Daniel Evans and Michael Zheng will face off in the 2^nd round of the Lexington Challenger for the 1^st time in their career. They are scheduled to compete on Thursday at 10:00 am on STADIUM 1. Here the head to head stats and relative prediction.

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The pick for Tennis Tonic is Daniel Evans who should win in 3 sets.

As per the initial odds, Daniel Evans is the pick to win this match.
Daniel Evans -> 1.56
Michael Zheng -> 2.3

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Prediction and head to head Daniel Evans vs. Michael Zheng

There is no head to head record between Daniel Evans and Michael Zheng since this will be the first time that they will clash against each other in the main tour.

Daniel Evans

Ranked no. 129, Evans got to the 2^nd round after defeating Andres Andrade 6-3 6-3.

In the 1^st round, Daniel had a good straight sets win against Andrade (6-3 6-3). During the match, Evans scored 68 points vs Andrade’s 47. Evans was very aggressive to blast 25 winners.

Talking about the service games, Evans struck 5 aces and he committed only 6 double faults. Overall, Daniel Evans was very efficient on serve to win 83% (25/30) of his 1st serve and 52% (13/25) on the second serve. However, this didn’t prevent his to concede the serve once. The Brit broke Andrade 4 times after converting 36% of his break points (4/11).

Evans has favorable match record in the last 10 years having won 56% of his matches (277-216). 5-5 on hard in 2025. Talking about his performance on the same surface of this event, Evans has a compiled 136-100 win-loss record in the last years on hard.

Evans has a composed 19-20 win-loss record in 2025, 5-5 on hard (See FULL STATS).

Previously in the Lexington Challenger

Michael Zheng

Ranked no. 444 (career-high), the American reached the 2^nd round after defeating Andres Martin 6-4 6-4.

In the 1^st round, Michael had a good straight sets win against Martin (6-4 6-4). During the match Zheng scored 68 points vs Martin’s 53. The American was very aggressive to blast 30 winners.

About the serving games, Zheng made 4 aces and he was pretty steady in conceding no double faults for the entire match. Michael Zheng was quite efficient on serve to win 86% (30/35) of his 1st serve and 69% (11/16) on the second serve. This was the main reason for not conceding a single break during the match. Zheng broke Martin twice after converting 29% of his break points (2/7).

The American’s best result of the current year was reaching the final in the Little Rock Challenger.

Zheng has an overall 12-6 win-loss record in 2025, 10-4 on hard (See FULL STATS).

H2H Performance in the tournament

Matches, sets, games and points

Points	Evans	Zheng
Match played	1	1
Tot Set	2	2
Tot Games	18	20
Pts	68-47	68-53
Total Points	115	121
Winners	25	30
%Winners	37%	44%

Both Evans and Zheng played 1 match. Both players have not conceded a single set in this event so far. Talking about their workload, Evans and Zheng have played the same amount of sets 2. However, Evans played 2 games less than Zheng. Evans scored 25 winners (37% of the total points). On the other side, The American bagged 30 winners (44%).

Serve Performance

Serve	Evans	Zheng
Aces	5	4
Avg per match	5	4
1st in	30/55	35/51
%1st in	55%	69%
1st pts	25/30	30/35
%1st pts	83%	86%
2nd pts	13/25	11/16
%2nd pts	52%	69%

Evans blasted 5 aces . Zheng fired 4 aces . Evans won 83% points behind his first serve. He quite strong on his second serve to win 52% of the points. On the other side, Zheng won 86% of the points on his first serve. He had a solid display on his second serve to win 69% of the points.

How they played the important points

Breaks	Evans	Zheng
Won	4	2
Converted	4/11	2/7
% Converted	36%	29%
Conceded	3	3
Saved	2	3
% Saved	67%	100%
Times Broken	1	0

Daniel broke his opponent 4 times with a 36% conversion rate. The Brit conceded his serve once and he saved 67% of the break points that he conceded. Zheng broke his opponent twice with a 29% conversion rate. Zheng was rock solid on his serve as he has never conceded a single service game after saving 3 break points.

Evans
	R1 Andrade	Total
Score	6-3 6-3
Tot Set	2	2
Tot Games	18	18
pts	68-47	68-47
Total points	115	115
Winners	25	25
%Winners	37%	37%
SERVE
Aces	5	5
Double Faults	6	6
1st in	30/55	30/55
% 1st in	55%	55%
1st pts	25/30	25/30
% 1st pts	83%	83%
2nd pts	13/25	13/25
% 2nd pts	52%	52%
Breaks
Won	4	4
Converted	4/11	4/11
Converted %	36%	36%
Conceded	3	3
Saved	2/3	2
Saved %	67%	67%
Times Broken	1	1

Zheng
	R1 Martin	Total
Score	6-4 6-4
Tot Set	2	2
Tot Games	20	20
pts	68-53	68-53
Total points	121	121
Winners	30	30
%Winners	44%	44%
SERVE
Aces	4	4
Double Faults	0	0
1st in	35/51	35/51
% 1st in	69%	69%
1st pts	30/35	30/35
% 1st pts	86%	86%
2nd pts	11/16	11/16
% 2nd pts	69%	69%
Breaks
Won	2	2
Converted	2/7	2/7
Converted %	29%	29%
Conceded	3	3
Saved	3/3	3
Saved %	100%	100%
Times Broken	0	0

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