Cori Gauff and Naomi Osaka will fight against each other in the 2nd round of the Mubadala Silicon Valley Classic for the 4th time in their career. They are scheduled to play on Thursday at 5:00 pm on STADIUM. In the following lines you can find the head to head analysis and prediction.
Prediction, odds and live streaming
The pick for Tennis Tonic is Cori Gauff who should win in 3 sets.
Cori Gauff -> 1.615
Naomi Osaka -> 2.31
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Prediction and head to head Cori Gauff vs. Naomi Osaka
This will be the 4th time that Cori Gauff and Naomi Osaka play each other. The head to head is 2-1 for Osaka (see full H2H stats), 2-1 on hard.
The last time that they played each other, Osaka won 4-6 6-3 6-4 in the 2nd round in Cincinnati back in 2021.
Cori Gauff
| Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 48-16 | 29-9 | 18-3 | 1-2 | 0-2 | 0-0 |
| 2024 | 54-18 | 31-10 | 14-5 | 4-1 | 5-2 | 0-0 |
| 2023 | 51-16 | 40-9 | 7-4 | 0-0 | 4-3 | 0-0 |
| 2022 | 38-23 | 23-16 | 10-4 | 0-1 | 5-2 | 0-0 |
| 2021 | 36-16 | 16-10 | 16-4 | 0-0 | 4-2 | 0-0 |
Ranked no. 11 (career-high), Gauff got to the 2nd round after defeating Anhelina Kalinina 6-1 6-0.
In the 1st round, The American had a good straight sets win against Kalinina (6-1 6-0). During the match, Gauff scored 55 points vs Kalinina’s 29. Gauff was pretty aggressive to blast 25 winners.
Regarding the service games, Gauff recorded 7 aces and she committed only 5 double faults. Cori Gauff conceded no breaks for the entire match to save 1 break points. Furthermore, Gauff put 65% of her first serves in, winning 89% (25/28) of the points behind her 1st serve and 40% (6/15) on the 2nd serve. Gauff broke Kalinina 5 times after converting 71% of her break points (5/7).
Gauff has a solid match record in the last 6 years having won 67% of her matches (112-56). 11-7 on hard in 2022. In connection with her performance on the same surface of this event, Gauff has a compiled47-30 win-loss record in the last 6 years on hard.
The American’s best result of the current year was reaching the final at the French Open .
Gauff has a composed 26-13 win-loss record in 2022, 11-7 on hard (See FULL STATS).
Previously in San Jose
Cori has never competed in this tournament before.
Naomi Osaka
| Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 35-15 | 24-9 | 8-3 | 0-0 | 3-3 | 0-0 |
| 2024 | 22-18 | 13-10 | 5-5 | 1-0 | 3-3 | 0-0 |
| 2023 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2022 | 14-9 | 13-7 | 1-2 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2021 | 18-6 | 16-4 | 2-2 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
Ranked no. 41, Osaka reached the 2nd round after defeating Qinwen Zheng 6-4 3-6 6-1.
In the 1st round, The Japanese defeated Zheng (6-4 3-6 6-1). During the match Osaka scored 83 points vs Zheng’s 78. Naomi was extremely aggressive to blast 35 winners.
Talking about serving, Osaka struck 11 aces and she committed only 2 double faults. Naomi Osaka lost the serve once and she saved 7 break points. Furthermore, Osaka put 48% of her first serves in, winning 81% (35/43) of the points behind her 1st serve and 50% (23/46) on the 2nd serve. Naomi broke Zheng 3 times after converting 50% of her break points (3/6).
Naomi’s best result of the season was getting to the final in Miami.
Naomi has an aggregate 13-5 win-loss record in 2022, 12-3 on hard (See FULL STATS).
H2H Performance in the tournament
Matches, sets, games and points
| Points | Gauff | Osaka |
|---|---|---|
| Match played | 1 | 1 |
| Tot Set | 2 | 3 |
| Tot Games | 13 | 26 |
| Pts | 55-29 | 83-78 |
| Total Points | 84 | 161 |
| Winners | 25 | 35 |
| %Winners | 45% | 42% |
Both Gauff and Osaka played 1 match. At the moment, Naomi Osaka dropped 1 set while Cori Gauff hasn’t conceded a set so far. Gauff has played 1 set(s) less than Osaka (2 vs 3). Therefore, Gauff played 13 games less than Osaka. Gauff scored 25 winners (45% of the total points). On the other side, Naomi blasted 35 winners (42%).
