Karen Khachanov and Zhizhen Zhang will face off in the quarter of the Open 13 Provence for the 1st time in their career. They are scheduled to play on Friday at 6:00 pm on CENTRAL. 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 Karen Khachanov who should win in 2 sets.
As per the initial odds, Karen Khachanov is the pick to win this match.
Karen Khachanov -> 1.42
Zhizhen Zhang -> 2.875
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Prediction and head to head Karen Khachanov vs. Zhizhen Zhang
There is no head to head record between Karen Khachanov and Zhizhen Zhang since this will be the first time that they will play each other in the main tour.
Karen Khachanov
| Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 23-18 | 12-10 | 8-4 | 2-1 | 1-3 | 0-0 |
| 2023 | 34-18 | 18-10 | 10-5 | 6-3 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2022 | 36-25 | 17-11 | 9-7 | 6-5 | 4-2 | 0-0 |
| 2021 | 35-24 | 17-9 | 5-6 | 8-6 | 5-3 | 0-0 |
| 2020 | 20-15 | 12-6 | 4-3 | 4-6 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
Ranked no. 18, Karen reached the quarter after defeating Roberto Bautista Agut 6-2 6-2.
In the 2nd round, The Russian had a good straight sets win against Bautista-Agut (6-2 6-2). During the match, Khachanov scored 55 points vs Bautista-Agut’s 39. The Russian was exceptionally aggressive to blast 25 winners.
Talking about the service games, Khachanov managed to score 14 aces and he was extremely steady in conceding no double faults. Karen Khachanov was quite efficient on serve to win 81% (25/31) of his 1st serve and 53% (9/17) on the second serve. This was the main reason for not conceding a single break during the match. Khachanov was clinical in his return game without wasting any break point and break Bautista-Agut 4 times.
Khachanov has a solid match record in the last 10 years having won 61% of his matches (340-218). 1-0 on indoor hard courts in 2024. Talking about his performance on the same surface of this event, Khachanov has an aggregate 89-60 win-loss record in the last years on indoor hard courts.
Khachanov has an aggregate 4-2 win-loss record in 2024, 1-0 on indoor hard courts (See FULL STATS).
Previously in Marseille
Zhizhen Zhang
| Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 24-23 | 9-10 | 9-7 | 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. 50 (career-high), Zhang got to the quarter after defeating Giulio Zeppieri 6-77 6-1 6-4 and Felix Auger-Aliassime 6-4 6-4.
In the 2nd round, Zhang had a good straight sets win against Auger-Aliassime (6-4 6-4). During the match Zhang scored 66 points vs Auger-Aliassime’s 52. Zhizhen was pretty aggressive to blast 30 winners.
About the serving games, Zhang recorded 6 aces and he committed only 4 double faults. Overall, Zhizhen Zhang was exceptionally efficient on serve to win 77% (30/39) of his 1st serve and 53% (10/19) on the second serve. However, this didn’t prevent his to concede the serve once. Zhang broke Auger-Aliassime 3 times after converting 75% of his break points (3/4).
Overall Performance in this tournament
The Chinese has conceded 1 set in the tournament to win 55% of the points he played.
The Chinese has a composed 4-3 win-loss record in 2024, 2-0 on indoor hard courts (See FULL STATS).
H2H Performance in the tournament (main draw)
Matches, sets, games and points
| Points | Khachanov | Zhang |
|---|---|---|
| Match played | 1 | 2 |
| Tot Set | 2 | 5 |
| Tot Games | 16 | 50 |
| Pts | 55-39 | 162-130 |
| Total Points | 94 | 292 |
| Winners | 25 | 82 |
| %Winners | 45% | 51% |
Khachanov played 1 match while Zhang competed in 2 matches. At the moment, Zhizhen Zhang lost 1 set while Karen Khachanov hasn’t lost a set so far. Khachanov has played 3 set(s) less than Zhang (2 vs 5). Therefore, Khachanov played 34 games less than Zhang. Karen scored 25 winners (45% of the total points). On the other side, The Chinese blasted 82 winners (51%).
