Zhang Ze mainly plays on the ATP Challenger Tour , but tries again and again on the ATP World Tour and has already celebrated one or two successes. For example, he reached the quarter-finals at the China Open 2012 , after victories over Wu Di in the first round and Richard Gasquet in the second round. Finally he failed in the quarterfinals against the German Florian Mayer . He had his first game in a Grand Slam tournament in 2014 after qualifying at the 2014 Australian Open . In the first lap he met the Spaniard Fernando Verdasco, who was 31st, and lost in four sets. A year later he was able to qualify again for the Australian Open and this time lost to Lleyton Hewitt in four sets .
On the Challenger Tour he reached a final in Fargʻona for the first time . In 2010 he played his way to the final there as a qualifier and faced the Russian Yevgeny Kirillow , but lost the game in three sets with 3: 6, 6: 2 and 2: 6. He won his first title on the Challenger Tour in 2016 alongside Gong Maoxin at the tournament in Chengdu . He won his first individual title in 2017 in San Francisco , when he also beat the 7th-placed Canadian Vasek Pospisil in three sets as a qualifier in the final .
Note: This article places the family name before the person's first name. This is the usual order in Chinese. Zhang is the family name here, Ze is the first name.