Daria Kasatkina and Qinwen Zheng will fight against each other in the quarter of the Mubadala Abu Dhabi Open for the 1^st time in their career. They are scheduled to compete on Friday at 5:00 pm on Stadium 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 Qinwen Zheng who should win in 3 sets.

As per the initial odds, Qinwen Zheng is the pick to win this match.
Qinwen Zheng -> 1.9
Daria Kasatkina -> 1.9

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Prediction and head to head Daria Kasatkina vs. Qinwen Zheng

There is no head to head record between Daria Kasatkina and Qinwen Zheng since this will be the first time that they will square off in the main tour.

Daria Kasatkina

Ranked no. 8 (career-high), Kasatkina got to the quarter after beating Jil Teichmann 1-6 6-0 6-2.

In the 2^nd round against Belen Teichmann, Darya recovered from a 1-set down deficit before winning (1-6 6-0 6-2). During the match, Kasatkina scored 75 points vs Belen Teichmann’s 65. Kasatkina was exceptionally aggressive to blast 32 winners.

Regarding the service games, Kasatkina wasn’t able to score even 1 ace during the match and she committed only 3 double faults. Daria Kasatkina lost the serve 4 times and she saved 2 break points. Furthermore, Kasatkina put 78% of her first serves in, winning 64% (32/50) of the points behind her 1st serve and 21% (3/14) on the 2nd serve. The Russian broke Belen Teichmann 7 times after converting 44% of her break points (7/16).

Kasatkina has a solid record in the last 10 years having won 64% of her matches (305-170). 3-3 on hard in 2023. In connection with her performance on the same surface of this event, Kasatkina has a composed 132-94 match record in the last years on hard.

Kasatkina’s best result of the season was getting to the final in Adelaide.

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

Previously in Abu Dhabi

Qinwen Zheng

Ranked no. 29, the Chinese reached the quarter after beating Rebecca Marino 6-3 6-3 and Jelena Ostapenko 7-6¹⁰ 6-1.

In the 2^nd round, Zheng had a good straight sets win against Ostapenko (7-6¹⁰ 6-1). During the match Zheng scored 84 points vs Ostapenko’s 78. The Chinese was extremely aggressive to blast 32 winners.

Talking about serving, Zheng managed to score 10 aces and she committed only 4 double faults. Qinwen Zheng lost the serve twice and she saved 3 break points. Furthermore, Zheng put 54% of her first serves in, winning 74% (32/43) of the points behind her 1st serve and 41% (15/37) on the 2nd serve. Zheng broke Ostapenko 4 times after converting 36% of her break points (4/11).

Overall Performance in this tournament

The Chinese hasn’t dropped yet a set in the tournament to win 54% of the points she played.

Zheng has an aggregate 7-3 win-loss record in 2023, 7-3 on hard (See FULL STATS)

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H2H Performance in the tournament (main draw)

Matches, sets, games and points

Points	Kasatkina	Zheng
Match played	1	2
Tot Set	3	4
Tot Games	21	38
Pts	75-65	148-125
Total Points	140	273
Winners	32	57
%Winners	43%	39%

Kasatkina played 1 match while Zheng competed in 2 matches. At the moment, Daria Kasatkina lost 1 set while Qinwen Zheng hasn’t surrendered a set so far. Kasatkina has played 1 set(s) less than Zheng (3 vs 4). Therefore, Kasatkina played 17 games less than Zheng. The Russian scored 32 winners (43% of the total points). On the other side, Qinwen recorded 57 winners (39%).

Serve Performance

Serve	Kasatkina	Zheng
Aces	0	20
Avg per match	0	10
1st in	50/64	71/131
%1st in	78%	54%
1st pts	32/50	57/71
%1st pts	64%	80%
2nd pts	3/14	29/60
%2nd pts	21%	48%

Kasatkina didn’t manage to fire a single ace to far. Zheng bagged 20 aces (10 per match). Kasatkina won 64% points on her first serve. She was rock solid on her second serve to win 21% of the points. On the other side, Zheng won 80% of the points on her first serve. She had a solid display on her second serve to win 48% of the points.

How they played the important points

Breaks	Kasatkina	Zheng
Won	7	7
Converted	7/16	7/18
% Converted	44%	39%
Conceded	6	6
Saved	2	4
% Saved	33%	67%
Times Broken	4	2

Darya broke her opponent 7 times with a 44% conversion rate. Darya surrendered her serve 4 times and she saved 33% of the break points that she conceded. The Chinese broke her opponents 7 times with a 39% conversion rate. Qinwen conceded her serve twice and she saved 67% of the break points that she conceded.

Kasatkina
	R2 Belen Teichmann	Total
Score	1-6 6-0 6-2
Tot Set	3	3
Tot Games	21	21
pts	75-65	75-65
Total points	140	140
Winners	32	32
%Winners	43%	43%
SERVE
Aces	0	0
Double Faults	3	3
1st in	50/64	50/64
% 1st in	78%	78%
1st pts	32/50	32/50
% 1st pts	64%	64%
2nd pts	3/14	3/14
% 2nd pts	21%	21%
Breaks
Won	7	7
Converted	7/16	7/16
Converted %	44%	44%
Conceded	6	6
Saved	2/6	2
Saved %	33%	33%
Times Broken	4	4

Zheng
	R1 Marino	R2 Ostapenko	Total
Score	6-3 6-3	7-610 6-1
Tot Set	2	2	4
Tot Games	18	20	38
pts	64-47	84-78	148-125
Total points	111	162	273
Winners	25	32	57
%Winners	39%	38%	39%
SERVE
Aces	10	10	20
Double Faults	1	4	5
1st in	28/51	43/80	71/131
% 1st in	55%	54%	54%
1st pts	25/28	32/43	57/71
% 1st pts	89%	74%	80%
2nd pts	14/23	15/37	29/60
% 2nd pts	61%	41%	48%
Breaks
Won	3	4	7
Converted	3/7	4/11	7/18
Converted %	43%	36%	39%
Conceded	1	5	6
Saved	1/1	3/5	4
Saved %	100%	60%	160%
Times Broken	0	2	2

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