Bernard Tomic and Yaojie Zeng will clash against each other in the 1^st round of the Shanghai Challenger for the 1^st time in their career. They are scheduled to compete on Tuesday at 3:30 pm on COURT 5. 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 Bernard Tomic who should win in 2 sets.

As per the initial odds, Bernard Tomic is the pick to win this match.
Bernard Tomic -> 1.179
Yaojie Zeng -> 4.4

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Prediction and head to head Bernard Tomic vs. Yaojie Zeng

There is no head to head record between Bernard Tomic and Yaojie Zeng since this will be the first time that they will clash against each other in the main tour.

Bernard Tomic

Ranked no. 168, the Australian will start his run in the Shanghai Challenger after he played his last match in the Zhangjiagang Challenger where he lost 6-1 1-6 7-6(6) to Sekulic in the 1^st round on the 26^th of August.

Bernard has a compiled 30-25 win-loss record in 2025, 19-16 on hard (See FULL STATS).

Bernard’s best result of the season was getting to the final in the Lexington Challenger and the Barranquilla Challenger.

Talking about his overall career, The Australian has an overall 486-367 record. He has a positive 308-186 record on hard.

Previously in the Shanghai Challenger

The Australian has never competed in this tournament before.

Yaojie Zeng

Ranked no. 887, Yaojie got to the 1^st round after beating Ryuki Matsuda 7-6(1) 3-6 6-3

and Hiroki Moriya 6-4 6-3.

In the qualifications, Yaojie had a good straight sets win against Moriya (6-4 6-3). During the match Zeng scored 67 points vs Moriya’s 54. Zeng was very aggressive to blast 22 winners.

Talking about serving, Zeng made 8 aces and he committed only 1 double fault for the entire match. Yaojie Zeng lost the serve twice and he saved 3 break points. Furthermore, Zeng put 52% of his first serves in, winning 61% (22/36) of the points behind his 1st serve and 64% (21/33) on the 2nd serve. Zeng broke Moriya 4 times after converting 50% of his break points (4/8).

Overall Performance in this tournament

The Chinese started his run at this tournament from the qualifications. In the main draw, he has conceded 1 set in the tournament to win 53% of the points he played.

Yaojie’s best result of the season was reaching the semifinal in M15 Luan and M15 Maanshan.

Zeng has a compiled 25-15 win-loss record in 2025, 19-11 on hard (See FULL STATS).

Tennis Scores in Shanghai Challenger

• Yu Hsiou HsuHsiou Hsu – Jie CuiCui (6-2 6-1) – Stats, scores, rankings
• Omar JasikaJasika – Rigele TeTe (4-6 6-2 2-0 ret.) – Stats, scores, rankings
• Yi ZhouZhou – Yoshihito NishiokaNishioka (2-6 7-6⁵ 2-0 ret.) – Stats, scores, rankings
• Fajing SunSun – James McCabeMcCabe (6-4 6-4) – Stats, scores, rankings

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• Oliver CrawfordCrawford – (0-0) – H2H and prediction
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• Beibit ZhukayevZhukayev – (0-0) – H2H and prediction
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• Yaojie ZengZeng – Bernard TomicTomic (0-0) – H2H and prediction