Shuai Zhang and Clara Burel will clash against each other in the 1st round of the Melbourne Summer Set 1 for the 3rd time in their career. They are scheduled to compete on Wednesday at 11:00 am on Court 7. 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 3 sets.
As per the initial odds, Shuai Zhang is the pick to win this match.
Shuai Zhang -> 1.85
Clara Burel -> 2
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Prediction and head to head Shuai Zhang vs. Clara Burel
This will be the 3rd time that Shuai Zhang and Clara Burel play each other. The head to head is 2-0 for Zhang (see full H2H stats), but they have never competed against each other on hard.
The last time that they locked horns, Zhang won 7-6(2) 7-5 in the 3rd round in at the French Open back in 2020.
Shuai Zhang
| Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 12-8 | 7-3 | 4-4 | 0-0 | 1-1 | 0-0 |
| 2024 | 6-14 | 6-12 | 0-1 | 0-0 | 0-1 | 0-0 |
| 2023 | 4-19 | 3-10 | 0-4 | 1-1 | 0-4 | 0-0 |
| 2022 | 39-31 | 17-14 | 4-7 | 10-7 | 8-3 | 0-0 |
| 2021 | 23-28 | 8-11 | 4-8 | 5-5 | 6-4 | 0-0 |
Ranked no. 60, Shuai will start her run in Melbourne after she played her last match in the Limoges where she lost 6-4 3-6 6-2 to Ponchet in the 1st round on the 15th of December.
This will be the first match of the year on hard.
Talking about her overall career, The Chinese has an overall 460-340 record. She has a positive 320-207 record on hard.
Previously in Melbourne
Zhang has never competed in this tournament before.
Clara Burel
| Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 4-2 | 0-0 | 3-1 | 1-1 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2024 | 24-29 | 13-14 | 7-9 | 3-2 | 1-4 | 0-0 |
| 2023 | 38-18 | 11-5 | 17-9 | 9-3 | 1-1 | 0-0 |
| 2022 | 22-29 | 7-7 | 11-17 | 4-4 | 0-1 | 0-0 |
| 2021 | 44-20 | 7-7 | 18-8 | 15-4 | 4-1 | 0-0 |
Ranked no. 76, Clara will start her run in Melbourne after she played her last match in the Angers where she lost w/o to Vikhlyantseva in the quarter on the 10th of December.
This will be the first match of the season on hard.
In terms of her career, Burel has an overall 90-52 record. She has a positive 14-10 record on hard.
Previously in Melbourne
Previously, her best result was reaching the 1st round in 2021. See her history.
Head 2 Head
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- Maryna ZanevskaZanevska – Petra MarticMartic (6-3 6-4) – Stats, scores, rankings
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- Franko SkugorSkugor – Tommy RobredoRobredo (3-6 6-3 6-2) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Mikhail KukushkinKukushkin – Roberto MarcoraMarcora (6-2 6-2) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Andrey KuznetsovKuznetsov – Thomaz BellucciBellucci (3-6 6-4 6-1) – Stats, scores, rankings
Upcoming matches in the draw
- Danka KovinicKovinic – Nao HibinoHibino (0-1) – H2H and prediction
- Shuai ZhangZhang – Clara BurelBurel (2-0) – H2H and prediction
- Veronika KudermetovaKudermetova – Viktoria KuzmovaKuzmova (1-0) – H2H and prediction
- Madison BrengleBrengle – Nao HibinoHibino (1-0) – H2H and prediction
- Anastasia PotapovaPotapova – Lizette CabreraCabrera (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Anna BondarBondar – Katerina SiniakovaSiniakova (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Saisai ZhengZheng – Qinwen ZhengZheng (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Lesley KerkhoveKerkhove – Seone MendezMendez (1-0) – H2H and prediction
- Destanee AiavaAiava – Simona HalepHalep (0-1) – H2H and prediction
- Naomi OsakaOsaka – Maryna ZanevskaZanevska (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Ana KonjuhKonjuh – Kaia KanepiKanepi (1-0) – H2H and prediction
