Sergey Fomin and Evan Zhu will fight against each other in the qualifications of the Shenzhen Challenger for the 1st time in their career. They are scheduled to play on Monday at 11:00 am on COVERED COURT 2. Here the head to head stats and relative prediction.

Prediction, odds and live streaming

The pick for Tennis Tonic is Sergey Fomin who should win in 3 sets.

As per the initial odds, Sergey Fomin is the pick to win this match.
Sergey Fomin -> 1.6
Evan Zhu -> 2.23

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Prediction and head to head Sergey Fomin vs. Evan Zhu

There is no head to head record between Sergey Fomin and Evan Zhu since this will be the first time that they will face off in the main tour.

Sergey Fomin

Sergey Fomin

45 - 25win/loss

Hard
14-11
I Hard
0-1
Clay
31-13
Rank
358
High
348
WWWWWWLWWW
Year Total Hard Clay I.hard Grass Carpet
2025 60-29 29-15 31-13 0-1 0-0 0-0
2024 32-23 15-12 13-8 4-3 0-0 0-0
2023 35-32 13-15 22-14 0-3 0-0 0-0
2022 33-25 24-15 9-6 0-4 0-0 0-0
2021 16-24 0-2 11-14 5-8 0-0 0-0

Ranked no. 492, the Uzbek got to the qualifications after defeating Wishaya Trongcharoenchaikul 6-3 6-3.

In the qualifications, Fomin had a good straight sets win against Trongcharoenchaikul (6-3 6-3). During the match, Fomin scored 66 points vs Trongcharoenchaikul’s 48. Sergey was quite aggressive to blast 23 winners.

Talking about the service games, Fomin fired 4 aces and he was very solid in conceding no double faults. Sergey Fomin was very efficient on serve to win 77% (23/30) of his 1st serve and 73% (16/22) on the second serve. This was the main reason for not conceding a single break during the match. Fomin broke Trongcharoenchaikul 3 times after converting 38% of his break points (3/8).

Fomin has positive match record in the last 10 years having won 53% of his matches (206-183). 14-11 on hard in 2025. In connection with his performance on the same surface of this event, Fomin has an aggregate 81-81 record in the last years on hard.

Sergey’s best result of the year was reaching the final in M15 Antalya,M25 Antalya and M15 Shymkent.

The Uzbek has an overall 45-25 win-loss record in 2025, 14-11 on hard (See FULL STATS).

Previously in the Shenzhen Challenger

Sergey has never competed in this tournament before.

Shenzhen Challenger
Fomin's Record

Evan Zhu

Evan Zhu

19 - 27win/loss

Hard
16-21
I Hard
1-1
Clay
2-4
Grass
0-1
Rank
707
High
271
LWWLWWWLLW
Year Total Hard Clay I.hard Grass Carpet
2025 26-33 23-26 2-4 1-2 0-1 0-0
2024 24-22 22-16 1-4 1-2 0-0 0-0
2023 31-32 21-21 9-7 1-3 0-1 0-0
2022 44-31 14-13 25-12 5-5 0-1 0-0
2021 13-20 9-15 4-4 0-1 0-0 0-0

Ranked no. 578, Evan got to the qualifications after defeating Zhenxiong Dong 6-4 6-4.

In the qualifications, The American had a good straight sets win against Dong (6-4 6-4). During the match Zhu scored 64 points vs Dong’s 51. The American was very aggressive to blast 26 winners.

Talking about serving, Zhu wasn’t able to score even 1 ace for the entire match and he was very steady in conceding no double faults for the entire match. Overall, Evan Zhu was quite efficient on serve to win 79% (26/33) of his 1st serve and 64% (14/22) on the second serve. However, this didn’t prevent his to concede the serve once. Evan broke Dong 3 times after converting 38% of his break points (3/8).

Zhu has a composed 19-27 win-loss record in 2025, 16-21 on hard (See FULL STATS).

