Tianhui Zhang and Philip Sekulic will face off in the 1^st round of the Shenzhen Challenger for the 1^st time in their career. They are scheduled to compete on Tuesday at 12:30 pm on COURT 3. Here the head to head stats and relative prediction.

Prediction, odds and live streaming

The pick for Tennis Tonic is Philip Sekulic who should win in 3 sets.

As per the initial odds, Philip Sekulic is the pick to win this match.
Philip Sekulic -> 1.41
Tianhui Zhang -> 2.73

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Prediction and head to head Tianhui Zhang vs. Philip Sekulic

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

Tianhui Zhang

Currently unranked, the Chinese got to the 1^st round after defeating Tsung-Hao Huang 6-2 4-6 6-2 and Zura Tkemaladze 7-5 6-2.

In the qualifications, Zhang had a good straight sets win against Tkemaladze (7-5 6-2). During the match, Zhang scored 80 points vs Tkemaladze’s 63. Tianhui was exceptionally aggressive to blast 31 winners.

Talking about the service games, Zhang fired 6 aces and he committed only 4 double faults. Tianhui Zhang lost the serve twice and he saved 6 break points. Furthermore, Zhang put 68% of his first serves in, winning 70% (31/44) of the points behind his 1st serve and 48% (10/21) on the 2nd serve. Tianhui broke Tkemaladze 5 times after converting 31% of his break points (5/16).

Overall Performance in this tournament

The Chinese started his run at this tournament from the qualifications. In the main draw, he has lost 1 set in this event to win 56% of the points he played.

Zhang has won exactly 50% of his matches (12-12) in the last 2 years. 9-7 on hard in 2024. Regarding his performance on the same surface of this tournament, Zhang has a composed12-12 record in the last 2 years on hard.

Zhang’s best result of the season was getting to the semifinal in M25 Fuzhou.

Zhang has an overall 9-7 win-loss record in 2024, 9-7 on hard (See FULL STATS).

Previously in the Shenzhen Challenger

Tianhui has never competed in this tournament before.

Philip Sekulic

Ranked no. 361, the Australian will start his run in the Shenzhen Challenger after he played his last match in M25 Cairns where he lost 6-1 5-7 6-4 to Jasika in the semifinal on the 12^th

of October.

Philip has an aggregate 25-23 win-loss record in 2024, 25-19 on hard (See FULL STATS).

Sekulic’s best result of the current season was reaching the semifinal in the Wuxi Challenger,the Kachreti Challenger and M25 Cairns.

In terms of his career, Philip has an overall 101-80 record. He has a positive 87-64 record on hard.

Tennis Scores in Shenzhen Challenger

• Yan BaiBai – Yu Hsiou HsuHsiou Hsu (6-4 3-6 6-2) – Stats, scores, rankings
• Mukund SasikumarSasikumar – Petr Bar BiryukovBar Biryukov (6-1 3-6 6-2) – Stats, scores, rankings
• Linang XiaoXiao – Ye Cong MoCong Mo (6-1 6-4) – Stats, scores, rankings
• Saba PurtseladzePurtseladze – Xing Dao ChenDao Chen (6-3 6-1) – Stats, scores, rankings
• Billy HarrisHarris – Kasidit SamrejSamrej (6-4 6-7¹ 6-3) – Stats, scores, rankings

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