Katie Volynets and Robin Montgomery will clash against each other in the 1st round of the China Open for the 1st time in their career. They are scheduled to compete on Thursday at 11:00 am 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 Katie Volynets who should win in 3 sets.
As per the initial odds, Katie Volynets is the pick to win this match.
Katie Volynets -> 1.73
Robin Montgomery -> 2.09
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Prediction and head to head Katie Volynets vs. Robin Montgomery
There is no head to head record between Katie Volynets and Robin Montgomery since this will be the first time that they will square off in the main tour.
Katie Volynets
39 - 23win/loss
74
56
LWWLWWWWWL | Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | 39-23 | 16-11 | 9-7 | 3-1 | 11-4 | 0-0 |
| 2025 | 39-27 | 25-16 | 13-8 | 0-0 | 1-3 | 0-0 |
| 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 |
Ranked no. 74, Katie will start her run in Beijing after she played her last match in Seoul where she lost 2-6 6-2 7-5 to Birrell in the quarter on the 26th of September.
Volynets has an overall 39-23 win-loss record in 2026, 16-11 on hard (See FULL STATS).
Her best result of the current year was conquering the title the Philadelphia where she defeated Tereza Valentova in the final 6-3 7-5.
Talking about her overall career, The American has an overall 278-191 record. She has a positive 155-109 record on hard.
Previously in Beijing
Previously, her best result was reaching the 3rd round in 2024. See her history.
Robin Montgomery
20 - 11win/loss
171
95
WWLLWWWLWL | Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | 20-11 | 6-3 | 5-7 | 0-0 | 9-1 | 0-0 |
| 2025 | 12-9 | 6-4 | 2-3 | 0-0 | 4-2 | 0-0 |
| 2024 | 35-23 | 9-9 | 14-10 | 2-1 | 10-3 | 0-0 |
| 2023 | 26-22 | 11-11 | 10-8 | 1-1 | 4-2 | 0-0 |
| 2022 | 36-16 | 23-12 | 4-2 | 9-2 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
Ranked no. 171, Robin reached the 1st round after beating Aran Teixido Garcia 6-1 6-3 and Anna-Lena Friedsam 6-3 6-2.
In the qualifications, Montgomery had a good straight sets win against Friedsam (6-3 6-2). During the match Montgomery scored 58 points vs Friedsam’s 34. Montgomery was quite aggressive to blast 21 winners.
Talking about serving, Montgomery bagged 8 aces and she committed only 1 double fault for the entire match. Robin Montgomery was pretty efficient on serve to win 81% (21/26) of her 1st serve and 75% (12/16) on the second serve. This was the main reason for not conceding a single break during the match. Robin broke Friedsam 4 times after converting 80% of her break points (4/5).
Overall Performance in this tournament
Robin started her run at this tournament from the qualifications. In the main draw, she hasn’t surrendered yet a set in this competition to win 62% of the points she played.
WTA Beijing - Robin Montgomery's projected path
Her best result of the current season was conquering the title in Hertogenbosch where she beat Barbora Krejcikova in the final w/o.
Robin has a composed 20-11 win-loss record in 2026, 6-3 on hard (See FULL STATS).
Previously in Beijing
The American has never competed in this tournament before.
Head 2 Head
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- Linda FruhvirtovaFruhvirtova – Zhuoxuan BaiBai (6-2 6-3) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Maria TimofeevaTimofeeva – Darja VidmanovaVidmanova (6-3 6-3) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Sinja KrausKraus – Maya JointJoint (6-3 3-6 7-5) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Daria SnigurSnigur – Katarzyna KawaKawa (3-6 6-4 7-5) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Viktorija GolubicGolubic – Elvina KalievaKalieva (6-3 6-1) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Katie BoulterBoulter – Mai HontamaHontama (6-3 6-4) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Dayana YastremskaYastremska – Caty McNallyMcNally (6-3 6-4) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Maddison InglisInglis – Zeynep SonmezSonmez (6-4 6-4) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Yue YuanYuan – Oleksandra OliynykovaOliynykova (6-2 6-3) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Aliaksandra SasnovichSasnovich – Talia GibsonGibson (6-1 6-4) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Taylah PrestonPreston – Tamara KorpatschKorpatsch (6-2 7-64) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Polina KudermetovaKudermetova – Yexin MaMa (6-72 6-3 6-2) – Stats, scores, rankings
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
