Leylah Annie Fernandez and Yafan Wang will face off in the 1st round of the Birmingham Classic for the 2nd time in their career. They are scheduled to compete on Tuesday at 2:00 pm on Court 1. Here the head to head stats and relative prediction.
Prediction, odds and live streaming
The pick for Tennis Tonic is Leylah Annie Fernandez who should win in 3 sets.
As per the initial odds, Leylah Annie Fernandez is the pick to win this match.
Leylah Annie Fernandez -> 1.68
Yafan Wang -> 2.24
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Prediction and head to head Leylah Annie Fernandez vs. Yafan Wang
This will be the 2nd time that Leylah Annie Fernandez and Yafan Wang face off. The head to head is 1-0 for Wang (see full H2H stats), but they have never played each other on grass.
The last time that they fought against each other, Wang won 6-3 7-5 in the 2nd round in the Liuzhou back in 2018.
Leylah Annie Fernandez
Ranked no. 66 (career-high), Leylah will start her run in Birmingham after she played her last match at the Paris where she lost 6-1 7-5 to Keys in the 2nd round on the 2nd of June.
Leylah has an overall 13-10 win-loss record in 2021, 0-0 on grass (See FULL STATS).
This will be the first match of the year on grass.
Her best result of the current year was winning the title in in Monterrey where she overcame Viktorija Golubic in the final 6-1 6-4.
Talking about her overall career, The Canadian has an overall 93-57 record. She has a flat 0-0 record on grass.
Previously in Birmingham
Annie Fernandez has never competed in this tournament before.
Yafan Wang
Ranked no. 118, the Chinese got to the 1st round after defeating Valeria Savinykh 6-1 6-4 and Marina Melnikova 6-3 7-5.
In the qualifications, The Chinese had a good straight sets win against Melnikova (6-3 7-5). During the match Wang scored 76 points vs Melnikova’s 65. The Chinese was exceptionally aggressive to blast 27 winners.
About the serving games, Wang scored 2 aces and she was extremely steady in conceding no double faults for the entire match. Yafan Wang lost the serve 3 times and she saved 4 break points. Furthermore, Wang put 63% of her first serves in, winning 61% (27/44) of the points behind her 1st serve and 54% (14/26) on the 2nd serve. The Chinese broke Melnikova 5 times after converting 56% of her break points (5/9).
Overall Performance in this tournament
The Chinese started her run at this tournament from the qualifications. In the main draw, she hasn’t lost yet a set in this tournament to win 57% of the points she played.
Yafan has a composed 3-14 win-loss record in 2021, 2-1 on grass (See FULL STATS).
Head 2 Head
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- Coco VandewegheVandeweghe – Kristyna PliskovaPliskova (6-4 7-61) – Stats, scores, rankings
- 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
Upcoming matches in the draw
- Elise MertensMertens – Ajla TomljanovicTomljanovic (1-0) – H2H and prediction
- Darya KasatkinaKasatkina – Polona HercogHercog (1-0) – H2H and prediction
- Madison BrengleBrengle – Marta KostyukKostyuk (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Lauren DavisDavis – Jelena OstapenkoOstapenko (1-1) – H2H and prediction
- 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
