Valeria Savinykh and Carol Zhao will clash against each other in the qualifications of the Japan Open Tennis Championships for the 3rd time in their career. They are scheduled to compete on Sunday at 11:00 am on Court 8. In the following paragraphs, you can find the head to head analysis and prediction.
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The pick for Tennis Tonic is Valeria Savinykh who should win in 3 sets.
As per the initial odds, Valeria Savinykh is the pick to win this match.
Valeria Savinykh -> 1.56
Carol Zhao -> 2.31
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Prediction and head to head Valeria Savinykh vs. Carol Zhao
This will be the 3rd time that Valeria Savinykh and Carol Zhao face off. The head to head is 2-0 for Zhao (see full H2H stats), 1-0 on hard.
The last time that they squared off, Zhao won 2-6 6-2 6-0 in the qualifications in at the French Open back in 2021.
Valeria Savinykh
| Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 10-11 | 5-6 | 0-0 | 5-5 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2023 | 52-29 | 51-27 | 0-1 | 1-1 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2022 | 29-22 | 24-16 | 0-2 | 5-4 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2021 | 23-21 | 21-13 | 0-3 | 2-3 | 0-2 | 0-0 |
| 2020 | 3-12 | 1-4 | 0-2 | 2-6 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
Ranked no. 180, Valeria reached the qualifications after beating Aoi Ito 7-66 6-1.
In the qualifications, The Russian had a good straight sets win against Ito (7-66 6-1). During the match, Savinykh scored 76 points vs Ito’s 59. Savinykh was very aggressive to blast 25 winners.
Talking about the service games, Savinykh managed to score 4 aces and she committed only 2 double faults. Valeria Savinykh lost the serve 3 times and she saved 4 break points. Furthermore, Savinykh put 56% of her first serves in, winning 71% (25/35) of the points behind her 1st serve and 50% (14/28) on the 2nd serve. Savinykh broke Ito 5 times after converting 50% of her break points (5/10).
Savinykh has winning win-loss record in the last 10 years having won 59% of her matches (293-203). 42-20 on hard in 2023. Talking about her performance on the same surface of this competition, Savinykh has an overall 205-124 match record in the last years on hard.
Her best result of the current year was conquering the title the W40 Palma del Rio where she overcame Harmony Tan in the final 7-5 6-3.
Savinykh has a compiled 43-22 win-loss record in 2023, 42-20 on hard (See FULL STATS).
Previously in Osaka
Carol Zhao
| Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 13-20 | 5-10 | 1-4 | 0-1 | 3-3 | 4-2 |
| 2023 | 26-30 | 14-16 | 3-9 | 0-0 | 6-4 | 3-1 |
| 2022 | 32-25 | 18-17 | 10-5 | 3-2 | 0-0 | 1-1 |
| 2021 | 24-19 | 11-9 | 13-8 | 0-2 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2020 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
Ranked no. 243, Zhao reached the qualifications after defeating Na-Lae Han 7-5 6-2.
In the qualifications, Carol had a good straight sets win against Han (7-5 6-2). During the match Zhao scored 66 points vs Han’s 48. Zhao was pretty aggressive to blast 28 winners.
About the serving games, Zhao scored just 1 ace during the entire match and she committed only 3 double faults. Carol Zhao lost the serve twice and she saved 2 break points. Furthermore, Zhao put 71% of her first serves in, winning 70% (28/40) of the points behind her 1st serve and 63% (10/16) on the 2nd serve. Zhao was clinical in her return game without wasting any break point and break Han 5 times.
The Canadian’s best result of the current season was getting to the semifinal in the W60 Fukuoka.
Carol has a compiled 20-24 win-loss record in 2023, 8-10 on hard (See FULL STATS).
