Sofia Kenin and Zhaoxuan Yang will clash against each other in the 1st round of the Abu Dhabi Tennis Open for the 2nd time of their career. They are scheduled to compete on Thursday at 3:00 pm on Centre Court. Here you can find the head to head analysis and the prediction.
Prediction, odds and live streaming
The pick for Tennis Tonic is Sofia Kenin who should win in 2 sets.
As per the initial odds, Sofia Kenin is the pick to win this match.
Sofia Kenin -> 1.045
Zhaoxuan Yang -> 11.75
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Prediction and head to head Sofia Kenin vs. Zhaoxuan Yang
This will be the 2nd time that Sofia Kenin and Zhaoxuan Yang face off. The head to head is 1-0 for Kenin (see full H2H stats), 1-0 on hard.
Sofia Kenin
Ranked no. 4 (career high), Sofia will start her run in Abu Dhabi after she played her last match at the Paris where she lost 6-4 6-1 to Swiatek in the final on the 10th of October.
This will be the first match of the year on hard.
Talking about her overall career, The American has an overall 209-117 record. She has a positive 125-64 record on hard.
Last year in Abu Dhabi
Sofia didn’t play in Abu Dhabi in 2020.
Zhaoxuan Yang
Ranked no. 789, Yang reached the 1st round after beating Anna Danilina 3-6 7-64 6-4 and Despina Papamichail 6-2 6-2.
In the qualifications, Yang had a good straight sets win against Papamichail (6-2 6-2). During the match Yang scored 71 points vs Papamichail’s 49. The Chinese was quite aggressive to blast 31 winners.
Talking about serving, Yang scored just 1 ace during the entire match and she committed only 2 double faults. Zhaoxuan Yang conceded no breaks for the entire match to save 3 break points. Furthermore, Yang put 75% of her first serves in, winning 79% (31/39) of the points behind her 1st serve and 46% (6/13) on the 2nd serve. The Chinese broke Papamichail 4 times after converting 40% of her break points (4/10).
Overall Performance in this tournament
Yang has conceded 1 set in the tournament to win 53% of the points she played.
Zhaoxuan has a 2-0 win-loss record in 2021, 2-0 on hard (See FULL STATS).
Head 2 Head
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- Kirsten FlipkensFlipkens – Laura SiegemundSiegemund (5-7 7-5 6-4) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Maria SakkariSakkari – Anastasia PotapovaPotapova (6-4 6-2) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Leylah Annie FernandezAnnie Fernandez – Jasmine PaoliniPaolini (6-4 6-2) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Daria KasatkinaKasatkina – Qiang WangWang (6-2 3-6 6-2) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Ajla TomljanovicTomljanovic – Lin ZhuZhu (6-2 7-61) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Ons JabeurJabeur – Anastasia PavlyuchenkovaPavlyuchenkova (7-63 6-3) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Veronika KudermetovaKudermetova – Anett KontaveitKontaveit (7-5 6-1) – Stats, scores, rankings
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- Julien DubailDubail – Benjamin HassanHassan (6-4 5-7 6-4) – Stats, scores, rankings
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Upcoming matches in the draw
- Sofia KeninKenin – Zhaoxuan YangYang (1-0) – H2H and prediction
- Cori GauffGauff – Ulrikke EikeriEikeri (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Aliaksandra SasnovichSasnovich – Anna BondarBondar (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Kristina MladenovicMladenovic – Garbine MuguruzaMuguruza (2-1) – H2H and prediction
- Aryna SabalenkaSabalenka – Polona HercogHercog (1-1) – H2H and prediction
- Kateryna BondarenkoBondarenko – Yafan WangWang (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Karolina MuchovaMuchova – Danka KovinicKovinic (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Arantxa RusRus – Xiyu WangWang (1-0) – H2H and prediction
- Lucrezia StefaniniStefanini – Elena RybakinaRybakina (0-1) – H2H and prediction
- Marketa VondrousovaVondrousova – Su-Wei HsiehHsieh (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Marta KostyukKostyuk – Lucie HradeckaHradecka (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Tamara ZidansekZidansek – Jennifer BradyBrady (1-0) – H2H and prediction
- Sara Sorribes TormoSorribes Tormo – Nadia PodoroskaPodoroska (1-0) – H2H and prediction
- Mona BarthelBarthel – Anastasia GasanovaGasanova (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Sorana CirsteaCirstea – Karolina PliskovaPliskova (1-1) – H2H and prediction
- Elise MertensMertens – Alize CornetCornet (1-1) – H2H and prediction
- Bianca TuratiTurati – Yaroslava ShvedovaShvedova (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Heather WatsonWatson – Jodie Anna BurrageAnna Burrage (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Vera ZvonarevaZvonareva – Amandine HesseHesse (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Jessica PegulaPegula – Elina SvitolinaSvitolina (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Barbora KrejcikovaKrejcikova – Yulia PutintsevaPutintseva (0-0) – H2H and prediction
