Jelena Ostapenko and Paula Badosa will clash against each other in the 2nd round of the China Open for the 6th time in their career. They are scheduled to compete on Saturday at 1:30 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 Paula Badosa who should win in 3 sets.
As per the initial odds, Paula Badosa is the pick to win this match.
Paula Badosa -> 1.52
Jelena Ostapenko -> 2.51
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Prediction and head to head Jelena Ostapenko vs. Paula Badosa
This will be the 6th time that Jelena Ostapenko and Paula Badosa face off. The head to head is 3-2 for Ostapenko (see full H2H stats),but they are 1-1 on hard.
The last time that they played each other, Ostapenko won 3-6 7-6(3) 6-2 in the 2nd round in Toronto back in 2024.
Highlights Jelena Ostapenko vs Paula Badosa – Toronto 08-August-2024
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zPdr654kUsY
Jelena Ostapenko
22 - 19win/loss
32
5
LWLLLLWWLW | Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | 22-19 | 10-12 | 7-5 | 0-0 | 5-2 | 0-0 |
| 2025 | 18-20 | 8-14 | 9-4 | 0-0 | 1-2 | 0-0 |
| 2024 | 31-19 | 14-10 | 8-6 | 4-0 | 5-3 | 0-0 |
| 2023 | 37-22 | 21-15 | 7-4 | 1-1 | 8-2 | 0-0 |
| 2022 | 33-19 | 19-10 | 3-3 | 3-3 | 8-3 | 0-0 |
Ranked no. 32, Ostapenko will start her run in Beijing after she played her last match in Seoul where she lost 6-4 6-1 to Preston in the 2nd round on the 24th of September.
Jelena has an overall 22-19 win-loss record in 2026, 10-12 on hard (See FULL STATS).
Talking about her overall career, The Latvian has an overall 431-278 record. She has a positive 155-137 record on hard.
Previously in Beijing
Previously, her best result was reaching the semifinal in 2017. See her history.
Paula Badosa
27 - 19win/loss
59
2
WLWWWLWLWW | Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | 27-19 | 12-10 | 13-6 | 0-0 | 2-3 | 0-0 |
| 2025 | 18-13 | 13-8 | 3-2 | 0-1 | 2-2 | 0-0 |
| 2024 | 37-19 | 26-11 | 6-5 | 0-1 | 5-2 | 0-0 |
| 2023 | 18-9 | 6-4 | 11-4 | 0-0 | 1-1 | 0-0 |
| 2022 | 32-22 | 20-13 | 8-5 | 1-2 | 3-2 | 0-0 |
Ranked no. 59, Paula got to the 2nd round after defeating Daria Kasatkina 4-6 7-6(7) 6-4.
In the 1st round against Kasatkina, Paula recovered from a 1-set down deficit before winning (4-6 7-67 6-4).During the match Badosa scored less points (1) than Kasatkina. In fact, the world no. 32 won 113 points vs Kasatkina’s. That means that Badosa was more focused during the important points. Paula was extremely aggressive to blast 45 winners.
Talking about serving, Badosa struck 2 aces and she committed only 9 double faults. Paula Badosa lost the serve 8 times and she saved 11 break points. Furthermore, Badosa put 67% of her first serves in, winning 56% (45/81) of the points behind her 1st serve and 38% (15/40) on the 2nd serve. Badosa broke Kasatkina 8 times after converting 80% of her break points (8/10).
Her best result of the season was winning the title the Bastad where she beat Simona Waltert in the final 7-5 7-5.
Paula has an aggregate 27-19 win-loss record in 2026, 12-10 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
- 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
- Dayana YastremskaYastremska – Maja ChwalinskaChwalinska (6-3 6-1) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Linda NoskovaNoskova – Elena Gabriela RuseGabriela Ruse (6-4 6-1) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Ekaterina AlexandrovaAlexandrova – Aliaksandra SasnovichSasnovich (6-1 6-4) – Stats, scores, rankings
Upcoming matches in the draw
- 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
- Cori GauffGauff – Maria Camila Osorio SerranoCamila Osorio Serrano (0-0) – 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
- Xinyu GaoGao – Iga SwiatekSwiatek (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Clara TausonTauson – (1-0) – H2H and prediction
- Renata ZarazuaZarazua – Aryna SabalenkaSabalenka (0-1) – H2H and prediction
- Ekaterina AlexandrovaAlexandrova – (2-1) – H2H and prediction
- Daria SnigurSnigur – (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Karolina MuchovaMuchova – Ludmilla SamsonovaSamsonova (2-0) – H2H and prediction
- Sinja KrausKraus – Dayana YastremskaYastremska (0-0) – H2H and prediction
