Donna Vekic and Xiyu Wang will face off in the 2^nd round of the Citi Open for the 1^st time in their career. They are scheduled to play on Thursday at 2:30 pm on GRANDSTAND. In this post, we analyze their head to head performance and prediction.

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The pick for Tennis Tonic is Donna Vekic who should win in 3 sets.

As per the initial odds, Donna Vekic is the pick to win this match.
Donna Vekic -> 1.59
Xiyu Wang -> 2.36

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Prediction and head to head Donna Vekic vs. Xiyu Wang

There is no head to head record between Donna Vekic and Xiyu Wang since this will be the first time that they will clash against each other in the main tour.

Donna Vekic

Ranked no. 86, Vekic got to the 2^nd round after defeating Mayar Sherif 6-4 6-1.

In the 1^st round, Vekic had a good straight sets win against Sherif (6-4 6-1). During the match, Vekic scored 62 points vs Sherif’s 41. The Croatian was extremely aggressive to blast 23 winners.

Talking about the service games, Vekic struck 4 aces and she committed only 5 double faults. Overall, Donna Vekic was quite effective on serve to win 82% (23/28) of her 1st serve and 53% (17/32) on the second serve. However, this didn’t prevent her to concede the serve once. Donna broke Sherif 4 times after converting 57% of her break points (4/7).

Vekic has a positive record in the last 10 years having won 54% of her matches (248-215). 1-1 on hard in 2022. Talking about her performance on the same surface of this tournament, Vekic has an overall 126-111 record in the last years on hard.

Donna has an overall 17-11 win-loss record in 2022, 1-1 on hard (See FULL STATS).

Previously in Washington

Xiyu Wang

Ranked no. 95, the Chinese got to the 2^nd round after beating Jamie Loeb 6-4 6-1 and Tatjana Maria 6-2 7-5.

In the 1^st round, Xiyu had a good straight sets win against Maria (6-2 7-5). During the match Wang scored 71 points vs Maria’s 57. Wang was quite aggressive to blast 33 winners.

Talking about serving, Wang managed to score 5 aces and she committed only 5 double faults. Xiyu Wang lost the serve once and she saved 7 break points. Furthermore, Wang put 65% of her first serves in, winning 79% (33/42) of the points behind her 1st serve and 39% (9/23) on the 2nd serve. Wang broke Maria 4 times after converting 57% of her break points (4/7).

Wang’s best result of the current year was getting to the final in the W100 Palm Harbor,the W60 Charlottesville,the W100 Charleston and the Valencia.

Wang has an overall 32-18 win-loss record in 2022, 9-7 on hard (See FULL STATS).

H2H Performance in the tournament

Matches, sets, games and points

Points	Vekic	Wang
Match played	1	2
Tot Set	2	4
Tot Games	17	37
Pts	62-41	131-94
Total Points	103	225
Winners	23	53
%Winners	37%	40%

Vekic played 1 match while Wang competed in 2 matches. Wang started her run from the qualifications while Vekic had a direct access to the main draw. Both players have not surrendered a single set in this event so far. Vekic has played 2 set(s) less than Wang (2 vs 4). Therefore, Vekic played 20 games less than Wang. Vekic scored 23 winners (37% of the total points). On the other side, The Chinese bagged 53 winners (40%).

Serve Performance

Serve	Vekic	Wang
Aces	4	10
Avg per match	4	5
1st in	28/60	67/113
%1st in	47%	59%
1st pts	23/28	53/67
%1st pts	82%	79%
2nd pts	17/32	22/46
%2nd pts	53%	48%

Vekic struck 4 aces . Wang recorded 10 aces (5 per match). Vekic won 82% points on her first serve. She very solid her second serve to win 53% of the points. On the other side, Wang won 79% of the points behind her first serve. She had a solid display on her second serve to win 48% of the points.

How they played the important points

Breaks	Vekic	Wang
Won	4	8
Converted	4/7	8/12
% Converted	57%	67%
Conceded	2	9
Saved	1	7
% Saved	50%	78%
Times Broken	1	2

Vekic broke her opponent 4 times with a 57% conversion rate. Vekic dropped her serve once and she saved 50% of the break points that she conceded. The Chinese broke her opponents 8 times with a 67% conversion rate. Xiyu conceded her serve twice and she saved 78% of the break points that she conceded.

