Shuai Zhang and Jasmine Paolini will face off in the 2nd round of the Palermo Ladies Open for the 4th time in their career. They are scheduled to compete on Wednesday at 10:00 pm on Center Court. In this post, we analyze their head to head performance and prediction.
Prediction, odds and live streaming
The pick for Tennis Tonic is Jasmine Paolini who should win in 3 sets.
As per the initial odds, Jasmine Paolini is the pick to win this match.
Jasmine Paolini -> 1.75
Shuai Zhang -> 2.13
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Prediction and head to head Shuai Zhang vs. Jasmine Paolini
This will be the 4th time that Shuai Zhang and Jasmine Paolini fight against each other. The head to head is 3-0 for Zhang (see full H2H stats), 1-0 on clay.
The last time that they squared off, Zhang won 6-3 7-5 in the final in the W100 Tokyo back in 2019.
Shuai Zhang
| Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 10-5 | 7-3 | 3-2 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 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. 36, the Chinese got to the 2nd round after beating Rebeka Masarova 7-63 7-67.
In the 1st round, The Chinese had a good straight sets win against Masarova (7-63 7-67). During the match, Zhang scored 82 points vs Masarova’s 78. Shuai was pretty aggressive to blast 41 winners.
Talking about the service games, Zhang was unable to score even 1 ace throughout the encounter and she committed only 2 double faults. Shuai Zhang lost the serve 3 times and she saved 4 break points. Furthermore, Zhang put 66% of her first serves in, winning 75% (41/55) of the points behind her 1st serve and 43% (12/28) on the 2nd serve. Zhang broke Masarova 3 times after converting 33% of her break points (3/9).
Zhang has a positive record in the last 10 years having won 56% of her matches (291-227). 4-7 on clay in 2022. Talking about her performance on the same surface of this tournament, Zhang has a composed 51-63 win-loss record in the last years on clay.
Her best result of the year was winning the title in in Lyon where she beat Dayana Yastremska in the final 3-6 6-3 6-4.
Zhang has a compiled 23-18 win-loss record in 2022, 4-7 on clay (See FULL STATS).
Previously in Palermo
Jasmine Paolini
| Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 18-8 | 12-6 | 6-2 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2024 | 42-21 | 19-10 | 12-5 | 3-4 | 8-2 | 0-0 |
| 2023 | 43-30 | 20-16 | 16-8 | 5-3 | 2-3 | 0-0 |
| 2022 | 30-25 | 14-11 | 10-10 | 6-3 | 0-1 | 0-0 |
| 2021 | 34-24 | 17-13 | 12-7 | 5-3 | 0-1 | 0-0 |
Ranked no. 61, the Italian reached the 2nd round after beating Anna Schmiedlova 6-3 6-1.
In the 1st round, Paolini had a good straight sets win against Anna Schmiedlova (6-3 6-1). During the match Paolini scored 57 points vs Anna Schmiedlova’s 33. Paolini was very aggressive to blast 20 winners.
Talking about serving, Paolini wasn’t able to score even 1 ace for the entire match and she committed only 1 double fault for the entire match. Jasmine Paolini lost the serve once and she saved 1 break points. Furthermore, Paolini put 70% of her first serves in, winning 67% (20/30) of the points behind her 1st serve and 77% (10/13) on the 2nd serve. Jasmine broke Anna Schmiedlova 5 times after converting 83% of her break points (5/6).
Jasmine has an overall 12-15 win-loss record in 2022, 4-6 on clay (See FULL STATS).
Previously in Palermo
Previously, her best result was reaching the quarter in 2019. See her history.
