Zhizhen Zhang and Luca Nardi will square off in the 1st round of the Qatar ExxonMobil Open for the 2nd time in their career. They are scheduled to compete on Tuesday at 2:30 pm on GRANDSTAND 2. In the following paragraphs, you can find the head to head analysis and prediction.
Prediction, odds and live streaming
The pick for Tennis Tonic is Zhizhen Zhang who should win in 2 sets.
As per the initial odds, Zhizhen Zhang is the pick to win this match.
Zhizhen Zhang -> 1.44
Luca Nardi -> 2.79
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Prediction and head to head Zhizhen Zhang vs. Luca Nardi
This will be the 2nd time that Zhizhen Zhang and Luca Nardi clash against each other. The head to head is 1-0 for Nardi (see full H2H stats), 1-0 on hard.
The last time that they played each other, Nardi won 6-3 3-6 6-3 in the 2nd round in Indian wells back in 2024.
Zhizhen Zhang
| Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 3-9 | 1-7 | 0-0 | 2-2 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2024 | 24-28 | 9-12 | 9-7 | 2-5 | 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 |
Ranked no. 49, the Chinese will start his run in Doha after he played his last match in Marseille where he lost 7-5 ret. to Bergs in the quarter on the 14th of February.
Zhang has a compiled 3-6 win-loss record in 2025, 1-4 on hard (See FULL STATS).
Talking about his overall career, Zhizhen has an overall 302-250 record. He has a positive 153-134 record on hard.
Previously in Doha
Previously, his best result was reaching the 2nd round in 2024. See his history.
Luca Nardi
| Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 16-14 | 9-8 | 1-3 | 6-3 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2024 | 32-27 | 14-14 | 8-5 | 9-4 | 1-4 | 0-0 |
| 2023 | 41-36 | 20-10 | 8-13 | 12-12 | 1-1 | 0-0 |
| 2022 | 33-20 | 5-2 | 11-10 | 17-8 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2021 | 33-24 | 3-3 | 26-13 | 4-8 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
Ranked no. 85, the Italian reached the 1st round after defeating Yasutaka Uchiyama 6-4 6-4 and Mikhail Kukushkin 6-4 6-4.
In the qualifications, Nardi had a good straight sets win against Kukushkin (6-4 6-4). During the match Nardi scored 73 points vs Kukushkin’s 67. Luca was pretty aggressive to blast 26 winners.
Talking about serving, Nardi blasted 4 aces and he committed only 2 double faults. Luca Nardi lost the serve 3 times and he saved 5 break points. Furthermore, Nardi put 64% of his first serves in, winning 59% (26/44) of the points behind his 1st serve and 52% (13/25) on the 2nd serve. Nardi broke Kukushkin 5 times after converting 45% of his break points (5/11).
Overall Performance in this tournament
The Italian started his run at this tournament from the qualifications. In the main draw, he hasn’t lost yet a set in this tournament to win 54% of the points he played.
Nardi’s best result of the current year was getting to the final in the Koblenz Challenger.
The Italian has a composed 11-5 win-loss record in 2025, 5-2 on hard (See FULL STATS).
Previously in Doha
Nardi has never competed in this tournament before.
Head 2 Head
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- Fabian MarozsanMarozsan – Aziz DougazDougaz (7-5 6-3) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Christopher O ConnellO Connell – Hady HabibHabib (7-67 7-63) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Jiri LeheckaLehecka – Grigor DimitrovDimitrov (6-4 6-4) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Harri Heliovaara/Henry PattenHeliovaara/Henry Patten – Tallon Griekspoor/Adam PavlasekGriekspoor/Adam Pavlasek (7-64 6-3) – Stats, scores, rankings
Upcoming matches in the draw
- Novak DjokovicDjokovic – Matteo BerrettiniBerrettini (4-0) – H2H and prediction
- Jan-Lennard StruffStruff – Tallon GriekspoorGriekspoor (0-2) – H2H and prediction
- Botic Van De ZandschulpVan De Zandschulp – (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Quentin HalysHalys – Felix Auger AliassimeAuger Aliassime (0-1) – H2H and prediction
- Karen KhachanovKhachanov – Daniil MedvedevMedvedev (2-5) – H2H and prediction
- Zhizhen ZhangZhang – (0-1) – H2H and prediction
- Roman SafiullinSafiullin – Alex De MinaurDe Minaur (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Andrey RublevRublev – Alexander BublikBublik (4-3) – H2H and prediction
- Stefanos TsitsipasTsitsipas – (1-0) – H2H and prediction
- Alexei PopyrinPopyrin – Jack DraperDraper (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Zizou BergsBergs – Roberto Bautista AgutBautista Agut (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Fabian MarozsanMarozsan – Jiri LeheckaLehecka (1-0) – H2H and prediction
- Otto VirtanenVirtanen – Nuno BorgesBorges (2-0) – H2H and prediction
- Carlos Alcaraz GarfiaAlcaraz Garfia – Marin CilicCilic (3-1) – H2H and prediction
