Qinwen Zheng and Anastasia Potapova will face off in the 2nd round of the U.S. Open for the 1st time in their career. They are scheduled to play on Thursday at 1:00 pm on Court 13. In the following paragraphs, you can find the head to head analysis and prediction.

Prediction, odds and live streaming

The pick for Tennis Tonic is Qinwen Zheng who should win in 3 sets.

As per the initial odds, Qinwen Zheng is the pick to win this match.
Qinwen Zheng -> 1.78
Anastasia Potapova -> 2.04

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Prediction and head to head Qinwen Zheng vs. Anastasia Potapova

There is no head to head record between Qinwen Zheng and Anastasia Potapova since this will be the first time that they will play each other in the main tour.

Qinwen Zheng

Qinwen Zheng

0 - 0win/loss

Rank
24
High
4
LWLLWWLWWW
Year Total Hard Clay I.hard Grass Carpet
2025 20-12 8-6 10-4 0-0 2-2 0-0
2024 52-18 31-10 17-4 3-2 1-2 0-0
2023 37-19 23-11 11-4 3-1 0-3 0-0
2022 39-19 27-12 10-4 0-0 2-3 0-0
2021 34-11 7-1 16-6 11-4 0-0 0-0

Ranked no. 39 (career-high), Qinwen got to the 2nd round after beating Jelena Ostapenko 6-3 3-6 6-4.

In the 1st round, The Chinese defeated Ostapenko (6-3 3-6 6-4). During the match, Zheng scored 85 points vs Ostapenko’s 80. Zheng was exceptionally aggressive to blast 34 winners.

Talking about the service games, Zheng overwhelmed her opponent with 21 aces and she committed only 5 double faults. Qinwen Zheng lost the serve 5 times and she saved 5 break points. Furthermore, Zheng put 62% of her first serves in, winning 71% (34/48) of the points behind her 1st serve and 38% (11/29) on the 2nd serve. Zheng broke Ostapenko 6 times after converting 60% of her break points (6/10).

Zheng has a fantastic record in the last 6 years having won 71% of her matches (131-53). 20-8 on hard in 2022. Regarding her performance on the same surface of this competition, Zheng has an overall56-28 match record in the last 6 years on hard.

Her best result of the year was winning the title in the Valencia where she beat Xiyu Wang in the final 6-4 4-6 6-3.

The Chinese has an aggregate 31-14 win-loss record in 2022, 20-8 on hard (See FULL STATS).

Previously at the U.S. Open

The Chinese has never competed in this tournament before.

U.S. Open
Zheng's Record

Anastasia Potapova

Anastasia Potapova

0 - 0win/loss

Rank
51
High
21
LWWWLWLLWL
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. 52, the Russian got to the 2nd round after beating Claire Liu 6-1 6-4.

In the 1st round, Potapova had a good straight sets win against Liu (6-1 6-4). During the match Potapova scored 59 points vs Liu’s 44. Potapova was quite aggressive to blast 30 winners.

About the serving games, Potapova couldn’t to score even 1 ace for the entire match and she committed only 2 double faults. Anastasia Potapova was pretty effective on serve to win 81% (30/37) of her 1st serve and 59% (10/17) on the second serve. This was the main reason for not conceding a single break during the match. Anastasia broke Liu 3 times after converting 43% of her break points (3/7).

Her best result of the year was winning the title in in Istanbul where she overcame Veronika Kudermetova in the final 6-3 6-1.

Potapova has an aggregate 30-19 win-loss record in 2022, 12-10 on hard (See FULL STATS).

Previously at the U.S. Open

Previously, her best result was reaching the 1st round in 2019 and 2021. See her history.

