Angelique Kerber and Polona Hercog will square off in the 2^nd round of China Open for the 6^th time of their career. They are scheduled to compete on Tuesday at 5 pm on Moon Court.

Angelique Kerber: results and record

Ranked no. 13, Angelique reached the 2^nd round after defeating Shuai Zhang 6-2 1-6 6-4.

The German best result of the current year was getting to the final in Eastbourne and Indian Wells.

Kerber has a 28-18 win-loss record in 2019, 19-13 on hard (See FULL STATS).

Last year in Beijing

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

Polona Hercog: results and record

Ranked no. 51, the Slovenian got to the 2^nd round after beating Julia Goerges 6-7⁴ 7-6⁵ 6-4.

Her best result of the current season was winning the title in Lugano where she beat Iga Swiatek in the final 6-3 3-6 6-3.

Hercog has a 29-22 win-loss record in 2019, 10-15 on hard (See FULL STATS).

Last year in Beijing

Polona lost in the 2^nd round 7-6² 6-3 to Caroline Garcia.

China Open Live score and result Angelique Kerber vs. Polona Hercog

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Prediction and head to head Angelique Kerber vs. Polona Hercog

This will be the 6^th time that Angelique Kerber and Polona Hercog clash against each other. The head to head is 3-2 for Kerber (see full H2H stats), 2-1 on hard.

The last time that they played each other, Kerber won 6-2 6-2 in the 1^st round in at the Australian Open back in January 2019.

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 -> 1.44
Polona Hercog -> 2.62

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Head 2 Head

• 3Slam
• 14Main
• 11ITF
• 0Minor

• 0Slam
• 3Main
• 16ITF
• 3Minor

Angelique
Kerber

5:3

Polona
Hercog

Rank

330

High

1

3Hard2

1Clay1

1I.hard0

Rank

177

High

35

Win Loss

Kerber

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Hercog

LWLWWWWLWL

2024 2023 2022

4 - 9

20 - 11

4-7

Hard

0-0

0-1

I Hard

2-4

0-1

Clay

18-7

Tennis Scores in Beijing

• Elina SvitolinaSvitolina – Yafan WangWang (7-6⁵ 7-6¹) – See score progression
• Belinda BencicBencic – Venus WilliamsWilliams (3-6 6-3 7-5) – See score progression
• Katerina SiniakovaSiniakova – Jelena OstapenkoOstapenko (6-2 6-1) – See score progression
• Ekaterina AlexandrovaAlexandrova – Simona HalepHalep (6-2 6-3) – See score progression
• Kiki BertensBertens – Dayana YastremskaYastremska (7-6⁵ 6-3) – See score progression

Upcoming matches

• Ashleigh BartyBarty – Yulia PutintsevaPutintseva (1-0) – See H2H details
• Saisai ZhengZheng – Sloane StephensStephens (0-2) – See H2H details
• Kristina MladenovicMladenovic – Petra KvitovaKvitova (1-8) – See H2H details
• Anastasia PavlyuchenkovaPavlyuchenkova – Sofia KeninKenin (0-1) – See H2H details
• Angelique KerberKerber – Polona HercogHercog (3-2) – See H2H details
• Bianca Vanessa AndreescuVanessa Andreescu – Elise MertensMertens (1-0) – See H2H details
• Jennifer BradyBrady – Madison KeysKeys (0-0) – See H2H details
• Ajla TomljanovicTomljanovic – Alison RiskeRiske (0-1) – See H2H details
• Andrea PetkovicPetkovic – Naomi OsakaOsaka (1-0) – See H2H details
• Darya KasatkinaKasatkina – Aryna SabalenkaSabalenka (0-0) – See H2H details
• Caroline WozniackiWozniacki – Christina MchaleMchale (4-2) – See H2H details

Kerber

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Hercog