Veronika Kudermetova and Lin Zhu will play each other in the 1st round of the French Open for the 1st time in their career. They are scheduled to compete on Monday at 4:00 pm on Court 8. 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 Veronika Kudermetova who should win in 2 sets.

As per the initial odds, Veronika Kudermetova is the pick to win this match.
Veronika Kudermetova -> 1.3
Lin Zhu -> 3.66

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Prediction and head to head Veronika Kudermetova vs. Lin Zhu

There is no head to head record between Veronika Kudermetova and Lin Zhu since this will be the first time that they will clash against each other in the main tour.

Veronika Kudermetova

Veronika Kudermetova

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Rank
30
High
9
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Year Total Hard Clay I.hard Grass Carpet
2025 35-25 22-16 9-5 0-0 4-4 0-0
2024 18-25 10-16 3-5 0-0 5-4 0-0
2023 34-22 18-14 8-5 1-1 7-2 0-0
2022 39-20 27-13 7-4 0-1 5-2 0-0
2021 33-24 15-13 14-4 3-4 1-3 0-0

Ranked no. 30, Veronika will start her run at the French Open after she played her last match in Rome where she lost 3-6 7-6(4) 6-1 to Sasnovich in the 1st round on the 9th of May.

Veronika has an overall 16-10 win-loss record in 2022, 3-3 on clay (See FULL STATS).

Kudermetova’s best result of the current season was reaching the final in Melbourne, Dubai and Istanbul.

Talking about her overall career, Veronika has an overall 278-188 record. She has a positive 75-54 record on clay.

Previously at the French Open

Previously, her best result was reaching the 3rd round in 2019. See her history.

French Open
Kudermetova's Record

Lin Zhu

Lin Zhu

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Rank
163
High
31
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Year Total Hard Clay I.hard Grass Carpet
2025 21-17 19-14 0-0 1-1 1-2 0-0
2024 15-19 12-10 0-5 0-0 3-4 0-0
2023 28-24 23-17 0-2 1-2 4-3 0-0
2022 41-26 34-15 6-6 1-2 0-3 0-0
2021 13-14 8-10 0-1 4-0 1-3 0-0

Ranked no. 99, Lin reached the 1st round after beating Storm Sanders 6-4 6-4, Natalia Vikhlyantseva 6-1 6-2 and Viktoria Kuzmova 7-5 6-3.

In the qualifications, The Chinese had a good straight sets win against Kuzmova (7-5 6-3). During the match Zhu scored 72 points vs Kuzmova’s 58. Lin was quite aggressive to blast 34 winners.

About the serving games, Zhu managed to score 2 aces and she committed only 1 double fault for the entire match. Lin Zhu lost the serve 3 times and she saved 2 break points. Furthermore, Zhu put 77% of her first serves in, winning 59% (34/58) of the points behind her 1st serve and 41% (7/17) on the 2nd serve. The Chinese broke Kuzmova 6 times after converting 86% of her break points (6/7).

Overall Performance in this tournament

Zhu started her run at this tournament from the qualifications. In the main draw, she hasn’t lost yet a set in this event to win 55% of the points she played.

Lin has a compiled 22-11 win-loss record in 2022, 6-4 on clay (See FULL STATS).

Previously at the French Open

Previously, her best result was reaching the 1st round in 2019 and 2021. See her history.

French Open
Zhu's Record

Tennis Scores – French Open

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