Rodrigo Pacheco Mendez and Evan Zhu will clash against each other in the 1st round of the Manzanillo Challenger for the 2nd time in their career. They are scheduled to play on Tuesday at 7:00 pm on CANCHA CENTRAL. In the following lines you can find the head to head analysis and prediction.
Prediction, odds and live streaming
The pick for Tennis Tonic is Rodrigo Pacheco Mendez who should win in 3 sets.
Rodrigo Pacheco Mendez -> 1.44
Evan Zhu -> 2.625
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Prediction and head to head Rodrigo Pacheco Mendez vs. Evan Zhu
This will be the 2nd time that Rodrigo Pacheco Mendez and Evan Zhu clash against each other. The head to head is 1-0 for Zhu (see full H2H stats), 1-0 on hard.
The last time that they competed against each other, Zhu won 6-3 4-6 6-4 in the final in M15 Guatemala back in November 2024.
Rodrigo Pacheco Mendez
37 - 26win/loss
379
379
| Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 37-26 | 21-11 | 12-14 | 4-1 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2023 | 13-15 | 6-6 | 7-9 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2022 | 3-9 | 1-4 | 2-5 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
Ranked no. 379 (career-high), Rodrigo will start his run in the Manzanillo Challenger after he played his last match in the Puerto Vallarta Challenger where he lost 4-6 6-3 6-3 to Carlos Alvarez in the 2nd round on the 21st of November.
The Mexican has a composed 37-26 win-loss record in 2024, 21-11 on hard (See FULL STATS).
Pacheco Mendez’s best result of the season was getting to the final in M25 Xalapa,M15 Villahermosa,M15 Guatemala and M15 Morelia.
Talking about his overall career, The Mexican has an overall 53-50 record. He has a positive 28-21 record on hard.
Previously in the Manzanillo Challenger
Pacheco Mendez has never competed in this tournament before.
Evan Zhu
| Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 20-19 | 18-13 | 1-4 | 1-2 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2023 | 31-32 | 21-21 | 9-7 | 1-3 | 0-1 | 0-0 |
| 2022 | 44-31 | 14-13 | 25-12 | 5-5 | 0-1 | 0-0 |
| 2021 | 13-20 | 9-15 | 4-4 | 0-1 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2020 | 11-6 | 5-3 | 6-2 | 0-1 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
Ranked no. 724, Evan reached the 1st round after defeating Santiago Ledesma 6-1 6-1 and Credit Chaiyarin 6-3 6-1.
In the qualifications, Evan had a good straight sets win against Chaiyarin (6-3 6-1). During the match Zhu scored 66 points vs Chaiyarin’s 47. The American was extremely aggressive to blast 33 winners.
Talking about serving, Zhu scored just 1 ace during the entire match and he committed only 2 double faults. Evan Zhu conceded no breaks for the entire match to save 5 break points. Furthermore, Zhu put 78% of his first serves in, winning 66% (33/50) of the points behind his 1st serve and 64% (9/14) on the 2nd serve. Zhu broke Chaiyarin 4 times after converting 67% of his break points (4/6).
Overall Performance in this tournament
Zhu started his run at this tournament from the qualifications. In the main draw, he hasn’t surrendered yet a set in this event to win 62% of the points he played.
The American’s best result of the season was reaching the final in M15 Guatemala.
The American has an aggregate 20-19 win-loss record in 2024, 18-13 on hard (See FULL STATS).
Tennis Scores in Manzanillo Challenger
- Strong KirchheimerKirchheimer – Kiranpal PannuPannu (6-0 5-7 7-62) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Neil OberleitnerOberleitner – Guillermo DelgadilloDelgadillo (6-1 6-2) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Justin EngelEngel – Valerio AboianAboian (6-72 6-4 6-3) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Goncalo OliveiraOliveira – Bor ArtnakArtnak (6-4 6-1) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Felix CorwinCorwin – Andre IlaganIlagan (7-5 6-3) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Aziz DougazDougaz – Keegan SmithSmith (6-2 6-1) – Stats, scores, rankings
Upcoming matches in the draw
- Ernesto EscobedoEscobedo – (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Michael GeertsGeerts – Juan Hernandez SerranoHernandez Serrano (0-1) – H2H and prediction
- Alfredo PerezPerez – Mats RosenkranzRosenkranz (1-1) – H2H and prediction
- Felix CorwinCorwin – Goncalo OliveiraOliveira (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Evan ZhuZhu – (1-0) – H2H and prediction
- Karl PolingPoling – Matt KuharKuhar (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Noah SchachterSchachter – Alan MagadanMagadan (0-1) – H2H and prediction