Alexander Zverev and Karen Khachanov will fight against each other in the 4^th round of the Cincinnati Open for the 9^th time in their career. They are scheduled to play on Wednesday at 5:00 pm on COURT 3. In this post, we analyze their head to head performance and prediction.

Prediction, odds and live streaming

The pick for Tennis Tonic is Alexander Zverev who should win in 2 sets.

As per the initial odds, Alexander Zverev is the pick to win this match.
Alexander Zverev -> 1.44
Karen Khachanov -> 2.79

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Prediction and head to head Alexander Zverev vs. Karen Khachanov

This will be the 9^th time that Alexander Zverev and Karen Khachanov clash against each other. The head to head is 5-3 for Zverev (see full H2H stats), 3-2 on hard.

The last time that they played each other, Khachanov won 6-3 4-6 7-6(4) in the semifinal in Toronto back in August 2025.

Highlights Karen Khachanov vs Alexander Zverev – Toronto 06-August-2025

Alexander Zverev

Ranked no. 3, Alexander reached the 4^th round after beating Nishesh Basavareddy 6-3 6-3 and Brandon Nakashima 6-4 6-4.

In the 3^rd round, Zverev had a good straight sets win against Nakashima (6-4 6-4). During the match, Zverev scored 65 points vs Nakashima’s 55. The German was extremely aggressive to blast 33 winners.

Regarding the service games, Zverev made 12 aces and he committed only 2 double faults. Alexander Zverev was quite efficient on serve to win 75% (33/44) of his 1st serve and 59% (10/17) on the second serve. This was the main reason for not conceding a single break during the match. Zverev broke Nakashima twice after converting 50% of his break points (2/4).

Overall Performance in this tournament

Alexander hasn’t lost yet a set in this event to conquer 55% of the points he played.

Zverev has a marvellous record in the last 10 years having won 72% of his matches (486-189). 17-5 on hard in 2025. Talking about his performance on the same surface of this tournament, Zverev has an aggregate 196-80 match record in the last years on hard.

His best result of the year was winning the title in Munich where he defeated Ben Shelton in the final 6-2 6-4.

Zverev has an overall 41-15 win-loss record in 2025, 17-5 on hard (See FULL STATS).

Previously in Cincinnati

Karen Khachanov

Ranked no. 12, Karen reached the 4^th round after defeating Valentin Royer 6-4 7-6(6) and Jenson Brooksby 6-3 6-3.

In the 3^rd round, Khachanov had a good straight sets win against Brooksby (6-3 6-3). During the match Khachanov scored 63 points vs Brooksby’s 47. Khachanov was very aggressive to blast 23 winners.

Talking about serving, Khachanov struck 2 aces and he was very solid in conceding no double faults for the entire match. Overall, Karen Khachanov was quite efficient on serve to win 72% (23/32) of his 1st serve and 62% (16/26) on the second serve. However, this didn’t prevent his to concede the serve once. Khachanov broke Brooksby 4 times after converting 57% of his break points (4/7).

Overall Performance in this tournament

The Russian hasn’t dropped yet a set in the tournament to win 55% of the points he played.

Karen’s best result of the current year was reaching the final in Toronto.

The Russian has an aggregate 29-17 win-loss record in 2025, 12-7 on hard (See FULL STATS).

Previously in Cincinnati

Previously, his best result was reaching the 3^rd round in 2017, 2018, 2019 and 2020. See his history.

H2H Performance in the tournament (main draw)

Matches, sets, games and points

Points	Zverev	Khachanov
Match played	2	2
Tot Set	4	4
Tot Games	38	41
Pts	122-99	145-120
Total Points	221	265
Winners	65	53
%Winners	53%	37%

Both Zverev and Khachanov played 2 matches. Both players have not conceded a single set in this event so far. Talking about their workload, Zverev and Khachanov have played the same amount of sets 4. However, Zverev played 3 games less than Khachanov. Alexander scored 65 winners (53% of the total points). On the other side, The Russian fired 53 winners (37%).

Serve Performance

Serve	Zverev	Khachanov
Aces	24	9
Avg per match	12	4.5
1st in	85/111	73/121
%1st in	77%	60%
1st pts	65/85	53/73
%1st pts	76%	73%
2nd pts	14/26	29/48
%2nd pts	54%	60%

Zverev recorded 24 aces (12 per match). Khachanov blasted 9 aces (4.5 per match). Zverev won 76% points behind his first serve. He had a solid display on his second serve to win 54% of the points. On the other side, Khachanov won 73% of the points on his first serve. He had a solid display on his second serve to win 60% of the points.

How they played the important points

Breaks	Zverev	Khachanov
Won	5	7
Converted	5/7	7/18
% Converted	71%	39%
Conceded	4	6
Saved	4	3
% Saved	100%	50%
Times Broken	0	3

The German broke his opponents 5 times with a 71% conversion rate. The German pretty effective on his serve as he has never dropped a single service game after saving 4 break points. Karen broke his opponents 7 times with a 39% conversion rate. Karen conceded his serve 3 times and he saved 50% of the break points that he conceded.

Zverev
	R2 Basavareddy	R3 Nakashima	Total
Score	6-3 6-3	6-4 6-4
Tot Set	2	2	4
Tot Games	18	20	38
pts	57-44	65-55	122-99
Total points	101	120	221
Winners	32	33	65
%Winners	56%	51%	53%
SERVE
Aces	12	12	24
Double Faults	1	2	3
1st in	41/50	44/61	85/111
% 1st in	82%	72%	77%
1st pts	32/41	33/44	65/85
% 1st pts	78%	75%	76%
2nd pts	4/9	10/17	14/26
% 2nd pts	44%	59%	54%
Breaks
Won	3	2	5
Converted	3/3	2/4	5/7
Converted %	100%	50%	71%
Conceded	0	4	4
Saved	0/0	4/4	4
Saved %	–	100%	50%
Times Broken	0	0	0

Khachanov
	R2 Royer	R3 Brooksby	Total
Score	6-4 7-66	6-3 6-3
Tot Set	2	2	4
Tot Games	23	18	41
pts	82-73	63-47	145-120
Total points	155	110	265
Winners	30	23	53
%Winners	37%	37%	37%
SERVE
Aces	7	2	9
Double Faults	0	0	0
1st in	41/63	32/58	73/121
% 1st in	65%	55%	60%
1st pts	30/41	23/32	53/73
% 1st pts	73%	72%	73%
2nd pts	13/22	16/26	29/48
% 2nd pts	59%	62%	60%
Breaks
Won	3	4	7
Converted	3/11	4/7	7/18
Converted %	27%	57%	39%
Conceded	3	3	6
Saved	1/3	2/3	3
Saved %	33%	67%	50%
Times Broken	2	1	3

Tennis Scores in Cincinnati

• Holger RuneRune – Frances TiafoeTiafoe (6-4 3-1 ret.) – Stats, scores, rankings

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