Donna Vekic and Lin Zhu will square off in the 2nd round of the China Open for the 4th time in their career. They are scheduled to compete on Saturday 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 Donna Vekic who should win in 3 sets.
As per the initial odds, Donna Vekic is the pick to win this match.
Donna Vekic -> 1.54
Lin Zhu -> 2.46
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Prediction and head to head Donna Vekic vs. Lin Zhu
This will be the 4th time that Donna Vekic and Lin Zhu fight against each other. The head to head is 3-0 for Vekic (see full H2H stats), 3-0 on hard.
The last time that they played each other, Vekic won 6-4 6-3 in the quarter in the Manila back in January 2026.
Donna Vekic
26 - 21win/loss
40
17
LLWLLLLLWW | Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | 26-21 | 8-12 | 12-5 | 0-1 | 6-3 | 0-0 |
| 2025 | 14-23 | 9-15 | 3-4 | 0-0 | 2-4 | 0-0 |
| 2024 | 32-20 | 12-10 | 8-5 | 2-1 | 10-4 | 0-0 |
| 2023 | 29-20 | 16-9 | 4-5 | 2-3 | 7-3 | 0-0 |
| 2022 | 28-20 | 10-9 | 9-6 | 2-1 | 7-4 | 0-0 |
Ranked no. 40, the Croatian will start her run in Beijing after she played her last match in Singapore where she lost 6-1 6-2 to Wang in the 1st round on the 22nd of September.
Donna has an aggregate 26-21 win-loss record in 2026, 8-12 on hard (See FULL STATS).
Her best result of the current year was conquering the title in London where she beat Emma Raducanu in the final 6-0 7-6(6).
Talking about her overall career, Donna has an overall 434-327 record. She has a positive 238-178 record on hard.
Previously in Beijing
Previously, her best result was reaching the 3rd round in 2018 and 2024. See her history.
Lin Zhu
| Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | 21-16 | 17-12 | 0-0 | 0-1 | 4-3 | 0-0 |
| 2025 | 21-17 | 19-14 | 0-0 | 1-1 | 1-2 | 0-0 |
| 2024 | 15-19 | 12-10 | 0-5 | 0-0 | 3-4 | 0-0 |
| 2023 | 28-24 | 23-17 | 0-2 | 1-2 | 4-3 | 0-0 |
| 2022 | 41-26 | 34-15 | 6-6 | 1-2 | 0-3 | 0-0 |
Ranked no. 199, the Chinese reached the 2nd round after beating Alycia Parks 6-4 6-2.
In the 1st round, Lin had a good straight sets win against Parks (6-4 6-2). During the match Zhu scored 63 points vs Parks’s 44. The Chinese was extremely aggressive to blast 25 winners.
About the serving games, Zhu was unable to score even 1 ace for the entire match and she was extremely steady in conceding no double faults for the entire match. Overall, Lin Zhu was quite efficient on serve to win 78% (25/32) of her 1st serve and 60% (9/15) on the second serve. However, this didn’t prevent her to concede the serve once. Lin broke Parks 4 times after converting 36% of her break points (4/11).
Zhu’s best result of the current season was getting to the semifinal in the W75 Brisbane.
Lin has an overall 21-16 win-loss record in 2026, 17-12 on hard (See FULL STATS).
Previously in Beijing
Previously, her best result was reaching the 2nd round in 2014 and 2025. See her history.
Head 2 Head
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- 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
- 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
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- 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
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- Jelena OstapenkoOstapenko – Paula Badosa GibertBadosa Gibert (3-2) – H2H and prediction
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- 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
