Anna Kalinskaya and Qinwen Zheng will clash against each other in the 2nd round of the China Open for the 3rd time in their career. They are scheduled to compete on Saturday at 3:30 pm on Court 5. 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 Qinwen Zheng who should win in 3 sets.
As per the initial odds, Qinwen Zheng is the pick to win this match.
Qinwen Zheng -> 1.51
Anna Kalinskaya -> 2.54
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Prediction and head to head Anna Kalinskaya vs. Qinwen Zheng
This will be the 3rd time that Anna Kalinskaya and Qinwen Zheng square off. The head to head is 1-1 for Kalinskaya and Zheng (see full H2H stats),but they are 1-1 on hard.
The last time that they played each other, Zheng won 6-7(4) 6-3 6-1 in the quarter in at the Australian Open back in 2024.
Highlights Qinwen Zheng vs Anna Kalinskaya – Australian Open 24-January-2024
Anna Kalinskaya
27 - 18win/loss
22
11
LWWWLWLWLW | Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | 27-18 | 16-11 | 8-4 | 0-0 | 3-3 | 0-0 |
| 2025 | 25-21 | 16-14 | 5-4 | 3-1 | 1-2 | 0-0 |
| 2024 | 38-19 | 28-12 | 3-5 | 0-0 | 7-2 | 0-0 |
| 2023 | 28-18 | 16-15 | 7-3 | 5-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2022 | 27-20 | 22-10 | 2-6 | 1-1 | 2-3 | 0-0 |
Ranked no. 22, Anna will start her run in Beijing after she played her last match at the New York where she lost 6-4 6-2 to Navarro in the 4th round on the 6th of September.
Kalinskaya has a composed 27-18 win-loss record in 2026, 16-11 on hard (See FULL STATS).
Talking about her overall career, Kalinskaya has an overall 350-217 record. She has a positive 189-104 record on hard.
Previously in Beijing
Previously, her best result was reaching the 4th round in 2024. See her history.
Qinwen Zheng
19 - 15win/loss
54
4
WLLWWWWWWW | Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | 19-15 | 14-7 | 3-3 | 0-1 | 2-4 | 0-0 |
| 2025 | 20-12 | 8-6 | 10-4 | 0-0 | 2-2 | 0-0 |
| 2024 | 52-18 | 31-10 | 17-4 | 3-2 | 1-2 | 0-0 |
| 2023 | 37-19 | 23-11 | 11-4 | 3-1 | 0-3 | 0-0 |
| 2022 | 39-19 | 27-12 | 10-4 | 0-0 | 2-3 | 0-0 |
Ranked no. 54, the Chinese got to the 2nd round after defeating Han Shi 7-6(6) 4-6 6-2.
In the 1st round, Qinwen defeated Shi (7-66 4-6 6-2). During the match Zheng scored 110 points vs Shi’s 96. Qinwen was quite aggressive to blast 32 winners.
Talking about serving, Zheng scored 2 aces and she committed only 5 double faults. Overall, Qinwen Zheng was exceptionally effective on serve to win 71% (32/45) of her 1st serve and 60% (29/48) on the second serve. However, this didn’t prevent her to concede the serve 3 times. Qinwen broke Shi 4 times after converting 57% of her break points (4/7).
Zheng has an aggregate 19-15 win-loss record in 2026, 14-7 on hard (See FULL STATS).
Previously in Beijing
Previously, her best result was reaching the semifinal in 2024. See her history.
Head 2 Head
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WWWWWWWWWW Tennis Scores in Beijing
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- Linda NoskovaNoskova – Elena Gabriela RuseGabriela Ruse (6-4 6-1) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Ekaterina AlexandrovaAlexandrova – Aliaksandra SasnovichSasnovich (6-1 6-4) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Taylah PrestonPreston – Diane ParryParry (7-64 6-1) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Viktorija GolubicGolubic – Peyton StearnsStearns (6-4 3-6 6-3) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Mirra AndreevaAndreeva – Yue YuanYuan (3-6 6-0 6-0) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Karolina MuchovaMuchova – Katie BoulterBoulter (7-63 6-1) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Polina KudermetovaKudermetova – Clara TausonTauson (6-4 4-6 6-4) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Diana ShnaiderShnaider – Janice TjenTjen (6-0 6-4) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Sinja KrausKraus – Anastasia PotapovaPotapova (4-1 ret.) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Liudmila SamsonovaSamsonova – Linda FruhvirtovaFruhvirtova (6-2 3-6 6-3) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Daria SnigurSnigur – Jasmine PaoliniPaolini (3-6 7-65 6-2) – Stats, scores, rankings
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