Shuai Zhang and Donna Vekic will face off in the 2nd round of the Tallinn Open for the 6th time in their career. They are scheduled to compete on Thursday at 1:00 pm on Center Court. 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 Shuai Zhang who should win in 3 sets.
As per the initial odds, Shuai Zhang is the pick to win this match.
Shuai Zhang -> 1.51
Donna Vekic -> 2.56
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Prediction and head to head Shuai Zhang vs. Donna Vekic
This will be the 6th time that Shuai Zhang and Donna Vekic fight against each other. The head to head is 4-1 for Zhang (see full H2H stats), but they have never competed against each other on indoor hard courts.
The last time that they competed against each other, Zhang won 7-5 5-7 6-1 in the 1st round in Wuhan back in 2017.
Shuai Zhang
| Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 4-9 | 4-7 | 0-1 | 0-0 | 0-1 | 0-0 |
| 2023 | 4-19 | 3-10 | 0-4 | 1-1 | 0-4 | 0-0 |
| 2022 | 39-31 | 17-14 | 4-7 | 10-7 | 8-3 | 0-0 |
| 2021 | 23-28 | 8-11 | 4-8 | 5-5 | 6-4 | 0-0 |
| 2020 | 16-11 | 10-7 | 6-3 | 0-1 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
Ranked no. 26, Zhang got to the 2nd round after defeating Viktoria Kuzmova 7-64 7-68.
In the 1st round, Zhang had a good straight sets win against Kuzmova (7-64 7-68). During the match, Zhang scored 94 points vs Kuzmova’s 83. Zhang was exceptionally aggressive to blast 36 winners.
Talking about the service games, Zhang managed to score 3 aces and she committed only 2 double faults. Overall, Shuai Zhang was very efficient on serve to win 73% (36/49) of her 1st serve and 67% (20/30) on the second serve. However, this didn’t prevent her to concede the serve once. Shuai broke Kuzmova once after converting 14% of her break points (1/7).
Zhang has winning match record in the last 10 years having won 57% of her matches (303-233). 6-1 on indoor hard courts in 2022. In connection with her performance on the same surface of this competition, Zhang has a compiled 19-11 record in the last years on indoor hard courts.
Her best result of the season was conquering the title in Lyon where she overcame Dayana Yastremska in the final 3-6 6-3 6-4.
Shuai has an overall 35-24 win-loss record in 2022, 6-1 on indoor hard courts (See FULL STATS).
Previously in Tallinn
Zhang has never competed in this tournament before.
Donna Vekic
| Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 31-19 | 11-9 | 8-5 | 2-1 | 10-4 | 0-0 |
| 2023 | 29-20 | 16-9 | 4-5 | 2-3 | 7-3 | 0-0 |
| 2022 | 28-20 | 10-9 | 9-6 | 2-1 | 7-4 | 0-0 |
| 2021 | 19-16 | 10-12 | 0-1 | 5-0 | 4-3 | 0-0 |
| 2020 | 8-11 | 6-6 | 1-3 | 1-2 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
Ranked no. 85, Vekic reached the 2nd round after defeating Maileen Nuudi 6-2 6-0.
In the 1st round, Donna had a good straight sets win against Nuudi (6-2 6-0). During the match Vekic scored 55 points vs Nuudi’s 27. Vekic was quite aggressive to blast 22 winners.
About the serving games, Vekic recorded 6 aces and she committed only 4 double faults. Donna Vekic was quite efficient on serve to win 81% (22/27) of her 1st serve and 53% (9/17) on the second serve. This was the main reason for not conceding a single break during the match. Vekic broke Nuudi 5 times after converting 83% of her break points (5/6).
Donna has a composed 20-17 win-loss record in 2022, 1-0 on indoor hard courts (See FULL STATS).
