Yi Zhou and Jie Cui will square off in the semifinal of the Shenzhen Challenger for the 2nd time in their career. They are scheduled to play on Saturday at 2:00 pm on CENTER COURT. 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 Yi Zhou who should win in 3 sets.

As per the initial odds, Yi Zhou is the pick to win this match.
Yi Zhou -> 1.65
Jie Cui -> 2.14

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Prediction and head to head Yi Zhou vs. Jie Cui

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

The last time that they competed against each other, Cui won 6-4 6-4 in the 1st round in the Guangzhou Challenger back in April 2025.

Yi Zhou

Yi Zhou

21 - 24win/loss

Hard
21-24
I Hard
0-0
Rank
252
High
251
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Year Total Hard Clay I.hard Grass Carpet
2025 25-27 25-27 0-0 0-0 0-0 0-0
2024 29-25 29-23 0-0 0-2 0-0 0-0
2023 10-17 9-12 1-5 0-0 0-0 0-0
2022 1-1 1-1 0-0 0-0 0-0 0-0
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Ranked no. 327, the Chinese reached the semifinal after defeating Xiaofei Wang 6-1 6-2, Aoran Wang w/o and Fajing Sun 7-6(5) 6-3.

In the quarter, Zhou had a good straight sets win against Sun (7-65 6-3). During the match, Zhou scored 70 points vs Sun’s 56. The Chinese was quite aggressive to blast 25 winners.

Talking about the service games, Zhou struck 7 aces and he committed only 1 double fault. Overall, Yi Zhou was pretty effective on serve to win 78% (25/32) of his 1st serve and 62% (18/29) on the second serve. However, this didn’t prevent his to concede the serve once. The Chinese was clinical in his return game without wasting any break point and break Sun 3 times.

Overall Performance in this tournament

Zhou hasn’t dropped yet a set in this event to win 59% of the points he played.

Zhou has a losing record in the last 4 years having won 48% of his matches (61-67). 21-24 on hard in 2025. Talking about his performance on the same surface of this event, Zhou has an aggregate60-60 win-loss record in the last 4 years on hard.

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

The Chinese has an overall 21-24 win-loss record in 2025, 21-24 on hard (See FULL STATS).

Previously in the Shenzhen Challenger

Shenzhen Challenger
Zhou's Record

Jie Cui

Jie Cui

33 - 25win/loss

Hard
32-22
I Hard
1-3
Rank
317
High
280
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Year Total Hard Clay I.hard Grass Carpet
2025 33-27 32-24 0-0 1-3 0-0 0-0
2024 41-27 36-26 5-1 0-0 0-0 0-0
2023 40-23 36-21 4-2 0-0 0-0 0-0
2022 10-10 10-10 0-0 0-0 0-0 0-0
2021 0-0 0-0 0-0 0-0 0-0 0-0
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Ranked no. 342, the Chinese reached the semifinal after beating James McCabe 6-4 6-4, Pavel Kotov 6-2 3-6 6-4 and Ye Cong Mo 6-4 6-1.

In the quarter, Jie had a good straight sets win against Cong Mo (6-4 6-1). During the match Cui scored 58 points vs Cong Mo’s 39. Jie was extremely aggressive to blast 22 winners.

About the serving games, Cui recorded 3 aces and he committed only 1 double fault for the entire match. Jie Cui lost the serve twice and he saved 1 break points. Furthermore, Cui put 62% of his first serves in, winning 71% (22/31) of the points behind his 1st serve and 47% (9/19) on the 2nd serve. Cui broke Cong Mo 5 times after converting 56% of his break points (5/9).

Overall Performance in this tournament

Jie has conceded 1 set in the tournament to win 56% of the points he played.

Cui’s best result of the year was reaching the final in the Nonthaburi 2 Challenger,M15 Luan and M25 Luzhou.

Jie has a composed 33-25 win-loss record in 2025, 32-22 on hard (See FULL STATS).

Previously in the Shenzhen Challenger

Previously, his best result was reaching the 2nd round in 2023. See his history.

