Yi Zhou and Joshua Sheehy will face off in the 1st round of the Chicago Challenger for the 1st time in their career. They are scheduled to compete on Tuesday at 2:00 pm on COURT 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 Yi Zhou who should win in 2 sets.
Yi Zhou -> 1.28
Joshua Sheehy -> 3.4
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Prediction and head to head Yi Zhou vs. Joshua Sheehy
There is no head to head record between Yi Zhou and Joshua Sheehy since this will be the first time that they will fight against each other in the main tour.
Yi Zhou
| Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 25-27 | 25-27 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 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. 327, the Chinese will start his run in the Chicago Challenger after he played his last match in the Lexington Challenger where he lost 6-1 6-2 to Habib in the 1st round on the 29th of July.
Yi has a compiled 13-18 win-loss record in 2025, 13-18 on hard (See FULL STATS).
The Chinese’s best result of the season was getting to the final in the Tyler Challenger.
Talking about his overall career, Yi has an overall 53-61 record. He has a negative 52-54 record on hard.
Previously in the Chicago Challenger
The Chinese has never competed in this tournament before.
Joshua Sheehy
13 - 13win/loss
638
611
| Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 18-20 | 13-12 | 3-3 | 1-4 | 1-1 | 0-0 |
| 2024 | 23-27 | 19-21 | 0-2 | 4-4 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2023 | 39-28 | 30-20 | 2-2 | 7-6 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2022 | 12-19 | 9-15 | 3-4 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2021 | 22-23 | 21-20 | 0-1 | 1-2 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
Ranked no. 701, Sheehy reached the 1st round after defeating Alvin Nicholas Tudorica 7-5 6-2 and Trey Hilderbrand 6-3 7-6(0).
In the qualifications, Joshua had a good straight sets win against Hilderbrand (6-3 7-60). During the match Sheehy scored 67 points vs Hilderbrand’s 56. The American was extremely aggressive to blast 32 winners.
Talking about serving, Sheehy bagged 11 aces and he committed only 3 double faults. Overall, Joshua Sheehy was quite effective on serve to win 91% (32/35) of his 1st serve and 53% (16/30) on the second serve. However, this didn’t prevent his to concede the serve once. Sheehy broke Hilderbrand twice after converting 50% of his break points (2/4).
Overall Performance in this tournament
Joshua started his run at this tournament from the qualifications. In the main draw, he hasn’t dropped yet a set in this tournament to win 56% of the points he played.
The American has a compiled 13-12 win-loss record in 2025, 8-7 on hard (See FULL STATS).
Tennis Scores in Chicago Challenger
- Garrett JohnsJohns – Billy HarrisHarris (3-6 6-3 6-4) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Yibing WuWu – Andre IlaganIlagan (1-6 6-2 6-1) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Beibit ZhukayevZhukayev – Patrick MaloneyMaloney (4-6 6-3 6-4) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Naoki NakagawaNakagawa – Alfredo PerezPerez (6-4 6-3) – Stats, scores, rankings
Upcoming matches in the draw
- Jason JungJung – (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Alex BoltBolt – Tsung-Hao HuangHuang (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Yibing WuWu – Naoki NakagawaNakagawa (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- August HolmgrenHolmgren – Darian KingKing (1-0) – H2H and prediction
- Andrew FentyFenty – Yu Hsiou HsuHsiou Hsu (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Stefan DostanicDostanic – Bernard TomicTomic (0-1) – H2H and prediction