Zhizhen Zhang defeats Christopher Eubanks 6-4 4-6 7-5 in the quarter in Halle on Friday. Zhang will have to play Jannik Sinner in the semifinal. The match lasted 1 hour and 51 minutes. This will be his best result in this tournament. In the past, the best he could do was reaching the qualifications in 2023. Here you can see his previous results at this event.
Zhizhen added to his prize money € 59,160 after winning this match. He has already won € 120,960 so far in this event. If he wins the next match, Zhizhen will add € 105,985 to his earnings to get in total € 226,945.
Highlights Zhizhen Zhang vs. Christopher Eubanks Terra Wortmann Open – Halle
Stats: aces, double faults, breaks, winners
At the end of the match, the Chinese scored 89 points vs. Christopher’s 82.
Zhang
The Chinese served very well to win 78% of the points (43/55) behind his first serve, and he won 62% points (18/29) on his second serve. Zhang fired 10 aces and he committed 2 double faults. The Chinese was pretty focused in converting 75% of the break points that he procured (3/4).
Eubanks
On the other side, Christopher was absolutely great in converting all his break points (2/2). Yet, that was not enough to win the contest.
After this match, the head to head between Zhang and Eubanks is 1-0 for Zhizhen.
Draw and next match H2H: Zhizhen Zhang vs. Jannik Sinner – stats
Zhang will face Sinner in the semifinal.
There is no head to head record between Zhizhen Zhang and Jannik Sinner since this will be the first time that they will clash against each other in the main tour.
Live score progression and stats
Both players managed to hold their service games for the entire set. The only difference was just 1 break that Zhang clinched in the 7th game (4-3) before finally winning the set (6-4).
Zhang converted 50% of his break points (1/2). He had 2 break points opportunities in the 7th game (3-3 30-40 and 40-A). On the other side, Zhang didn’t concede a single break point during this set.
They contested 56 points. The set was a huge battle since finally the Chinese won just 2 more points than the American (29-27). Zhang was extremely solid on serve to drop just 4 points (20-4). In addition, on the other side, Christopher conceded 9 points on serve (23-9).
Similarly to the 1st set, the set was even with both players refusing to concede anything to the opposition on serve. Eventually, the only discrepancy was one break that Christopher grabbed in the 10th game (6-4) just before finally winning the set (6-4).
Eubanks failed to serve out the set when leading 6-4 to be broken at 0.
The American was clinical in converting the only break point that he conquered in the 10th game (5-4 40-A). On the other side, the American didn’t concede a single break point during this set.
They contested 58 points. Christopher won 8 more points than Zhizhen (33-25). Christopher dropped 6 points on serve (22-6). On the losing side, Zhang conceded 11 points on serve (19-11).
Zhizhen won the set after recovering from 1 break down. In fact, after conceding his serve in the 6th (2-4) game, Zhang broke back in the 9th (4-5) and in the 11th (6-5) game to conquer the set 7-5.
Eubanks was completely knocked out in the last 5 games of the set when the scoreline went from 2-5 to 7-5.
Zhang was flawless in converting all his break points in the 9th (3-5 0-40) and the 11th game (5-5 40-A). On the other side, Eubanks was clinical in converting the only break point that he conquered in the 6th game (3-2 15-40).
They contested 58 points. Zhizhen conquered the set after winning 12 more points than Eubanks (35-23). Zhizhen conceded 8 points on serve (21-8). on the other side of the net, Christopher conceded 14 points on serve (15-14).
Tennis Scores in Halle
- Jannik SinnerSinner – Jan-Lennard StruffStruff (6-2 6-71 7-63)
- Hubert HurkaczHurkacz – Marcos GironGiron (7-65 6-4)
- Zhizhen ZhangZhang – Christopher EubanksEubanks (6-4 4-6 7-5)
- Alexander ZverevZverev – Arthur FilsFils (6-75 6-3 6-4)
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