Zhizhen Zhang overcomes Giovanni Mpetshi Perricard 6-3 7-6(4) in the 1st round in Cincinnati on Tuesday. Zhang will seek to keep on going in this event against Andrey Rublev in the 2nd round. The match lasted 1 hour and 19 minutes. This will be his most significant achievement in this competition. Previously, the best he could do was reaching the qualifications in 2023. Here you can see his history at this event.
Zhang added to his prize money $ 21,865 after winning this match. He has already won $ 49,030 after this win. If he wins the next match, the Chinese will add $ 42,405 to his earnings to get in total $ 91,435 in total.
Stats: aces, double faults, breaks, winners
1h:19
At the end of the match, Zhang scored 69 points vs. Giovanni’s 51.
Zhang
The Chinese served extremely well to win 76% of the points (19/25) behind his first serve, and he won 81% points (21/26) on his second serve. The Chinese was absolutely great in converting all the break points (3/3).
Mpetshi Perricard
On the other side, Mpetshi Perricard was exceptional in converting the only break point that he converted. Notwithstanding, that was not enough to win the contest.
After this contest, the head to head between Zhang and Mpetshi Perricard is 1-0 for Zhizhen.
Draw and next match H2H: Zhizhen Zhang vs. Andrey Rublev – stats
Zhang will play Rublev in the 2nd round.
This will be the 3rd time that Zhizhen Zhang and Andrey Rublev face off. The head to head is 2-0 for Rublev (see full H2H stats), 1-0 on hard.
The last time that they competed against each other, Rublev won 6-74 6-2 6-4 in the 1st round in Dubai back in February 2024.
Live score progression and stats
The Chinese won the set after he broke Giovanni in the 7th (4-3) and in the 9th (6-3) game.
The Chinese failed to serve out the set when leading 6-3 to be broken at 15.
The French player was unable to find the solution against the opposition in the last 5 games of the set when the scoreline went from 2-3 to 6-3.
The Chinese was perfect in converting all his break points in the 6th (3-3 15-40) and the 9th game (5-3 15-40). On the other side, Zhang didn’t concede a single break point during this set.
They contested 53 points. Zhang was the winner of the set after clinching 17 points more than Giovanni (35-18). Zhizhen was extremely solid on serve to drop just 3 points (20-3). On the losing side, Giovanni conceded 15 points on serve (15-15).
Zhizhen won the set after he broke Giovanni in the 4th (3-1) game. Giovanni tried to stage a comeback breaking in the 5th (3-2) game. Nonetheless, Zhang stayed solid to ultimately clinch the set at the following tiebreak at 4.
Tiebreak
Zhang won 3 minibreaks in the 2nd (2-0), 10th (6-4) and 11th (7-4) point. On the other side, Mpetshi Perricard won a minibreak in the 8th (4-4) point.
This was the tiebreak sequence: 1-0, 2-0, 2-1, 3-1, 4-1, 4-2, 4-3, 4-4, 5-4, 6-4, 7-4
The Chinese was clinical in converting the only break point that he conquered in the 4th game (2-1 15-40). Moreover, on the other side, the French player was clinical in converting the only break point that he conquered in the 5th game (1-3 0-40).
They played 67 points. The contest during this set was so even that Zhizhen won only 1 point more than the French player (34-33). Zhang surrendered 8 points on serve (20-8). In addition, on the other side, Giovanni conceded 14 points on serve (25-14).
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- Jordan ThompsonThompson – Ugo HumbertHumbert (3-6 6-3 7-64)
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