Petr Bar Biryukov and Tianhui Zhang will square off in the 1st round of the Guangzhou Challenger for the 1st time in their career. They are scheduled to play on Tuesday at 1:30 pm on COURT 5. In this post, we analyze their head to head performance and prediction.

Prediction, odds and live streaming

The pick for Tennis Tonic is Petr Bar Biryukov who should win in 3 sets.

As per the initial odds, Petr Bar Biryukov is the pick to win this match.
Petr Bar Biryukov -> 1.5
Tianhui Zhang -> 2.45

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Prediction and head to head Petr Bar Biryukov vs. Tianhui Zhang

There is no head to head record between Petr Bar Biryukov and Tianhui Zhang since this will be the first time that they will play each other in the main tour.

Petr Bar Biryukov

Petr Bar Biryukov

34 - 21win/loss

Hard
34-20
I Hard
0-1
Rank
315
High
267
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Year Total Hard Clay I.hard Grass Carpet
2025 48-29 48-28 0-0 0-1 0-0 0-0
2024 43-23 43-22 0-0 0-1 0-0 0-0
2023 30-20 15-9 9-9 6-2 0-0 0-0
2022 28-17 25-14 1-2 2-1 0-0 0-0
2021 15-18 3-1 2-10 10-7 0-0 0-0

Ranked no. 313 (career-high), Petr will start his run in the Guangzhou Challenger after he played his last match in the Shanghai Challenger where he lost 6-4 6-1 to Zeppieri in the 2nd round on the 4th of September.

Bar Biryukov has a composed 34-21 win-loss record in 2025, 34-20 on hard (See FULL STATS).

Petr’s best result of the year was getting to the final in M15 Nonthaburi and M15 Astana.

Talking about his overall career, The Russian has an overall 150-99 record. He has a positive 120-66 record on hard.

Previously in the Guangzhou Challenger

The Russian has never competed in this tournament before.

Guangzhou Challenger
Bar Biryukov's Record

Tianhui Zhang

Tianhui Zhang

24 - 15win/loss

Hard
15-8
I Hard
7-5
Clay
2-2
Rank
684
High
549
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Year Total Hard Clay I.hard Grass Carpet
2025 25-20 16-13 2-2 7-5 0-0 0-0
2024 10-10 10-10 0-0 0-0 0-0 0-0
2023 3-5 3-5 0-0 0-0 0-0 0-0

Ranked no. 568 (career-high), Tianhui reached the 1st round after beating Hao Duan 6-3 6-4 and Wishaya Trongcharoenchaikul 7-6(4) 7-5.

In the qualifications, Tianhui had a good straight sets win against Trongcharoenchaikul (7-64 7-5). During the match Zhang scored 94 points vs Trongcharoenchaikul’s 85. Tianhui was pretty aggressive to blast 41 winners.

About the serving games, Zhang recorded 7 aces and he committed only 7 double faults. Overall, Tianhui Zhang was exceptionally efficient on serve to win 73% (41/56) of his 1st serve and 58% (22/38) on the second serve. However, this didn’t prevent his to concede the serve once. Zhang broke Trongcharoenchaikul twice after converting 25% of his break points (2/8).

Overall Performance in this tournament

Zhang started his run at this tournament from the qualifications. In the main draw, he hasn’t lost yet a set in this event to win 54% of the points he played.

Zhang’s best result of the year was getting to the final in M15 Maanshan and M25 Yinchuan.

The Chinese has an overall 24-15 win-loss record in 2025, 15-8 on hard (See FULL STATS)

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Guangzhou Challenger
Zhang's Record

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