Marina Melnikova and Anastasia Zakharova will play each other in the qualifications of the TEB BNP Paribas Tennis Championship for the 3rd time in their career. They are scheduled to compete on Sunday at 11:00 am on Court 2. In the following paragraphs, you can find the head to head analysis and prediction.
Prediction, odds and live streaming
The pick for Tennis Tonic is Anastasia Zakharova who should win in 3 sets.
As per the initial odds, Anastasia Zakharova is the pick to win this match.
Anastasia Zakharova -> 1.89
Marina Melnikova -> 1.909
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Prediction and head to head Marina Melnikova vs. Anastasia Zakharova
This will be the 3rd time that Marina Melnikova and Anastasia Zakharova square off. The head to head is 2-0 for Zakharova (see full H2H stats), but they have never played each other on clay.
The last time that they competed against each other, Zakharova won 6-1 4-6 6-1 in the 2nd round in the W60+H Traralgon back in January 2022.
Marina Melnikova
| Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 0-1 | 0-1 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2024 | 24-19 | 5-5 | 18-12 | 0-1 | 1-1 | 0-0 |
| 2023 | 22-16 | 13-8 | 5-5 | 4-2 | 0-1 | 0-0 |
| 2022 | 25-12 | 12-7 | 13-5 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2021 | 20-25 | 2-5 | 16-13 | 0-3 | 2-4 | 0-0 |
Ranked no. 184, the Russian will start her run in Istanbul after she played her last match in the W60 Bellinzona where she lost 7-5 6-2 to Georgiana Serban in the 1st round on the 13th of April.
The Russian has an overall 17-7 win-loss record in 2022, 5-1 on clay (See FULL STATS).
Talking about her overall career, Marina has an overall 355-332 record. She has a positive 198-166 record on clay.
Previously in Istanbul
Previously, her best result was reaching the 1st round in 2016. See her history.
Anastasia Zakharova
| Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 36-33 | 19-21 | 7-7 | 3-2 | 7-3 | 0-0 |
| 2024 | 38-22 | 26-10 | 3-6 | 8-4 | 1-2 | 0-0 |
| 2023 | 49-24 | 41-17 | 2-2 | 6-3 | 0-2 | 0-0 |
| 2022 | 39-22 | 26-8 | 3-10 | 10-4 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2021 | 31-25 | 13-10 | 9-8 | 9-7 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
Ranked no. 204, will start her run in Istanbul after she won the title in the Sultan after beating 6-3 6-1 Tkacheva in the final.
Zakharova has an aggregate 16-5 win-loss record in 2022, 0-0 on clay (See FULL STATS).
This will be the first match of the season on clay.
The Russian won her last 5 matches.
In terms of her career, The Russian has an overall 135-60 record. She has a positive 46-21 record on clay.
Head 2 Head
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LLWWLWLLWW Tennis Scores in Istanbul
- Lorenzo GiustinoGiustino – Yann MartiMarti (6-4 6-73 6-2) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Stefano NapolitanoNapolitano – Marc-Andrea HueslerHuesler (6-3 6-2) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Yannick HanfmannHanfmann – Marcelo ArevaloArevalo (6-1 6-1) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Joao SouzaSouza – Gianluigi QuinziQuinzi (6-4 3-6 7-65) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Jonathan EyssericEysseric – Attila BalazsBalazs (6-2 6-3) – Stats, scores, rankings
Upcoming matches in the draw
- Anna SchmiedlovaSchmiedlova – Jesika MaleckovaMaleckova (0-2) – H2H and prediction
- Caty McNallyMcNally – Lesya TsurenkoTsurenko (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Ana BogdanBogdan – Zeynep SonmezSonmez (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Berfu CengizCengiz – Yue YuanYuan (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Kamilla RakhimovaRakhimova – (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Julia GrabherGrabher – Anastasia TikhonovaTikhonova (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Qiang WangWang – Ayla AksuAksu (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Ysaline BonaventureBonaventure – Despina PapamichailPapamichail (0-2) – H2H and prediction
- Donna VekicVekic – Xinyun HanHan (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Anastasia ZakharovaZakharova – Marina MelnikovaMelnikova (2-0) – H2H and prediction
- Anastasia PotapovaPotapova – Dea HerdzelasHerdzelas (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Andrea Lazaro GarciaLazaro Garcia – Mariam BolkvadzeBolkvadze (0-0) – H2H and prediction
