Arantxa Rus and Shuai Zhang will face off in the 2nd round of the Open 6 Sens for the 2nd time in their career. They are scheduled to compete on Thursday at 12:00 pm on Court Central. In this post, we analyze their head to head performance and prediction.
Prediction, odds and live streaming
The pick for Tennis Tonic is Arantxa Rus who should win in 3 sets.
As per the initial odds, Arantxa Rus is the pick to win this match.
Arantxa Rus -> 1.77
Shuai Zhang -> 2.1
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Prediction and head to head Arantxa Rus vs. Shuai Zhang
This will be the 2nd time that Arantxa Rus and Shuai Zhang square off. The head to head is 1-0 for Rus (see full H2H stats), but they have never competed against each other on indoor hard courts.
The last time that they competed against each other, Rus won 6-2 6-3 in the 1st round in Istanbul back in 2018.
Arantxa Rus
| Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 39-37 | 11-12 | 28-20 | 0-3 | 0-2 | 0-0 |
| 2024 | 37-33 | 14-14 | 19-13 | 2-1 | 2-5 | 0-0 |
| 2023 | 57-22 | 10-10 | 43-8 | 3-3 | 1-1 | 0-0 |
| 2022 | 46-33 | 9-10 | 29-17 | 7-4 | 1-2 | 0-0 |
| 2021 | 39-23 | 5-9 | 33-11 | 1-1 | 0-2 | 0-0 |
Ranked no. 63, Rus got to the 2nd round after beating Danka Kovinic 6-2 6-0.
In the 1st round, Rus had a good straight sets win against Kovinic (6-2 6-0). During the match, Rus scored 55 points vs Kovinic’s 26. The Dutch was very aggressive to blast 19 winners.
Regarding the service games, Rus scored just 1 ace and she was extremely steady in conceding no double faults. Arantxa Rus was pretty efficient on serve to win 73% (19/26) of her 1st serve and 69% (9/13) on the second serve. This was the main reason for not conceding a single break during the match. Rus broke Kovinic 5 times after converting 50% of her break points (5/10).
Rus has a solid win-loss record in the last 10 years having won 62% of her matches (376-230). 3-1 on indoor hard courts in 2022. In connection with her performance on the same surface of this tournament, Rus has an overall 45-27 record in the last years on indoor hard courts.
The Dutch has a composed 5-5 win-loss record in 2022, 3-1 on indoor hard courts (See FULL STATS).
Previously in Lyon
Shuai Zhang
| Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 41-17 | 31-9 | 4-4 | 2-2 | 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. 64, Zhang got to the 2nd round after beating Kristina Mladenovic 7-63 7-5.
In the 1st round, Shuai had a good straight sets win against Mladenovic (7-63 7-5). During the match Zhang scored 92 points vs Mladenovic’s 85. The Chinese was extremely aggressive to blast 31 winners.
About the serving games, Zhang was unable to score even 1 ace for the entire match and she committed only 3 double faults. Shuai Zhang lost the serve 4 times and she saved 7 break points. Furthermore, Zhang put 58% of her first serves in, winning 60% (31/52) of the points behind her 1st serve and 53% (20/38) on the 2nd serve. Zhang broke Mladenovic 5 times after converting 63% of her break points (5/8).
Zhang has an overall 5-6 win-loss record in 2022, 1-1 on indoor hard courts (See FULL STATS).
Previously in Lyon
Shuai has never competed in this tournament before.
H2H Performance in the tournament
Matches, sets, games and points
| Points | Rus | Zhang |
|---|---|---|
| Match played | 1 | 1 |
| Tot Set | 2 | 2 |
| Tot Games | 14 | 25 |
| Pts | 55-26 | 92-85 |
| Total Points | 81 | 177 |
| Winners | 19 | 31 |
| %Winners | 35% | 34% |
Both Rus and Zhang played 1 match. Both players have not conceded a single set in this event so far. Talking about their workload, Rus and Zhang have played the same amount of sets 2. However, Rus played 11 games less than Zhang. Rus scored 19 winners (35% of the total points). On the other side, Zhang struck 31 winners (34%).
Serve Performance
| Serve | Rus | Zhang |
|---|---|---|
| Aces | 1 | 0 |
| Avg per match | 1 | 0 |
| 1st in | 26/39 | 52/90 |
| %1st in | 67% | 58% |
| 1st pts | 19/26 | 31/52 |
| %1st pts | 73% | 60% |
| 2nd pts | 9/13 | 20/38 |
| %2nd pts | 69% | 53% |
Rus managed to score 1 ace . Zhang didn’t manage to fire a single ace to far. Rus won 73% points behind her first serve. She pretty solid on her second serve to win 69% of the points. On the other side, Zhang won 60% of the points behind her first serve. She had a solid display on her second serve to win 53% of the points.
How they played the important points
| Breaks | Rus | Zhang |
|---|---|---|
| Won | 5 | 5 |
| Converted | 5/10 | 5/8 |
| % Converted | 50% | 63% |
| Conceded | 0 | 11 |
| Saved | 0 | 7 |
| % Saved | 0% | 64% |
| Times Broken | 0 | 4 |
Arantxa broke her opponent 5 times with a 50% conversion rate. Rus extremely effective on her serve as she has never conceded a single service game after saving 0 break points. The Chinese broke her opponent 5 times with a 63% conversion rate. Shuai conceded her serve 4 times and she saved 64% of the break points that she conceded.
| Rus | |||
| R1 Kovinic |
Total | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Score | 6-2 6-0 | ||
| Tot Set | 2 | 2 | |
| Tot Games | 14 | 14 | |
| pts | 55-26 | 55-26 | |
| Total points | 81 | 81 | |
| Winners | 19 | 19 | |
| %Winners | 35% | 35% | |
| SERVE | |||
| Aces | 1 | 1 | |
| Double Faults | 0 | 0 | |
| 1st in | 26/39 | 26/39 | |
| % 1st in | 67% | 67% | |
| 1st pts | 19/26 | 19/26 | |
| % 1st pts | 73% | 73% | |
| 2nd pts | 9/13 | 9/13 | |
| % 2nd pts | 69% | 69% | |
| Breaks | |||
| Won | 5 | 5 | |
| Converted | 5/10 | 5/10 | |
| Converted % | 50% | 50% | |
| Conceded | 0 | 0 | |
| Saved | 0/0 | 0 | |
| Saved % | – | 0% | |
| Times Broken | 0 | 0 | |
| Zhang | |||
| R1 Mladenovic |
Total | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Score | 7-63 7-5 | ||
| Tot Set | 2 | 2 | |
| Tot Games | 25 | 25 | |
| pts | 92-85 | 92-85 | |
| Total points | 177 | 177 | |
| Winners | 31 | 31 | |
| %Winners | 34% | 34% | |
| SERVE | |||
| Aces | 0 | 0 | |
| Double Faults | 3 | 3 | |
| 1st in | 52/90 | 52/90 | |
| % 1st in | 58% | 58% | |
| 1st pts | 31/52 | 31/52 | |
| % 1st pts | 60% | 60% | |
| 2nd pts | 20/38 | 20/38 | |
| % 2nd pts | 53% | 53% | |
| Breaks | |||
| Won | 5 | 5 | |
| Converted | 5/8 | 5/8 | |
| Converted % | 63% | 63% | |
| Conceded | 11 | 11 | |
| Saved | 7/11 | 7 | |
| Saved % | 64% | 64% | |
| Times Broken | 4 | 4 | |
Head 2 Head
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