Shuai Zhang and Vitalia Diatchenko will fight against each other in the 1st round of the Birmingham Classic for the 3rd time in their career. They are scheduled to play on Tuesday at 11:30 am on Court 1. In this post, we analyze their head to head performance and prediction.
Prediction, odds and live streaming
The pick for Tennis Tonic is Shuai Zhang who should win in 2 sets.
As per the initial odds, Shuai Zhang is the pick to win this match.
Shuai Zhang -> 1.46
Vitalia Diatchenko -> 2.8
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Prediction and head to head Shuai Zhang vs. Vitalia Diatchenko
This will be the 3rd time that Shuai Zhang and Vitalia Diatchenko square off. The head to head is 1-1 for Zhang and Diatchenko (see full H2H stats), but they have never competed against each other on grass.
The last time that they locked horns, Zhang won 6-2 4-1 ret. in the quarter in the Honolulu back in 2017.
Shuai Zhang
Ranked no. 36, Zhang will start her run in Birmingham after she played her last match in Nottingham where she lost 6-2 6-1 to Konta in the final on the 13th of June.
The Chinese has an aggregate 5-10 win-loss record in 2021, 4-1 on grass (See FULL STATS).
Shuai’s best result of the current season was getting to the final in Nottingham.
Talking about her overall career, Shuai has an overall 442-322 record. She has a negative 23-24 record on grass.
Previously in Birmingham
Previously, her best result was reaching the semifinal in 2014. See her history.
Vitalia Diatchenko
Ranked no. 152, the Russian got to the 1st round after beating Katie Volynets 6-3 1-6 7-5 and Naiktha Bains 7-61 6-3.
In the qualifications, The Russian had a good straight sets win against Bains (7-61 6-3). During the match Diatchenko scored 84 points vs Bains’s 69. Diatchenko was quite aggressive to blast 36 winners.
Talking about serving, Diatchenko recorded 2 aces and she committed only 6 double faults. Vitalia Diatchenko lost the serve twice and she saved 6 break points. Furthermore, Diatchenko put 70% of her first serves in, winning 71% (36/51) of the points behind her 1st serve and 36% (8/22) on the 2nd serve. The Russian broke Bains 4 times after converting 40% of her break points (4/10).
Overall Performance in this tournament
Vitalia started her run at this tournament from the qualifications. In the main draw, she has conceded 1 set in the tournament to win 51% of the points she played.
Vitalia has a composed 2-3 win-loss record in 2021, 2-0 on grass (See FULL STATS).
Head 2 Head
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- Camila GiorgiGiorgi – Giulia Gatto-MonticoneGatto-Monticone (6-3 6-0) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Heather WatsonWatson – Viktorija GolubicGolubic (3-6 6-2 6-2) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Donna VekicVekic – Francesca JonesJones (6-1 6-3) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Marie BouzkovaBouzkova – Su-Wei HsiehHsieh (3-6 6-1 6-2) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Caroline GarciaGarcia – Harriet DartDart (7-5 4-6 6-4) – Stats, scores, rankings
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- Darya KasatkinaKasatkina – Polona HercogHercog (1-0) – H2H and prediction
- Madison BrengleBrengle – Marta KostyukKostyuk (0-0) – H2H and prediction
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- Shuai ZhangZhang – Vitalia DiatchenkoDiatchenko (1-1) – H2H and prediction
- Fiona FerroFerro – Kristina MladenovicMladenovic (1-2) – H2H and prediction
- Nina StojanovicStojanovic – Anastasia PotapovaPotapova (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Leylah Annie FernandezAnnie Fernandez – Yafan WangWang (0-1) – H2H and prediction
- Caty McNallyMcNally – Ons JabeurJabeur (0-1) – H2H and prediction
- Caroline GarciaGarcia – Marie BouzkovaBouzkova (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Camila GiorgiGiorgi – Donna VekicVekic (0-2) – H2H and prediction
