Katie Volynets and Taylor Townsend will fight against each other in the qualifications of the Western & Southern Open for the 5^th time in their career. They are scheduled to play on Monday at 2:30 pm on P&G GRANDSTAND. In this post, we analyze their head to head performance and prediction.

Prediction, odds and live streaming

The pick for Tennis Tonic is Taylor Townsend who should win in 3 sets.

As per the initial odds, Taylor Townsend is the pick to win this match.
Taylor Townsend -> 1.59
Katie Volynets -> 2.26

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Prediction and head to head Katie Volynets vs. Taylor Townsend

This will be the 5^th time that Katie Volynets and Taylor Townsend face off. The head to head is 3-1 for Townsend (see full H2H stats), 1-0 on hard.

The last time that they locked horns, Townsend won 6-3 7-6(4) in the semifinal in the W80 Macon back in 2023.

Katie Volynets

Katie Volynets

43 - 18win/loss

Hard

20-10

I Hard

0-0

Clay

18-6

Grass

5-2

Rank
62

High
56

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Year	Total	Hard	Clay	I.hard	Grass	Carpet
2024	46-24	23-16	18-6	0-0	5-2	0-0
2023	30-27	22-14	8-7	0-1	0-5	0-0
2022	36-26	19-15	13-7	0-0	4-4	0-0
2021	29-25	12-12	12-8	1-2	4-3	0-0
2020	15-16	6-9	6-5	3-2	0-0	0-0

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Ranked no. 57, the American reached the qualifications after beating Tamara Korpatsch 6-2 7-5.

In the qualifications, The American had a good straight sets win against Korpatsch (6-2 7-5). During the match, Volynets scored 94 points vs Korpatsch’s 82. Katie was very aggressive to blast 44 winners.

Talking about the service games, Volynets wasn’t able to score even 1 ace during the match and she committed only 2 double faults. Katie Volynets lost the serve 3 times and she saved 10 break points. Furthermore, Volynets put 79% of her first serves in, winning 59% (44/75) of the points behind her 1st serve and 45% (9/20) on the 2nd serve. Volynets broke Korpatsch 6 times after converting 40% of her break points (6/15).

Volynets has a solid match record in the last 8 years having won 60% of her matches (197-134). 20-9 on hard in 2024. In connection with her performance on the same surface of this tournament, Volynets has a compiled111-75 match record in the last 8 years on hard.

Her best result of the current year was winning the title the Makarska where she beat Mayar Sherif in the final 3-6 6-2 6-1.

Volynets has a compiled 43-17 win-loss record in 2024, 20-9 on hard (See FULL STATS).

Previously in Cincinnati

Cincinnati

Volynets's Record

Taylor Townsend

Taylor Townsend

19 - 17win/loss

Hard

17-10

I Hard

0-0

Clay

2-4

Grass

0-3

Rank
69

High
46

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Year	Total	Hard	Clay	I.hard	Grass	Carpet
2024	24-20	21-13	2-4	1-0	0-3	0-0
2023	32-16	16-9	12-4	2-1	2-2	0-0
2022	23-8	14-5	9-3	0-0	0-0	0-0
2021	0-0	0-0	0-0	0-0	0-0	0-0
2020	4-6	4-6	0-0	0-0	0-0	0-0

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Ranked no. 71, Townsend reached the qualifications after beating Chloe Paquet 6-3 6-4.

In the qualifications, Taylor had a good straight sets win against Paquet (6-3 6-4). During the match Townsend scored 60 points vs Paquet’s 43. The American was pretty aggressive to blast 28 winners.

About the serving games, Townsend managed to score 5 aces and she was pretty consistent in conceding no double faults for the entire match. Taylor Townsend was pretty efficient on serve to win 88% (28/32) of her 1st serve and 86% (12/14) on the second serve. This was the main reason for not conceding a single break during the match. Taylor broke Paquet twice after converting 33% of her break points (2/6).

Townsend has an aggregate 18-17 win-loss record in 2024, 16-10 on hard (See FULL STATS).

