Cori Gauff and Shuai Zhang will fight against each other in the 3rd round of the Miami Open for the 1st time in their career. They are scheduled to compete on Sunday at 3:30 pm on GRANDSTAND. In the following paragraphs, you can find the head to head analysis and prediction.
Prediction, odds and live streaming
The pick for Tennis Tonic is Cori Gauff who should win in 2 sets.
As per the initial odds, Cori Gauff is the pick to win this match.
Cori Gauff -> 1.31
Shuai Zhang -> 3.58
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Prediction and head to head Cori Gauff vs. Shuai Zhang
There is no head to head record between Cori Gauff and Shuai Zhang since this will be the first time that they will face off in the main tour.
Cori Gauff
| Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 48-16 | 29-9 | 18-3 | 1-2 | 0-2 | 0-0 |
| 2024 | 54-18 | 31-10 | 14-5 | 4-1 | 5-2 | 0-0 |
| 2023 | 51-16 | 40-9 | 7-4 | 0-0 | 4-3 | 0-0 |
| 2022 | 38-23 | 23-16 | 10-4 | 0-1 | 5-2 | 0-0 |
| 2021 | 36-16 | 16-10 | 16-4 | 0-0 | 4-2 | 0-0 |
Ranked no. 17, the American reached the 3rd round after beating Qiang Wang 7-5 6-4.
In the 2nd round, Cori had a good straight sets win against Wang (7-5 6-4). During the match, Gauff scored 76 points vs Wang’s 65. The American was extremely aggressive to blast 31 winners.
Talking about the service games, Gauff bagged 6 aces and she committed only 2 double faults. Cori Gauff lost the serve 3 times and she saved 6 break points. Furthermore, Gauff put 72% of her first serves in, winning 61% (31/51) of the points behind her 1st serve and 55% (11/20) on the 2nd serve. Cori broke Wang 5 times after converting 50% of her break points (5/10).
Gauff has a solid match record in the last 6 years having won 66% of her matches (95-49). 9-6 on hard in 2022. In connection with her performance on the same surface of this competition, Gauff has a compiled45-29 record in the last 6 years on hard.
The American’s best result of the year was reaching the semifinal in Adelaide.
The American has an overall 9-6 win-loss record in 2022, 9-6 on hard (See FULL STATS).
Previously in Miami
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. 43, Shuai got to the 3rd round after defeating Clara Tauson 6-4 4-6 2-1 ret. and Sorana Cirstea 6-1 6-1.
In the 2nd round, The Chinese had a good straight sets win against Cirstea (6-1 6-1). During the match Zhang scored 56 points vs Cirstea’s 27. Shuai was pretty aggressive to blast 20 winners.
Talking about serving, Zhang couldn’t to score even 1 ace for the entire match and she committed only 2 double faults. Overall, Shuai Zhang was quite effective on serve to win 77% (20/26) of her 1st serve and 60% (6/10) on the second serve. However, this didn’t prevent her to concede the serve once. Shuai broke Cirstea 6 times after converting 43% of her break points (6/14).
Her best result of the year was winning the title in in Lyon where she overcame Dayana Yastremska in the final 3-6 6-3 6-4.
The Chinese has a compiled 11-7 win-loss record in 2022, 6-6 on hard (See FULL STATS).
Previously in Miami
Previously, her best result was reaching the 3rd round in 2017. See her history.
H2H Performance in the tournament (main draw)
Matches, sets, games and points
| Points | Gauff | Zhang |
|---|---|---|
| Match played | 1 | 2 |
| Tot Set | 2 | 6 |
| Tot Games | 22 | 37 |
| Pts | 76-65 | 142-105 |
| Total Points | 141 | 247 |
| Winners | 31 | 53 |
| %Winners | 41% | 37% |
Gauff played 1 match while Zhang competed in 2 matches. At the moment, Shuai Zhang conceded 1 set while Cori Gauff hasn’t lost a set so far. Gauff has played 4 set(s) less than Zhang (2 vs 6). Therefore, Gauff played 15 games less than Zhang. Gauff scored 31 winners (41% of the total points). On the other side, Shuai blasted 53 winners (37%).
