Sofia Kenin and Carol Zhao will play each other in the 1st round of the Guadalajara Open Akron for the 1st time in their career. They are scheduled to compete on Monday at 4:30 pm on GRANDSTAND CALIENTE. 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 Sofia Kenin who should win in 2 sets.
As per the initial odds, Sofia Kenin is the pick to win this match.
Sofia Kenin -> 1.136
Carol Zhao -> 5.8
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Prediction and head to head Sofia Kenin vs. Carol Zhao
There is no head to head record between Sofia Kenin and Carol Zhao since this will be the first time that they will clash against each other in the main tour.
Sofia Kenin
| Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 2-11 | 1-8 | 1-3 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2023 | 27-21 | 17-12 | 3-4 | 1-2 | 6-3 | 0-0 |
| 2022 | 10-17 | 7-14 | 0-0 | 3-3 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2021 | 11-10 | 7-5 | 3-4 | 0-0 | 1-1 | 0-0 |
| 2020 | 24-9 | 12-6 | 6-2 | 6-1 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
Ranked no. 53, Sofia will start her run in Guadalajara after she played her last match in San Diego where she lost 6-4 2-6 6-4 to Krejcikova in the final on the 16th of September.
The American has a compiled 22-17 win-loss record in 2023, 13-9 on hard (See FULL STATS).
Kenin’s best result of the season was reaching the final in San Diego.
Talking about her overall career, Kenin has an overall 252-161 record. She has a positive 152-92 record on hard.
Previously in Guadalajara
Sofia has never competed in this tournament before.
Carol Zhao
| Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 6-14 | 5-10 | 1-3 | 0-1 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 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. 242, the Canadian got to the 1st round after beating Ellen Perez 6-4 6-4 and Raveena Kingsley 7-5 6-3.
In the qualifications, Carol had a good straight sets win against Kingsley (7-5 6-3). During the match Zhao scored 67 points vs Kingsley’s 54. Zhao was exceptionally aggressive to blast 30 winners.
Talking about serving, Zhao struck 2 aces and she committed only 5 double faults. Carol Zhao lost the serve twice. Furthermore, Zhao put 76% of her first serves in, winning 81% (30/37) of the points behind her 1st serve and 33% (4/12) on the 2nd serve. The Canadian broke Kingsley 5 times after converting 56% of her break points (5/9).
Overall Performance in this tournament
Zhao started her run at this tournament from the qualifications. In the main draw, she hasn’t dropped yet a set in this tournament to win 55% of the points she played.
Zhao’s best result of the year was reaching the semifinal in the W60 Fukuoka.
The Canadian has a compiled 22-25 win-loss record in 2023, 10-11 on hard (See FULL STATS).
Previously in Guadalajara
Previously, her best result was reaching the qualifications in 2022. See her history.
Head 2 Head
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- Karolina PliskovaPliskova – Ena ShibaharaShibahara (7-5 6-2) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Eugenie BouchardBouchard – Renata ZarazuaZarazua (6-1 7-64) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Anhelina KalininaKalinina – Grace MinMin (6-2 6-0) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Jasmine PaoliniPaolini – Louisa ChiricoChirico (6-0 7-63) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Aliaksandra SasnovichSasnovich – Arantxa RusRus (6-1 7-65) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Alycia ParksParks – Lauren DavisDavis (6-3 6-2) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Elise MertensMertens – Yanina WickmayerWickmayer (7-64 6-2) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Cristina BucsaBucsa – Kristina MladenovicMladenovic (6-0 6-0) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Leylah Annie FernandezAnnie Fernandez – Asia MuhammadMuhammad (6-1 6-3) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Hailey BaptisteBaptiste – Lya FernandezFernandez (6-2 6-1) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Dayana YastremskaYastremska – Ana Sofia SanchezSofia Sanchez (7-61 6-4) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Martina TrevisanTrevisan – Demi SchuursSchuurs (6-2 6-0) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Sloane StephensStephens – Ann LiLi (7-5 6-4) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Taylor TownsendTownsend – Ajla TomljanovicTomljanovic (7-63 6-4) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Nino SerdarusicSerdarusic – Wilson LeiteLeite (6-0 6-1) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Nikita MashtakovMashtakov – Mousa ZayedZayed (6-1 6-1) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Ivan NedelkoNedelko – Kristian LozanLozan (6-1 6-1) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Pavel NejedlyNejedly – Mubarak Shannan ZayidShannan Zayid (6-2 4-6 6-1) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Dragos DimaDima – Mikhail KorovinKorovin (6-2 6-2) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Cheong-Eui KimKim – Sefa SuluogluSuluoglu (6-0 6-0) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Vasile AntonescuAntonescu – Vladislav MelnicMelnic (7-66 6-3) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Tak Khunn WangKhunn Wang – Tae-Woo LeeLee (6-0 6-3) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Ji Hoon SonHoon Son – Duje KekezKekez (6-1 6-4) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Flavio CipollaCipolla – Fabrizio OrnagoOrnago (6-3 7-66) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Davide GaloppiniGaloppini – Markos KalovelonisKalovelonis (6-3 6-2) – Stats, scores, rankings
Upcoming matches in the draw
- Beatriz Haddad MaiaHaddad Maia – Danielle Rose CollinsRose Collins (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Caroline DolehideDolehide – Peyton StearnsStearns (0-1) – H2H and prediction
- Maria Camila Osorio SerranoCamila Osorio Serrano – Magdalena FrechFrech (2-0) – H2H and prediction
- Emma NavarroNavarro – Maria MateasMateas (1-1) – H2H and prediction
- Sofia KeninKenin – Carol ZhaoZhao (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Marta KostyukKostyuk – Stacey FungFung (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Emiliana ArangoArango – Anastasia PotapovaPotapova (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Mayar SherifSherif – Camila GiorgiGiorgi (1-1) – H2H and prediction
- Storm SandersSanders – Iryna ShymanovichShymanovich (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Ons JabeurJabeur – Alycia ParksParks (2-0) – H2H and prediction
- Martina TrevisanTrevisan – Jasmine PaoliniPaolini (1-2) – H2H and prediction
- Leylah Annie FernandezAnnie Fernandez – Elise MertensMertens (0-1) – H2H and prediction
- Veronika KudermetovaKudermetova – Eugenie BouchardBouchard (0-2) – H2H and prediction
- Karolina PliskovaPliskova – Hailey BaptisteBaptiste (0-1) – H2H and prediction
- Aliaksandra SasnovichSasnovich – Caroline GarciaGarcia (0-5) – H2H and prediction
- Belinda BencicBencic – Taylor TownsendTownsend (1-0) – H2H and prediction
