

What Time Will Zhang Zhizhen Play Against Denis Yevseyev?
Zhizhen and Yevseyev are on the Day 2 Schedule at Hangzhou Open 2024 on Thursday 19 September 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?
This match between Zhang Zhizhen and Denis Yevseyev is their first meeting. Zhang Zhizhen, who is 27 years old, is currently ranked 48th in the world and has a career-high ranking of 31st. In 2024, he has a record of 21 wins and 23 losses, with his best result being a semifinal appearance in Halle. Throughout his career, he has achieved a win-loss record of 51-53 and has reached two semifinals.
Zhang Zhizhen made history by becoming the first Chinese player to break into the top 100 of the ATP Rankings in October 2022 and the top 50 in January 2024. He reached a career-high ranking of 31 in July 2024. He also made history by winning three consecutive matches in deciding set tie-breaks and became the first Chinese player to reach the quarterfinals of an ATP Masters 1000 event in Madrid in 2023. He repeated this feat by reaching the quarterfinals of another ATP Masters 1000 event on clay in Rome in 2024.
In the 2023 season, Zhang Zhizhen reached his first ATP Tour semifinal in Hamburg and became the first Chinese man to defeat a top 5 opponent by beating No. 5 Ruud en route to the third round of the 2023 US Open. He also qualified and competed in the main draw of both the 2021 Wimbledon and 2022 US Open as a first-time Chinese man in the Open Era.
Another notable achievement of Zhang Zhizhen’s career was his victory over No. 5 Medvedev in the second round of the 2024 Halle tournament. This win helped him reach his second ATP Tour
semifinal and become the first Chinese man to reach a tour-level semifinal on grass in the Open Era.
On the other hand, Denis Yevseyev is 31 years old and currently ranked 207th in the world. He reached a career-high ranking of 153 in July 2024, shortly after winning his first ATP Tour match in Bastad against Muller. Yevseyev broke into the top 200 at the age of 30 in November 2023. He made his ATP Tour debut at the 2023 ATP Masters 1000 Shanghai but lost in the first round to Fucsovics.
Yevseyev has a 79-115 record in Challenger events, with one final appearance and one title in Astana in 2022 and 2023, respectively. He has also won eight ITF Tour titles and has a record of 252-194, including a 15-match win streak in 2018. In the 2018 Asian Games, he won the silver medal in men’s doubles while partnering with Bublik.
In this match, Yevseyev is looking for his second ATP Tour match win after defeating the 103rd ranked Muller in the first round of the Bastad tournament in July. He aims to achieve the biggest win of his career as he currently has a 0-10 record against top 100 players across all levels.
The match will take place on Court 1. It is notable that Zhang Zhizhen returns to Hangzhou after winning the men’s singles gold medal at the 2023 Asian Games. This tournament marks his first competition on home soil since reaching the fourth round of the ATP Masters 1000 Shanghai, which is his hometown, in October of the previous year.
My Conclusion / Prediction:
My pick is that Zhizhen will win.
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