Shenzhen Challenger
Cui's Record

H2H Performance in the tournament (main draw)

Y.Zhou
J.Cui
2h:40
2h:40
Time on court​
!
5h:27
5h:27
1h:41
1h:41
Last match​
1h:34
1h:34
2
2
Match played
!
3
3
37
37
Games Played​
64
64
4
4
Set played​​
7
7
129
129
Total points​
206
206
64.5
64.5
Avg point​
68.7
68.7
47
47
Winners
85
85
23.5
23.5
Avg Winners​
28.3
28.3
36%
36%
Ratio winners
41%
41%
-- Serve --
12
12
Aces
5
5
6
6
Avg Aces
1.7
1.7
3
3
Double Faults
4
4
1.5
1.5
Avg Double Faults
1.3
1.3
47/62
47/62
1st won total​
85/115
85/115
!
76%
76%
1st won %
!
74%
74%
29/45
29/45
2nd won total​
40/65
40/65
!
64%
64%
2nd won %
!
62%
62%
-- Break Points --
7/11
7/11
BP won
10/18
10/18
3.5/5.5
3.5/5.5
Avg BP won
3.3/6
3.3/6
!
64%
64%
Won
!
56%
56%
1
1
Conceded
7
7
0.5
0.5
Avg Conceded
2.3
2.3
1
1
Broken
4
4
!
0.5
0.5
Avg Broken
1.3
1.3
0
0
Saved
3
3
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Matches, sets, games and points

Points Zhou Cui
Match played 2 3
Tot Set 4 7
Tot Games 37 64
Pts 129-89 206-164
Total Points 218 370
Winners 47 85
%Winners 36% 41%

Zhou played 2 matches while Cui competed in 3 matches. At the moment, Jie Cui surrendered 1 set while Yi Zhou hasn’t surrendered a set so far. Zhou has played 3 set(s) less than Cui (4 vs 7). Therefore, Zhou played 27 games less than Cui. Yi scored 47 winners (36% of the total points). On the other side, Cui managed to score 85 winners (41%).

Serve Performance

Serve Zhou Cui
Aces 12 5
Avg per match 6 1.7
1st in 62/107 115/180
%1st in 58% 64%
1st pts 47/62 85/115
%1st pts 76% 74%
2nd pts 29/45 40/65
%2nd pts 64% 62%

Zhou managed to score 12 aces (6 per match). Cui blasted 5 aces (1.7 per match). Zhou won 76% points on his first serve. He very solid his second serve to win 64% of the points. On the other side, Cui won 74% of the points behind his first serve. He had a solid display on his second serve to win 62% of the points.

How they played the important points

Breaks Zhou Cui
Won 7 10
Converted 7/11 10/18
% Converted 64% 56%
Conceded 1 7
Saved 0 3
% Saved 0% 43%
Times Broken 1 4

Zhou broke his opponents 7 times with a 64% conversion rate. Yi dropped his serve once and he saved 0% of the break points that he conceded. Cui broke his opponents 10 times with a 56% conversion rate. The Chinese conceded his serve 4 times and he saved 43% of the break points that he conceded.

Zhou
R1
Wang		 R2
Wang		 1/4
Sun		 Total
Score 6-1 6-2 w/o 7-65 6-3
Tot Set 2 – 2 4
Tot Games 15 – 22 37
pts 59-33 – 70-56 129-89
Total points 92 – 126 218
Winners 22 – 25 47
%Winners 37% – 36% 36%
SERVE
Aces 5 – 7 12
Double Faults 2 – 1 3
1st in 30/46 – 32/61 62/107
% 1st in 65% – 52% 58%
1st pts 22/30 – 25/32 47/62
% 1st pts 73% – 78% 76%
2nd pts 11/16 – 18/29 29/45
% 2nd pts 69% – 62% 64%
Breaks
Won 4 – 3 7
Converted 4/8 – 3/3 7/11
Converted % 50% – 100% 64%
Conceded 0 – 1 1
Saved 0/0 – 0/1 0
Saved % – – 0% 0%
Times Broken 0 – 1 1
Cui
R1
McCabe		 R2
Kotov		 1/4
Cong		 Total
Score 6-4 6-4 6-2 3-6 6-4 6-4 6-1
Tot Set 2 3 2 7
Tot Games 20 27 17 64
pts 63-47 85-78 58-39 206-164
Total points 110 163 97 370
Winners 26 37 22 85
%Winners 41% 44% 38% 41%
SERVE
Aces 0 2 3 5
Double Faults 2 1 1 4
1st in 30/49 54/81 31/50 115/180
% 1st in 61% 67% 62% 64%
1st pts 26/30 37/54 22/31 85/115
% 1st pts 87% 69% 71% 74%
2nd pts 14/19 17/27 9/19 40/65
% 2nd pts 74% 63% 47% 62%
Breaks
Won 2 3 5 10
Converted 2/4 3/5 5/9 10/18
Converted % 50% 60% 56% 56%
Conceded 0 4 3 7
Saved 0/0 2/4 1/3 3
Saved % – 50% 33% 28%
Times Broken 0 2 2 4

Tennis Scores in Shenzhen Challenger

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