Prediction Of Perricard Vs Zhizhen H2H, Who Will Win At ATP Dubai Duty Free Tennis Championships 2025?

What Time Will Giovanni Mpetshi Perricard Play Against Zhang Zhizhen?

Perricard and Zhizhen are on the Day 1 Schedule at Dubai Duty Free Tennis Championships 2025 on Monday 24 February 2025. Lets breakdown the career, past stats and recent form of these players and predict who will get the victory.

Who Will Win In This Head-To-Head?

In the 2024 ATP Masters 1000 Cincinnati match between Giovanni Mpetshi Perricard of France and Zhang Zhizhen of China, Zhang leads the head-to-head record 1-0. The match took place on hard court in the Round of 64, and Zhang won with a score of 6-3, 7-6(4).

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Insights from their previous meeting in the 2024 ATP Masters 1000 Cincinnati show that Zhang had superior shot quality on both his forehand and backhand. This allowed him to dominate baseline exchanges and win 73% of the points played from the baseline. His forehand return was particularly effective, with 72% of his returns coming from that side. This was an improvement from his average of 63% against top servers, and it elevated his return quality to 8.2, compared to the tour average of 6.5.

Now let’s look at some details about the players. Giovanni Mpetshi Perricard, 21 years old and ranked World No. 29, had a successful 2025 season so far. He started the 2024 season ranked No. 205 and broke into the Top 100 in May, reaching the Top 50 in July before achieving his career-high ranking of No. 29 in February 2025. He has a 6-1 record against top 20 players, including wins over former champion No. 19 Auger-Aliassime and No. 14 Rune en route to winning the Basel title. He also won his first ATP Tour title in his hometown of Lyon in 2024 as a No. 117-ranked wild card. Additionally, he had notable performances in Grand Slam tournaments, defeating No. 21 Korda in the 2024 Wimbledon first round as a lucky loser, and reaching the fourth round, becoming the first lucky loser to achieve this feat since 1995. In Challenger events, he has a 50-33 record, winning titles in Leon, Nottingham, Cuernavaca, and Acapulco.

Zhang Zhizhen, 28 years old and ranked World No. 49, has achieved a career-high ranking of No. 31. He reached his third ATP Tour final at 2023 Stuttgart, which propelled him to his career-high ranking of No. 21. He has also had notable wins, including defeating No. 5 Tsitsipas in the quarterfinals and then Karatsev in the semifinals of the 2023 Madrid as a lucky loser, making him the first lucky loser to reach an ATP Masters 1000 final in the series history. He has also had successes on home soil, reaching his first ATP Tour singles final in Munich in 2021, defeating No. 2 Medvedev in the first round of 2021 Halle, and becoming the third-oldest player to win his first ATP Tour title in Munich in 2024. In 2019, he achieved a personal-best of 35 victories, including reaching the fourth round of Roland Garros, his first Grand Slam fourth-round appearance. Zhang has also shown resilience, including rallying from two sets down in the first and second rounds of Wimbledon in 2018. He had to go through qualifying before making it to his first tour-level event at 2013 Roland Garros, where he earned his first tour-level win at 2013 Wimbledon as a qualifier.

Notably, Mpetshi Perricard won the most recent ATP 500 event in Basel without dropping serve. However, he withdrew from Marseille earlier this month due to illness, and his match against Zhang will be his first since then. Zhang is seeking his second consecutive win against a top 30 player, having ended a nine-match losing streak since Halle in June by defeating No. 20 Hurkacz in Marseille two weeks ago. If he wins against Mpetshi Perricard, Zhang would become the first Chinese male player to win a match in tournament history, after losing to No. 5 Rublev in the 2024 first round.

The match between Giovanni Mpetshi Perricard and Zhang Zhizhen is set to take place on Court 1.

My Conclusion / Prediction:

My pick is that Perricard will win.
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