Karolina Pliskova and Saisai Zheng will fight against each other in the 2nd round of the Miami Open for the 3rd time of their career. They are scheduled to play on Friday at 1:30 pm on Butch Buchholz. In the following lines you can find the head to head analysis and prediction.
Prediction, odds and live streaming
The pick for Tennis Tonic is Karolina Pliskova who should win in 2 sets.
As per the initial odds, Karolina Pliskova is the pick to win this match.
Karolina Pliskova -> 1.4
Saisai Zheng -> 3.05
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Prediction and head to head Karolina Pliskova vs. Saisai Zheng
This will be the 3rd time that Karolina Pliskova and Saisai Zheng clash against each other. The head to head is 2-0 for Pliskova (see full H2H stats), 1-0 on hard.
The last time that they played each other, Pliskova won 7-5 6-2 in the 1st round in Paris back in 2017.
Karolina Pliskova
Ranked no. 6, the Czech will start her run in Miami after she played her last match in Dubai where she lost 6-0 6-2 to Pegula in the 3rd round on the 10th of March.
The Czech has a 6-5 win-loss record in 2021, 6-5 on hard (See FULL STATS).
Talking about her overall career, The Czech has an overall 529-278 record. She has a positive 270-137 record on hard.
Previously in Miami
Previously, her best result was reaching the final in 2019. See her history.
Saisai Zheng
Ranked no. 53, Zheng got to the 2nd round after beating Fiona Ferro 2-6 6-4 6-3.
In the 1st round against Ferro, The Chinese recovered from a 1-set down deficit before winning (2-6 6-4 6-3). During the match Zheng scored 99 points vs Ferro’s 95. Saisai was very aggressive to blast 39 winners.
Talking about serving, Zheng scored just 1 ace during the entire match and she committed only 5 double faults. Saisai Zheng lost the serve 7 times and she saved 9 break points. Furthermore, Zheng put 75% of her first serves in, winning 48% (39/82) of the points behind her 1st serve and 54% (15/28) on the 2nd serve. Saisai broke Ferro 8 times after converting 73% of her break points (8/11).
Saisai has a 3-7 win-loss record in 2021, 3-7 on hard (See FULL STATS).
Head 2 Head
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