Evan Zhu and Luca Castelnuovo will face off in the 1st round of the Zhuhai Challenger for the 1st time in their career. They are scheduled to compete on Tuesday at 12:30 pm on COURT 3. Here the head to head stats and relative prediction.
Prediction, odds and live streaming
The pick for Tennis Tonic is Evan Zhu who should win in 3 sets.
Evan Zhu -> 1.51
Luca Castelnuovo -> 2.43
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Prediction and head to head Evan Zhu vs. Luca Castelnuovo
There is no head to head record between Evan Zhu and Luca Castelnuovo since this will be the first time that they will clash against each other in the main tour.
Evan Zhu
| Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 5-13 | 4-9 | 1-4 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2023 | 31-32 | 21-21 | 9-7 | 1-3 | 0-1 | 0-0 |
| 2022 | 44-31 | 14-13 | 25-12 | 5-5 | 0-1 | 0-0 |
| 2021 | 13-20 | 9-15 | 4-4 | 0-1 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2020 | 11-6 | 5-3 | 6-2 | 0-1 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
Ranked no. 377, Evan will start his run in the Zhuhai Challenger after he played his last match in M25 Yinchuan where he lost 6-2 6-4 to Bai in the quarter on the 18th of August.
The American has a compiled 28-24 win-loss record in 2023, 19-14 on hard (See FULL STATS).
The American’s best result of the current season was reaching the semifinal in M25 Xalapa,M25 Anning and M25 Baotou.
Talking about his overall career, The American has an overall 181-166 record. He has a positive 106-104 record on hard.
Previously in the Zhuhai Challenger
Evan has never competed in this tournament before.
Luca Castelnuovo
| Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 6-7 | 6-7 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2023 | 36-23 | 22-15 | 4-3 | 8-4 | 0-0 | 2-1 |
| 2022 | 9-16 | 8-7 | 0-2 | 0-3 | 1-2 | 0-2 |
| 2021 | 21-30 | 9-10 | 11-18 | 0-1 | 1-1 | 0-0 |
| 2020 | 4-13 | 2-10 | 0-0 | 0-1 | 0-0 | 2-2 |
Ranked no. 717, the Swiss reached the 1st round after defeating Hanyi Liu 6-4 6-3.
In the qualifications, Castelnuovo had a good straight sets win against Liu (6-4 6-3). During the match Castelnuovo scored 67 points vs Liu’s 54. Castelnuovo was very aggressive to blast 33 winners.
Talking about serving, Castelnuovo scored 10 aces and he was quite solid in conceding no double faults for the entire match. Luca Castelnuovo lost the serve once and he saved 2 break points. Furthermore, Castelnuovo put 73% of his first serves in, winning 77% (33/43) of the points behind his 1st serve and 38% (6/16) on the 2nd serve. Castelnuovo broke Liu 4 times after converting 44% of his break points (4/9).
The Swiss’s best result of the year was getting to the final in M15 Shanghai.
Castelnuovo has an overall 28-15 win-loss record in 2023, 14-8 on hard (See FULL STATS).
Tennis Scores in Zhuhai Challenger
- Robert StrombachsStrombachs – Tao MuMu (6-4 3-6 6-4) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Evgeny KarlovskiyKarlovskiy – Nam Hoang LyHoang Ly (7-64 7-62) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Philip SekulicSekulic – Rigele TeTe (6-3 6-73 6-4) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Arthur WeberWeber – Filip PeliwoPeliwo (6-3 6-3) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Alexander ZgirovskyZgirovsky – Yusuke TakahashiTakahashi (4-6 6-4 1-0 ret.) – Stats, scores, rankings
Upcoming matches in the draw
- Jose StathamStatham – Fajing SunSun (1-1) – H2H and prediction
- Zhe LiLi – Mikalai HaliakHaliak (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Richard BerankisBerankis – Sergey FominFomin (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Yan BaiBai – Jason JungJung (1-1) – H2H and prediction
- Luke SavilleSaville – Aliaksandr LiaonenkaLiaonenka (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Colin SinclairSinclair – (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Luca CastelnuovoCastelnuovo – Evan ZhuZhu (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Alexander ZgirovskyZgirovsky – Arthur WeberWeber (0-0) – H2H and prediction