Shuai Zhang and Marta Kostyuk will play each other in the qualifications of the Eastbourne International for the 1st time in their career. They are scheduled to play on Sunday at 11:00 am on Court 1. Here the head to head stats and relative prediction.
Prediction, odds and live streaming
The pick for Tennis Tonic is Marta Kostyuk who should win in 3 sets.
As per the initial odds, Marta Kostyuk is the pick to win this match.
Marta Kostyuk -> 1.9
Shuai Zhang -> 1.9
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Prediction and head to head Shuai Zhang vs. Marta Kostyuk
There is no head to head record between Shuai Zhang and Marta Kostyuk since this will be the first time that they will clash against each other in the main tour.
Shuai Zhang
Ranked no. 36, the Chinese got to the qualifications after defeating Polona Hercog 6-1 6-3.
In the qualifications, Shuai had a good straight sets win against Hercog (6-1 6-3). During the match, Zhang scored 67 points vs Hercog’s 50. The Chinese was very aggressive to blast 21 winners.
Talking about the service games, Zhang scored just 1 ace throughout the match and she was pretty steady in conceding no double faults. Shuai Zhang conceded no breaks for the entire match to save 3 break points. Furthermore, Zhang put 65% of her first serves in, winning 62% (21/34) of the points behind her 1st serve and 83% (15/18) on the 2nd serve. Zhang broke Hercog 4 times after converting 57% of her break points (4/7).
Zhang has a good record in the last 10 years having won 57% of her matches (280-214). 6-2 on grass in 2021. Talking about her performance on the same surface of this competition, Zhang has an aggregate 23-22 win-loss record in the last years on grass.
Zhang’s best result of the current season was getting to the final in Nottingham.
Zhang has an overall 7-11 win-loss record in 2021, 6-2 on grass (See FULL STATS).
Previously in Eastbourne
Previously, her best result was reaching the 3rd round in 2019. See her history.
Marta Kostyuk
Ranked no. 65 (career-high), Kostyuk reached the qualifications after defeating Samantha Murray 7-5 6-3.
In the qualifications, Marta had a good straight sets win against Murray (7-5 6-3). During the match Kostyuk scored 74 points vs Murray’s 52. Kostyuk was extremely aggressive to blast 25 winners.
Talking about serving, Kostyuk scored just 1 ace during the entire match and she was very steady in conceding no double faults for the entire match. Marta Kostyuk lost the serve 3 times and she saved 2 break points. Furthermore, Kostyuk put 65% of her first serves in, winning 68% (25/37) of the points behind her 1st serve and 65% (13/20) on the 2nd serve. Kostyuk broke Murray 5 times after converting 63% of her break points (5/8).
Kostyuk’s best result of the year was getting to the semifinal in Abu Dhabi and Istanbul.
Kostyuk has a compiled 17-9 win-loss record in 2021, 2-1 on grass (See FULL STATS).
H2H Performance in the tournament (main draw)
Matches, sets, games and points
Points | Zhang | Kostyuk |
---|---|---|
Match played | 1 | 1 |
Tot Set | 2 | 2 |
Tot Games | 16 | 21 |
Pts | 67-50 | 74-52 |
Total Points | 117 | 126 |
Winners | 21 | 25 |
%Winners | 31% | 34% |
Both Zhang and Kostyuk played 1 match. Also both players started their run from the qualifications.Both players have not lost a single set in this event so far. Talking about their workload, Zhang and Kostyuk have played the same amount of sets 2. However, Zhang played 5 games less than Kostyuk. The Chinese scored 21 winners (31% of the total points). On the other side, Marta fired 25 winners (34%).
Serve Performance
Serve | Zhang | Kostyuk |
---|---|---|
Aces | 1 | 1 |
Avg per match | 1 | 1 |
1st in | 34/52 | 37/57 |
%1st in | 65% | 65% |
1st pts | 21/34 | 25/37 |
%1st pts | 62% | 68% |
2nd pts | 15/18 | 13/20 |
%2nd pts | 83% | 65% |
Zhang fired 1 ace . Kostyuk also scored 1 ace . Zhang won 62% points behind her first serve. She was rock solid on her second serve to win 83% of the points. On the other side, Kostyuk won 68% of the points behind her first serve. She had a solid display on her second serve to win 65% of the points.
How they played the important points
Breaks | Zhang | Kostyuk |
---|---|---|
Won | 4 | 5 |
Converted | 4/7 | 5/8 |
% Converted | 57% | 63% |
Conceded | 3 | 5 |
Saved | 3 | 2 |
% Saved | 100% | 40% |
Times Broken | 0 | 3 |
The Chinese broke her opponent 4 times with a 57% conversion rate. Zhang pretty effective on her serve as she has never lost a single service game after saving 3 break points. Kostyuk broke her opponent 5 times with a 63% conversion rate. The Ukrainian conceded her serve 3 times and she saved 40% of the break points that she conceded.
Zhang | |||
Q1 Hercog |
Total | ||
---|---|---|---|
Score | 6-1 6-3 | ||
Tot Set | 2 | 2 | |
Tot Games | 16 | 16 | |
pts | 67-50 | 67-50 | |
Total points | 117 | 117 | |
Winners | 21 | 21 | |
%Winners | 31% | 31% | |
SERVE | |||
Aces | 1 | 1 | |
Double Faults | 0 | 0 | |
1st in | 34/52 | 34/52 | |
% 1st in | 65% | 65% | |
1st pts | 21/34 | 21/34 | |
% 1st pts | 62% | 62% | |
2nd pts | 15/18 | 15/18 | |
% 2nd pts | 83% | 83% | |
Breaks | |||
Won | 4 | 4 | |
Converted | 4/7 | 4/7 | |
Converted % | 57% | 57% | |
Conceded | 3 | 3 | |
Saved | 3/3 | 3 | |
Saved % | 100% | 100% | |
Times Broken | 0 | 0 |
Kostyuk | |||
Q1 Murray |
Total | ||
---|---|---|---|
Score | 7-5 6-3 | ||
Tot Set | 2 | 2 | |
Tot Games | 21 | 21 | |
pts | 74-52 | 74-52 | |
Total points | 126 | 126 | |
Winners | 25 | 25 | |
%Winners | 34% | 34% | |
SERVE | |||
Aces | 1 | 1 | |
Double Faults | 0 | 0 | |
1st in | 37/57 | 37/57 | |
% 1st in | 65% | 65% | |
1st pts | 25/37 | 25/37 | |
% 1st pts | 68% | 68% | |
2nd pts | 13/20 | 13/20 | |
% 2nd pts | 65% | 65% | |
Breaks | |||
Won | 5 | 5 | |
Converted | 5/8 | 5/8 | |
Converted % | 63% | 63% | |
Conceded | 5 | 5 | |
Saved | 2/5 | 2 | |
Saved % | 40% | 40% | |
Times Broken | 3 | 3 |
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