Angelique Kerber and Shuai Zhang will clash against each other in the 1^st round of China Open for the 3^rd time of their career. They are scheduled to compete on Sunday at 7.30 pm on Diamond Court.

Angelique Kerber: results and record

Ranked no. 12, the German will start her run in Beijing after she played her last match in Wuhan where she lost 7-6⁵ 5-7 6-1 to Puig in the 1^st round the 23^rd of September.

The German has a 27-18 win-loss record in 2019, 18-13 on hard (See FULL STATS).

Angelique’s best result of the season was getting to the final in Eastbourne and Indian Wells.

Last year in Beijing

Kerber lost in the 3^rd round 6-1 2-6 6-0 to Shuai Zhang.

Shuai Zhang: results and record

Ranked no. 31, Zhang will start her run in Beijing after she played her last match in Wuhan where she lost 7-5 6-4 to Stephens in the 1^st round the 22^nd of September.

Shuai has a 23-25 win-loss record in 2019, 12-16 on hard (See FULL STATS).

Shuai’s best result of the year was getting to the final in the Anning.

Last year in Beijing

Shuai lost in the quarter 3-6 6-4 7-5 to Naomi Osaka.

China Open Live score and result Angelique Kerber vs. Shuai Zhang

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Prediction and head to head Angelique Kerber vs. Shuai Zhang

This will be the 3^rd time that Angelique Kerber and Shuai Zhang fight against each other. The head to head is 1-1 for Kerber and Zhang (see full H2H stats), 1-0 on hard.

The last time that they played, Zhang won 6-1 2-6 6-0 in the 3^rd round in Beijing back in 2018.

Prediction, odds and live streaming

The pick for Tennis Tonic is Angelique Kerber who should win in 3 sets.

As per the initial odds, Angelique Kerber is the pick to win this match.
Angelique Kerber -> 1.53
Shuai Zhang -> 2.37

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Head 2 Head

• 3Slam
• 14Main
• 11ITF
• 0Minor

• 0Slam
• 3Main
• 20ITF
• 3Minor

Angelique
Kerber

2:1

Shuai
Zhang

Rank

330

High

1

1Hard1

1Clay0

Rank

671

High

22

Win Loss

Kerber

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Zhang

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4 - 9

0 - 4

4-7

Hard

0-3

Tennis Scores in Beijing

• Polona HercogHercog – Julia GoergesGoerges (6-7⁴ 7-6⁵ 6-4) – See score progression
• Belinda BencicBencic – Su-Wei HsiehHsieh (7-5 6-2) – See score progression
• Saisai ZhengZheng – Monica PuigPuig (4-6 6-3 7-6⁵) – See score progression
• Katerina SiniakovaSiniakova – Xiyu WangWang (6-2 6-2) – See score progression
• Kiki BertensKiki – Donna VekicDonna (3-6 6-1 7-6(3)) – See score progression

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