Marina Melnikova and Anastasia Zakharova will play each other in the qualifications of the TEB BNP Paribas Tennis Championship for the 3rd time in their career. They are scheduled to compete on Sunday at 11:00 am on Court 2. 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 Anastasia Zakharova who should win in 3 sets.

As per the initial odds, Anastasia Zakharova is the pick to win this match.
Anastasia Zakharova -> 1.89
Marina Melnikova -> 1.909

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Prediction and head to head Marina Melnikova vs. Anastasia Zakharova

This will be the 3rd time that Marina Melnikova and Anastasia Zakharova square off. The head to head is 2-0 for Zakharova (see full H2H stats), but they have never played each other on clay.

The last time that they competed against each other, Zakharova won 6-1 4-6 6-1 in the 2nd round in the W60+H Traralgon back in January 2022.

Marina Melnikova

Marina Melnikova

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Rank
857
High
170
Year Total Hard Clay I.hard Grass Carpet
2025 0-1 0-1 0-0 0-0 0-0 0-0
2024 24-19 5-5 18-12 0-1 1-1 0-0
2023 22-16 13-8 5-5 4-2 0-1 0-0
2022 25-12 12-7 13-5 0-0 0-0 0-0
2021 20-25 2-5 16-13 0-3 2-4 0-0

Ranked no. 184, the Russian will start her run in Istanbul after she played her last match in the W60 Bellinzona where she lost 7-5 6-2 to Georgiana Serban in the 1st round on the 13th of April.

The Russian has an overall 17-7 win-loss record in 2022, 5-1 on clay (See FULL STATS).

Talking about her overall career, Marina has an overall 355-332 record. She has a positive 198-166 record on clay.

Previously in Istanbul

Previously, her best result was reaching the 1st round in 2016. See her history.

Istanbul
Melnikova's Record

Anastasia Zakharova

Anastasia Zakharova

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Rank
101
High
79
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Year Total Hard Clay I.hard Grass Carpet
2025 34-31 17-19 7-7 3-2 7-3 0-0
2024 38-22 26-10 3-6 8-4 1-2 0-0
2023 49-24 41-17 2-2 6-3 0-2 0-0
2022 39-22 26-8 3-10 10-4 0-0 0-0
2021 31-25 13-10 9-8 9-7 0-0 0-0

Ranked no. 204, will start her run in Istanbul after she won the title in the Sultan after beating 6-3 6-1 Tkacheva in the final.

Zakharova has an aggregate 16-5 win-loss record in 2022, 0-0 on clay (See FULL STATS).

This will be the first match of the season on clay.

The Russian won her last 5 matches.

In terms of her career, The Russian has an overall 135-60 record. She has a positive 46-21 record on clay.

Istanbul
Zakharova's Record

Tennis Scores in Istanbul

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