Anastasia Potapova and Lin Zhu will square off in the 2nd round of the Livesport Prague Open for the 1st time in their career. They are scheduled to compete on Thursday at 11:00 am on Centre. In the following lines you can find the head to head analysis and prediction.
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The pick for Tennis Tonic is Anastasia Potapova who should win in 3 sets.
Anastasia Potapova -> 1.5
Lin Zhu -> 2.66
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Prediction and head to head Anastasia Potapova vs. Lin Zhu
There is no head to head record between Anastasia Potapova and Lin Zhu since this will be the first time that they will clash against each other in the main tour.
Anastasia Potapova
| Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 24-16 | 10-11 | 6-3 | 7-1 | 1-1 | 0-0 |
| 2024 | 28-22 | 17-13 | 6-5 | 2-1 | 3-3 | 0-0 |
| 2023 | 30-21 | 11-14 | 7-4 | 7-1 | 5-2 | 0-0 |
| 2022 | 35-24 | 14-14 | 18-7 | 3-2 | 0-1 | 0-0 |
| 2021 | 21-23 | 11-11 | 3-5 | 5-5 | 2-2 | 0-0 |
Ranked no. 59 (career-high), Anastasia got to the 2nd round after defeating Xinyu Wang 6-1 6-2.
In the 1st round, Anastasia had a good straight sets win against Wang (6-1 6-2). During the match, Potapova scored 67 points vs Wang’s 46. Anastasia was extremely aggressive to blast 27 winners.
Talking about the service games, Potapova scored just 1 ace during the encounter and she committed only 1 double fault. Anastasia Potapova was quite effective on serve to win 71% (27/38) of her 1st serve and 59% (13/22) on the second serve. This was the main reason for not conceding a single break during the match. Anastasia broke Wang 4 times after converting 36% of her break points (4/11).
Potapova has a winning record in the last 8 years having won 59% of her matches (150-104). 7-7 on hard in 2022. Regarding her performance on the same surface of this competition, Potapova has an aggregate65-51 record in the last 8 years on hard.
Her best result of the current season was winning the title in in Istanbul where she defeated Veronika Kudermetova in the final 6-3 6-1.
The Russian has a composed 25-16 win-loss record in 2022, 7-7 on hard (See FULL STATS).
Previously in Prague
Potapova has never competed in this tournament before.
Lin Zhu
| 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. 100, Zhu got to the 2nd round after beating Vitalia Diatchenko 6-1 6-1.
In the 1st round, Zhu had a good straight sets win against Diatchenko (6-1 6-1). During the match Zhu scored 65 points vs Diatchenko’s 39. The Chinese was exceptionally aggressive to blast 27 winners.
Talking about serving, Zhu managed to score 2 aces and she was extremely steady in conceding no double faults for the entire match. Lin Zhu was extremely effective on serve to win 71% (27/38) of her 1st serve and 62% (8/13) on the second serve. This was the main reason for not conceding a single break during the match. The Chinese broke Diatchenko 5 times after converting 56% of her break points (5/9).
Lin has an aggregate 27-18 win-loss record in 2022, 21-8 on hard (See FULL STATS).
H2H Performance in the tournament
Matches, sets, games and points
| Points | Potapova | Zhu |
|---|---|---|
| Match played | 1 | 1 |
| Tot Set | 2 | 2 |
| Tot Games | 15 | 14 |
| Pts | 67-46 | 65-39 |
| Total Points | 113 | 104 |
| Winners | 27 | 27 |
| %Winners | 40% | 42% |
Both Potapova and Zhu played 1 match. Both players have not dropped a single set in this event so far. Talking about their workload, Potapova and Zhu have played the same amount of sets 2. However, Potapova played 1 game more than Zhu. The Russian scored 27 winners (40% of the total points). On the other side, Zhu scored 27 winners (42%).
Serve Performance
| Serve | Potapova | Zhu |
|---|---|---|
| Aces | 1 | 2 |
| Avg per match | 1 | 2 |
| 1st in | 38/60 | 38/51 |
| %1st in | 63% | 75% |
| 1st pts | 27/38 | 27/38 |
| %1st pts | 71% | 71% |
| 2nd pts | 13/22 | 8/13 |
| %2nd pts | 59% | 62% |
Potapova managed to score 1 ace . Zhu also managed to score 2 aces . Potapova won 71% points behind her first serve. She very solid her second serve to win 59% of the points. On the other side, Zhu won 71% of the points on her first serve. She had a solid display on her second serve to win 62% of the points.
How they played the important points
| Breaks | Potapova | Zhu |
|---|---|---|
| Won | 4 | 5 |
| Converted | 4/11 | 5/9 |
| % Converted | 36% | 56% |
| Conceded | 3 | 5 |
| Saved | 3 | 5 |
| % Saved | 100% | 100% |
| Times Broken | 0 | 0 |
Potapova broke her opponent 4 times with a 36% conversion rate. Anastasia pretty solid on her serve as she has never lost a single service game after saving 3 break points. The Chinese broke her opponent 5 times with a 56% conversion rate. The Chinese was rock solid on her serve as she has never conceded a single service game after saving 5 break points.
| Potapova | |||
| R1 Wang | Total | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Score | 6-1 6-2 | ||
| Tot Set | 2 | 2 | |
| Tot Games | 15 | 15 | |
| pts | 67-46 | 67-46 | |
| Total points | 113 | 113 | |
| Winners | 27 | 27 | |
| %Winners | 40% | 40% | |
| SERVE | |||
| Aces | 1 | 1 | |
| Double Faults | 1 | 1 | |
| 1st in | 38/60 | 38/60 | |
| % 1st in | 63% | 63% | |
| 1st pts | 27/38 | 27/38 | |
| % 1st pts | 71% | 71% | |
| 2nd pts | 13/22 | 13/22 | |
| % 2nd pts | 59% | 59% | |
| Breaks | |||
| Won | 4 | 4 | |
| Converted | 4/11 | 4/11 | |
| Converted % | 36% | 36% | |
| Conceded | 3 | 3 | |
| Saved | 3/3 | 3 | |
| Saved % | 100% | 100% | |
| Times Broken | 0 | 0 | |
| Zhu | |||
| R1 Diatchenko | Total | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Score | 6-1 6-1 | ||
| Tot Set | 2 | 2 | |
| Tot Games | 14 | 14 | |
| pts | 65-39 | 65-39 | |
| Total points | 104 | 104 | |
| Winners | 27 | 27 | |
| %Winners | 42% | 42% | |
| SERVE | |||
| Aces | 2 | 2 | |
| Double Faults | 0 | 0 | |
| 1st in | 38/51 | 38/51 | |
| % 1st in | 75% | 75% | |
| 1st pts | 27/38 | 27/38 | |
| % 1st pts | 71% | 71% | |
| 2nd pts | 8/13 | 8/13 | |
| % 2nd pts | 62% | 62% | |
| Breaks | |||
| Won | 5 | 5 | |
| Converted | 5/9 | 5/9 | |
| Converted % | 56% | 56% | |
| Conceded | 5 | 5 | |
| Saved | 5/5 | 5 | |
| Saved % | 100% | 100% | |
| Times Broken | 0 | 0 | |
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