
Yibing Wu and Michael Zheng will clash against each other in the quarter of the Cary Challenger for the 2nd time in their career. They are scheduled to play on Friday at 4:00 pm on COURT 13. 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 Yibing Wu who should win in 2 sets.
As per the initial odds, Yibing Wu is the pick to win this match.
Yibing Wu -> 1.4
Michael Zheng -> 2.77
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Prediction and head to head Yibing Wu vs. Michael Zheng
This will be the 2nd time that Yibing Wu and Michael Zheng play each other. The head to head is 1-0 for Wu (see full H2H stats), but they have never competed against each other on hard.
The last time that they played, Wu won 7-6(4) 7-5 in the final in M15 Orange Park back in 2022.
Yibing Wu
Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
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2025 | 18-5 | 16-3 | 2-2 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
2024 | 9-5 | 7-4 | 2-1 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
2023 | 18-17 | 5-7 | 3-5 | 9-1 | 1-4 | 0-0 |
2022 | 40-7 | 20-5 | 10-2 | 10-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
2021 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
Ranked no. 285, Yibing reached the quarter after beating Ian Mayew 6-3 6-3 and Kaylan Bigun 7-5 6-2.
In the 2nd round, Wu had a good straight sets win against Bigun (7-5 6-2). During the match, Wu scored 73 points vs Bigun’s 54. The Chinese was extremely aggressive to blast 22 winners.
Talking about the service games, Wu scored just 1 ace during the match and he committed only 5 double faults. Overall, Yibing Wu was quite efficient on serve to win 81% (22/27) of his 1st serve and 52% (14/27) on the second serve. However, this didn’t prevent his to concede the serve twice. Wu broke Bigun 5 times after converting 45% of his break points (5/11).
Overall Performance in this tournament
Wu hasn’t lost yet a set in this competition to conquer 57% of the points he played.
Wu has a solid record in the last 8 years having won 64% of his matches (131-74). 9-1 on hard in 2025. Regarding his performance on the same surface of this tournament, Wu has an aggregate78-48 win-loss record in the last 8 years on hard.
His best result of the year was winning the title the Tyler Challenger where he defeated Yi Zhou in the final 6-4 3-6 6-3.
Wu has a compiled 11-3 win-loss record in 2025, 9-1 on hard (See FULL STATS).
Previously in the Cary Challenger
Yibing has never competed in this tournament before.
Michael Zheng
Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
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2025 | 11-6 | 9-4 | 0-0 | 2-1 | 0-1 | 0-0 |
2024 | 9-6 | 9-5 | 0-1 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
2023 | 13-11 | 13-10 | 0-0 | 0-1 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
2022 | 11-6 | 2-1 | 9-5 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
2021 | 7-5 | 1-1 | 3-2 | 3-2 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
Ranked no. 498 (career-high), Zheng got to the quarter after defeating Alexander Henry Visser 6-4 6-4, Will Mayew 6-1 6-0, Omar Jasika 6-2 6-2 and Daniil Glinka 6-4 6-4.
In the 2nd round, Michael had a good straight sets win against Glinka (6-4 6-4). During the match Zheng scored 74 points vs Glinka’s 65. Michael was exceptionally aggressive to blast 32 winners.
About the serving games, Zheng fired 4 aces and he was extremely steady in conceding no double faults for the entire match. Michael Zheng lost the serve twice and he saved 12 break points. Furthermore, Zheng put 63% of his first serves in, winning 64% (32/50) of the points behind his 1st serve and 52% (15/29) on the 2nd serve. Michael broke Glinka 4 times after converting 57% of his break points (4/7).
Overall Performance in this tournament
Michael started his run at this tournament from the qualifications. In the main draw, he hasn’t surrendered yet a set in this competition to win 58% of the points he played.
Zheng’s best result of the season was getting to the final in the Little Rock Challenger.
The American has a compiled 10-3 win-loss record in 2025, 8-2 on hard (See FULL STATS).
H2H Performance in the tournament (main draw)
Matches, sets, games and points
Points | Wu | Zheng |
---|---|---|
Match played | 2 | 4 |
Tot Set | 4 | 8 |
Tot Games | 38 | 69 |
Pts | 140-106 | 259-186 |
Total Points | 246 | 445 |
Winners | 42 | 101 |
%Winners | 30% | 39% |
Wu played 2 matches while Zheng competed in 4 matches. Zheng started his run from the qualifications while Wu had a direct access to the main draw. Both players have not lost a single set in this event so far. Wu has played 4 set(s) less than Zheng (4 vs 8). Therefore, Wu played 31 games less than Zheng. Wu scored 42 winners (30% of the total points). On the other side, The American recorded 101 winners (39%).
