Michael Zheng and Tyler Zink will face off in the final of the Tiburon Challenger for the 2^nd time in their career. They are scheduled to compete on Sunday at 1:00 pm on KENNEDY-GROSSMAN. In this post, we analyze their head to head performance and prediction.

Prediction, odds and live streaming

The pick for Tennis Tonic is Michael Zheng who should win in 2 sets.

As per the initial odds, Michael Zheng is the pick to win this match.
Michael Zheng -> 1.17
Tyler Zink -> 4.6

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Prediction and head to head Michael Zheng vs. Tyler Zink

This will be the 2^nd time that Michael Zheng and Tyler Zink face off. The head to head is 1-0 for Zheng (see full H2H stats

), 1-0 on hard.

The last time that they fought against each other, Zheng won 6-4 7-6(3) in the final in M25 Southaven back in 2024.

Michael Zheng

Ranked no. 228, Zheng reached the final after beating Oliver Tarvet 6-4 6-3, Olle Wallin 6-4 6-1, Mitchell Krueger 7-5 6-3 and Rafael Jodar 6-4 7-5.

In the semifinal, Zheng had a good straight sets win against Jodar (6-4 7-5). During the match, Zheng scored 67 points vs Jodar’s 61. The American was extremely aggressive to blast 31 winners.

Regarding the service games, Zheng struck 4 aces and he committed only 2 double faults. Michael Zheng lost the serve once and he saved 2 break points. Furthermore, Zheng put 66% of his first serves in, winning 69% (31/45) of the points behind his 1st serve and 65% (15/23) on the 2nd serve. Zheng broke Jodar 3 times after converting 60% of his break points (3/5).

Overall Performance in this tournament

Michael hasn’t surrendered yet a set in this tournament to win 55% of the points he played.

Zheng has a solid record in the last 5 years having won 65% of his matches (68-36). 21-6 on hard in 2025. Talking about his performance on the same surface of this tournament, Zheng has an overall46-23 match record in the last 5 years on hard.

His best result of the season was conquering the title the Chicago Challenger where he overcame Yu Hsiou Hsu in the final 6-4 6-2 and the Columbus Challenger where he defeated Martin Damm in the final 3-6 6-3 7-5.

Michael has an aggregate 28-8 win-loss record in 2025, 21-6 on hard (See FULL STATS).

Previously in the Tiburon Challenger

The American has never competed in this tournament before.

Tyler Zink

Ranked no. 347, Tyler got to the final after defeating Micah Braswell 6-1 6-4, Johannus Monday 6-4 6-3, Samir Banerjee 6-4 1-6 6-3 and Abedallah Shelbayh 6-3 6-4.

In the semifinal, Zink had a good straight sets win against Shelbayh (6-3 6-4). During the match Zink scored 56 points vs Shelbayh’s 44. Tyler was quite aggressive to blast 25 winners.

Talking about serving, Zink blasted 6 aces and he committed only 2 double faults. Tyler Zink was exceptionally efficient on serve to win 83% (25/30) of his 1st serve and 71% (15/21) on the second serve. This was the main reason for not conceding a single break during the match. Tyler broke Shelbayh twice after converting 50% of his break points (2/4).

Overall Performance in this tournament

Zink has conceded 1 set in the tournament to win 54% of the points he played.

The American’s best result of the current year was reaching the final in M15 Orange Park.

Tyler has an overall 35-25 win-loss record in 2025, 12-12 on hard (See FULL STATS).

H2H Performance in the tournament (main draw)

Matches, sets, games and points

Points	Zheng	Zink
Match played	4	4
Tot Set	8	9
Tot Games	79	81
Pts	280-228	288-248
Total Points	508	536
Winners	106	114
%Winners	38%	40%

Both Zheng and Zink played 4 matches. At the moment, Tyler Zink surrendered 1 set while Michael Zheng hasn’t dropped a set so far. Zheng has played 1 set(s) less than Zink (8 vs 9). Therefore, Zheng played 2 games less than Zink. The American scored 106 winners (38% of the total points). On the other side, Tyler scored 114 winners (40%).

