ROLEX SHANGHAI MASTERS

September 30, 2025

Zhang Zhizhen

Press Conference

THE MODERATOR: Ladies and gentlemen, welcome to the press conference of Zhang Zhizhen. We will start with English questions, please.

Q. Welcome back.

ZHANG ZHIZHEN: Thank you.

Q. How have you been feeling since coming back over the six months that you were off?

ZHANG ZHIZHEN: This is the third week that I play, so after two weeks much better than, for sure much better than two weeks ago. Just to get the feelings, play with those players, practice with them, and some matches to get a little bit back to those feelings, you know, those match feelings.

Even the first match was very great, but it's not usual. For sure, the second and third match was kind of normal match after six months.

I'm still looking forward here to being better. I'm still not, for sure it's not a hundred percent, like feeling the same as six months ago, yeah.

THE MODERATOR: Questions in Chinese.

Q. Your body must have changes. Other than the physical changes, your attitude and mindset about matches, do you have any psychological changes?

ZHANG ZHIZHEN: Physically, physical change I should say I feel not much physical changes while on the court. Now my feeling about the matches, so my mindset is better. There's a kind of urgency about the match, it's much better than two weeks ago. Now my mindset is very good.

I'll still recovering, so for me I'm not that upset, even after losing two matches.