Yaojie Zeng and Aleksandre Bakshi will face off in the qualifications of the Shenzhen Challenger for the 1^st time in their career. They are scheduled to play on Monday at 10:30 am on CENTRAL COURT. In this post, we analyze their head to head performance and prediction.

Prediction, odds and live streaming

The pick for Tennis Tonic is Aleksandre Bakshi who should win in 2 sets.

As per the initial odds, Aleksandre Bakshi is the pick to win this match.
Aleksandre Bakshi -> 1.21
Yaojie Zeng -> 4.05

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Prediction and head to head Yaojie Zeng vs. Aleksandre Bakshi

There is no head to head record between Yaojie Zeng and Aleksandre Bakshi since this will be the first time that they will play each other in the main tour.

Yaojie Zeng

Currently unranked, Yaojie reached the qualifications after beating Grigoriy Lomakin 6-7(5) 6-3 6-4.

In the qualifications against Lomakin, Yaojie recovered from a 1-set down deficit before winning (6-7⁵ 6-3 6-4). During the match, Zeng scored 125 points vs Lomakin’s 116. Zeng was quite aggressive to blast 41 winners.

Regarding the service games, Zeng blasted 13 aces and he committed only 9 double faults. Overall, Yaojie Zeng was quite efficient on serve to win 77% (41/53) of his 1st serve and 52% (33/63) on the second serve. However, this didn’t prevent his to concede the serve twice. Yaojie broke Lomakin 4 times after converting 31% of his break points (4/13).

Zeng has a winning win-loss record in the last 4 years having won 57% of his matches (39-29). 20-12 on hard in 2024. In connection with his performance on the same surface of this event, Zeng has an aggregate32-25 win-loss record in the last 4 years on hard.

Yaojie has an overall 24-14 win-loss record in 2024, 20-12 on hard (See FULL STATS).

Previously in the Shenzhen Challenger

Aleksandre Bakshi

Ranked no. 507 (career-high), will start his run in the Shenzhen Challenger after he played his last match in the Shenzhen Challenger where he defeated 7-5 6-4 to Lu in the qualifications on the 13^th of October.

Bakshi has an overall 29-20 win-loss record in 2024, 28-16 on hard (See FULL STATS).

Bakshi’s best result of the current season was getting to the final in the Kachreti Challenger.

In terms of his career, Bakshi has an overall 126-90 record. He has a positive 89-58 record on hard.

H2H Performance in the tournament

Matches, sets, games and points

Points	Zeng	Bakshi
Match played	1	1
Tot Set	3	2
Tot Games	32	22
Pts	125-116	74-68
Total Points	241	142
Winners	41	29
%Winners	33%	39%

Both Zeng and Bakshi played 1 match. Also both players started their run from the qualifications.At the moment, Yaojie Zeng surrendered 1 set while Aleksandre Bakshi hasn’t surrendered a set so far. Zeng has played 1 set more than Bakshi (3 vs 2). Therefore, Zeng played 10 games more than Bakshi. The Chinese scored 41 winners (33% of the total points). On the other side, The Georgean made 29 winners (39%).

Serve Performance

Serve	Zeng	Bakshi
Aces	13	3
Avg per match	13	3
1st in	53/116	40/70
%1st in	46%	57%
1st pts	41/53	29/40
%1st pts	77%	73%
2nd pts	33/63	12/30
%2nd pts	52%	40%

Zeng struck 13 aces . Bakshi struck 3 aces . Zeng won 77% points on his first serve. He extremely effective on his second serve to win 52% of the points. On the other side, Bakshi won 73% of the points behind his first serve. He had a solid display on his second serve to win 40% of the points.

How they played the important points

Breaks	Zeng	Bakshi
Won	4	5
Converted	4/13	5/7
% Converted	31%	71%
Conceded	7	5
Saved	5	2
% Saved	71%	40%
Times Broken	2	3

The Chinese broke his opponent 4 times with a 31% conversion rate. Yaojie dropped his serve twice and he saved 71% of the break points that he conceded. Bakshi broke his opponent 5 times with a 71% conversion rate. Bakshi conceded his serve 3 times and he saved 40% of the break points that he conceded.

Zeng
	Q1 Lomakin	Total
Score	6-75 6-3 6-4
Tot Set	3	3
Tot Games	32	32
pts	125-116	125-116
Total points	241	241
Winners	41	41
%Winners	33%	33%
SERVE
Aces	13	13
Double Faults	9	9
1st in	53/116	53/116
% 1st in	46%	46%
1st pts	41/53	41/53
% 1st pts	77%	77%
2nd pts	33/63	33/63
% 2nd pts	52%	52%
Breaks
Won	4	4
Converted	4/13	4/13
Converted %	31%	31%
Conceded	7	7
Saved	5/7	5
Saved %	71%	71%
Times Broken	2	2

Bakshi
	Total
Score
Tot Set	0
Tot Games	0
pts	0-0
Total points	0
Winners	0
%Winners	0%
SERVE
Aces	0
Double Faults	0
1st in	0/0
% 1st in	0%
1st pts	0/0
% 1st pts	0%
2nd pts	0/0
% 2nd pts	0%
Breaks
Won	0
Converted	0/0
Converted %	0%
Conceded	0
Saved	0
Saved %	0%
Times Broken	0

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