Yu Jun Lin and Storm Hunter will face off in the 1st round of the China Open for the 1st time in their career. They are scheduled to compete on Thursday at 4:00 pm on COURT 3. 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 Storm Hunter who should win in 2 sets.
As per the initial odds, Storm Hunter is the pick to win this match.
Storm Hunter -> 1.022
Yu Jun Lin -> 12.75
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Prediction and head to head Yu Jun Lin vs. Storm Hunter
There is no head to head record between Yu Jun Lin and Storm Hunter since this will be the first time that they will face off in the main tour.
Yu Jun Lin
| Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | 7-6 | 3-2 | 0-1 | 4-3 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2025 | 9-6 | 0-2 | 4-1 | 5-3 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
Currently unranked, Yu will start her run in Beijing after she played her last match in U.S. Open (juniors) where she lost 6-3 6-1 to Penickova in the 2nd round on the 7th of September.
Jun Lin has a composed 7-6 win-loss record in 2026, 3-2 on hard (See FULL STATS).
The Chinese won her last 7 matches.
Talking about her overall career, Jun Lin has an overall 16-12 record. She has a negative 3-4 record on hard.
Previously in Beijing
The Chinese has never competed in this tournament before.
Storm Hunter
19 - 14win/loss
182
114
WWLLWWWLWL | Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | 19-14 | 15-7 | 2-4 | 0-1 | 2-2 | 0-0 |
| 2025 | 6-9 | 6-6 | 0-3 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2024 | 14-5 | 14-5 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2023 | 25-15 | 12-10 | 9-4 | 1-0 | 3-1 | 0-0 |
| 2022 | 26-19 | 17-12 | 2-3 | 3-1 | 4-3 | 0-0 |
Ranked no. 182, Sanders got to the 1st round after defeating Ruien Zhang 3-6 6-3 6-2 and Ksenia Zaytseva 6-0 6-1.
In the qualifications, Storm had a good straight sets win against Zaytseva (6-0 6-1). During the match Sanders scored 50 points vs Zaytseva’s 14. Sanders was quite aggressive to blast 21 winners.
Talking about serving, Sanders made 3 aces and she was exceptionally solid in conceding no double faults for the entire match. Storm Hunter was extremely efficient on serve to win 95% (21/22) of her 1st serve and 78% (7/9) on the second serve. This was the main reason for not conceding a single break during the match. Sanders broke Zaytseva 5 times after converting 71% of her break points (5/7).
Overall Performance in this tournament
Storm started her run at this tournament from the qualifications. In the main draw, she has conceded 1 set in the tournament to win 60% of the points she played.
WTA Beijing - Storm Hunter's projected path
Sanders has a compiled 19-14 win-loss record in 2026, 15-7 on hard (See FULL STATS).
Previously in Beijing
Previously, her best result was reaching the qualifications in 2025. See her history.
Head 2 Head
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- Katie BoulterBoulter – Mai HontamaHontama (6-3 6-4) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Dayana YastremskaYastremska – Caty McNallyMcNally (6-3 6-4) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Daria SnigurSnigur – Katarzyna KawaKawa (3-6 6-4 7-5) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Elena Gabriela RuseGabriela Ruse – Lilli TaggerTagger (6-4 6-2) – Stats, scores, rankings
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- Taylah PrestonPreston – Tamara KorpatschKorpatsch (6-2 7-64) – Stats, scores, rankings
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Upcoming matches in the draw
- Yulia StarodubtsewaStarodubtsewa – Alina CharaevaCharaeva (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Qinwen ZhengZheng – (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Sofia KeninKenin – (2-2) – H2H and prediction
- Magda LinetteLinette – Katerina SiniakovaSiniakova (3-2) – H2H and prediction
- Eva LysLys – (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Paula Badosa GibertBadosa Gibert – Darya KasatkinaKasatkina (4-4) – H2H and prediction
- Katie VolynetsVolynets – (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Harriet DartDart – (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Marina Bassols RiberaBassols Ribera – Kamilla RakhimovaRakhimova (0-2) – H2H and prediction
- Alycia ParksParks – Lin ZhuZhu (1-1) – H2H and prediction
- Xinyu GaoGao – Panna UdvardyUdvardy (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Elsa JacquemotJacquemot – Magdalena FrechFrech (1-3) – H2H and prediction
- Anna BondarBondar – Renata ZarazuaZarazua (1-0) – H2H and prediction
- Viktorija GolubicGolubic – Peyton StearnsStearns (0-1) – H2H and prediction
- Ekaterina AlexandrovaAlexandrova – Aliaksandra SasnovichSasnovich (5-1) – H2H and prediction
- Jasmine PaoliniPaolini – Daria SnigurSnigur (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Clara TausonTauson – (1-0) – H2H and prediction
- Yue YuanYuan – (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Karolina MuchovaMuchova – Katie BoulterBoulter (2-0) – H2H and prediction
- Anastasia PotapovaPotapova – Sinja KrausKraus (0-1) – H2H and prediction
- Dayana YastremskaYastremska – Maja ChwalinskaChwalinska (0-0) – H2H and prediction
