Kaia Kanepi and Lin Zhu will square off in the 2nd round of the Citi Open for the 1st time in their career. They are scheduled to play on Wednesday at 6:00 pm on GRANDSTAND. In the following paragraphs, you can find the head to head analysis and prediction.
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The pick for Tennis Tonic is Kaia Kanepi who should win in 2 sets.
As per the initial odds, Kaia Kanepi is the pick to win this match.
Kaia Kanepi -> 1.47
Lin Zhu -> 2.76
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Prediction and head to head Kaia Kanepi vs. Lin Zhu
There is no head to head record between Kaia Kanepi and Lin Zhu since this will be the first time that they will fight against each other in the main tour.
Kaia Kanepi
| Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 0-3 | 0-1 | 0-2 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2023 | 17-22 | 6-10 | 11-9 | 0-2 | 0-1 | 0-0 |
| 2022 | 29-19 | 15-11 | 10-4 | 3-1 | 1-3 | 0-0 |
| 2021 | 23-14 | 16-8 | 6-4 | 1-1 | 0-1 | 0-0 |
| 2020 | 17-5 | 1-3 | 6-1 | 10-1 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
Ranked no. 37, Kanepi got to the 2nd round after beating Greetje Minnen 6-3 6-3.
In the 1st round, Kanepi had a good straight sets win against Minnen (6-3 6-3). During the match, Kanepi scored 68 points vs Minnen’s 52. Kaia was pretty aggressive to blast 17 winners.
Regarding the service games, Kanepi scored 7 aces and she committed only 7 double faults. Kaia Kanepi lost the serve twice and she saved 4 break points. Furthermore, Kanepi put 47% of her first serves in, winning 63% (17/27) of the points behind her 1st serve and 57% (17/30) on the 2nd serve. Kaia broke Minnen 5 times after converting 45% of her break points (5/11).
Kanepi has a solid win-loss record in the last 10 years having won 65% of her matches (225-119). 10-4 on hard in 2022. In connection with her performance on the same surface of this event, Kanepi has an overall 91-53 match record in the last years on hard.
Kanepi’s best result of the current year was getting to the semifinal in the Paris.
Kanepi has an overall 21-11 win-loss record in 2022, 10-4 on hard (See FULL STATS).
Previously in Washington
The Estonian has never competed in this tournament before.
Lin Zhu
| Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 15-18 | 12-10 | 0-5 | 0-0 | 3-3 | 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 |
| 2020 | 5-6 | 5-6 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
Ranked no. 97, Zhu got to the 2nd round after beating Harriet Dart 6-4 6-3.
In the 1st round, Lin had a good straight sets win against Dart (6-4 6-3). During the match Zhu scored 77 points vs Dart’s 68. The Chinese was pretty aggressive to blast 17 winners.
Talking about serving, Zhu scored just 1 ace during the entire match and she committed only 3 double faults. Lin Zhu lost the serve 3 times and she saved 3 break points. Furthermore, Zhu put 49% of her first serves in, winning 57% (17/30) of the points behind her 1st serve and 55% (17/31) on the 2nd serve. Lin broke Dart 6 times after converting 40% of her break points (6/15).
Zhu has a compiled 28-19 win-loss record in 2022, 22-9 on hard (See FULL STATS).
H2H Performance in the tournament
Matches, sets, games and points
| Points | Kanepi | Zhu |
|---|---|---|
| Match played | 1 | 1 |
| Tot Set | 2 | 2 |
| Tot Games | 18 | 19 |
| Pts | 68-52 | 77-68 |
| Total Points | 120 | 145 |
| Winners | 17 | 17 |
| %Winners | 25% | 22% |
Both Kanepi and Zhu played 1 match. Both players have not surrendered a single set in this event so far. Talking about their workload, Kanepi and Zhu have played the same amount of sets 2. However, Kanepi played 1 game less than Zhu. Kaia scored 17 winners (25% of the total points). On the other side, Zhu blasted 17 winners (22%).
Serve Performance
| Serve | Kanepi | Zhu |
|---|---|---|
| Aces | 7 | 1 |
| Avg per match | 7 | 1 |
| 1st in | 27/57 | 30/61 |
| %1st in | 47% | 49% |
| 1st pts | 17/27 | 17/30 |
| %1st pts | 63% | 57% |
| 2nd pts | 17/30 | 17/31 |
| %2nd pts | 57% | 55% |
Kanepi recorded 7 aces . Zhu struck 1 ace . Kanepi won 63% points on her first serve. She quite strong on her second serve to win 57% of the points. On the other side, Zhu won 57% of the points on 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 | Kanepi | Zhu |
|---|---|---|
| Won | 5 | 6 |
| Converted | 5/11 | 6/15 |
| % Converted | 45% | 40% |
| Conceded | 6 | 6 |
| Saved | 4 | 3 |
| % Saved | 67% | 50% |
| Times Broken | 2 | 3 |
Kanepi broke her opponent 5 times with a 45% conversion rate. Kanepi lost her serve twice and she saved 67% of the break points that she conceded. Zhu broke her opponent 6 times with a 40% conversion rate. Zhu conceded her serve 3 times and she saved 50% of the break points that she conceded.
| Kanepi | |||
| R1 Minnen |
Total | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Score | 6-3 6-3 | ||
| Tot Set | 2 | 2 | |
| Tot Games | 18 | 18 | |
| pts | 68-52 | 68-52 | |
| Total points | 120 | 120 | |
| Winners | 17 | 17 | |
| %Winners | 25% | 25% | |
| SERVE | |||
| Aces | 7 | 7 | |
| Double Faults | 7 | 7 | |
| 1st in | 27/57 | 27/57 | |
| % 1st in | 47% | 47% | |
| 1st pts | 17/27 | 17/27 | |
| % 1st pts | 63% | 63% | |
| 2nd pts | 17/30 | 17/30 | |
| % 2nd pts | 57% | 57% | |
| Breaks | |||
| Won | 5 | 5 | |
| Converted | 5/11 | 5/11 | |
| Converted % | 45% | 45% | |
| Conceded | 6 | 6 | |
| Saved | 4/6 | 4 | |
| Saved % | 67% | 67% | |
| Times Broken | 2 | 2 | |
| Zhu | |||
| R1 Dart |
Total | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Score | 6-4 6-3 | ||
| Tot Set | 2 | 2 | |
| Tot Games | 19 | 19 | |
| pts | 77-68 | 77-68 | |
| Total points | 145 | 145 | |
| Winners | 17 | 17 | |
| %Winners | 22% | 22% | |
| SERVE | |||
| Aces | 1 | 1 | |
| Double Faults | 3 | 3 | |
| 1st in | 30/61 | 30/61 | |
| % 1st in | 49% | 49% | |
| 1st pts | 17/30 | 17/30 | |
| % 1st pts | 57% | 57% | |
| 2nd pts | 17/31 | 17/31 | |
| % 2nd pts | 55% | 55% | |
| Breaks | |||
| Won | 6 | 6 | |
| Converted | 6/15 | 6/15 | |
| Converted % | 40% | 40% | |
| Conceded | 6 | 6 | |
| Saved | 3/6 | 3 | |
| Saved % | 50% | 50% | |
| Times Broken | 3 | 3 | |
Head 2 Head
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