Tianhui Zhang and Zura Tkemaladze will fight against each other 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 COURT 3. Here the head to head stats and relative prediction.

Prediction, odds and live streaming

The pick for Tennis Tonic is Tianhui Zhang who should win in 3 sets.

As per the initial odds, Tianhui Zhang is the pick to win this match.
Tianhui Zhang -> 1.65
Zura Tkemaladze -> 2.13

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Prediction and head to head Tianhui Zhang vs. Zura Tkemaladze

There is no head to head record between Tianhui Zhang and Zura Tkemaladze since this will be the first time that they will fight against each other in the main tour.

Tianhui Zhang

Currently unranked, Tianhui got to the qualifications after defeating Tsung-Hao Huang 6-2 4-6 6-2.

In the qualifications, The Chinese defeated Huang (6-2 4-6 6-2). During the match, Zhang scored 83 points vs Huang’s 67. Zhang was quite aggressive to blast 29 winners.

Regarding the service games, Zhang bagged 6 aces and he committed only 6 double faults. Overall, Tianhui Zhang was very effective on serve to win 76% (29/38) of his 1st serve and 61% (17/28) on the second serve. However, this didn’t prevent his to concede the serve twice. Zhang broke Huang 5 times after converting 45% of his break points (5/11).

Zhang has a unfavourable match record in the last 2 years having won 48% of his matches (11-12). 8-7 on hard in 2024. Talking about his performance on the same surface of this event, Zhang has an overall11-12 match record in the last 2 years on hard.

Zhang’s best result of the current year was reaching the semifinal in M25 Fuzhou.

The Chinese has an overall 8-7 win-loss record in 2024, 8-7 on hard (See FULL STATS).

Previously in the Shenzhen Challenger

Zhang has never competed in this tournament before.

Zura Tkemaladze

Ranked no. 734, Tkemaladze got to the qualifications after beating Ray Ho 6-4 6-4.

In the qualifications, The Georgean had a good straight sets win against Ho (6-4 6-4). During the match Tkemaladze scored 79 points vs Ho’s 68. The Georgean was very aggressive to blast 28 winners.

Talking about serving, Tkemaladze couldn’t to score even 1 ace for the entire match and he committed only 2 double faults. Zura Tkemaladze was quite efficient on serve to win 72% (28/39) of his 1st serve and 67% (16/24) on the second serve. This was the main reason for not conceding a single break during the match. Zura broke Ho twice after converting 13% of his break points (2/15).

Tkemaladze’s best result of the current season was reaching the final in M15 Tashkent.

The Georgean has a compiled 23-24 win-loss record in 2024, 18-15 on hard (See FULL STATS).

H2H Performance in the tournament

Matches, sets, games and points

Points	Zhang	Tkemaladze
Match played	1	1
Tot Set	3	2
Tot Games	26	20
Pts	83-67	79-68
Total Points	150	147
Winners	29	28
%Winners	35%	35%

Both Zhang and Tkemaladze played 1 match. Also both players started their run from the qualifications.At the moment, Tianhui Zhang dropped 1 set while Zura Tkemaladze hasn’t lost a set so far. Zhang has played 1 set more than Tkemaladze (3 vs 2). Therefore, Zhang played 6 games more than Tkemaladze. Tianhui scored 29 winners (35% of the total points). On the other side, Tkemaladze fired 28 winners (35%).

Serve Performance

Serve	Zhang	Tkemaladze
Aces	6	0
Avg per match	6	0
1st in	38/66	39/63
%1st in	58%	62%
1st pts	29/38	28/39
%1st pts	76%	72%
2nd pts	17/28	16/24
%2nd pts	61%	67%

Zhang fired 6 aces . Tkemaladze didn’t manage to fire a single ace to far. Zhang won 76% points on his first serve. He pretty effective on his second serve to win 61% of the points. On the other side, Tkemaladze won 72% of the points behind his first serve. He had a solid display on his second serve to win 67% of the points.

How they played the important points

Breaks	Zhang	Tkemaladze
Won	5	2
Converted	5/11	2/15
% Converted	45%	13%
Conceded	2	1
Saved	0	1
% Saved	0%	100%
Times Broken	2	0

The Chinese broke his opponent 5 times with a 45% conversion rate. The Chinese lost his serve twice and he saved 0% of the break points that he conceded. Tkemaladze broke his opponent twice with a 13% conversion rate. Zura was rock solid on his serve as he has never conceded a single service game after saving 1 break points.

Zhang
	Q1 Huang	Total
Score	6-2 4-6 6-2
Tot Set	3	3
Tot Games	26	26
pts	83-67	83-67
Total points	150	150
Winners	29	29
%Winners	35%	35%
SERVE
Aces	6	6
Double Faults	6	6
1st in	38/66	38/66
% 1st in	58%	58%
1st pts	29/38	29/38
% 1st pts	76%	76%
2nd pts	17/28	17/28
% 2nd pts	61%	61%
Breaks
Won	5	5
Converted	5/11	5/11
Converted %	45%	45%
Conceded	2	2
Saved	0/2	0
Saved %	0%	0%
Times Broken	2	2

Tkemaladze
	Q1 Ho	Total
Score	6-4 6-4
Tot Set	2	2
Tot Games	20	20
pts	79-68	79-68
Total points	147	147
Winners	28	28
%Winners	35%	35%
SERVE
Aces	0	0
Double Faults	2	2
1st in	39/63	39/63
% 1st in	62%	62%
1st pts	28/39	28/39
% 1st pts	72%	72%
2nd pts	16/24	16/24
% 2nd pts	67%	67%
Breaks
Won	2	2
Converted	2/15	2/15
Converted %	13%	13%
Conceded	1	1
Saved	1/1	1
Saved %	100%	100%
Times Broken	0	0

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