Serve Performance
Serve | Wu | Zheng |
---|---|---|
Aces | 5 | 13 |
Avg per match | 2.5 | 3.3 |
1st in | 51/107 | 140/220 |
%1st in | 48% | 64% |
1st pts | 42/51 | 101/140 |
%1st pts | 82% | 72% |
2nd pts | 30/56 | 46/80 |
%2nd pts | 54% | 58% |
Wu made 5 aces (2.5 per match). Zheng scored 13 aces (3.3 per match). Wu won 82% points behind his first serve. He pretty effective on his second serve to win 54% of the points. On the other side, Zheng won 72% of the points behind his first serve. He had a solid display on his second serve to win 58% of the points.
How they played the important points
Breaks | Wu | Zheng |
---|---|---|
Won | 9 | 17 |
Converted | 9/21 | 17/36 |
% Converted | 43% | 47% |
Conceded | 8 | 20 |
Saved | 5 | 16 |
% Saved | 63% | 80% |
Times Broken | 3 | 4 |
Wu broke his opponents 9 times with a 43% conversion rate. Wu surrendered his serve 3 times and he saved 63% of the break points that he conceded. The American broke his opponents 17 times with a 47% conversion rate. Zheng conceded his serve 4 times and he saved 80% of the break points that he conceded.
Wu | ||||
R1 Mayew |
R2 Bigun |
Total | ||
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Score | 6-3 6-3 | 7-5 6-2 | ||
Tot Set | 2 | 2 | 4 | |
Tot Games | 18 | 20 | 38 | |
pts | 67-52 | 73-54 | 140-106 | |
Total points | 119 | 127 | 246 | |
Winners | 20 | 22 | 42 | |
%Winners | 30% | 30% | 30% | |
SERVE | ||||
Aces | 4 | 1 | 5 | |
Double Faults | 3 | 5 | 8 | |
1st in | 24/53 | 27/54 | 51/107 | |
% 1st in | 45% | 50% | 48% | |
1st pts | 20/24 | 22/27 | 42/51 | |
% 1st pts | 83% | 81% | 82% | |
2nd pts | 16/29 | 14/27 | 30/56 | |
% 2nd pts | 55% | 52% | 54% | |
Breaks | ||||
Won | 4 | 5 | 9 | |
Converted | 4/10 | 5/11 | 9/21 | |
Converted % | 40% | 45% | 43% | |
Conceded | 5 | 3 | 8 | |
Saved | 4/5 | 1/3 | 5 | |
Saved % | 80% | 33% | 57% | |
Times Broken | 1 | 2 | 3 |
Zheng | ||||||
Q1 Henry |
Q3 Mayew |
R1 Jasika |
R2 Glinka |
Total | ||
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Score | 6-4 6-4 | 6-1 6-0 | 6-2 6-2 | 6-4 6-4 | ||
Tot Set | 2 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 8 | |
Tot Games | 20 | 13 | 16 | 20 | 69 | |
pts | 68-55 | 58-28 | 59-38 | 74-65 | 259-186 | |
Total points | 123 | 86 | 97 | 139 | 445 | |
Winners | 24 | 22 | 23 | 32 | 101 | |
%Winners | 35% | 38% | 39% | 43% | 39% | |
SERVE | ||||||
Aces | 2 | 5 | 2 | 4 | 13 | |
Double Faults | 2 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 5 | |
1st in | 33/57 | 25/35 | 32/49 | 50/79 | 140/220 | |
% 1st in | 58% | 71% | 65% | 63% | 64% | |
1st pts | 24/33 | 22/25 | 23/32 | 32/50 | 101/140 | |
% 1st pts | 73% | 88% | 72% | 64% | 72% | |
2nd pts | 15/24 | 6/10 | 10/17 | 15/29 | 46/80 | |
% 2nd pts | 63% | 60% | 59% | 52% | 58% | |
Breaks | ||||||
Won | 3 | 5 | 5 | 4 | 17 | |
Converted | 3/7 | 5/11 | 5/11 | 4/7 | 17/36 | |
Converted % | 43% | 45% | 45% | 57% | 47% | |
Conceded | 3 | 0 | 3 | 14 | 20 | |
Saved | 2/3 | 0/0 | 2/3 | 12/14 | 16 | |
Saved % | 67% | – | 67% | 86% | 110% | |
Times Broken | 1 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 4 |
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