Bu Yunchaokete and Michael Zheng will play each other in the 1st round of the Chicago Challenger for the 1st time in their career. They are scheduled to compete on Tuesday at 4:00 pm on COURT 1. 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 Bu Yunchaokete who should win in 2 sets.
Bu Yunchaokete -> 1.193
Michael Zheng -> 4.3
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Prediction and head to head Bu Yunchaokete vs. Michael Zheng
There is no head to head record between Bu Yunchaokete and Michael Zheng since this will be the first time that they will face off in the main tour.
Bu Yunchaokete
30 - 14win/loss
147
147
| Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 32-14 | 27-7 | 3-2 | 1-2 | 1-3 | 0-0 |
| 2023 | 37-23 | 27-15 | 0-0 | 6-4 | 4-4 | 0-0 |
| 2022 | 87-28 | 84-24 | 0-2 | 0-1 | 0-0 | 3-1 |
| 2021 | 1-2 | 1-2 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2020 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
Ranked no. 147 (career-high), Yunchaokete will start his run in the Chicago Challenger after he won the title in the Granby Challenger after beating 6-3 6-7(7) 6-4 Atmane in the final.
The Chinese has a composed 29-14 win-loss record in 2024, 24-7 on hard (See FULL STATS).
His best result of the current season was winning the title the Wuxi Challenger where he defeated Egor Gerasimov in the final 6-4 6-1 and the Granby Challenger where he beat Terence Atmane in the final 6-3 6-7(7) 6-4.
Yunchaokete won his last 5 matches.
Talking about his overall career, Bu has an overall 154-69 record. He has a positive 136-48 record on hard.
Previously in the Chicago Challenger
The Chinese has never competed in this tournament before.
Michael Zheng
| Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 2-4 | 2-3 | 0-1 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2023 | 13-11 | 13-10 | 0-0 | 0-1 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2022 | 11-6 | 2-1 | 9-5 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2021 | 7-5 | 1-1 | 3-2 | 3-2 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
Ranked no. 554, Michael reached the 1st round after defeating Luke Saville 6-3 6-1 and Naoki Nakagawa 7-5 6-4.
In the qualifications, Michael had a good straight sets win against Nakagawa (7-5 6-4). During the match Zheng scored 72 points vs Nakagawa’s 60. Zheng was very aggressive to blast 31 winners.
Talking about serving, Zheng blasted 7 aces and he committed only 6 double faults. Overall, Michael Zheng was extremely effective on serve to win 76% (31/41) of his 1st serve and 54% (15/28) on the second serve. However, this didn’t prevent his to concede the serve twice. The American broke Nakagawa 4 times after converting 80% of his break points (4/5).
Overall Performance in this tournament
The American started his run at this tournament from the qualifications. In the main draw, he hasn’t conceded yet a set in this competition to conquer 57% of the points he played.
Michael has an aggregate 2-3 win-loss record in 2024, 2-2 on hard (See FULL STATS)
.Previously in the Chicago Challenger
Previously, his best result was reaching the qualifications in 2023. See his history.
Tennis Scores in Chicago Challenger
- Philip SekulicSekulic – Chak Lam Coleman WongLam Coleman Wong (6-2 6-1) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Learner TienTien – Benjamin BonziBonzi (6-4 6-4) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Joao FonsecaFonseca – Yuta ShimizuShimizu (6-3 6-4) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Charles BroomBroom – Sho ShimabukuroShimabukuro (6-74 6-2 7-65) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Seong Chan HongChan Hong – Alex BoltBolt (6-4 6-3) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Mitchell KruegerKrueger – Arthur GeaGea (6-4 6-4) – Stats, scores, rankings
Upcoming matches in the draw
- Bernard TomicTomic – Hugo GrenierGrenier (0-1) – H2H and prediction
- Mitchell KruegerKrueger – (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Marc PolmansPolmans – Alexis GalarneauGalarneau (1-0) – H2H and prediction
- Seong Chan HongChan Hong – Charles BroomBroom (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Juan Pablo FicovichPablo Ficovich – (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Tung-Lin WuWu – Paul JubbJubb (0-2) – H2H and prediction
- Brandon HoltHolt – Andrew FentyFenty (1-0) – H2H and prediction
- Bu YunchaoketeYunchaokete – (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Terence AtmaneAtmane – Micah BraswellBraswell (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Jacob FearnleyFearnley – Li TuTu (0-1) – H2H and prediction
- Gabriel DialloDiallo – James Kent TrotterKent Trotter (0-0) – H2H and prediction