H2H Performance in the tournament
Matches, sets, games and points
| Points | Savinykh | Zhao |
|---|---|---|
| Match played | 1 | 1 |
| Tot Set | 2 | 2 |
| Tot Games | 20 | 20 |
| Pts | 76-59 | 66-48 |
| Total Points | 135 | 114 |
| Winners | 25 | 28 |
| %Winners | 33% | 42% |
Both Savinykh and Zhao played 1 match. Also both players started their run from the qualifications.Both players have not conceded a single set in this event so far. Talking about their workload, Savinykh and Zhao have played the same amount of sets 2. They also played the same amount of games (20). The Russian scored 25 winners (33% of the total points). On the other side, The Canadian bagged 28 winners (42%).
Serve Performance
| Serve | Savinykh | Zhao |
|---|---|---|
| Aces | 4 | 1 |
| Avg per match | 4 | 1 |
| 1st in | 35/63 | 40/56 |
| %1st in | 56% | 71% |
| 1st pts | 25/35 | 28/40 |
| %1st pts | 71% | 70% |
| 2nd pts | 14/28 | 10/16 |
| %2nd pts | 50% | 63% |
Savinykh blasted 4 aces . Zhao scored 1 ace . Savinykh won 71% points behind her first serve. She pretty solid on her second serve to win 50% of the points. On the other side, Zhao won 70% of the points behind 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 | Savinykh | Zhao |
|---|---|---|
| Won | 5 | 5 |
| Converted | 5/10 | 5/5 |
| % Converted | 50% | 100% |
| Conceded | 7 | 4 |
| Saved | 4 | 2 |
| % Saved | 57% | 50% |
| Times Broken | 3 | 2 |
Valeria broke her opponent 5 times with a 50% conversion rate. Valeria dropped her serve 3 times and she saved 57% of the break points that she conceded. Carol broke her opponent 5 times with a 100% conversion rate. Zhao conceded her serve twice and she saved 50% of the break points that she conceded.
| Savinykh | |||
| Q1 Ito |
Total | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Score | 7-66 6-1 | ||
| Tot Set | 2 | 2 | |
| Tot Games | 20 | 20 | |
| pts | 76-59 | 76-59 | |
| Total points | 135 | 135 | |
| Winners | 25 | 25 | |
| %Winners | 33% | 33% | |
| SERVE | |||
| Aces | 4 | 4 | |
| Double Faults | 2 | 2 | |
| 1st in | 35/63 | 35/63 | |
| % 1st in | 56% | 56% | |
| 1st pts | 25/35 | 25/35 | |
| % 1st pts | 71% | 71% | |
| 2nd pts | 14/28 | 14/28 | |
| % 2nd pts | 50% | 50% | |
| Breaks | |||
| Won | 5 | 5 | |
| Converted | 5/10 | 5/10 | |
| Converted % | 50% | 50% | |
| Conceded | 7 | 7 | |
| Saved | 4/7 | 4 | |
| Saved % | 57% | 57% | |
| Times Broken | 3 | 3 | |
| Zhao | |||
| Q1 Han |
Total | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Score | 7-5 6-2 | ||
| Tot Set | 2 | 2 | |
| Tot Games | 20 | 20 | |
| pts | 66-48 | 66-48 | |
| Total points | 114 | 114 | |
| Winners | 28 | 28 | |
| %Winners | 42% | 42% | |
| SERVE | |||
| Aces | 1 | 1 | |
| Double Faults | 3 | 3 | |
| 1st in | 40/56 | 40/56 | |
| % 1st in | 71% | 71% | |
| 1st pts | 28/40 | 28/40 | |
| % 1st pts | 70% | 70% | |
| 2nd pts | 10/16 | 10/16 | |
| % 2nd pts | 63% | 63% | |
| Breaks | |||
| Won | 5 | 5 | |
| Converted | 5/5 | 5/5 | |
| Converted % | 100% | 100% | |
| Conceded | 4 | 4 | |
| Saved | 2/4 | 2 | |
| Saved % | 50% | 50% | |
| Times Broken | 2 | 2 | |
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