Aryna Sabalenka and Shuai Zhang will fight against each other in the 1st round of the Porsche Tennis Grand Prix for the 3rd time of their career. They are scheduled to play on Tuesday at 9:00 pm on Centre Court. In this post, we analyze their head to head performance and the prediction.
Prediction, odds and live streaming
The pick for Tennis Tonic is Aryna Sabalenka who should win in 2 sets.
As per the initial odds, Aryna Sabalenka is the pick to win this match.
Aryna Sabalenka -> 1.104
Shuai Zhang -> 7.4
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Prediction and head to head Aryna Sabalenka vs. Shuai Zhang
This will be the 3rd time that Aryna Sabalenka and Shuai Zhang square off. The head to head is 1-1 for Sabalenka and Zhang (see full H2H stats), but they have never played each other on clay.
The last time that they squared off, Sabalenka won 7-6(3) 6-4 in the 2nd round in Hobart back in 2018.
Aryna Sabalenka
Ranked no. 7 (career high), Aryna will start her run in Stuttgart after she played her last match in Miami where she lost 6-4 6-7(5) 6-3 to Barty in the quarter on the 30th of March.
Aryna has a 14-5 win-loss record in 2021, 0-0 on clay (See FULL STATS).
This will be the first match of the season on clay.
Her best result of the year was winning the title in in Abu Dhabi where she defeated Veronika Kudermetova in the final 6-2 6-2.
Talking about her overall career, Aryna has an overall 199-105 record. She has a positive 26-24 record on clay.
Previously in Stuttgart
Sabalenka has never competed in this tournament before.
Shuai Zhang
Ranked no. 40, Shuai will start her run in Stuttgart after she played her last match in Charleston where she lost 6-3 6-1 to Annie in the 1st round on the 6th of April.
Shuai has a 0-3 win-loss record in 2021, 0-1 on clay (See FULL STATS).
In terms of her career, The Chinese has an overall 437-315 record. She has a positive 74-73 record on clay.
Head 2 Head
Tennis Scores in Stuttgart
- Maria SakkariSakkari – Andrea PetkovicPetkovic (6-2 6-2) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Belinda BencicBencic – Nastasja Mariana SchunkMariana Schunk (6-4 6-2) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Christopher O ConnellO Connell – Shunsuke WakitaWakita (6-1 6-2) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Boris ButulijaButulija – Luka IlicIlic (6-3 5-7 6-4) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Timo StodderStodder – Igor BanicevicBanicevic (6-0 6-3) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Manuel Pena LopezPena Lopez – Duje KekezKekez (7-63 6-2) – Stats, scores, rankings
Upcoming matches in the draw
- Laura SiegemundSiegemund – Mona BarthelBarthel (0-1) – H2H and prediction
- Jelena OstapenkoOstapenko – Stefanie VoegeleVoegele (0-2) – H2H and prediction
- Tamara KorpatschKorpatsch – Karolina PliskovaPliskova (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Angelique KerberKerber – Ekaterine GorgodzeGorgodze (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Jennifer BradyBrady – Petra KvitovaKvitova (0-2) – H2H and prediction
- Aryna SabalenkaSabalenka – Shuai ZhangZhang (1-1) – H2H and prediction
- Ulrikke EikeriEikeri – Anna-Lena FriedsamFriedsam (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Julia MiddendorfMiddendorf – Anett KontaveitKontaveit (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Ekaterina AlexandrovaAlexandrova – Karolina MuchovaMuchova (2-1) – H2H and prediction
- Marie BouzkovaBouzkova – Marketa VondrousovaVondrousova (1-0) – H2H and prediction