Previously in Cincinnati

Previously, her best result was reaching the 2^nd round in 2014 and 2017. See her history.

Cincinnati

Townsend's Record

H2H Performance in the tournament

Matches, sets, games and points

Both Volynets and Townsend played 1 match. Also both players started their run from the qualifications.Both players have not conceded a single set in this event so far. Talking about their workload, Volynets and Townsend have played the same amount of sets 2. However, Volynets played 1 game more than Townsend. The American scored 44 winners (47% of the total points). On the other side, Townsend scored 28 winners (47%).

Serve Performance

Volynets didn’t manage to fire a single ace to far. Townsend made 5 aces . Volynets won 59% points on her first serve. She very solid her second serve to win 45% of the points. On the other side, Townsend won 88% of the points on her first serve. She had a solid display on her second serve to win 86% of the points.

How they played the important points

Volynets broke her opponent 6 times with a 40% conversion rate. Katie conceded her serve 3 times and she saved 77% of the break points that she conceded. Taylor broke her opponent twice with a 33% conversion rate. Taylor was rock solid on her serve as she has never conceded a single service game after saving 0 break points.

Head 2 Head

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Katie
Volynets

1:4

Taylor
Townsend

Rank

62

High

56

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Rank

69

High

46

Win Loss

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2024 2023 2022

46 - 24

24 - 20

23-16

Hard

21-13

0-0

I Hard

1-0

18-6

Clay

2-4

5-2

Grass

0-3

Tennis Scores in Cincinnati

• Benjamin DhoeDhoe – Bart StevensStevens (6-3 6-3) – Stats, scores, rankings
• Mats HermansHermans – Fernando YamacitaYamacita (6-3 7-5) – Stats, scores, rankings
• George BotezanBotezan – Gabriel DecampsDecamps (6-4 6-1) – Stats, scores, rankings

Upcoming matches in the draw

• Magdalena FrechFrech – Jessica Bouzas ManeiroBouzas Maneiro (0-1) – H2H and prediction
• Aliaksandra SasnovichSasnovich – Varvara GrachevaGracheva (0-0) – H2H and prediction
• Lulu SunSun – Lucia BronzettiBronzetti (0-0) – H2H and prediction
• Katie VolynetsVolynets – Taylor TownsendTownsend (1-3) – H2H and prediction
• Elina AvanesyanAvanesyan – Harriet DartDart (1-0) – H2H and prediction
• Elise MertensMertens – Marta KostyukKostyuk (1-1) – H2H and prediction
• Emma NavarroNavarro – (0-0) – H2H and prediction
• Karolina PliskovaPliskova – Viktoriya TomovaTomova (0-0) – H2H and prediction
• Anastasia PotapovaPotapova – Clara BurelBurel (1-0) – H2H and prediction
• Amanda AnisimovaAnisimova – Victoria AzarenkaAzarenka (1-1) – H2H and prediction
• Ludmilla SamsonovaSamsonova – Xin Yu WangYu Wang (1-0) – H2H and prediction
• Katie BoulterBoulter – Magda LinetteLinette (0-0) – H2H and prediction
• Karolina MuchovaMuchova – Dayana YastremskaYastremska (3-0) – H2H and prediction
• Ekaterina AlexandrovaAlexandrova – Darya KasatkinaKasatkina (2-2) – H2H and prediction
• Donna VekicVekic – Beatriz Haddad MaiaHaddad Maia (1-2) – H2H and prediction
• Leylah Annie FernandezAnnie Fernandez – Yue YuanYuan (0-0) – H2H and prediction
• Caroline WozniackiWozniacki – Anhelina KalininaKalinina (0-2) – H2H and prediction
• Anastasia PavlyuchenkovaPavlyuchenkova – Ons JabeurJabeur (0-2) – H2H and prediction
• Anna KalinskayaKalinskaya – Katerina SiniakovaSiniakova (1-1) – H2H and prediction
• Peyton StearnsStearns – Paula Badosa GibertBadosa Gibert (0-0) – H2H and prediction

Volynets

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Townsend