Vekic
	R1 Sherif	Total
Score	6-4 6-1
Tot Set	2	2
Tot Games	17	17
pts	62-41	62-41
Total points	103	103
Winners	23	23
%Winners	37%	37%
SERVE
Aces	4	4
Double Faults	5	5
1st in	28/60	28/60
% 1st in	47%	47%
1st pts	23/28	23/28
% 1st pts	82%	82%
2nd pts	17/32	17/32
% 2nd pts	53%	53%
Breaks
Won	4	4
Converted	4/7	4/7
Converted %	57%	57%
Conceded	2	2
Saved	1/2	1
Saved %	50%	50%
Times Broken	1	1

Wang
	Q1 Loeb	Q3 Chirico	R1 Maria	Total
Score	6-4 6-1	6-1 3-6 7-5	6-2 7-5
Tot Set	2	3	2	7
Tot Games	17	28	20	65
pts	60-37	–	71-57	131-94
Total points	97	0	128	225
Winners	20		33	53
%Winners	33%	0%	46%	40%
SERVE
Aces	5	0	5	10
Double Faults	3		5	8
1st in	25/48	/	42/65	67/113
% 1st in	52%	0%	65%	59%
1st pts	20/25	/	33/42	53/67
% 1st pts	80%	0%	79%	79%
2nd pts	13/23	/	9/23	22/46
% 2nd pts	57%	0%	39%	48%
Breaks
Won	4		4	8
Converted	4/5	/	4/7	8/12
Converted %	80%	0%	57%	67%
Conceded	1		8	9
Saved	0/1	0/	7/8	7
Saved %	0%	–	88%	88%
Times Broken	1		1	2

Tennis Scores in Washington

• Daria SavilleSaville – Jessica PegulaPegula (7-5 6-4) – Stats, scores, rankings
• Anna KalinskayaKalinskaya – Simona HalepHalep (7-5 2-0 ret.) – Stats, scores, rankings
• Kaia KanepiKanepi – Lin ZhuZhu (4-6 6-4 6-4) – Stats, scores, rankings
• Rebecca MarinoMarino – Andrea PetkovicPetkovic (6-3 3-6 6-1) – Stats, scores, rankings
• Nino SerdarusicSerdarusic – Libor SalabaSalaba (6-1 6-7⁶ 6-1) – Stats, scores, rankings
• Zdenek KolarKolar – Yan SabaninSabanin (7-6⁴ 2-6 6-1) – Stats, scores, rankings
• Alexander VasilenkoVasilenko – Ivan NedelkoNedelko (6-3 5-7 6-2) – Stats, scores, rankings
• Manuel GuinardGuinard – Ilya VasilyevVasilyev (5-7 6-2 ret.) – Stats, scores, rankings
• Mario Vilella MartinezVilella Martinez – Pavel KotovKotov (6-3 6-3) – Stats, scores, rankings
• Danilo PetrovicPetrovic – Oleksandr BielinskyiBielinskyi (7-5 7-6²) – Stats, scores, rankings
• Ivan GakhovGakhov – Jonathan MridhaMridha (6-2 6-3) – Stats, scores, rankings

Upcoming matches in the draw

• Donna VekicVekic – Xiyu WangWang (0-0) – H2H and prediction
• Tereza MartincovaMartincova – Victoria AzarenkaAzarenka (0-1) – H2H and prediction
• Ludmilla SamsonovaSamsonova – Ajla TomljanovicTomljanovic (0-1) – H2H and prediction
• Maria Camila Osorio SerranoCamila Osorio Serrano – Emma RaducanuRaducanu (0-0) – H2H and prediction
• Daria GavrilovaGavrilova – Rebecca MarinoMarino (0-0) – H2H and prediction
• Anna KalinskayaKalinskaya – Kaia KanepiKanepi (0-0) – H2H and prediction