Shuai Zhang and Marina Melnikova will play each other in the qualifications of the Qatar TotalEnergies Open for the 1^st time in their career. They are scheduled to compete on Saturday at 1:00 pm on Grandstand 3. 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 -> 1.25
Marina Melnikova -> 3.95

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Prediction and head to head Shuai Zhang vs. Marina Melnikova

There is no head to head record between Shuai Zhang and Marina Melnikova since this will be the first time that they will fight against each other in the main tour.

Shuai Zhang

Ranked no. 66, the Chinese reached the qualifications after beating Diane Parry 6-1 6-0.

In the qualifications, The Chinese had a good straight sets win against Parry (6-1 6-0). During the match, Zhang scored 54 points vs Parry’s 16. Shuai was extremely aggressive to blast 17 winners.

Regarding the service games, Zhang scored 3 aces and she was quite steady in conceding no double faults. Shuai Zhang conceded no breaks for the entire match to save 1 break points. Furthermore, Zhang put 63% of her first serves in, winning 68% (17/25) of the points behind her 1st serve and 100% (15/15) on the 2nd serve. The Chinese was clinical in her return game without wasting any break point and break Parry 5 times.

Zhang has a positive record in the last 10 years having won 56% of her matches (271-214). 3-4 on hard in 2022. In connection with her performance on the same surface of this tournament, Zhang has an aggregate 190-125 match record in the last years on hard.

Shuai has an aggregate 3-5 win-loss record in 2022, 3-4 on hard (See FULL STATS).

Previously in Doha

Marina Melnikova

Ranked no. 221, Marina got to the qualifications after defeating Heather Watson 7-5 6-1

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In the qualifications, Marina had a good straight sets win against Watson (7-5 6-1). During the match Melnikova scored 68 points vs Watson’s 55. Melnikova was extremely aggressive to blast 22 winners.

Talking about serving, Melnikova couldn’t to score even 1 ace for the entire match and she committed only 2 double faults. Marina Melnikova lost the serve twice and she saved 3 break points. Furthermore, Melnikova put 70% of her first serves in, winning 55% (22/40) of the points behind her 1st serve and 76% (13/17) on the 2nd serve. Melnikova broke Watson 6 times after converting 60% of her break points (6/10).

Melnikova’s best result of the current year was getting to the final in the W25 Sharm ElSheikh.

Marina has an aggregate 9-4 win-loss record in 2022, 9-4 on hard (See FULL STATS).

H2H Performance in the tournament

Matches, sets, games and points

Points	Zhang	Melnikova
Match played	1	1
Tot Set	2	2
Tot Games	13	19
Pts	54-16	68-55
Total Points	70	123
Winners	17	22
%Winners	31%	32%

Both Zhang and Melnikova played 1 match. Also both players started their run from the qualifications.Both players have not surrendered a single set in this event so far. Talking about their workload, Zhang and Melnikova have played the same amount of sets 2. However, Zhang played 6 games less than Melnikova. Shuai scored 17 winners (31% of the total points). On the other side, Melnikova managed to score 22 winners (32%).

Serve Performance

Serve	Zhang	Melnikova
Aces	3	0
Avg per match	3	0
1st in	25/40	40/57
%1st in	63%	70%
1st pts	17/25	22/40
%1st pts	68%	55%
2nd pts	15/15	13/17
%2nd pts	100%	76%

Zhang fired 3 aces . Melnikova didn’t manage to fire a single ace to far. Zhang won 68% points on her first serve. She extremely effective on her second serve to win 100% of the points. On the other side, Melnikova won 55% of the points behind her first serve. She had a solid display on her second serve to win 76% of the points.

How they played the important points

Breaks	Zhang	Melnikova
Won	5	6
Converted	5/5	6/10
% Converted	100%	60%
Conceded	1	5
Saved	1	3
% Saved	100%	60%
Times Broken	0	2

The Chinese broke her opponent 5 times with a 100% conversion rate. The Chinese extremely effective on her serve as she has never lost a single service game after saving 1 break points. Melnikova broke her opponent 6 times with a 60% conversion rate. The Russian conceded her serve twice and she saved 60% of the break points that she conceded.

Zhang
	Q1 Parry	Total
Score	6-1 6-0
Tot Set	2	2
Tot Games	13	13
pts	54-16	54-16
Total points	70	70
Winners	17	17
%Winners	31%	31%
SERVE
Aces	3	3
Double Faults	0	0
1st in	25/40	25/40
% 1st in	63%	63%
1st pts	17/25	17/25
% 1st pts	68%	68%
2nd pts	15/15	15/15
% 2nd pts	100%	100%
Breaks
Won	5	5
Converted	5/5	5/5
Converted %	100%	100%
Conceded	1	1
Saved	1/1	1
Saved %	100%	100%
Times Broken	0	0

Melnikova
	Q1 Watson	Total
Score	7-5 6-1
Tot Set	2	2
Tot Games	19	19
pts	68-55	68-55
Total points	123	123
Winners	22	22
%Winners	32%	32%
SERVE
Aces	0	0
Double Faults	2	2
1st in	40/57	40/57
% 1st in	70%	70%
1st pts	22/40	22/40
% 1st pts	55%	55%
2nd pts	13/17	13/17
% 2nd pts	76%	76%
Breaks
Won	6	6
Converted	6/10	6/10
Converted %	60%	60%
Conceded	5	5
Saved	3/5	3
Saved %	60%	60%
Times Broken	2	2

Tennis Scores in Doha

• Mohamed SafwatSafwat – Alexey VatutinVatutin (6-4 6-4) – Stats, scores, rankings
• Ramkumar RamanathanRamanathan – Yannick MertensMertens (6-3 6-4) – Stats, scores, rankings
• Matthew EbdenEbden – Daniel AltmaierAltmaier (6-4 5-7 6-4) – Stats, scores, rankings
• Kamil MajchrzakMajchrzak – Lloyd HarrisHarris (7-6⁵ 6-1) – Stats, scores, rankings

Upcoming matches in the draw

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• Andrea PetkovicPetkovic – Anna BondarBondar (0-0) – H2H and prediction
• Aliaksandra SasnovichSasnovich – Kirsten FlipkensFlipkens (3-1) – H2H and prediction
• Shuai ZhangZhang – Marina MelnikovaMelnikova (0-0) – H2H and prediction
• Jaqueline CristianCristian – Oceane DodinDodin (0-2) – H2H and prediction
• Arantxa RusRus – Stefanie VoegeleVoegele (2-0) – H2H and prediction
• Maryna ZanevskaZanevska – Kaja JuvanJuvan (1-0) – H2H and prediction
• Beatriz Haddad MaiaHaddad Maia – Kristina KucovaKucova (0-0) – H2H and prediction
• Ludmilla SamsonovaSamsonova – Alize CornetCornet (1-0) – H2H and prediction
• Vera ZvonarevaZvonareva – Alison Van UytvanckVan Uytvanck (0-2) – H2H and prediction
• Jil TeichmannTeichmann – Angelique KerberKerber (1-0) – H2H and prediction
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