H2H Performance in the tournament
Matches, sets, games and points
| Points | Zhang | Vekic |
|---|---|---|
| Match played | 1 | 1 |
| Tot Set | 2 | 2 |
| Tot Games | 26 | 14 |
| Pts | 94-83 | 55-27 |
| Total Points | 177 | 82 |
| Winners | 36 | 22 |
| %Winners | 38% | 40% |
Both Zhang and Vekic played 1 match. Both players have not dropped a single set in this event so far. Talking about their workload, Zhang and Vekic have played the same amount of sets 2. However, Zhang played 12 games more than Vekic. Zhang scored 36 winners (38% of the total points). On the other side, The Croatian managed to score 22 winners (40%).
Serve Performance
| Serve | Zhang | Vekic |
|---|---|---|
| Aces | 3 | 6 |
| Avg per match | 3 | 6 |
| 1st in | 49/79 | 27/44 |
| %1st in | 62% | 61% |
| 1st pts | 36/49 | 22/27 |
| %1st pts | 73% | 81% |
| 2nd pts | 20/30 | 9/17 |
| %2nd pts | 67% | 53% |
Zhang scored 3 aces . Vekic made 6 aces . Zhang won 73% points behind her first serve. She extremely effective on her second serve to win 67% of the points. On the other side, Vekic won 81% of the points behind her first serve. She had a solid display on her second serve to win 53% of the points.
How they played the important points
| Breaks | Zhang | Vekic |
|---|---|---|
| Won | 1 | 5 |
| Converted | 1/7 | 5/6 |
| % Converted | 14% | 83% |
| Conceded | 1 | 3 |
| Saved | 0 | 3 |
| % Saved | 0% | 100% |
| Times Broken | 1 | 0 |
The Chinese broke her opponent once with a 14% conversion rate. The Chinese lost her serve once and she saved 0% of the break points that she conceded. Vekic broke her opponent 5 times with a 83% conversion rate. The Croatian was rock solid on her serve as she has never conceded a single service game after saving 3 break points.
| Zhang | |||
| R1 Kuzmova |
Total | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Score | 7-64 7-68 | ||
| Tot Set | 2 | 2 | |
| Tot Games | 26 | 26 | |
| pts | 94-83 | 94-83 | |
| Total points | 177 | 177 | |
| Winners | 36 | 36 | |
| %Winners | 38% | 38% | |
| SERVE | |||
| Aces | 3 | 3 | |
| Double Faults | 2 | 2 | |
| 1st in | 49/79 | 49/79 | |
| % 1st in | 62% | 62% | |
| 1st pts | 36/49 | 36/49 | |
| % 1st pts | 73% | 73% | |
| 2nd pts | 20/30 | 20/30 | |
| % 2nd pts | 67% | 67% | |
| Breaks | |||
| Won | 1 | 1 | |
| Converted | 1/7 | 1/7 | |
| Converted % | 14% | 14% | |
| Conceded | 1 | 1 | |
| Saved | 0/1 | 0 | |
| Saved % | 0% | 0% | |
| Times Broken | 1 | 1 | |
| Vekic | |||
| R1 Nuudi |
Total | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Score | 6-2 6-0 | ||
| Tot Set | 2 | 2 | |
| Tot Games | 14 | 14 | |
| pts | 55-27 | 55-27 | |
| Total points | 82 | 82 | |
| Winners | 22 | 22 | |
| %Winners | 40% | 40% | |
| SERVE | |||
| Aces | 6 | 6 | |
| Double Faults | 4 | 4 | |
| 1st in | 27/44 | 27/44 | |
| % 1st in | 61% | 61% | |
| 1st pts | 22/27 | 22/27 | |
| % 1st pts | 81% | 81% | |
| 2nd pts | 9/17 | 9/17 | |
| % 2nd pts | 53% | 53% | |
| Breaks | |||
| Won | 5 | 5 | |
| Converted | 5/6 | 5/6 | |
| Converted % | 83% | 83% | |
| Conceded | 3 | 3 | |
| Saved | 3/3 | 3 | |
| Saved % | 100% | 100% | |
| Times Broken | 0 | 0 | |
Head 2 Head
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