Jasmine Paolini and Anhelina Kalinina will square off in the 1st round of the Ningbo Open for the 2nd time in their career. They are scheduled to play on Tuesday at 3:30 pm on Center Court. 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 Jasmine Paolini who should win in 2 sets.
As per the initial odds, Jasmine Paolini is the pick to win this match.
Jasmine Paolini -> 1.42
Anhelina Kalinina -> 2.84
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Prediction and head to head Jasmine Paolini vs. Anhelina Kalinina
This will be the 2nd time that Jasmine Paolini and Anhelina Kalinina clash against each other. The head to head is 1-0 for Paolini (see full H2H stats), but they have never played each other on hard.
The last time that they played, Paolini won 6-2 6-3 in the quarter in the Marseille back in 2017.
Jasmine Paolini
21 - 17win/loss
35
4
LWWLLWLWWL | Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | 21-17 | 12-10 | 4-4 | 1-1 | 4-2 | 0-0 |
| 2025 | 46-21 | 27-12 | 13-3 | 3-3 | 3-3 | 0-0 |
| 2024 | 42-21 | 19-10 | 12-5 | 3-4 | 8-2 | 0-0 |
| 2023 | 43-30 | 20-16 | 16-8 | 5-3 | 2-3 | 0-0 |
| 2022 | 30-25 | 14-11 | 10-10 | 6-3 | 0-1 | 0-0 |
Ranked no. 35, Jasmine will start her run in Ningbo after she played her last match in Wuhan where she lost 6-2 6-0 to Kartal in the 3rd round on the 15th of October.
Paolini has an aggregate 21-17 win-loss record in 2026, 12-10 on hard (See FULL STATS).
Talking about her overall career, Jasmine has an overall 455-306 record. She has a positive 166-119 record on hard.
Previously in Ningbo
Previously, her best result was reaching the semifinal in 2025. See her history.
Anhelina Kalinina
42 - 23win/loss
51
25
LWLLLWWLLW | Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | 42-23 | 5-8 | 32-9 | 3-3 | 2-3 | 0-0 |
| 2025 | 14-13 | 5-7 | 2-4 | 7-2 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2024 | 22-24 | 8-14 | 10-7 | 0-0 | 4-3 | 0-0 |
| 2023 | 29-25 | 18-16 | 5-4 | 3-1 | 3-4 | 0-0 |
| 2022 | 34-22 | 8-10 | 8-5 | 13-3 | 5-4 | 0-0 |
Ranked no. 51, the Ukrainian got to the 1st round after defeating Simona Waltert 6-4 3-6 6-3 and Aliaksandra Sasnovich 5-3 ret..
In the qualifications, The Ukrainian defeated Waltert (6-4 3-6 6-3). During the match Kalinina scored 96 points vs Waltert’s 93. Kalinina was exceptionally aggressive to blast 40 winners.
About the serving games, Kalinina recorded 2 aces and she committed only 7 double faults. Anhelina Kalinina lost the serve 6 times and she saved 12 break points. Furthermore, Kalinina put 59% of her first serves in, winning 66% (40/61) of the points behind her 1st serve and 35% (15/43) on the 2nd serve. Kalinina broke Waltert 7 times after converting 64% of her break points (7/11).
WTA Ningbo - Anhelina Kalinina's projected path
Her best result of the year was winning the title the Antalya where she overcame Oleksandra Oliynykova in the final 6-3 3-6 6-2 and the Antalya where she beat Tamara Zidansek in the final 6-0 6-3.
Kalinina has a compiled 42-23 win-loss record in 2026, 5-8 on hard (See FULL STATS).
Previously in Ningbo
Anhelina has never competed in this tournament before.
Head 2 Head
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- Aliaksandra SasnovichSasnovich – Daria KasatkinaKasatkina (6-4 6-2) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Leylah Annie FernandezAnnie Fernandez – Elise MertensMertens (2-6 6-3 7-5) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Sorana CirsteaCirstea – Han ShiShi (6-3 6-2) – Stats, scores, rankings
Upcoming matches in the draw
- Cristina BucsaBucsa – (0-1) – H2H and prediction
- Katarzyna KawaKawa – Daria SnigurSnigur (1-2) – H2H and prediction
- Jelena OstapenkoOstapenko – Belinda BencicBencic (1-2) – H2H and prediction
- Jasmine PaoliniPaolini – Anhelina KalininaKalinina (1-0) – H2H and prediction
- Yulia PutintsevaPutintseva – (2-1) – H2H and prediction
- Hanyu GuoGuo – Ekaterina AlexandrovaAlexandrova (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Kamilla RakhimovaRakhimova – Marie BouzkovaBouzkova (0-2) – H2H and prediction
- Leylah Annie FernandezAnnie Fernandez – Aliaksandra SasnovichSasnovich (2-2) – H2H and prediction