U.S. Open
Potapova's Record

H2H Performance in the tournament

Q.Zheng
A.Potapova
!
2h:00
2h:00
Time on court​
1h:16
1h:16
2h:00
2h:00
Last match​
1h:16
1h:16
1
1
Match played
1
1
28
28
Games Played​
17
17
3
3
Set played​​
2
2
85
85
Total points​
59
59
85
85
Avg point​
59
59
34
34
Winners
30
30
34
34
Avg Winners​
30
30
40%
40%
Ratio winners
51%
51%
-- Serve --
21
21
Aces
0
0
!
21
21
Avg Aces
0
0
5
5
Double Faults
2
2
5
5
Avg Double Faults
2
2
34/48
34/48
1st won total​
30/37
30/37
!
71%
71%
1st won %
!
81%
81%
11/29
11/29
2nd won total​
10/17
10/17
!
38%
38%
2nd won %
59%
59%
-- Break Points --
6/10
6/10
BP won
3/7
3/7
6/10
6/10
Avg BP won
3/7
3/7
!
60%
60%
Won
43%
43%
10
10
Conceded
3
3
10
10
Avg Conceded
3
3
5
5
Broken
0
0
!
5
5
Avg Broken
!
0
0
5
5
Saved
3
3

Matches, sets, games and points

Points Zheng Potapova
Match played 1 1
Tot Set 3 2
Tot Games 28 17
Pts 85-80 59-44
Total Points 165 103
Winners 34 30
%Winners 40% 51%

Both Zheng and Potapova played 1 match. At the moment, Qinwen Zheng lost 1 set while Anastasia Potapova hasn’t lost a set so far. Zheng has played 1 set more than Potapova (3 vs 2). Therefore, Zheng played 11 games more than Potapova. The Chinese scored 34 winners (40% of the total points). On the other side, Potapova recorded 30 winners (51%).

Serve Performance

Serve Zheng Potapova
Aces 21 0
Avg per match 21 0
1st in 48/77 37/54
%1st in 62% 69%
1st pts 34/48 30/37
%1st pts 71% 81%
2nd pts 11/29 10/17
%2nd pts 38% 59%

Zheng bagged 21 aces . Potapova didn’t manage to fire a single ace to far. Zheng won 71% points on her first serve. She very solid her second serve to win 38% of the points. On the other side, Potapova won 81% of the points on her first serve. She had a solid display on her second serve to win 59% of the points.

How they played the important points

Breaks Zheng Potapova
Won 6 3
Converted 6/10 3/7
% Converted 60% 43%
Conceded 10 3
Saved 5 3
% Saved 50% 100%
Times Broken 5 0

The Chinese broke her opponent 6 times with a 60% conversion rate. Zheng lost her serve 5 times and she saved 50% of the break points that she conceded. Potapova broke her opponent 3 times with a 43% conversion rate. Anastasia was rock solid on her serve as she has never conceded a single service game after saving 3 break points.

Zheng
R1
Ostapenko
Total
Score 6-3 3-6 6-4
Tot Set 3 3
Tot Games 28 28
pts 85-80 85-80
Total points 165 165
Winners 34 34
%Winners 40% 40%
SERVE
Aces 21 21
Double Faults 5 5
1st in 48/77 48/77
% 1st in 62% 62%
1st pts 34/48 34/48
% 1st pts 71% 71%
2nd pts 11/29 11/29
% 2nd pts 38% 38%
Breaks
Won 6 6
Converted 6/10 6/10
Converted % 60% 60%
Conceded 10 10
Saved 5/10 5
Saved % 50% 50%
Times Broken 5 5
Potapova
R1
Liu
Total
Score 6-1 6-4
Tot Set 2 2
Tot Games 17 17
pts 59-44 59-44
Total points 103 103
Winners 30 30
%Winners 51% 51%
SERVE
Aces 0 0
Double Faults 2 2
1st in 37/54 37/54
% 1st in 69% 69%
1st pts 30/37 30/37
% 1st pts 81% 81%
2nd pts 10/17 10/17
% 2nd pts 59% 59%
Breaks
Won 3 3
Converted 3/7 3/7
Converted % 43% 43%
Conceded 3 3
Saved 3/3 3
Saved % 100% 100%
Times Broken 0 0

Tennis Scores – U.S. Open

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