Irina-Camelia Begu and Shuai Zhang will face off in the 1st round of the St. Petersburg Ladies Trophy for the 3rd time in their career. They are scheduled to play on Tuesday at 8:00 pm on TC DYNAMO. In the following lines you can find the head to head analysis and prediction.
Prediction, odds and live streaming
The pick for Tennis Tonic is Shuai Zhang who should win in 3 sets.
Shuai Zhang -> 1.909
Irina-Camelia Begu -> 1.93
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Prediction and head to head Irina-Camelia Begu vs. Shuai Zhang
This will be the 3rd time that Irina-Camelia Begu and Shuai Zhang play each other. The head to head is 2-0 for Begu (see full H2H stats), but they have never competed against each other on indoor hard courts.
The last time that they locked horns, Begu won 6-3 6-4 in the 2nd round in Paris back in 2018.
Irina-Camelia Begu
| Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 14-12 | 5-5 | 8-5 | 0-1 | 1-1 | 0-0 |
| 2024 | 30-13 | 1-2 | 29-10 | 0-0 | 0-1 | 0-0 |
| 2023 | 17-14 | 5-7 | 11-5 | 0-1 | 1-1 | 0-0 |
| 2022 | 32-17 | 7-9 | 20-5 | 3-2 | 2-1 | 0-0 |
| 2021 | 21-17 | 16-10 | 3-5 | 0-1 | 2-1 | 0-0 |
Ranked no. 56, Irina-Camelia will start her run in St. Petersburg after she played her last match at the Melbourne where she lost 6-3 6-2 to Mertens in the 2nd round on the 20th of January.
The Romanian has a compiled 3-2 win-loss record in 2022, 0-0 on indoor hard courts (See FULL STATS).
This will be the first match of the season on indoor hard courts.
Talking about her overall career, Irina-Camelia has an overall 365-277 record. She has a positive 28-25 record on indoor hard courts.
Previously in St. Petersburg
Previously, her best result was reaching the 2nd round in 2018. See her history.
Shuai Zhang
| Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 32-14 | 24-8 | 4-4 | 0-0 | 4-2 | 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. 67, Zhang will start her run in St. Petersburg after she played her last match at the Melbourne where she lost 6-2 6-2 to Mertens in the 3rd round on the 22nd of January.
Shuai has an aggregate 2-3 win-loss record in 2022, 0-0 on indoor hard courts (See FULL STATS).
This will be the first match of the season on indoor hard courts.
In terms of her career, Shuai has an overall 462-343 record. She has a flat 21-21 record on indoor hard courts.
Tennis Scores in St. Petersburg
- Belinda BencicBencic – Veronika KudermetovaKudermetova (6-2 4-6 7-65) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Ekaterina AlexandrovaAlexandrova – Camila GiorgiGiorgi (6-2 1-6 6-2) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Anett KontaveitKontaveit – Jil TeichmannTeichmann (6-3 1-6 6-3) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Elise MertensMertens – Alize CornetCornet (3-6 6-2 6-4) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Mischa ZverevZverev – Lukas LackoLacko (6-4 6-4) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Lucas PouillePouille – Jan-Lennard StruffStruff (1-6 6-3 6-4) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Bernard TomicTomic – Tommy HaasHaas (6-4 6-4) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Alexander ZverevZverev – Paolo LorenziLorenzi (6-3 6-2) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Roger FedererFederer – Yuichi SugitaSugita (6-3 6-1) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Florian MayerMayer – Benoit PairePaire (6-0 6-4) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Mikhail YouzhnyYouzhny – Ivo KarlovicKarlovic (6-3 7-66) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Karen KhachanovKhachanov – Gilles SimonSimon (6-2 6-72 6-3) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Kei NishikoriNishikori – Fernando VerdascoVerdasco (6-77 6-3 6-4) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Robin HaaseHaase – David FerrerFerrer (3-6 7-5 6-3) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Roberto Bautista AgutBautista Agut – Carlos BerlocqBerlocq (6-0 4-6 6-2) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Dominic ThiemThiem – Maximilian MartererMarterer (7-5 6-3) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Richard GasquetGasquet – Gael MonfilsMonfils (3-6 6-4 6-3) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Philipp KohlschreiberKohlschreiber – Joao SousaSousa (3-6 6-4 6-4) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Andrey RublevRublev – Albert Ramos-VinolasRamos-Vinolas (6-71 7-5 6-4) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Dustin BrownBrown – Vasek PospisilPospisil (6-1 6-73 7-64) – Stats, scores, rankings
Upcoming matches in the draw
- Maria SakkariSakkari – Anastasia PotapovaPotapova (1-1) – H2H and prediction
- Kamilla RakhimovaRakhimova – Petra MarticMartic (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Elena RybakinaRybakina – Varvara GrachevaGracheva (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Tereza MartincovaMartincova – Vera ZvonarevaZvonareva (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Shuai ZhangZhang – Irina-Camelia BeguBegu (0-2) – H2H and prediction
- Jule NiemeierNiemeier – Petra KvitovaKvitova (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Jelena OstapenkoOstapenko – Xin Yu WangYu Wang (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Andrea PetkovicPetkovic – Rebecca PetersonPeterson (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Aliaksandra SasnovichSasnovich – Magda LinetteLinette (5-1) – H2H and prediction
- Jaqueline CristianCristian – Anastasia PavlyuchenkovaPavlyuchenkova (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Kaja JuvanJuvan – Alison Van UytvanckVan Uytvanck (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Marketa VondrousovaVondrousova – Sorana CirsteaCirstea (1-0) – H2H and prediction