Sloane Stephens and Magda Linette will fight against each other in the 1^st round of China Open for the 3^rd time of their career. They are scheduled to play on Sunday at 5.30 pm on Lotus Court.

Sloane Stephens: results and record

Ranked no. 15, the American will start her run in Beijing after she played her last match in Wuhan where she lost 6-3 6-3 to Kvitova in the 3^rd round the 25^th of September.

Stephens has a 21-18 win-loss record in 2019, 9-12 on hard (See FULL STATS).

Stephens’s best result of the year was reaching the semi-finals in Madrid.

Last year in Beijing

The American lost in the 3^rd round 4-6 6-2 6-3 to Dominika Cibulkova.

Magda Linette: results and record

Ranked no. 42 (career high), the Pole reached the 1^st round after defeating Kristie Ahn 6-2 6-1 and Heather Watson 6-2 6-1.

Her best result of the season was winning the title in New York where she defeated Camila Giorgi in the final 5-7 7-5 6-4.

The Pole has a 33-23 win-loss record in 2019, 28-13 on hard (See FULL STATS).

Last year in Beijing

Magda lost in the qualifications 7-6³ 7-5 to Christina Mchale.

China Open Live score and result Sloane Stephens vs. Magda Linette

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Prediction and head to head Sloane Stephens vs. Magda Linette

This will be the 3^rd time that Sloane Stephens and Magda Linette clash against each other. The head to head is 2-0 for Stephens (see full H2H stats), 2-0 on hard.

The last time that they fought against each other, Stephens won 6-2 6-1 in the 1^st round in Washington back in 2015.

Prediction, odds and live streaming

The pick for Tennis Tonic is Magda Linette who should win in 3 sets.

As per the initial odds, Magda Linette is the pick to win this match.
Magda Linette -> 1.90
Sloane Stephens -> 1.80

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Head 2 Head

• 1Slam
• 8Main
• 2ITF
• 0Minor

• 0Slam
• 2Main
• 11ITF
• 1Minor

Sloane
Stephens

4:0

Magda
Linette

Rank

33

High

3

3Hard0

1Clay0

Rank

48

High

19

Win Loss

Stephens

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Linette

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17 - 9

10 - 11

8-8

Hard

3-9

9-1

Clay

7-2

Tennis Scores in Beijing

• Saisai ZhengZheng – Monica PuigPuig (4-6 6-3 7-6⁵) – See score progression
• Kiki BertensBertens – Donna VekicVekic (3-6 6-1 7-6³) – See score progression
• Samantha Stosur/Shuai ZhangStosur/Shuai Zhang – Alicja Rosolska/Storm SandersRosolska/Storm Sanders (4-6 6-3 10-8) – See score progression
• Jelena OstapenkoOstapenko – Karolina PliskovaPliskova (7-5 3-6 7-5) – See score progression
• Polona HercogHercog – Julia GoergesGoerges (6-7⁴ 7-6⁵ 6-4) – See score progression
• Darya KasatkinaKasatkina – Shuai PengPeng (2-6 6-4 6-4) – See score progression
• Katerina SiniakovaSiniakova – Xiyu WangWang (6-2 6-2) – See score progression
• Belinda BencicBencic – Su-Wei HsiehHsieh (7-5 6-2) – See score progression
• Sofia KeninKenin – Garbine MuguruzaMuguruza (6-0 2-6 6-2) – See score progression

Upcoming matches

• Yulia PutintsevaPutintseva – Anna BlinkovaBlinkova (0-0) – See H2H details
• Magda LinetteLinette – Sloane StephensStephens (0-2) – See H2H details
• Barbora StrycovaStrycova – Venus WilliamsWilliams (0-4) – See H2H details
• Danielle Rose CollinsRose Collins – Kristina MladenovicMladenovic (0-0) – See H2H details
• Elina SvitolinaSvitolina – Anastasija SevastovaSevastova (0-1) – See H2H details
• Xin Yu WangYu Wang – Yafan WangWang (0-0) – See H2H details
• Anastasia PavlyuchenkovaPavlyuchenkova – Veronika KudermetovaKudermetova (0-1) – See H2H details
• Angelique KerberKerber – Shuai ZhangZhang (1-1) – See H2H details
• Caroline GarciaGarcia – Dayana YastremskaYastremska (0-1) – See H2H details
• Bianca Vanessa AndreescuVanessa Andreescu – Aliaksandra SasnovichSasnovich (0-0) – See H2H details
• Elise MertensMertens – Petra MarticMartic (1-0) – See H2H details
• Jennifer BradyBrady – Amanda AnisimovaAnisimova (0-0) – See H2H details
• Karolina MuchovaMuchova – Madison KeysKeys (0-0) – See H2H details
• Qiang WangWang – Ajla TomljanovicTomljanovic (0-0) – See H2H details
• Jil TeichmannTeichmann – Andrea PetkovicPetkovic (0-0) – See H2H details
• Jessica PegulaPegula – Naomi OsakaOsaka (0-0) – See H2H details
• Simona HalepHalep – Rebecca PetersonPeterson (1-0) – See H2H details
• Ekaterina AlexandrovaAlexandrova – Bernarda PeraPera (0-0) – See H2H details
• Caroline WozniackiWozniacki – Lauren DavisDavis (1-0) – See H2H details
• Christina MchaleMchale – Svetlana KuznetsovaKuznetsova (2-2) – See H2H details
• Darya KasatkinaKasatkina – Aryna SabalenkaSabalenka (0-0) – See H2H details
• Katerina SiniakovaSiniakova – Jelena OstapenkoOstapenko (0-0) – See H2H details