Lin Zhu and Despina Papamichail will square off in the 1st round of the Jasmin Open Tunisia for the 1st time in their career. They are scheduled to compete on Monday at 11:00 am on Court 1. 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 Lin Zhu who should win in 2 sets.
Lin Zhu -> 1.21
Despina Papamichail -> 4.4
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Prediction and head to head Lin Zhu vs. Despina Papamichail
There is no head to head record between Lin Zhu and Despina Papamichail since this will be the first time that they will square off in the main tour.
Lin Zhu
| Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 21-17 | 19-14 | 0-0 | 1-1 | 1-2 | 0-0 |
| 2024 | 15-19 | 12-10 | 0-5 | 0-0 | 3-4 | 0-0 |
| 2023 | 28-24 | 23-17 | 0-2 | 1-2 | 4-3 | 0-0 |
| 2022 | 41-26 | 34-15 | 6-6 | 1-2 | 0-3 | 0-0 |
| 2021 | 13-14 | 8-10 | 0-1 | 4-0 | 1-3 | 0-0 |
Ranked no. 63 (career-high), Zhu will start her run in Monastir after she played her last match in Seoul where she lost 6-1 6-1 to Maria in the quarter on the 23rd of September.
Lin has an aggregate 36-22 win-loss record in 2022, 30-12 on hard (See FULL STATS).
Talking about her overall career, The Chinese has an overall 360-240 record. She has a positive 302-180 record on hard.
Previously in Monastir
The Chinese has never competed in this tournament before.
Despina Papamichail
| Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 62-30 | 3-4 | 59-26 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2024 | 30-33 | 9-13 | 20-19 | 0-0 | 1-1 | 0-0 |
| 2023 | 30-37 | 21-17 | 6-18 | 1-1 | 2-1 | 0-0 |
| 2022 | 32-36 | 12-13 | 18-20 | 1-2 | 1-1 | 0-0 |
| 2021 | 39-30 | 10-9 | 29-20 | 0-1 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
Ranked no. 178, the Greek got to the 1st round after defeating Ines Ibbou 6-3 6-2 and Kristina Mladenovic 2-6 6-2 6-4.
In the qualifications against Mladenovic, The Greek recovered from a 1-set down deficit before winning (2-6 6-2 6-4). During the match Papamichail scored 87 points vs Mladenovic’s 76. Papamichail was exceptionally aggressive to blast 29 winners.
Talking about serving, Papamichail was unable to score even 1 ace for the entire match and she committed only 4 double faults. Despina Papamichail lost the serve 7 times and she saved 5 break points. Furthermore, Papamichail put 65% of her first serves in, winning 58% (29/50) of the points behind her 1st serve and 33% (9/27) on the 2nd serve. The Greek broke Mladenovic 8 times after converting 73% of her break points (8/11).
Overall Performance in this tournament
Papamichail started her run at this tournament from the qualifications. In the main draw, she has conceded 1 set in the tournament to win 56% of the points she played.
Despina’s best result of the current season was getting to the final in the W60 Brescia.
Despina has an overall 26-29 win-loss record in 2022, 8-10 on hard (See FULL STATS).
Tennis Scores in Monastir
- Alon EliaElia – Simeon RossierRossier (6-2 6-2) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Michail PervolarakisPervolarakis – Hugo GrenierGrenier (4-6 6-2 6-0) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Antoine EscoffierEscoffier – Ram KapachKapach (6-0 6-3) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Dekel BarBar – Yankel ZemelZemel (6-2 6-75 7-5) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Orel OvilOvil – Lukas KleinKlein (7-5 6-4) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Ben PataelPatael – Javier Pulgar-GarciaPulgar-Garcia (3-6 7-5 6-4) – Stats, scores, rankings
Upcoming matches in the draw
- Ons JabeurJabeur – Ann LiLi (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Evgeniya RodinaRodina – Elena Gabriela RuseGabriela Ruse (0-1) – H2H and prediction
- Ana KonjuhKonjuh – Claire LiuLiu (0-1) – H2H and prediction
- Chloe PaquetPaquet – Katerina SiniakovaSiniakova (0-1) – H2H and prediction
- Petra MarticMartic – (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Moyuka UchijimaUchijima – Kamilla RakhimovaRakhimova (0-1) – H2H and prediction
- Lin ZhuZhu – Despina PapamichailPapamichail (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Jaqueline CristianCristian – Elise MertensMertens (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Anastasia PotapovaPotapova – (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Tamara ZidansekZidansek – Marina Bassols RiberaBassols Ribera (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Harriet DartDart – Nuria Parrizas-DiazParrizas-Diaz (1-1) – H2H and prediction
- Laura PigossiPigossi – Alize CornetCornet (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Magda LinetteLinette – Lucrezia StefaniniStefanini (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Lesya TsurenkoTsurenko – Diane ParryParry (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Yasmine MansouriMansouri – Magdalena FrechFrech (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Varvara GrachevaGracheva – Veronika KudermetovaKudermetova (0-1) – H2H and prediction