Serve Performance
| Serve | Khachanov | Zhang |
|---|---|---|
| Aces | 14 | 16 |
| Avg per match | 14 | 8 |
| 1st in | 31/48 | 102/149 |
| %1st in | 65% | 68% |
| 1st pts | 25/31 | 82/102 |
| %1st pts | 81% | 80% |
| 2nd pts | 9/17 | 25/47 |
| %2nd pts | 53% | 53% |
Khachanov blasted 14 aces . Zhang managed to score 16 aces (8 per match). Khachanov won 81% points behind his first serve. He had a solid display on his second serve to win 53% of the points. On the other side, Zhang won 80% of the points on his first serve. He had a solid display on his second serve to win 53% of the points.
How they played the important points
| Breaks | Khachanov | Zhang |
|---|---|---|
| Won | 4 | 6 |
| Converted | 4/4 | 6/8 |
| % Converted | 100% | 75% |
| Conceded | 1 | 8 |
| Saved | 1 | 7 |
| % Saved | 100% | 88% |
| Times Broken | 0 | 1 |
Karen broke his opponent 4 times with a 100% conversion rate. The Russian very solid his serve as he has never lost a single service game after saving 1 break points. The Chinese broke his opponents 6 times with a 75% conversion rate. Zhizhen conceded his serve once and he saved 88% of the break points that he conceded.
| Khachanov | |||
| R2 Bautista-Agut |
Total | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Score | 6-2 6-2 | ||
| Tot Set | 2 | 2 | |
| Tot Games | 16 | 16 | |
| pts | 55-39 | 55-39 | |
| Total points | 94 | 94 | |
| Winners | 25 | 25 | |
| %Winners | 45% | 45% | |
| SERVE | |||
| Aces | 14 | 14 | |
| Double Faults | 0 | 0 | |
| 1st in | 31/48 | 31/48 | |
| % 1st in | 65% | 65% | |
| 1st pts | 25/31 | 25/31 | |
| % 1st pts | 81% | 81% | |
| 2nd pts | 9/17 | 9/17 | |
| % 2nd pts | 53% | 53% | |
| Breaks | |||
| Won | 4 | 4 | |
| Converted | 4/4 | 4/4 | |
| Converted % | 100% | 100% | |
| Conceded | 1 | 1 | |
| Saved | 1/1 | 1 | |
| Saved % | 100% | 100% | |
| Times Broken | 0 | 0 | |
| Zhang | ||||
| R1 Zeppieri |
R2 Auger-Aliassime |
Total | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Score | 6-77 6-1 6-4 | 6-4 6-4 | ||
| Tot Set | 3 | 2 | 5 | |
| Tot Games | 30 | 20 | 50 | |
| pts | 96-78 | 66-52 | 162-130 | |
| Total points | 174 | 118 | 292 | |
| Winners | 52 | 30 | 82 | |
| %Winners | 54% | 45% | 51% | |
| SERVE | ||||
| Aces | 10 | 6 | 16 | |
| Double Faults | 3 | 4 | 7 | |
| 1st in | 63/91 | 39/58 | 102/149 | |
| % 1st in | 69% | 67% | 68% | |
| 1st pts | 52/63 | 30/39 | 82/102 | |
| % 1st pts | 83% | 77% | 80% | |
| 2nd pts | 15/28 | 10/19 | 25/47 | |
| % 2nd pts | 54% | 53% | 53% | |
| Breaks | ||||
| Won | 3 | 3 | 6 | |
| Converted | 3/4 | 3/4 | 6/8 | |
| Converted % | 75% | 75% | 75% | |
| Conceded | 4 | 4 | 8 | |
| Saved | 4/4 | 3/4 | 7 | |
| Saved % | 100% | 75% | 175% | |
| Times Broken | 0 | 1 | 1 | |
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