Zhizhen Zhang and Aslan Karatsev will play each other in the 1st round of the Almaty Open for the 4th time in their career. They are scheduled to play on Tuesday at 6:30 pm on COURT 1. Here the head to head stats and relative prediction.
Prediction, odds and live streaming
The pick for Tennis Tonic is Zhizhen Zhang who should win in 3 sets.
Zhizhen Zhang -> 1.61
Aslan Karatsev -> 2.32
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Prediction and head to head Zhizhen Zhang vs. Aslan Karatsev
This will be the 4th time that Zhizhen Zhang and Aslan Karatsev clash against each other. The head to head is 2-1 for Karatsev (see full H2H stats), but Zhang leads 1-0 on indoor hard courts.
The last time that they played each other, Karatsev won 6-3 6-4 in the 2nd round in Tokyo back in 2023.
Zhizhen Zhang
24 - 25win/loss
46
31
| Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 24-25 | 9-12 | 9-7 | 2-2 | 4-4 | 0-0 |
| 2023 | 30-29 | 12-13 | 15-10 | 1-2 | 2-4 | 0-0 |
| 2022 | 52-28 | 11-5 | 31-11 | 9-11 | 1-1 | 0-0 |
| 2021 | 15-12 | 1-1 | 9-6 | 0-1 | 5-4 | 0-0 |
| 2020 | 1-6 | 1-6 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
Ranked no. 46, Zhang will start his run in Almaty after he played his last match in Shanghai where he lost 6-4 6-3
to Bergs in the 1st round on the 3rd of October.Zhizhen has an aggregate 24-25 win-loss record in 2024, 2-2 on indoor hard courts (See FULL STATS).
Zhang’s best result of the current season was getting to the final in Hangzhou.
Talking about his overall career, The Chinese has an overall 299-241 record. He has a negative 12-17 record on indoor hard courts.
Previously in Almaty
Previously, his best result was reaching the 2nd round in 2022. See his history.
Aslan Karatsev
9 - 15win/loss
139
14
| Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 9-15 | 6-9 | 1-4 | 2-0 | 0-2 | 0-0 |
| 2023 | 32-22 | 13-10 | 14-5 | 2-3 | 3-4 | 0-0 |
| 2022 | 18-31 | 8-9 | 5-9 | 4-10 | 1-3 | 0-0 |
| 2021 | 37-20 | 23-9 | 9-6 | 4-3 | 1-2 | 0-0 |
| 2020 | 36-11 | 7-4 | 17-2 | 12-5 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
Ranked no. 139, Aslan got to the 1st round after defeating Filip Misolic 6-2 7-5 and Alejandro Moro Canas 6-4 6-3.
In the qualifications, Aslan had a good straight sets win against Moro Canas (6-4 6-3). During the match Karatsev scored 62 points vs Moro Canas’s 48. Karatsev was pretty aggressive to blast 26 winners.
About the serving games, Karatsev recorded 5 aces and he was exceptionally solid in conceding no double faults for the entire match. Aslan Karatsev lost the serve once and he saved 1 break points. Furthermore, Karatsev put 60% of his first serves in, winning 90% (26/29) of the points behind his 1st serve and 42% (8/19) on the 2nd serve. Karatsev broke Moro Canas 4 times after converting 67% of his break points (4/6).
Overall Performance in this tournament
Aslan started his run at this tournament from the qualifications. In the main draw, he hasn’t surrendered yet a set in this tournament to conquer 58% of the points he played.
Karatsev has a compiled 9-15 win-loss record in 2024, 2-0 on indoor hard courts (See FULL STATS).
Tennis Scores in Almaty
- Borna CoricCoric – Fabian MarozsanMarozsan (6-4 7-64) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Maximilian MartererMarterer – Damir DzumhurDzumhur (7-5 6-4) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Alexander Shevchenko/Timofey SkatovShevchenko/Timofey Skatov – Evan King/Reese StalderKing/Reese Stalder (6-1 7-65) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Justin EngelEngel – Chak Lam Coleman WongLam Coleman Wong (7-5 6-4) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Jakob Schnaitter/Mark WallnerSchnaitter/Mark Wallner – Yuki Bhambri/Albano OlivettiBhambri/Albano Olivetti (6-4 6-4) – Stats, scores, rankings
Upcoming matches in the draw
- James DuckworthDuckworth – Aleksandar VukicVukic (1-1) – H2H and prediction
- Taro DanielDaniel – Daniel EvansEvans (2-3) – H2H and prediction
- Maximilian MartererMarterer – Alejandro TabiloTabilo (1-1) – H2H and prediction
- Christopher O ConnellO Connell – Gabriel DialloDiallo (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Zhizhen ZhangZhang – Aslan KaratsevKaratsev (1-2) – H2H and prediction
- Roman SafiullinSafiullin – Adrian MannarinoMannarino (0-2) – H2H and prediction
- Benjamin HassanHassan – Beibit ZhukayevZhukayev (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Otto VirtanenVirtanen – Fabio FogniniFognini (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Timofey SkatovSkatov – Tomas MachacMachac (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Alexander ShevchenkoShevchenko – Mikhail KukushkinKukushkin (0-1) – H2H and prediction