Yi Zhou and Liam Broady will play each other in the qualifications of the Matsuyama Challenger for the 1st time in their career. They are scheduled to compete on Monday at 10:00 am on COURT 8. In this post, we analyze their head to head performance and prediction.
Prediction, odds and live streaming
The pick for Tennis Tonic is Liam Broady who should win in 3 sets.
As per the initial odds, Liam Broady is the pick to win this match.
Liam Broady -> 1.45
Yi Zhou -> 2.59
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Prediction and head to head Yi Zhou vs. Liam Broady
There is no head to head record between Yi Zhou and Liam Broady since this will be the first time that they will square off in the main tour.
Yi Zhou
| Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 29-25 | 29-23 | 0-0 | 0-2 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2023 | 10-17 | 9-12 | 1-5 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2022 | 1-1 | 1-1 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
Ranked no. 381, Yi got to the qualifications after defeating Yuhei Kono 7-5 6-0.
In the qualifications, Zhou had a good straight sets win against Kono (7-5 6-0). During the match, Zhou scored 69 points vs Kono’s 39. Zhou was very aggressive to blast 23 winners.
Regarding the service games, Zhou managed to score 3 aces and he was pretty solid in conceding no double faults. Overall, Yi Zhou was quite effective on serve to win 79% (23/29) of his 1st serve and 65% (13/20) on the second serve. However, this didn’t prevent his to concede the serve once. Zhou broke Kono 5 times after converting 45% of his break points (5/11).
Zhou has a weak win-loss record in the last 3 years having won 49% of his matches (39-41). 28-22 on hard in 2024. In connection with his performance on the same surface of this event, Zhou has a compiled38-35 record in the last 3 years on hard.
The Chinese’s best result of the current season was reaching the final in M25 Luzhou,M15 Tianjin and M25 Tianjin.
Zhou has a composed 28-23 win-loss record in 2024, 28-22 on hard (See FULL STATS).
Previously in the Matsuyama Challenger
Zhou has never competed in this tournament before.
Liam Broady
| Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 10-18 | 8-13 | 0-0 | 2-3 | 0-2 | 0-0 |
| 2023 | 45-28 | 23-9 | 2-4 | 15-9 | 5-6 | 0-0 |
| 2022 | 36-25 | 16-9 | 2-5 | 10-5 | 8-6 | 0-0 |
| 2021 | 45-26 | 19-10 | 7-5 | 16-7 | 3-4 | 0-0 |
| 2020 | 19-14 | 2-4 | 9-4 | 8-6 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
Ranked no. 538, the Brit reached the qualifications after defeating Alexey Zakharov 7-6(4) 7-5.
In the qualifications, The Brit had a good straight sets win against Zakharov (7-64 7-5). During the match Broady scored 95 points vs Zakharov’s 86. Liam was quite aggressive to blast 31 winners.
About the serving games, Broady recorded 3 aces and he committed only 3 double faults. Liam Broady lost the serve 3 times and he saved 2 break points. Furthermore, Broady put 57% of his first serves in, winning 67% (31/46) of the points behind his 1st serve and 57% (20/35) on the 2nd serve. The Brit broke Zakharov 4 times after converting 31% of his break points (4/13).
Liam has an overall 10-17 win-loss record in 2024, 8-12 on hard (See FULL STATS).
H2H Performance in the tournament
Matches, sets, games and points
| Points | Zhou | Broady |
|---|---|---|
| Match played | 1 | 1 |
| Tot Set | 2 | 2 |
| Tot Games | 18 | 25 |
| Pts | 69-39 | 95-86 |
| Total Points | 108 | 181 |
| Winners | 23 | 31 |
| %Winners | 33% | 33% |
Both Zhou and Broady played 1 match. Also both players started their run from the qualifications.Both players have not dropped a single set in this event so far. Talking about their workload, Zhou and Broady have played the same amount of sets 2. However, Zhou played 7 games less than Broady. Yi scored 23 winners (33% of the total points). On the other side, Broady scored 31 winners (33%).
Serve Performance
| Serve | Zhou | Broady |
|---|---|---|
| Aces | 3 | 3 |
| Avg per match | 3 | 3 |
| 1st in | 29/49 | 46/81 |
| %1st in | 59% | 57% |
| 1st pts | 23/29 | 31/46 |
| %1st pts | 79% | 67% |
| 2nd pts | 13/20 | 20/35 |
| %2nd pts | 65% | 57% |
Zhou bagged 3 aces . Broady struck 3 aces . Zhou won 79% points on his first serve. He pretty solid on his second serve to win 65% of the points. On the other side, Broady won 67% of the points on his first serve. He had a solid display on his second serve to win 57% of the points.
How they played the important points
| Breaks | Zhou | Broady |
|---|---|---|
| Won | 5 | 4 |
| Converted | 5/11 | 4/13 |
| % Converted | 45% | 31% |
| Conceded | 1 | 5 |
| Saved | 0 | 2 |
| % Saved | 0% | 40% |
| Times Broken | 1 | 3 |
Yi broke his opponent 5 times with a 45% conversion rate. Yi dropped his serve once and he saved 0% of the break points that he conceded. Liam broke his opponent 4 times with a 31% conversion rate. Liam conceded his serve 3 times and he saved 40% of the break points that he conceded.
| Zhou | |||
| Q1 Kono |
Total | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Score | 7-5 6-0 | ||
| Tot Set | 2 | 2 | |
| Tot Games | 18 | 18 | |
| pts | 69-39 | 69-39 | |
| Total points | 108 | 108 | |
| Winners | 23 | 23 | |
| %Winners | 33% | 33% | |
| SERVE | |||
| Aces | 3 | 3 | |
| Double Faults | 0 | 0 | |
| 1st in | 29/49 | 29/49 | |
| % 1st in | 59% | 59% | |
| 1st pts | 23/29 | 23/29 | |
| % 1st pts | 79% | 79% | |
| 2nd pts | 13/20 | 13/20 | |
| % 2nd pts | 65% | 65% | |
| Breaks | |||
| Won | 5 | 5 | |
| Converted | 5/11 | 5/11 | |
| Converted % | 45% | 45% | |
| Conceded | 1 | 1 | |
| Saved | 0/1 | 0 | |
| Saved % | 0% | 0% | |
| Times Broken | 1 | 1 | |
| Broady | |||
| Q1 Zakharov |
Total | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Score | 7-64 7-5 | ||
| Tot Set | 2 | 2 | |
| Tot Games | 25 | 25 | |
| pts | 95-86 | 95-86 | |
| Total points | 181 | 181 | |
| Winners | 31 | 31 | |
| %Winners | 33% | 33% | |
| SERVE | |||
| Aces | 3 | 3 | |
| Double Faults | 3 | 3 | |
| 1st in | 46/81 | 46/81 | |
| % 1st in | 57% | 57% | |
| 1st pts | 31/46 | 31/46 | |
| % 1st pts | 67% | 67% | |
| 2nd pts | 20/35 | 20/35 | |
| % 2nd pts | 57% | 57% | |
| Breaks | |||
| Won | 4 | 4 | |
| Converted | 4/13 | 4/13 | |
| Converted % | 31% | 31% | |
| Conceded | 5 | 5 | |
| Saved | 2/5 | 2 | |
| Saved % | 40% | 40% | |
| Times Broken | 3 | 3 | |
Head 2 Head
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