H2H Performance in the tournament
Matches, sets, games and points
| Points | Zhang | Paolini |
|---|---|---|
| Match played | 1 | 1 |
| Tot Set | 2 | 2 |
| Tot Games | 26 | 16 |
| Pts | 82-78 | 57-33 |
| Total Points | 160 | 90 |
| Winners | 41 | 20 |
| %Winners | 50% | 35% |
Both Zhang and Paolini played 1 match. Both players have not dropped a single set in this event so far. Talking about their workload, Zhang and Paolini have played the same amount of sets 2. However, Zhang played 10 games more than Paolini. The Chinese scored 41 winners (50% of the total points). On the other side, Paolini blasted 20 winners (35%).
Serve Performance
| Serve | Zhang | Paolini |
|---|---|---|
| Aces | 0 | 0 |
| Avg per match | 0 | 0 |
| 1st in | 55/83 | 30/43 |
| %1st in | 66% | 70% |
| 1st pts | 41/55 | 20/30 |
| %1st pts | 75% | 67% |
| 2nd pts | 12/28 | 10/13 |
| %2nd pts | 43% | 77% |
Zhang didn’t manage to fire a single ace to far. Paolini also didn’t manage to fire a single ace to far. Zhang won 75% points behind her first serve. She very solid her second serve to win 43% of the points. On the other side, Paolini won 67% of the points on her first serve. She had a solid display on her second serve to win 77% of the points.
How they played the important points
| Breaks | Zhang | Paolini |
|---|---|---|
| Won | 3 | 5 |
| Converted | 3/9 | 5/6 |
| % Converted | 33% | 83% |
| Conceded | 7 | 2 |
| Saved | 4 | 1 |
| % Saved | 57% | 50% |
| Times Broken | 3 | 1 |
The Chinese broke her opponent 3 times with a 33% conversion rate. The Chinese surrendered her serve 3 times and she saved 57% of the break points that she conceded. Jasmine broke her opponent 5 times with a 83% conversion rate. The Italian conceded her serve once and she saved 50% of the break points that she conceded.
| Zhang | |||
| R1 Masarova |
Total | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Score | 7-63 7-67 | ||
| Tot Set | 2 | 2 | |
| Tot Games | 26 | 26 | |
| pts | 82-78 | 82-78 | |
| Total points | 160 | 160 | |
| Winners | 41 | 41 | |
| %Winners | 50% | 50% | |
| SERVE | |||
| Aces | 0 | 0 | |
| Double Faults | 2 | 2 | |
| 1st in | 55/83 | 55/83 | |
| % 1st in | 66% | 66% | |
| 1st pts | 41/55 | 41/55 | |
| % 1st pts | 75% | 75% | |
| 2nd pts | 12/28 | 12/28 | |
| % 2nd pts | 43% | 43% | |
| Breaks | |||
| Won | 3 | 3 | |
| Converted | 3/9 | 3/9 | |
| Converted % | 33% | 33% | |
| Conceded | 7 | 7 | |
| Saved | 4/7 | 4 | |
| Saved % | 57% | 57% | |
| Times Broken | 3 | 3 | |
| Paolini | |||
| R1 Anna Schmiedlova |
Total | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Score | 6-3 6-1 | ||
| Tot Set | 2 | 2 | |
| Tot Games | 16 | 16 | |
| pts | 57-33 | 57-33 | |
| Total points | 90 | 90 | |
| Winners | 20 | 20 | |
| %Winners | 35% | 35% | |
| SERVE | |||
| Aces | 0 | 0 | |
| Double Faults | 1 | 1 | |
| 1st in | 30/43 | 30/43 | |
| % 1st in | 70% | 70% | |
| 1st pts | 20/30 | 20/30 | |
| % 1st pts | 67% | 67% | |
| 2nd pts | 10/13 | 10/13 | |
| % 2nd pts | 77% | 77% | |
| Breaks | |||
| Won | 5 | 5 | |
| Converted | 5/6 | 5/6 | |
| Converted % | 83% | 83% | |
| Conceded | 2 | 2 | |
| Saved | 1/2 | 1 | |
| Saved % | 50% | 50% | |
| Times Broken | 1 | 1 | |
Head 2 Head
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