Jessica Pegula and Anastasia Potapova will face off in the 2nd round of the Wuhan Open for the 5th time in their career. They are scheduled to compete on Wednesday at 5:00 pm on Court 1. 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 Jessica Pegula who should win in 2 sets.
As per the initial odds, Jessica Pegula is the pick to win this match.
Jessica Pegula -> 1.25
Anastasia Potapova -> 3.94
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Prediction and head to head Jessica Pegula vs. Anastasia Potapova
This will be the 5th time that Jessica Pegula and Anastasia Potapova face off. The head to head is 4-0 for Pegula (see full H2H stats), 4-0 on hard.
The last time that they played each other, Pegula won 4-6 6-3 7-6(2) in the quarter in Miami back in 2023.
Highlights Jessica Pegula vs Anastasia Potapova – Miami 28-March-2023
Jessica Pegula
38 - 13win/loss
7
3
LLLWLWWLWW | Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 39-16 | 29-9 | 4-2 | 0-2 | 6-3 | 0-0 |
| 2023 | 59-18 | 45-12 | 8-4 | 0-0 | 6-2 | 0-0 |
| 2022 | 42-21 | 28-15 | 11-4 | 1-1 | 2-1 | 0-0 |
| 2021 | 39-19 | 29-12 | 6-4 | 0-0 | 4-3 | 0-0 |
| 2020 | 17-9 | 16-7 | 0-1 | 1-1 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
Ranked no. 3 (career-high), the American will start her run in Wuhan after she played her last match in Beijing where she lost 6-4 6-0 to Badosa in the 4th round on the 1st of October.
Jessica has an aggregate 38-13 win-loss record in 2024, 28-8 on hard (See FULL STATS).
Her best result of the season was winning the title in Berlin where she beat Anna Kalinskaya in the final 6-7(0) 6-4 7-6(3) and in Toronto where she beat Amanda Anisimova in the final 6-3 2-6 6-1.
Talking about her overall career, Pegula has an overall 432-243 record. She has a positive 250-125 record on hard.
Previously in Wuhan
Previously, her best result was reaching the 1st round in 2019. See her history.
Anastasia Potapova
26 - 21win/loss
35
21
LWLLWWLWWW | Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 26-22 | 15-13 | 6-5 | 2-1 | 3-3 | 0-0 |
| 2023 | 30-21 | 11-14 | 7-4 | 7-1 | 5-2 | 0-0 |
| 2022 | 35-24 | 14-14 | 18-7 | 3-2 | 0-1 | 0-0 |
| 2021 | 21-23 | 11-11 | 3-5 | 5-5 | 2-2 | 0-0 |
| 2020 | 11-6 | 7-5 | 0-0 | 4-1 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
Ranked no. 38, Potapova reached the 2nd round after defeating Katie Volynets 5-7 6-3 7-5.
In the 1st round against Volynets, Potapova recovered from a 1-set down deficit before winning (5-7 6-3 7-5). During the match Potapova scored 109 points vs Volynets’s 106. Anastasia was exceptionally aggressive to blast 36 winners.
Talking about serving, Potapova scored just 1 ace during the entire match and she was not very solid on her 2nd serve to score 13 double faults. Anastasia Potapova lost the serve 9 times and she saved 12 break points. Furthermore, Potapova put 55% of her first serves in, winning 56% (36/64) of the points behind her 1st serve and 35% (18/52) on the 2nd serve. The Russian broke Volynets 10 times after converting 67% of her break points (10/15).
Anastasia’s best result of the current season was getting to the semifinal in Birmingham and Cleveland.
Potapova has a compiled 26-21 win-loss record in 2024, 15-12 on hard (See FULL STATS).
Head 2 Head
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LWLLWWLWWW Tennis Scores in Wuhan
- Nicole Melichar/Ellen PerezMelichar/Ellen Perez – Hanyu Guo/Xinyu JiangGuo/Xinyu Jiang (6-0 6-4) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Vasile AntonescuAntonescu – Aziz KijametovicKijametovic (4-6 6-3 7-5) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Shalva DzhanashiaDzhanashia – Yan SabaninSabanin (7-63 6-4) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Christoph NegrituNegritu – Alex KnaffKnaff (6-2 6-4) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Paul WoernerWoerner – Leonard Von HindteVon Hindte (6-2 6-3) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Peter NagyNagy – Nikolas Walterscheid-TukicWalterscheid-Tukic (6-2 1-6 6-3) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Louis WesselsWessels – Marco NeubauNeubau (6-1 7-66) – Stats, scores, rankings
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- Amanda AnisimovaAnisimova – Marta KostyukKostyuk (0-2) – H2H and prediction
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- Barbora KrejcikovaKrejcikova – Hailey BaptisteBaptiste (1-0) – H2H and prediction
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