Serve Performance
| Serve | Gauff | Zhang |
|---|---|---|
| Aces | 6 | 0 |
| Avg per match | 6 | 0 |
| 1st in | 51/71 | 79/123 |
| %1st in | 72% | 64% |
| 1st pts | 31/51 | 53/79 |
| %1st pts | 61% | 67% |
| 2nd pts | 11/20 | 24/44 |
| %2nd pts | 55% | 55% |
Gauff blasted 6 aces . Zhang didn’t manage to fire a single ace to far. Gauff won 61% points behind her first serve. She very solid her second serve to win 55% of the points. On the other side, Zhang won 67% of the points behind her first serve. She had a solid display on her second serve to win 55% of the points.
How they played the important points
| Breaks | Gauff | Zhang |
|---|---|---|
| Won | 5 | 10 |
| Converted | 5/10 | 10/31 |
| % Converted | 50% | 32% |
| Conceded | 9 | 14 |
| Saved | 6 | 9 |
| % Saved | 67% | 64% |
| Times Broken | 3 | 5 |
Cori broke her opponent 5 times with a 50% conversion rate. Cori dropped her serve 3 times and she saved 67% of the break points that she conceded. Shuai broke her opponents 10 times with a 32% conversion rate. Zhang conceded her serve 5 times and she saved 64% of the break points that she conceded.
| Gauff | |||
| R2 Wang |
Total | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Score | 7-5 6-4 | ||
| Tot Set | 2 | 2 | |
| Tot Games | 22 | 22 | |
| pts | 76-65 | 76-65 | |
| Total points | 141 | 141 | |
| Winners | 31 | 31 | |
| %Winners | 41% | 41% | |
| SERVE | |||
| Aces | 6 | 6 | |
| Double Faults | 2 | 2 | |
| 1st in | 51/71 | 51/71 | |
| % 1st in | 72% | 72% | |
| 1st pts | 31/51 | 31/51 | |
| % 1st pts | 61% | 61% | |
| 2nd pts | 11/20 | 11/20 | |
| % 2nd pts | 55% | 55% | |
| Breaks | |||
| Won | 5 | 5 | |
| Converted | 5/10 | 5/10 | |
| Converted % | 50% | 50% | |
| Conceded | 9 | 9 | |
| Saved | 6/9 | 6 | |
| Saved % | 67% | 67% | |
| Times Broken | 3 | 3 | |
| Zhang | ||||
| R1 Tauson |
R2 Cirstea |
Total | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Score | 6-4 4-6 2-1 ret. | 6-1 6-1 | ||
| Tot Set | 3 | 2 | 5 | |
| Tot Games | 23 | 14 | 37 | |
| pts | 86-78 | 56-27 | 142-105 | |
| Total points | 164 | 83 | 247 | |
| Winners | 33 | 20 | 53 | |
| %Winners | 38% | 36% | 37% | |
| SERVE | ||||
| Aces | 0 | 0 | 0 | |
| Double Faults | 2 | 2 | 4 | |
| 1st in | 53/87 | 26/36 | 79/123 | |
| % 1st in | 61% | 72% | 64% | |
| 1st pts | 33/53 | 20/26 | 53/79 | |
| % 1st pts | 62% | 77% | 67% | |
| 2nd pts | 18/34 | 6/10 | 24/44 | |
| % 2nd pts | 53% | 60% | 55% | |
| Breaks | ||||
| Won | 4 | 6 | 10 | |
| Converted | 4/17 | 6/14 | 10/31 | |
| Converted % | 24% | 43% | 32% | |
| Conceded | 13 | 1 | 14 | |
| Saved | 9/13 | 0/1 | 9 | |
| Saved % | 69% | 0% | 69% | |
| Times Broken | 4 | 1 | 5 | |
Head 2 Head
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