Yaojie Zeng and Mikalai Haliak will fight against each other in the qualifications of the Guangzhou Challenger for the 1st time in their career. They are scheduled to play on Monday at 10:00 am on CENTRAL COURT. In the following lines you can find the head to head analysis and prediction.
Prediction, odds and live streaming
The pick for Tennis Tonic is Mikalai Haliak who should win in 2 sets.
Mikalai Haliak -> 1.105
Yaojie Zeng -> 5.95
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Prediction and head to head Yaojie Zeng vs. Mikalai Haliak
There is no head to head record between Yaojie Zeng and Mikalai Haliak since this will be the first time that they will fight against each other in the main tour.
Yaojie Zeng
| Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 26-17 | 22-15 | 4-2 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2023 | 10-8 | 8-7 | 2-1 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2022 | 5-7 | 4-6 | 1-1 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2021 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2020 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
Currently unranked, Zeng reached the qualifications after beating Yuichiro Inui 5-7 6-4 6-1.
In the qualifications against Inui, Zeng recovered from a 1-set down deficit before winning (5-7 6-4 6-1). During the match, Zeng scored 92 points vs Inui’s 80. The Chinese was quite aggressive to blast 41 winners.
Talking about the service games, Zeng bagged 17 aces and he committed only 5 double faults. Yaojie Zeng lost the serve twice and he saved 5 break points. Furthermore, Zeng put 56% of his first serves in, winning 84% (41/49) of the points behind his 1st serve and 42% (16/38) on the 2nd serve. The Chinese broke Inui 5 times after converting 63% of his break points (5/8).
Zeng has a winning win-loss record in the last 3 years having won 56% of his matches (15-12). 8-4 on hard in 2023. Talking about his performance on the same surface of this event, Zeng has an overall12-10 record in the last 3 years on hard.
Yaojie has an aggregate 10-5 win-loss record in 2023, 8-4 on hard (See FULL STATS).
Previously in the Guangzhou Challenger
The Chinese has never competed in this tournament before.
Mikalai Haliak
| Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 21-32 | 14-20 | 5-7 | 2-5 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2023 | 43-28 | 12-9 | 25-13 | 4-5 | 0-0 | 2-1 |
| 2022 | 26-25 | 5-7 | 15-12 | 6-6 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2021 | 19-11 | 1-2 | 2-3 | 16-6 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2020 | 5-7 | 2-3 | 0-1 | 3-3 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
Ranked no. 567 (career-high), the Belarussian got to the qualifications after defeating Xing Dao Chen 6-2 6-2.
In the qualifications, Haliak had a good straight sets win against Dao Chen (6-2 6-2). During the match Haliak scored 57 points vs Dao Chen’s 32. Haliak was very aggressive to blast 25 winners.
About the serving games, Haliak struck 3 aces and he was quite consistent in conceding no double faults for the entire match. Mikalai Haliak was very effective on serve to win 86% (25/29) of his 1st serve and 67% (8/12) on the second serve. This was the main reason for not conceding a single break during the match. The Belarussian broke Dao Chen 4 times after converting 57% of his break points (4/7).
Mikalai’s best result of the current season was reaching the final in M25 Baotou and the Zhangjiagang Challenger.
Haliak has a compiled 40-21 win-loss record in 2023, 9-3 on hard (See FULL STATS).
H2H Performance in the tournament
Matches, sets, games and points
| Points | Zeng | Haliak |
|---|---|---|
| Match played | 1 | 1 |
| Tot Set | 3 | 2 |
| Tot Games | 29 | 16 |
| Pts | 92-80 | 57-32 |
| Total Points | 172 | 89 |
| Winners | 41 | 25 |
| %Winners | 45% | 44% |
Both Zeng and Haliak played 1 match. Also both players started their run from the qualifications.At the moment, Yaojie Zeng lost 1 set while Mikalai Haliak hasn’t conceded a set so far. Zeng has played 1 set more than Haliak (3 vs 2). Therefore, Zeng played 13 games more than Haliak. Yaojie scored 41 winners (45% of the total points). On the other side, Mikalai fired 25 winners (44%).
Serve Performance
| Serve | Zeng | Haliak |
|---|---|---|
| Aces | 17 | 3 |
| Avg per match | 17 | 3 |
| 1st in | 49/87 | 29/41 |
| %1st in | 56% | 71% |
| 1st pts | 41/49 | 25/29 |
| %1st pts | 84% | 86% |
| 2nd pts | 16/38 | 8/12 |
| %2nd pts | 42% | 67% |
Zeng scored 17 aces . Haliak blasted 3 aces . Zeng won 84% points on his first serve. He pretty effective on his second serve to win 42% of the points. On the other side, Haliak won 86% of the points on his first serve. He had a solid display on his second serve to win 67% of the points.
How they played the important points
| Breaks | Zeng | Haliak |
|---|---|---|
| Won | 5 | 4 |
| Converted | 5/8 | 4/7 |
| % Converted | 63% | 57% |
| Conceded | 7 | 1 |
| Saved | 5 | 1 |
| % Saved | 71% | 100% |
| Times Broken | 2 | 0 |
Zeng broke his opponent 5 times with a 63% conversion rate. The Chinese lost his serve twice and he saved 71% of the break points that he conceded. Haliak broke his opponent 4 times with a 57% conversion rate. The Belarussian was rock solid on his serve as he has never conceded a single service game after saving 1 break points.
| Zeng | |||
| Q1 Inui | Total | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Score | 5-7 6-4 6-1 | ||
| Tot Set | 3 | 3 | |
| Tot Games | 29 | 29 | |
| pts | 92-80 | 92-80 | |
| Total points | 172 | 172 | |
| Winners | 41 | 41 | |
| %Winners | 45% | 45% | |
| SERVE | |||
| Aces | 17 | 17 | |
| Double Faults | 5 | 5 | |
| 1st in | 49/87 | 49/87 | |
| % 1st in | 56% | 56% | |
| 1st pts | 41/49 | 41/49 | |
| % 1st pts | 84% | 84% | |
| 2nd pts | 16/38 | 16/38 | |
| % 2nd pts | 42% | 42% | |
| Breaks | |||
| Won | 5 | 5 | |
| Converted | 5/8 | 5/8 | |
| Converted % | 63% | 63% | |
| Conceded | 7 | 7 | |
| Saved | 5/7 | 5 | |
| Saved % | 71% | 71% | |
| Times Broken | 2 | 2 | |
| Haliak | |||
| Q1 Dao | Total | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Score | 6-2 6-2 | ||
| Tot Set | 2 | 2 | |
| Tot Games | 16 | 16 | |
| pts | 57-32 | 57-32 | |
| Total points | 89 | 89 | |
| Winners | 25 | 25 | |
| %Winners | 44% | 44% | |
| SERVE | |||
| Aces | 3 | 3 | |
| Double Faults | 0 | 0 | |
| 1st in | 29/41 | 29/41 | |
| % 1st in | 71% | 71% | |
| 1st pts | 25/29 | 25/29 | |
| % 1st pts | 86% | 86% | |
| 2nd pts | 8/12 | 8/12 | |
| % 2nd pts | 67% | 67% | |
| Breaks | |||
| Won | 4 | 4 | |
| Converted | 4/7 | 4/7 | |
| Converted % | 57% | 57% | |
| Conceded | 1 | 1 | |
| Saved | 1/1 | 1 | |
| Saved % | 100% | 100% | |
| Times Broken | 0 | 0 | |
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