Nikola Bartunkova and Magdalena Frech will square off in the 2nd round of the China Open for the 2nd time in their career. They are scheduled to play on Friday at 4:30 pm on Court 5. In this post, we analyze their head to head performance and prediction.
Prediction, odds and live streaming
The pick for Tennis Tonic is Nikola Bartunkova who should win in 3 sets.
As per the initial odds, Nikola Bartunkova is the pick to win this match.
Nikola Bartunkova -> 1.58
Magdalena Frech -> 2.36
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Prediction and head to head Nikola Bartunkova vs. Magdalena Frech
This will be the 2nd time that Nikola Bartunkova and Magdalena Frech fight against each other. The head to head is 1-0 for Bartunkova (see full H2H stats), 1-0 on hard.
The last time that they squared off, Bartunkova won 7-5 6-4 in the quarter in Guadalajara back in 2025.
Nikola Bartunkova
34 - 20win/loss
34
34
LWWLWWWLWL | Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | 34-20 | 19-10 | 5-5 | 2-1 | 8-4 | 0-0 |
| 2025 | 54-19 | 8-5 | 26-8 | 20-6 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2024 | 19-11 | 0-0 | 1-2 | 18-9 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2023 | 24-10 | 0-1 | 21-5 | 3-4 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2022 | 33-15 | 14-4 | 13-6 | 5-4 | 0-0 | 1-1 |
Ranked no. 34 (career-high), the Czech will start her run in Beijing after she played her last match at the New York where she lost 6-2 7-6(5) to Andreeva in the 3rd round on the 5th of September.
Nikola has a compiled 34-20 win-loss record in 2026, 19-10 on hard (See FULL STATS).
The Czech’s best result of the season was reaching the semifinal in the Birmingham.
Talking about her overall career, Bartunkova has an overall 178-83 record. She has a positive 41-20 record on hard.
Previously in Beijing
Bartunkova has never competed in this tournament before.
Magdalena Frech
20 - 23win/loss
48
22
WLWWLLWWLW | Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | 20-23 | 17-14 | 2-5 | 0-0 | 1-4 | 0-0 |
| 2025 | 15-25 | 10-16 | 4-5 | 0-0 | 1-4 | 0-0 |
| 2024 | 41-30 | 28-15 | 10-9 | 1-2 | 2-4 | 0-0 |
| 2023 | 39-32 | 23-21 | 10-5 | 0-2 | 6-4 | 0-0 |
| 2022 | 38-38 | 22-19 | 11-12 | 1-3 | 4-4 | 0-0 |
Ranked no. 48, Frech reached the 2nd round after beating Elsa Jacquemot 7-5 3-6 6-4.
In the 1st round, Magdalena defeated Jacquemot (7-5 3-6 6-4). During the match Frech scored 101 points vs Jacquemot’s 95. Frech was extremely aggressive to blast 44 winners.
Talking about serving, Frech was unable to score even 1 ace for the entire match and she was exceptionally consistent in conceding no double faults for the entire match. Magdalena Frech lost the serve 4 times and she saved 3 break points. Furthermore, Frech put 71% of her first serves in, winning 69% (44/64) of the points behind her 1st serve and 46% (12/26) on the 2nd serve. The Pole broke Jacquemot 5 times after converting 45% of her break points (5/11).
Magdalena’s best result of the current year was reaching the semifinal in Merida.
Magdalena has an aggregate 20-23 win-loss record in 2026, 17-14 on hard (See FULL STATS).
Previously in Beijing
Previously, her best result was reaching the 4th round in 2024. See her history.