Shenzhen Challenger
Zhu's Record

H2H Performance in the tournament

S.Fomin
E.Zhu
1h:17
1h:17
Time on court​
1h:24
1h:24
1h:17
1h:17
Last match​
1h:24
1h:24
1
1
Match played
1
1
18
18
Games Played​
20
20
2
2
Set played​​
2
2
66
66
Total points​
64
64
66
66
Avg point​
64
64
23
23
Winners
26
26
23
23
Avg Winners​
26
26
35%
35%
Ratio winners
41%
41%
-- Serve --
4
4
Aces
0
0
4
4
Avg Aces
0
0
0
0
Double Faults
0
0
0
0
Avg Double Faults
0
0
23/30
23/30
1st won total​
26/33
26/33
!
77%
77%
1st won %
!
79%
79%
16/22
16/22
2nd won total​
14/22
14/22
!
73%
73%
2nd won %
!
64%
64%
-- Break Points --
3/8
3/8
BP won
3/8
3/8
3/8
3/8
Avg BP won
3/8
3/8
38%
38%
Won
38%
38%
4
4
Conceded
4
4
4
4
Avg Conceded
4
4
0
0
Broken
1
1
!
0
0
Avg Broken
1
1
4
4
Saved
3
3

Matches, sets, games and points

Points Fomin Zhu
Match played 1 1
Tot Set 2 2
Tot Games 18 20
Pts 66-48 64-51
Total Points 114 115
Winners 23 26
%Winners 35% 41%

Both Fomin and Zhu played 1 match. Also both players started their run from the qualifications.Both players have not dropped a single set in this event so far. Talking about their workload, Fomin and Zhu have played the same amount of sets 2. However, Fomin played 2 games less than Zhu. Sergey scored 23 winners (35% of the total points). On the other side, Evan bagged 26 winners (41%).

Serve Performance

Serve Fomin Zhu
Aces 4 0
Avg per match 4 0
1st in 30/52 33/55
%1st in 58% 60%
1st pts 23/30 26/33
%1st pts 77% 79%
2nd pts 16/22 14/22
%2nd pts 73% 64%

Fomin bagged 4 aces . Zhu didn’t manage to fire a single ace to far. Fomin won 77% points behind his first serve. He pretty effective on his second serve to win 73% of the points. On the other side, Zhu won 79% of the points on his first serve. He had a solid display on his second serve to win 64% of the points.

How they played the important points

Breaks Fomin Zhu
Won 3 3
Converted 3/8 3/8
% Converted 38% 38%
Conceded 4 4
Saved 4 3
% Saved 100% 75%
Times Broken 0 1

The Uzbek broke his opponent 3 times with a 38% conversion rate. The Uzbek pretty solid on his serve as he has never lost a single service game after saving 4 break points. Evan broke his opponent 3 times with a 38% conversion rate. The American conceded his serve once and he saved 75% of the break points that he conceded.

Fomin
Q1
Trongcharoenchaikul
Total
Score 6-3 6-3
Tot Set 2 2
Tot Games 18 18
pts 66-48 66-48
Total points 114 114
Winners 23 23
%Winners 35% 35%
SERVE
Aces 4 4
Double Faults 0 0
1st in 30/52 30/52
% 1st in 58% 58%
1st pts 23/30 23/30
% 1st pts 77% 77%
2nd pts 16/22 16/22
% 2nd pts 73% 73%
Breaks
Won 3 3
Converted 3/8 3/8
Converted % 38% 38%
Conceded 4 4
Saved 4/4 4
Saved % 100% 100%
Times Broken 0 0
Zhu
Q1
Dong
Total
Score 6-4 6-4
Tot Set 2 2
Tot Games 20 20
pts 64-51 64-51
Total points 115 115
Winners 26 26
%Winners 41% 41%
SERVE
Aces 0 0
Double Faults 0 0
1st in 33/55 33/55
% 1st in 60% 60%
1st pts 26/33 26/33
% 1st pts 79% 79%
2nd pts 14/22 14/22
% 2nd pts 64% 64%
Breaks
Won 3 3
Converted 3/8 3/8
Converted % 38% 38%
Conceded 4 4
Saved 3/4 3
Saved % 75% 75%
Times Broken 1 1

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