

What Time Will Zhang Zhizhen Play Against Jack Draper?
Zhizhen and Draper are on the Day 2 Schedule at Us Open 2024 on Tuesday 27 August 2024. 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?
Zhang Zhizhen (CHN) and [25] Jack Draper (GBR) will be facing each other for the first time.
Zhang Zhizhen’s career highlights include becoming the first Chinese player to break into the Top 100 of the PIF ATP Rankings in October 2022 and the Top 50 in January 2024. He reached a career-high ranking of No. 31 in July 2024. Zhang also made history by winning three consecutive matches in deciding set tie-breaks, becoming the first Chinese player to reach the ATP Masters 1000 quarterfinals in Madrid 2023. He also reached the quarterfinals in Rome 2024. In the 2023 season, Zhang reached his first ATP Tour semifinal in Hamburg and became the first Chinese man to defeat a top 5 opponent. He equaled his biggest career win by defeating No. 5 Medvedev in Halle 2024, reaching his second ATP Tour semifinal and becoming the first Chinese man to reach a tour-level semifinal on grass. Zhang has a record of 81-66 in Challenger matches, including three finals and his most recent title at Cordenons in 2022.
On the other hand, Jack Draper also achieved several career highlights. He achieved a new career-high ranking 22 times in 2022, breaking into the Top
200 in February, Top 100 in June, and Top 50 in September. He reached his peak ranking of No. 25 in August 2024 after winning his first ATP Tour title in Stuttgart. During the 2024 grass court season, Draper defeated two-time champion Berrettini in the Stuttgart final to win his first ATP title. He also earned his biggest career win by defeating No. 2 Alcaraz in the second round of Queen’s Club. Draper reached his first ATP Tour final in Sofia in 2023 and his second final in Adelaide in 2024. In 2022, he advanced to his first ATP Tour semifinal in Eastbourne as a wild card and secured victories over top 10 players, including No. 5 Tsitsipas, en route to the quarterfinals of the 2024 US OPEN. He also notched his first and second ATP Tour wins by defeating Sinner and Bublik in two tie-breaks and reached the 2021 London/Queen’s Club quarterfinals as the 309th-ranked wild card. During his junior career, Draper achieved a career-high ranking of No. 7 and reached the Wimbledon boys’ singles final in 2018, defeating Mejia in the semifinals with a score of 7-6 6-7 19-17.
The match between Zhang Zhizhen and Jack Draper will take place on Court 10.
My Conclusion / Prediction:
My pick is that Zhizhen will win.
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