Zhizhen Zhang and Luca Nardi will fight against each other in the 2nd round of the BNP Paribas Open for the 1st time in their career. They are scheduled to compete on Saturday at 12:00 pm on STADIUM 5. Here the head to head stats and relative 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 -> 1.47
Luca Nardi -> 2.69
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Prediction and head to head Zhizhen Zhang vs. Luca Nardi
There is no head to head record between Zhizhen Zhang and Luca Nardi since this will be the first time that they will clash against each other in the main tour.
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. 50, Zhizhen got to the 2nd round after beating Aleksandar Kovacevic 6-72 6-3 7-5.
In the 1st round against Kovacevic, Zhizhen recovered from a 1-set down deficit before winning (6-72 6-3 7-5). During the match, Zhang scored 106 points vs Kovacevic’s 102. Zhang was quite aggressive to blast 41 winners.
Regarding the service games, Zhang made 12 aces and he committed only 4 double faults. Overall, Zhizhen Zhang was very efficient on serve to win 77% (41/53) of his 1st serve and 59% (30/51) on the second serve. However, this didn’t prevent his to concede the serve once. The Chinese broke Kovacevic 3 times after converting 33% of his break points (3/9).
Zhang has winning match record in the last 10 years having won 56% of his matches (241-193). 4-5 on hard in 2024. In connection with his performance on the same surface of this event, Zhang has an aggregate 121-104 match record in the last years on hard.
Zhizhen has a compiled 6-7 win-loss record in 2024, 4-5 on hard (See FULL STATS).
Previously in Indian Wells
Luca Nardi
| Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 18-17 | 9-7 | 8-5 | 0-1 | 1-4 | 0-0 |
| 2023 | 41-36 | 20-10 | 8-13 | 12-12 | 1-1 | 0-0 |
| 2022 | 33-20 | 5-2 | 11-10 | 17-8 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2021 | 33-24 | 3-3 | 26-13 | 4-8 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2020 | 9-9 | 7-2 | 1-2 | 1-5 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
Ranked no. 123, Nardi reached the 2nd round after defeating Terence Atmane 6-4 6-0.
Nardi’s best result of the season was getting to the final in the Chennai Challenger.
Luca has an overall 7-6 win-loss record in 2024, 7-5 on hard (See FULL STATS).
Previously in Indian Wells
Luca has never competed in this tournament before.
H2H Performance in the tournament
Matches, sets, games and points
| Points | Zhang | Nardi |
|---|---|---|
| Match played | 1 | 1 |
| Tot Set | 3 | 2 |
| Tot Games | 34 | 16 |
| Pts | 106-102 | 67-41 |
| Total Points | 208 | 108 |
| Winners | 41 | 17 |
| %Winners | 39% | 25% |
Both Zhang and Nardi played 1 match. At the moment, Zhizhen Zhang conceded 1 set while Luca Nardi hasn’t dropped a set so far. Zhang has played 1 set more than Nardi (3 vs 2). Therefore, Zhang played 18 games more than Nardi. Zhang scored 41 winners (39% of the total points). On the other side, The Italian scored 17 winners (25%).
Serve Performance
| Serve | Zhang | Nardi |
|---|---|---|
| Aces | 12 | 1 |
| Avg per match | 12 | 1 |
| 1st in | 53/104 | 26/49 |
| %1st in | 51% | 53% |
| 1st pts | 41/53 | 17/26 |
| %1st pts | 77% | 65% |
| 2nd pts | 30/51 | 18/23 |
| %2nd pts | 59% | 78% |
Zhang bagged 12 aces . Nardi made 1 ace . Zhang won 77% points behind his first serve. He was rock solid on his second serve to win 59% of the points. On the other side, Nardi won 65% of the points behind his first serve. He had a solid display on his second serve to win 78% of the points.
How they played the important points
| Breaks | Zhang | Nardi |
|---|---|---|
| Won | 3 | 5 |
| Converted | 3/9 | 5/12 |
| % Converted | 33% | 42% |
| Conceded | 5 | 4 |
| Saved | 4 | 3 |
| % Saved | 80% | 75% |
| Times Broken | 1 | 1 |
The Chinese broke his opponent 3 times with a 33% conversion rate. The Chinese lost his serve once and he saved 80% of the break points that he conceded. Luca broke his opponent 5 times with a 42% conversion rate. The Italian conceded his serve once and he saved 75% of the break points that he conceded.
| Zhang | |||
| R1 Kovacevic |
Total | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Score | 6-72 6-3 7-5 | ||
| Tot Set | 3 | 3 | |
| Tot Games | 34 | 34 | |
| pts | 106-102 | 106-102 | |
| Total points | 208 | 208 | |
| Winners | 41 | 41 | |
| %Winners | 39% | 39% | |
| SERVE | |||
| Aces | 12 | 12 | |
| Double Faults | 4 | 4 | |
| 1st in | 53/104 | 53/104 | |
| % 1st in | 51% | 51% | |
| 1st pts | 41/53 | 41/53 | |
| % 1st pts | 77% | 77% | |
| 2nd pts | 30/51 | 30/51 | |
| % 2nd pts | 59% | 59% | |
| Breaks | |||
| Won | 3 | 3 | |
| Converted | 3/9 | 3/9 | |
| Converted % | 33% | 33% | |
| Conceded | 5 | 5 | |
| Saved | 4/5 | 4 | |
| Saved % | 80% | 80% | |
| Times Broken | 1 | 1 | |
| Nardi | ||||
| Q1 Atmane |
Q3 Goffin |
Total | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Score | 6-4 6-0 | 7-64 5-7 6-4 | ||
| Tot Set | 2 | 3 | 5 | |
| Tot Games | 16 | 35 | 51 | |
| pts | 67-41 | – | 67-41 | |
| Total points | 108 | 0 | 108 | |
| Winners | 17 | 17 | ||
| %Winners | 25% | 0% | 25% | |
| SERVE | ||||
| Aces | 1 | 0 | 1 | |
| Double Faults | 2 | 2 | ||
| 1st in | 26/49 | / | 26/49 | |
| % 1st in | 53% | 0% | 53% | |
| 1st pts | 17/26 | / | 17/26 | |
| % 1st pts | 65% | 0% | 65% | |
| 2nd pts | 18/23 | / | 18/23 | |
| % 2nd pts | 78% | 0% | 78% | |
| Breaks | ||||
| Won | 5 | 5 | ||
| Converted | 5/12 | / | 5/12 | |
| Converted % | 42% | 0% | 42% | |
| Conceded | 4 | 4 | ||
| Saved | 3/4 | 0/ | 3 | |
| Saved % | 75% | – | 75% | |
| Times Broken | 1 | 1 | ||
Head 2 Head
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