Head 2 Head
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WWWWWWWWWW Tennis Scores in Beijing
- Sonay KartalKartal – Andrea Lazaro GarciaLazaro Garcia (6-2 6-3) – See score progression
- Qinwen ZhengZheng – Han ShiShi (7-66 4-6 6-2) – See score progression
- Katie VolynetsVolynets – Robin MontgomeryMontgomery (7-5 7-5) – See score progression
- Paula BadosaBadosa – Daria KasatkinaKasatkina (4-6 7-67 6-4) – See score progression
- Lin ZhuZhu – Alycia ParksParks (6-4 6-2) – See score progression
- Harriet DartDart – Yihan QuQu (6-2 6-75 7-5) – See score progression
- Kimberly BirrellBirrell – Aoi ItoIto (6-1 6-1) – See score progression
- Kamilla RakhimovaRakhimova – Marina Bassols RiberaBassols Ribera (6-4 7-62) – See score progression
- Katerina SiniakovaSiniakova – Magda LinetteLinette (6-4 6-3) – See score progression
- Alina CharaevaCharaeva – Yuliia StarodubtsevaStarodubtseva (5-7 7-5 6-2) – See score progression
- Maria Camila Osorio SerranoCamila Osorio Serrano – Lanlana TararudeeTararudee (6-3 6-3) – See score progression
- Storm HunterHunter – Yu Jun LinJun Lin (6-2 6-1) – See score progression
- Xinran SunSun – Eva LysLys (6-1 3-0 ret.) – See score progression
- Ashlyn KruegerKrueger – Sofia KeninKenin (6-3 6-3) – See score progression
- Anastasia ZakharovaZakharova – Yushan ShaoShao (6-0 6-2) – See score progression
- Viktorija GolubicGolubic – Elvina KalievaKalieva (6-3 6-1) – See score progression
- Maria TimofeevaTimofeeva – Darja VidmanovaVidmanova (6-3 6-3) – See score progression
- Aliaksandra SasnovichSasnovich – Talia GibsonGibson (6-1 6-4) – See score progression
- Elena Gabriela RuseGabriela Ruse – Lilli TaggerTagger (6-4 6-2) – See score progression
- Polina KudermetovaKudermetova – Yexin MaMa (6-72 6-3 6-2) – See score progression
- Taylah PrestonPreston – Tamara KorpatschKorpatsch (6-2 7-64) – See score progression
- Sinja KrausKraus – Maya JointJoint (6-3 3-6 7-5) – See score progression
- Janice TjenTjen – Anhelina KalininaKalinina (2-6 7-5 6-4) – See score progression
- Yue YuanYuan – Oleksandra OliynykovaOliynykova (6-2 6-3) – See score progression
- Maddison InglisInglis – Zeynep SonmezSonmez (6-4 6-4) – See score progression
- Daria SnigurSnigur – Katarzyna KawaKawa (3-6 6-4 7-5) – See score progression
- Dayana YastremskaYastremska – Caty McNallyMcNally (6-3 6-4) – See score progression
- Linda FruhvirtovaFruhvirtova – Zhuoxuan BaiBai (6-2 6-3) – See score progression
- Katie BoulterBoulter – Mai HontamaHontama (6-3 6-4) – See score progression
- Renata ZarazuaZarazua – Anna BondarBondar (7-64 6-3) – See score progression
- Magdalena FrechFrech – Elsa JacquemotJacquemot (7-5 3-6 6-4) – See score progression
- Alina CharaevaCharaeva – Yuliia StarodubtsevaStarodubtseva (5-7 7-5 6-2) – See score progression
- Sonay KartalKartal – Andrea Lazaro GarciaLazaro Garcia (6-2 6-3) – See score progression
- Kimberly BirrellBirrell – Aoi ItoIto (6-1 6-1) – See score progression
- Qinwen ZhengZheng – Han ShiShi (7-6(6) 4-6 6-2) – See score progression
- Anastasia ZakharovaZakharova – Yushan ShaoShao (6-0 6-2) – See score progression
- Ashlyn KruegerKrueger – Sofia KeninKenin (6-3 6-3) – See score progression
- Storm HunterHunter – Yu Jun LinJun Lin (6-2 6-1) – See score progression
- Katerina SiniakovaSiniakova – Magda LinetteLinette (6-4 6-3) – See score progression
- Xinran SunSun – Eva LysLys (6-1 3-0 ret.) – See score progression
- Paula Badosa GibertBadosa Gibert – Daria KasatkinaKasatkina (4-6 7-6(7) 6-4) – See score progression
- Katie VolynetsVolynets – Robin MontgomeryMontgomery (7-5 7-5) – See score progression
- Harriet DartDart – Yihan QuQu (6-2 6-7(5) 7-5) – See score progression
- Kamilla RakhimovaRakhimova – Marina Bassols RiberaBassols Ribera (6-4 7-6(2)) – See score progression
- Lin ZhuZhu – Alycia ParksParks (6-4 6-2) – See score progression
Upcoming matches in the draw
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- Elena RybakinaRybakina – Alina CharaevaCharaeva (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Marie BouzkovaBouzkova – Kimberly BirrellBirrell (0-1) – H2H and prediction
- Qinwen ZhengZheng – Anna KalinskayaKalinskaya (1-1) – H2H and prediction
- Belinda BencicBencic – Anastasia ZakharovaZakharova (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Maria SakkariSakkari – Storm SandersSanders (1-0) – H2H and prediction
- Katerina SiniakovaSiniakova – Elina SvitolinaSvitolina (0-5) – H2H and prediction
- Jelena OstapenkoOstapenko – Paula Badosa GibertBadosa Gibert (3-2) – H2H and prediction
- Katie VolynetsVolynets – Elise MertensMertens (0-1) – H2H and prediction
- Kamilla RakhimovaRakhimova – Leylah Annie FernandezAnnie Fernandez (0-1) – H2H and prediction
- Donna VekicVekic – Lin ZhuZhu (3-0) – 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
- Renata ZarazuaZarazua – Aryna SabalenkaSabalenka (0-1) – H2H and prediction