Serve Performance

Serve	Zheng	Zink
Aces	16	21
Avg per match	4	5.3
1st in	144/236	155/273
%1st in	61%	57%
1st pts	106/144	114/155
%1st pts	74%	74%
2nd pts	50/92	69/118
%2nd pts	54%	58%

Zheng struck 16 aces (4 per match). Zink scored 21 aces (5.3 per match). Zheng won 74% points on his first serve. He was rock solid on his second serve to win 54% of the points. On the other side, Zink won 74% of the points on his first serve. He had a solid display on his second serve to win 58% of the points.

How they played the important points

Breaks	Zheng	Zink
Won	16	10
Converted	16/36	10/34
% Converted	44%	29%
Conceded	17	19
Saved	12	16
% Saved	71%	84%
Times Broken	5	3

The American broke his opponents 16 times with a 44% conversion rate. Michael conceded his serve 5 times and he saved 71% of the break points that he conceded. Zink broke his opponents 10 times with a 29% conversion rate. Zink conceded his serve 3 times and he saved 84% of the break points that he conceded.

Zheng
	R1 Tarvet	R2 Wallin	1/4 Krueger	1/2 Jodar	Total
Score	6-4 6-3	6-4 6-1	7-5 6-3	6-4 7-5
Tot Set	2	2	2	2	8
Tot Games	19	17	21	22	79
pts	63-55	63-37	87-75	67-61	280-228
Total points	118	100	162	128	508
Winners	20	25	30	31	106
%Winners	32%	40%	34%	46%	38%
SERVE
Aces	3	4	5	4	16
Double Faults	1	0	3	2	6
1st in	27/53	26/39	46/76	45/68	144/236
% 1st in	51%	67%	61%	66%	61%
1st pts	20/27	25/26	30/46	31/45	106/144
% 1st pts	74%	96%	65%	69%	74%
2nd pts	12/26	7/13	16/30	15/23	50/92
% 2nd pts	46%	54%	53%	65%	54%
Breaks
Won	5	4	4	3	16
Converted	5/13	4/7	4/11	3/5	16/36
Converted %	38%	57%	36%	60%	44%
Conceded	6	0	8	3	17
Saved	4/6	0/0	6/8	2/3	12
Saved %	67%	–	75%	67%	52%
Times Broken	2	0	2	1	5

Zink
	R1 Braswell	R2 Monday	1/4 Banerjee	1/2 Shelbayh	Total
Score	6-1 6-4	6-4 6-3	6-4 1-6 6-3	6-3 6-4
Tot Set	2	2	3	2	9
Tot Games	17	19	26	19	81
pts	63-42	59-50	110-112	56-44	288-248
Total points	105	109	222	100	536
Winners	29	23	37	25	114
%Winners	46%	39%	34%	45%	40%
SERVE
Aces	6	3	6	6	21
Double Faults	2	2	1	2	7
1st in	34/60	33/59	58/103	30/51	155/273
% 1st in	57%	56%	56%	59%	57%
1st pts	29/34	23/33	37/58	25/30	114/155
% 1st pts	85%	70%	64%	83%	74%
2nd pts	13/26	16/26	25/45	15/21	69/118
% 2nd pts	50%	62%	56%	71%	58%
Breaks
Won	3	3	2	2	10
Converted	3/4	3/6	2/20	2/4	10/34
Converted %	75%	50%	10%	50%	29%
Conceded	5	3	11	0	19
Saved	5/5	2/3	9/11	0/0	16
Saved %	100%	67%	82%	–	62%
Times Broken	0	1	2	0	3

Tennis Scores in Tiburon Challenger

• Finn Reynolds/James WattReynolds/James Watt – Benjamin Kittay/Joshua SheehyKittay/Joshua Sheehy (6-2 6-3) – Stats, scores, rankings

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