Serve Performance
| Serve | Gauff | Osaka |
|---|---|---|
| Aces | 7 | 11 |
| Avg per match | 7 | 11 |
| 1st in | 28/43 | 43/89 |
| %1st in | 65% | 48% |
| 1st pts | 25/28 | 35/43 |
| %1st pts | 89% | 81% |
| 2nd pts | 6/15 | 23/46 |
| %2nd pts | 40% | 50% |
Gauff struck 7 aces . Osaka struck 11 aces . Gauff won 89% points behind her first serve. She pretty solid on her second serve to win 40% of the points. On the other side, Osaka won 81% of the points on her first serve. She had a solid display on her second serve to win 50% of the points.
How they played the important points
| Breaks | Gauff | Osaka |
|---|---|---|
| Won | 5 | 3 |
| Converted | 5/7 | 3/6 |
| % Converted | 71% | 50% |
| Conceded | 1 | 8 |
| Saved | 1 | 7 |
| % Saved | 100% | 88% |
| Times Broken | 0 | 1 |
The American broke her opponent 5 times with a 71% conversion rate. The American pretty effective on her serve as she has never dropped a single service game after saving 1 break points. Naomi broke her opponent 3 times with a 50% conversion rate. Osaka conceded her serve once and she saved 88% of the break points that she conceded.
| Gauff | |||
| R1 Kalinina | Total | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Score | 6-1 6-0 | ||
| Tot Set | 2 | 2 | |
| Tot Games | 13 | 13 | |
| pts | 55-29 | 55-29 | |
| Total points | 84 | 84 | |
| Winners | 25 | 25 | |
| %Winners | 45% | 45% | |
| SERVE | |||
| Aces | 7 | 7 | |
| Double Faults | 5 | 5 | |
| 1st in | 28/43 | 28/43 | |
| % 1st in | 65% | 65% | |
| 1st pts | 25/28 | 25/28 | |
| % 1st pts | 89% | 89% | |
| 2nd pts | 6/15 | 6/15 | |
| % 2nd pts | 40% | 40% | |
| Breaks | |||
| Won | 5 | 5 | |
| Converted | 5/7 | 5/7 | |
| Converted % | 71% | 71% | |
| Conceded | 1 | 1 | |
| Saved | 1/1 | 1 | |
| Saved % | 100% | 100% | |
| Times Broken | 0 | 0 | |
| Osaka | |||
| R1 Zheng | Total | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Score | 6-4 3-6 6-1 | ||
| Tot Set | 3 | 3 | |
| Tot Games | 26 | 26 | |
| pts | 83-78 | 83-78 | |
| Total points | 161 | 161 | |
| Winners | 35 | 35 | |
| %Winners | 42% | 42% | |
| SERVE | |||
| Aces | 11 | 11 | |
| Double Faults | 2 | 2 | |
| 1st in | 43/89 | 43/89 | |
| % 1st in | 48% | 48% | |
| 1st pts | 35/43 | 35/43 | |
| % 1st pts | 81% | 81% | |
| 2nd pts | 23/46 | 23/46 | |
| % 2nd pts | 50% | 50% | |
| Breaks | |||
| Won | 3 | 3 | |
| Converted | 3/6 | 3/6 | |
| Converted % | 50% | 50% | |
| Conceded | 8 | 8 | |
| Saved | 7/8 | 7 | |
| Saved % | 88% | 88% | |
| Times Broken | 1 | 1 | |
Tennis Scores in San Jose
- Ons JabeurJabeur – Madison KeysKeys (7-5 6-1) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Paula Badosa GibertBadosa Gibert – Elizabeth MandlikMandlik (6-2 5-7 7-65) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Daria KasatkinaKasatkina – Taylor TownsendTownsend (6-4 6-0) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Amanda AnisimovaAnisimova – Karolina PliskovaPliskova (3-6 7-5 6-1) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Yanais LaurentLaurent – Andres Artunedo MartinavarrArtunedo Martinavarr (6-3 7-5) – Stats, scores, rankings
Upcoming matches in the draw
- Maria SakkariSakkari – Shelby RogersRogers (0-2) – H2H and prediction
- Claire LiuLiu – Veronika KudermetovaKudermetova (0-1) – H2H and prediction
- Caroline DolehideDolehide – Aryna SabalenkaSabalenka (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Cori GauffGauff – Naomi OsakaOsaka (1-2) – H2H and prediction