Shuai Zhang and Varvara Lepchenko will face off in the 1st round of the French Open for the 6th time in their career. They are scheduled to compete on Tuesday at 4500 pm on Court 13. Here the head to head stats and relative prediction.

Prediction, odds and live streaming

The pick for Tennis Tonic is Varvara Lepchenko who should win in 3 sets.

As per the initial odds, Varvara Lepchenko is the pick to win this match.
Varvara Lepchenko -> 1.56
Shuai Zhang -> 2.49

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Prediction and head to head Shuai Zhang vs. Varvara Lepchenko

This will be the 6th time that Shuai Zhang and Varvara Lepchenko fight against each other. The head to head is 4-1 for Zhang (see full H2H stats), 1-0 on clay.

The last time that they fought against each other, Zhang won 6-1 6-1 in the 1st round in Paris back in 2019.

Shuai Zhang

Ranked no. 46, the Chinese will start her run at the French Open after she played her last match in Strasbourg where she lost 6-2 6-1 to Cirstea in the 2nd round on the 27th of May.

Shuai has a compiled 1-8 win-loss record in 2021, 1-6 on clay (See FULL STATS).

Talking about her overall career, The Chinese has an overall 438-320 record. She has a negative 75-78 record on clay.

Previously at the French Open

Previously, her best result was reaching the 4th round in 2020. See her history.

French Open
Zhang's Record

Varvara Lepchenko

Ranked no. 171, Lepchenko got to the 1st round after beating Kamilla Rakhimova 6-4 1-6 7-5, Mona Barthel 6-1 7-5 and Anna-Lena Friedsam 6-1 6-3.

In the qualifications, Varvara had a good straight sets win against Friedsam (6-1 6-3). During the match Lepchenko scored 61 points vs Friedsam’s 41. The American was very aggressive to blast 19 winners.

About the serving games, Lepchenko scored just 1 ace during the entire match and she committed only 2 double faults. Varvara Lepchenko lost the serve twice and she saved 1 break points. Furthermore, Lepchenko put 52% of her first serves in, winning 66% (19/29) of the points behind her 1st serve and 52% (14/27) on the 2nd serve. Varvara broke Friedsam 6 times after converting 67% of her break points (6/9).

Overall Performance in this tournament

The American started her run at this tournament from the qualifications. In the main draw, she has conceded 1 set in the tournament to win 54% of the points she played.

Lepchenko has an aggregate 14-5 win-loss record in 2021, 4-1 on clay (See FULL STATS).

Previously at the French Open

Previously, her best result was reaching the 4th round in 2012. See her history.

French Open
Lepchenko's Record

Tennis Scores at the French Open

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