 1 double fault for the entire match. Thanasi Kokkinakis lost the serve twice and he saved 5 break points. Furthermore, Kokkinakis put 64% of his first serves in, winning 63% (35/56) of the points behind his 1st serve and 63% (20/32) on the 2nd serve. The Australian broke Lestienne 3 times after converting 30% of his break points (3/10).
Overall Performance in this tournament
Thanasi started his run at this tournament from the qualifications. In the main draw, he has conceded 1 set in the tournament to win 51% of the points he played.
His best result of the year was winning the title the Manama Challenger where he beat Abedallah Shelbayh in the final 6-1 6-4.
Thanasi has an aggregate 30-18 win-loss record in 2023, 22-11 on hard (See FULL STATS).
Tennis Scores in Toronto
- Diego SchwartzmanSchwartzman – Aleksandar VukicVukic (6-4 6-4) – See score progression
- Matteo ArnaldiArnaldi – Matija PecoticPecotic (6-4 6-4) – See score progression
- Taro DanielDaniel – Corentin MoutetMoutet (7-68 6-2) – See score progression
- Cristian GarinGarin – Christopher O ConnellO Connell (7-66 6-4) – See score progression
- Thanasi KokkinakisKokkinakis – Constant LestienneLestienne (7-66 6-3) – See score progression
- Marcos GironGiron – Radu AlbotAlbot (6-3 6-1) – See score progression
- Max PurcellPurcell – Brayden SchnurSchnur (6-2 6-1) – See score progression
Upcoming matches in the draw
- Gael MonfilsMonfils – Christopher EubanksEubanks (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Adrian MannarinoMannarino – Taro DanielDaniel (0-2) – H2H and prediction
- Vasek PospisilPospisil – (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Milos RaonicRaonic – Frances TiafoeTiafoe (0-1) – H2H and prediction
- Grigor DimitrovDimitrov – Borna CoricCoric (1-0) – H2H and prediction
- Mackenzie McdonaldMcdonald – Aslan KaratsevKaratsev (1-1) – H2H and prediction
- Gregoire BarrereBarrere – Matteo BerrettiniBerrettini (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Alexander ZverevZverev – Tallon GriekspoorGriekspoor (1-1) – H2H and prediction
- Alexander BublikBublik – Hubert HurkaczHurkacz (1-5) – H2H and prediction
- Christian GarinGarin – Miomir KecmanovicKecmanovic (1-0) – H2H and prediction
- Zhizhen ZhangZhang – Thanasi KokkinakisKokkinakis (0-1) – H2H and prediction
- Tommy PaulPaul – Diego Sebastian SchwartzmanSebastian Schwartzman (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Lorenzo SonegoSonego – Andy MurrayMurray (0-1) – H2H and prediction
- Alejandro Davidovich FokinaDavidovich Fokina – Jeff WolfWolf (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Emil RuusuvuoriRuusuvuori – Marcos GironGiron (0-1) – H2H and prediction
- Tomas Martin EtcheverryMartin Etcheverry – Sebastian KordaKorda (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Ugo HumbertHumbert – Nicolas JarryJarry (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Alexis GalarneauGalarneau – Francisco CerundoloCerundolo (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Alex De MinaurDe Minaur – Cameron NorrieNorrie (1-1) – H2H and prediction
- Felix Auger AliassimeAuger Aliassime – Max PurcellPurcell (1-1) – H2H and prediction
- Brandon NakashimaNakashima – Jiri LeheckaLehecka (2-0) – H2H and prediction
- Lorenzo MusettiMusetti – Yoshihito NishiokaNishioka (2-1) – H2H and prediction
- Gabriel DialloDiallo – Daniel EvansEvans (1-0) – H2H and prediction