Zhizhen Zhang stuns Soon-Woo Kwon 6-4 6-3 in the semifinal in Jinan Challenger on Saturday. Zhang will seek to keep on going in this event against Go Soeda in the final.
Score, report, and key facts
1st set.
The Chinese conquered the set after recovering from 1 break down. In fact, after dropping his serve in the 7th (3-4) game, Zhang broke back in the 8th (4-4) and in the 10th (6-4) game before winning the set 6-4.
2nd set.
The set was even with both players refusing to concede anything to the opposition. Eventually, the only discrepancy was one break that Zhizhen conquered in the 8th game (5-3) before winning the set (6-3).
Statistics
At the end of the match, Zhizhen scored 73 points vs. Kwon’s 60 points.
Zhang served exceptionally well to win 76% of the points (32/42) behind his first serve. Yet he won only 46% points (12/26) on his second serve. Zhang struck 11 aces and he committed 1 double fault. Zhizhen won this match even if he had some problems in converting his break points because he converted only 30%
(3/10). On the other side, Kwon was not so effective in converting his break points because he converted only 33% of his break points (1/3). That was one of the key issues for his loss.After this contest, the head to head between Zhang and Kwon is 2-1.
Next Match: Zhizhen Zhang vs. Go Soeda – stats
Zhang will square off with Soeda in the final.
This will be the 2nd time that Zhizhen Zhang and Go Soeda play each other. The head to head is 1-0 for Zhang (see full H2H stats), 1-0 on hard.
The last time that they played, Zhang won 6-4 6-4 in the 1st round in Shenzhen back in 2015.
Tennis Scores in Jinan Challenger
- Zhizhen ZhangZhang – Soon-Woo KwonKwon (6-4 6-3) – See score progression
- Go SoedaSoeda – Enrique Lopez-PerezLopez-Perez (4-6 7-63 6-2) – See score progression
Upcoming matches
- Go SoedaSoeda – Zhizhen ZhangZhang (0-1) – See H2H details