Fajing Sun and Yi Zhou will play each other in the quarter of the Shenzhen Challenger for the 2^nd time in their career. They are scheduled to compete on Friday at 2:00 pm on CENTER COURT. Here the head to head stats and relative prediction.

Prediction, odds and live streaming

The pick for Tennis Tonic is Yi Zhou who should win in 2 sets.

As per the initial odds, Yi Zhou is the pick to win this match.
Yi Zhou -> 1.4
Fajing Sun -> 2.79

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Prediction and head to head Fajing Sun vs. Yi Zhou

This will be the 2^nd time that Fajing Sun and Yi Zhou clash against each other. The head to head is 1-0 for Zhou (see full H2H stats), 1-0 on hard.

The last time that they squared off, Zhou won 4-6 6-3 7-5 in the final in M25 Tianjin back in 2024.

Fajing Sun

Ranked no. 255, Sun reached the quarter after defeating Jason Murray Kubler 6-2 7-5 and Hyeon Chung 6-3 7-6(5).

In the 2^nd round, Fajing had a good straight sets win against Chung (6-3 7-6⁵). During the match, Sun scored 98 points vs Chung’s 82. The Chinese was quite aggressive to blast 28 winners.

Talking about the service games, Sun wasn’t able to score even 1 ace during the encounter and he committed only 5 double faults. Fajing Sun lost the serve 4 times and he saved 8 break points. Furthermore, Sun put 50% of his first serves in, winning 64% (28/44) of the points behind his 1st serve and 52% (23/44) on the 2nd serve. Fajing broke Chung 5 times after converting 36% of his break points (5/14).

Overall Performance in this tournament

Fajing hasn’t conceded yet a set in this competition to win 55% of the points he played.

Sun has good match record in the last 10 years having won 57% of his matches (255-196). 21-18 on hard in 2025. In connection with his performance on the same surface of this competition, Sun has an overall 225-161 record in the last years on hard.

His best result of the year was winning the title the Wuxi Challenger where he overcame Alex Bolt in the final 7-6(4) 6-4.

Sun has a composed 21-21 win-loss record in 2025, 21-18 on hard (See FULL STATS).

Previously in the Shenzhen Challenger

Yi Zhou

Ranked no. 327, Yi got to the quarter after defeating Xiaofei Wang 6-1 6-2 and Aoran Wang w/o.

In the 2^nd round, The Chinese defeated Wang (w/o). During the match Zhou and Wang scored the same amount of points (). However, the world no. 255 was stronger during the important points and that was the most significant difference in the match. Zhou was not very aggressive do strike just winners.

Talking about serving, Zhou couldn’t to score even 1 ace for the entire match and he was exceptionally consistent in conceding no double faults for the entire match. Yi Zhou conceded no breaks for the entire match to put 0% of his first serves in, win 0% (/) of the points behind his 1st serve and 0% (/) on the 2nd serve.

The Chinese’s best result of the year was reaching the final in the Tyler Challenger.

Zhou has a compiled 20-24 win-loss record in 2025, 20-24 on hard (See FULL STATS).

Previously in the Shenzhen Challenger

Previously, his best result was reaching the qualifications in 2023. See his history.

H2H Performance in the tournament (main draw)

Matches, sets, games and points

Points	Sun	Zhou
Match played	2	1
Tot Set	4	2
Tot Games	42	15
Pts	165-135	59-33
Total Points	300	92
Winners	56	22
%Winners	34%	37%

Sun played 2 matches while Zhou competed in 1 match. Both players have not surrendered a single set in this event so far. Sun has played 2 sets more than Zhou (4 vs 2). Therefore, Sun played 27 games more than Zhou. The Chinese scored 56 winners (34% of the total points). On the other side, The Chinese fired 22 winners (37%).

Serve Performance

Serve	Sun	Zhou
Aces	7	5
Avg per match	3.5	5
1st in	77/150	30/46
%1st in	51%	65%
1st pts	56/77	22/30
%1st pts	73%	73%
2nd pts	41/73	11/16
%2nd pts	56%	69%

Sun bagged 7 aces (3.5 per match). Zhou managed to score 5 aces . Sun won 73% points on his first serve. He very solid his second serve to win 56% of the points. On the other side, Zhou won 73% of the points on his first serve. He had a solid display on his second serve to win 69% of the points.

How they played the important points

Breaks	Sun	Zhou
Won	8	4
Converted	8/20	4/8
% Converted	40%	50%
Conceded	14	0
Saved	10	0
% Saved	71%	0%
Times Broken	4	0

Sun broke his opponents 8 times with a 40% conversion rate. The Chinese lost his serve 4 times and he saved 71% of the break points that he conceded. Zhou broke his opponent 4 times with a 50% conversion rate. The Chinese was rock solid on his serve as he has never conceded a single service game after saving 0 break points.

Sun
	R1 Murray Kubler	R2 Chung	Total
Score	6-2 7-5	6-3 7-65
Tot Set	2	2	4
Tot Games	20	22	42
pts	67-53	98-82	165-135
Total points	120	180	300
Winners	28	28	56
%Winners	42%	29%	34%
SERVE
Aces	7	0	7
Double Faults	3	5	8
1st in	33/62	44/88	77/150
% 1st in	53%	50%	51%
1st pts	28/33	28/44	56/77
% 1st pts	85%	64%	73%
2nd pts	18/29	23/44	41/73
% 2nd pts	62%	52%	56%
Breaks
Won	3	5	8
Converted	3/6	5/14	8/20
Converted %	50%	36%	40%
Conceded	2	12	14
Saved	2/2	8/12	10
Saved %	100%	67%	84%
Times Broken	0	4	4

Zhou
	R1 Wang	R2 Wang	Total
Score	6-1 6-2	w/o
Tot Set	2	–	2
Tot Games	15	–	15
pts	59-33	–	59-33
Total points	92	–	92
Winners	22	–	22
%Winners	37%	–	37%
SERVE
Aces	5	–	5
Double Faults	2	–	2
1st in	30/46	–	30/46
% 1st in	65%	–	65%
1st pts	22/30	–	22/30
% 1st pts	73%	–	73%
2nd pts	11/16	–	11/16
% 2nd pts	69%	–	69%
Breaks
Won	4	–	4
Converted	4/8	–	4/8
Converted %	50%	–	50%
Conceded	0	–	0
Saved	0/0	–	0
Saved %	–	–	0%
Times Broken	0	–	0

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