Varvara Gracheva and Carol Zhao will clash against each other in the 2^nd round of the Chennai Open for the 1^st time in their career. They are scheduled to compete on Thursday at 9:00 pm on Center Court. Here the head to head stats and relative prediction.

Prediction, odds and live streaming

The pick for Tennis Tonic is Varvara Gracheva who should win in 3 sets.

As per the initial odds, Varvara Gracheva is the pick to win this match.
Varvara Gracheva -> 1.53
Carol Zhao -> 2.5

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Prediction and head to head Varvara Gracheva vs. Carol Zhao

There is no head to head record between Varvara Gracheva and Carol Zhao since this will be the first time that they will clash against each other in the main tour.

Varvara Gracheva

Ranked no. 80, the Russian got to the 2^nd round after defeating Mariia Tkacheva 6-3 6-2.

In the 1^st round, Gracheva had a good straight sets win against Tkacheva (6-3 6-2). During the match, Gracheva scored 78 points vs Tkacheva’s 61. Varvara was extremely aggressive to blast 29 winners.

Talking about the service games, Gracheva scored just 1 ace in the match and she committed only 3 double faults. Varvara Gracheva conceded no breaks for the entire match to save 8 break points. Furthermore, Gracheva put 63% of her first serves in, winning 59% (29/49) of the points behind her 1st serve and 72% (21/29) on the 2nd serve. Gracheva broke Tkacheva 3 times after converting 27% of her break points (3/11).

Gracheva has a solid win-loss record in the last 7 years having won 61% of her matches (191-124). 5-7 on hard in 2022. Regarding her performance on the same surface of this event, Gracheva has a compiled38-39 match record in the last 7 years on hard.

The Russian has a compiled 21-23 win-loss record in 2022, 5-7 on hard (See FULL STATS).

Previously in Chennai

The Russian has never competed in this tournament before.

Carol Zhao

Ranked no. 187, Carol got to the 2^nd round after beating Olivia Tjandramulia 6-1 6-1.

In the 1^st round, Zhao had a good straight sets win against Tjandramulia (6-1 6-1). During the match Zhao scored 62 points vs Tjandramulia’s 38. Carol was quite aggressive to blast 20 winners.

Talking about serving, Zhao scored just 1 ace during the entire match and she was extremely steady in conceding no double faults for the entire match. Carol Zhao was extremely efficient on serve to win 74% (20/27) of her 1st serve and 63% (10/16) on the second serve. This was the main reason for not conceding a single break during the match. Carol broke Tjandramulia 5 times after converting 42% of her break points (5/12).

Zhao has an aggregate 28-17 win-loss record in 2022, 17-11 on hard (See FULL STATS).

H2H Performance in the tournament

Matches, sets, games and points

Points	Gracheva	Zhao
Match played	1	1
Tot Set	2	2
Tot Games	17	14
Pts	78-61	62-38
Total Points	139	100
Winners	29	20
%Winners	37%	32%

Both Gracheva and Zhao played 1 match. Both players have not lost a single set in this event so far. Talking about their workload, Gracheva and Zhao have played the same amount of sets 2. However, Gracheva played 3 games more than Zhao. Varvara scored 29 winners (37% of the total points). On the other side, Carol managed to score 20 winners (32%).

Serve Performance

Serve	Gracheva	Zhao
Aces	1	1
Avg per match	1	1
1st in	49/78	27/43
%1st in	63%	63%
1st pts	29/49	20/27
%1st pts	59%	74%
2nd pts	21/29	10/16
%2nd pts	72%	63%

Gracheva made 1 ace . Zhao also struck 1 ace . Gracheva won 59% points on her first serve. She had a solid display on her second serve to win 72% of the points. On the other side, Zhao won 74% of the points on her first serve. She had a solid display on her second serve to win 63% of the points.

How they played the important points

Breaks	Gracheva	Zhao
Won	3	5
Converted	3/11	5/12
% Converted	27%	42%
Conceded	8	0
Saved	8	0
% Saved	100%	0%
Times Broken	0	0

Varvara broke her opponent 3 times with a 27% conversion rate. Varvara pretty solid on her serve as she has never surrendered a single service game after saving 8 break points. Carol broke her opponent 5 times with a 42% conversion rate. The Canadian was rock solid on her serve as she has never conceded a single service game after saving 0 break points.

Gracheva
	R1 Tkacheva	Total
Score	6-3 6-2
Tot Set	2	2
Tot Games	17	17
pts	78-61	78-61
Total points	139	139
Winners	29	29
%Winners	37%	37%
SERVE
Aces	1	1
Double Faults	3	3
1st in	49/78	49/78
% 1st in	63%	63%
1st pts	29/49	29/49
% 1st pts	59%	59%
2nd pts	21/29	21/29
% 2nd pts	72%	72%
Breaks
Won	3	3
Converted	3/11	3/11
Converted %	27%	27%
Conceded	8	8
Saved	8/8	8
Saved %	100%	100%
Times Broken	0	0

Zhao
	R1 Tjandramulia	Total
Score	6-1 6-1
Tot Set	2	2
Tot Games	14	14
pts	62-38	62-38
Total points	100	100
Winners	20	20
%Winners	32%	32%
SERVE
Aces	1	1
Double Faults	0	0
1st in	27/43	27/43
% 1st in	63%	63%
1st pts	20/27	20/27
% 1st pts	74%	74%
2nd pts	10/16	10/16
% 2nd pts	63%	63%
Breaks
Won	5	5
Converted	5/12	5/12
Converted %	42%	42%
Conceded	0	0
Saved	0/0	0
Saved %	–	0%
Times Broken	0	0

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