Shuai Zhang and Karolina Pliskova will clash against each other in the 4^th round of the Australian Open for the 8^th time in their career. They are scheduled to play on Monday at 12:30 pm on Kia Arena. Here the head to head stats and relative prediction.

Prediction, odds and live streaming

The pick for Tennis Tonic is Karolina Pliskova who should win in 3 sets.

As per the initial odds, Karolina Pliskova is the pick to win this match.
Karolina Pliskova -> 1.46
Shuai Zhang -> 2.72

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Prediction and head to head Shuai Zhang vs. Karolina Pliskova

This will be the 8^th time that Shuai Zhang and Karolina Pliskova square off. The head to head is 7-0 for Pliskova (see full H2H stats), 5-0 on hard.

The last time that they played, Pliskova won 7-5 5-7 6-3 in the 3^rd round in Indian Wells back in 2018.

Shuai Zhang

Ranked no. 22 (career-high), the Chinese got to the 4^th round after defeating Patricia Maria Tig 6-1 4-6 6-0, Petra Martic 6-3 6-3 and Katie Volynets 6-3 6-2.

In the 3^rd round, Zhang had a good straight sets win against Volynets (6-3 6-2). During the match, Zhang scored 58 points vs Volynets’s 37. The Chinese was extremely aggressive to blast 27 winners.

Regarding the service games, Zhang couldn’t to score even 1 ace during the encounter and she was pretty consistent in conceding no double faults. Shuai Zhang was quite effective on serve to win 77% (27/35) of her 1st serve and 78% (7/9) on the second serve. This was the main reason for not conceding a single break during the match. Shuai broke Volynets 4 times after converting 80% of her break points (4/5).

Overall Performance in this tournament

The Chinese has surrendered 1 set in this competition to conquer 58% of the points she played.

Zhang has favorable match record in the last 10 years having won 55% of her matches (267-222). 3-2 on hard in 2023. Talking about her performance on the same surface of this event, Zhang has an overall 176-126 win-loss record in the last years on hard.

Zhang has a compiled 3-2 win-loss record in 2023, 3-2 on hard (See FULL STATS).

Previously at the Australian Open

Karolina Pliskova

Ranked no. 31, Pliskova got to the 4^th round after defeating Xiyu Wang 6-1 6-3, Yulia Putintseva 6-0 7-5 and Varvara Gracheva 6-4 6-2.

In the 3^rd round, Karolina had a good straight sets win against Gracheva (6-4 6-2). During the match Pliskova scored 63 points vs Gracheva’s 47. Pliskova was pretty aggressive to blast 28 winners.

About the serving games, Pliskova managed to score 6 aces and she committed only 2 double faults. Karolina Pliskova was extremely efficient on serve to win 82% (28/34) of her 1st serve and 62% (8/13) on the second serve. This was the main reason for not conceding a single break during the match. Karolina broke Gracheva 3 times after converting 43% of her break points (3/7).

Overall Performance in this tournament

Karolina hasn’t dropped yet a set in the tournament to win 59% of the points she played.

The Czech has a composed 5-2 win-loss record in 2023, 5-2 on hard (See FULL STATS).

Previously at the Australian Open

Previously, her best result was reaching the semifinal in 2019. See her history.

H2H Performance in the tournament (main draw)

Matches, sets, games and points

Points	Zhang	Pliskova
Match played	3	3
Tot Set	7	6
Tot Games	58	52
Pts	219-156	190-133
Total Points	375	323
Winners	93	79
%Winners	42%	42%

Both Zhang and Pliskova played 3 matches. At the moment, Shuai Zhang lost 1 set while Karolina Pliskova hasn’t surrendered a set so far. Zhang has played 1 set more than Pliskova (7 vs 6). Therefore, Zhang played 6 games more than Pliskova. The Chinese scored 93 winners (42% of the total points). On the other side, The Czech recorded 79 winners (42%).

Serve Performance

Serve	Zhang	Pliskova
Aces	5	16
Avg per match	1.7	5.3
1st in	118/170	104/160
%1st in	69%	65%
1st pts	93/118	79/104
%1st pts	79%	76%
2nd pts	26/52	30/56
%2nd pts	50%	54%

Zhang fired 5 aces (1.7 per match). Pliskova made 16 aces (5.3 per match). Zhang won 79% points behind her first serve. She extremely effective on her second serve to win 50% of the points. On the other side, Pliskova won 76% of the points on her first serve. She had a solid display on her second serve to win 54% of the points.

How they played the important points

Breaks	Zhang	Pliskova
Won	14	13
Converted	14/24	13/25
% Converted	58%	52%
Conceded	4	5
Saved	2	3
% Saved	50%	60%
Times Broken	2	2

Zhang broke her opponents 14 times with a 58% conversion rate. The Chinese lost her serve twice and she saved 50% of the break points that she conceded. Karolina broke her opponents 13 times with a 52% conversion rate. Pliskova conceded her serve twice and she saved 60% of the break points that she conceded.

Zhang
	R1 Maria Tig	R2 Martic	R3 Volynets	Total
Score	6-1 4-6 6-0	6-3 6-3	6-3 6-2
Tot Set	3	2	2	7
Tot Games	23	18	17	58
pts	95-70	66-49	58-37	219-156
Total points	165	115	95	375
Winners	32	34	27	93
%Winners	34%	52%	47%	42%
SERVE
Aces	3	2	0	5
Double Faults	1	3	0	4
1st in	41/64	42/62	35/44	118/170
% 1st in	64%	68%	80%	69%
1st pts	32/41	34/42	27/35	93/118
% 1st pts	78%	81%	77%	79%
2nd pts	10/23	9/20	7/9	26/52
% 2nd pts	43%	45%	78%	50%
Breaks
Won	7	3	4	14
Converted	7/15	3/4	4/5	14/24
Converted %	47%	75%	80%	58%
Conceded	2	1	1	4
Saved	0/2	1/1	1/1	2
Saved %	0%	100%	100%	67%
Times Broken	2	0	0	2

Pliskova
	R1 Wang	R2 Putintseva	R3 Gracheva	Total
Score	6-1 6-3	6-0 7-5	6-4 6-2
Tot Set	2	2	2	6
Tot Games	16	18	18	52
pts	57-36	70-50	63-47	190-133
Total points	93	120	110	323
Winners	23	28	28	79
%Winners	40%	40%	44%	42%
SERVE
Aces	2	8	6	16
Double Faults	4	2	2	8
1st in	31/50	39/63	34/47	104/160
% 1st in	62%	62%	72%	65%
1st pts	23/31	28/39	28/34	79/104
% 1st pts	74%	72%	82%	76%
2nd pts	12/19	10/24	8/13	30/56
% 2nd pts	63%	42%	62%	54%
Breaks
Won	4	6	3	13
Converted	4/5	6/13	3/7	13/25
Converted %	80%	46%	43%	52%
Conceded	1	4	0	5
Saved	1/1	2/4	0/0	3
Saved %	100%	50%	–	50%
Times Broken	0	2	0	2

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