Cori Gauff and Ekaterina Alexandrova will fight against each other in the 1st round of the China Open for the 3rd time in their career. They are scheduled to compete on Monday at 4:30 pm on DIAMOND. In this post, we analyze their head to head performance and prediction.
Prediction, odds and live streaming
The pick for Tennis Tonic is Cori Gauff who should win in 2 sets.
Cori Gauff -> 1.38
Ekaterina Alexandrova -> 3.04
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Prediction and head to head Cori Gauff vs. Ekaterina Alexandrova
This will be the 3rd time that Cori Gauff and Ekaterina Alexandrova square off. The head to head is 1-1 (see full H2H stats), 1-0 on hard.
The last time that they played, Alexandrova won 6-4 6-0 in the 2nd round in Berlin back in June 2023.
Cori Gauff
| Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 30-9 | 18-5 | 12-4 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2023 | 51-16 | 40-9 | 7-4 | 0-0 | 4-3 | 0-0 |
| 2022 | 38-23 | 23-16 | 10-4 | 0-1 | 5-2 | 0-0 |
| 2021 | 36-16 | 16-10 | 16-4 | 0-0 | 4-2 | 0-0 |
| 2020 | 12-8 | 7-5 | 2-2 | 3-1 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
Ranked no. 3 (career-high), Gauff will start her run in Beijing after she won the title at the New York after beating 2-6 6-3 6-2 Sabalenka in the final.
Cori has an overall 45-13 win-loss record in 2023, 34-6 on hard (See FULL STATS).
Her best result of the current season was conquering the title in Auckland where she overcame Rebeka Masarova in the final 6-1 6-1 and in Washington where she overcame Maria Sakkari in the final 6-2 6-3 and in Cincinnati where she beat Karolina Muchova in the final 6-3 6-4 and at the U.S. Open where she beat Aryna Sabalenka in the final 2-6 6-3 6-2.
Talking about her overall career, The American has an overall 169-79 record. She has a positive 93-45 record on hard.
Previously in Beijing
The American has never competed in this tournament before.
Ekaterina Alexandrova
| Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 15-14 | 9-7 | 1-6 | 3-1 | 2-0 | 0-0 |
| 2023 | 33-21 | 17-13 | 6-5 | 0-1 | 10-2 | 0-0 |
| 2022 | 35-18 | 12-10 | 13-5 | 4-2 | 6-1 | 0-0 |
| 2021 | 26-23 | 10-9 | 6-5 | 7-7 | 3-2 | 0-0 |
| 2020 | 20-12 | 9-4 | 4-5 | 7-3 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
Ranked no. 21, Ekaterina will start her run in Beijing after she played her last match in Tokyo where she lost 6-2 7-5 to Pavlyuchenkova in the quarter on the 29th of September.
The Russian has an overall 32-19 win-loss record in 2023, 16-11 on hard (See FULL STATS).
Her best result of the year was conquering the title in Hertogenbosch where she overcame Veronika Kudermetova in the final 4-6 6-4 7-6(3).
In terms of her career, Ekaterina has an overall 300-190 record. She has a positive 89-71 record on hard.
Tennis Scores in Beijing
- Jelena OstapenkoOstapenko – Eva LysLys (2-6 6-3 6-2) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Jennifer BradyBrady – Peyton StearnsStearns (6-4 6-2) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Yulia PutintsevaPutintseva – Marie BouzkovaBouzkova (6-2 7-65) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Mirra AndreevaAndreeva – Barbora KrejcikovaKrejcikova (6-2 6-2) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Linda FruhvirtovaFruhvirtova – Arantxa RusRus (6-0 6-3) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Liudmila SamsonovaSamsonova – Alycia ParksParks (6-4 7-64) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Anhelina KalininaKalinina – Marketa VondrousovaVondrousova (1-6 6-4 6-1) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Linda NoskovaNoskova – Fangran TianTian (6-4 6-2) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Aryna SabalenkaSabalenka – Sofia KeninKenin (6-1 6-2) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Petra KvitovaKvitova – Xiyu WangWang (6-76 7-5 6-3) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Jasmine PaoliniPaolini – Beatriz Haddad MaiaHaddad Maia (3-6 6-4 6-4) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Daria SavilleSaville – Katerina SiniakovaSiniakova (6-2 6-2) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Katie BoulterBoulter – Magdalena FrechFrech (6-4 3-6 6-2) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Tereza Mihalikova/Yifan XuMihalikova/Yifan Xu – Desirae Krawczyk/Demi SchuursKrawczyk/Demi Schuurs (6-4 1-6 10-6) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Varvara GrachevaGracheva – Anastasia PotapovaPotapova (6-2 3-6 6-1) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Tatjana MariaMaria – Martina TrevisanTrevisan (6-3 7-62) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Magda LinetteLinette – Victoria AzarenkaAzarenka (5-7 6-1 6-2) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Anna BlinkovaBlinkova – Donna VekicVekic (6-3 7-5) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Petra MarticMartic – Sorana CirsteaCirstea (6-2 2-6 7-63) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Marta KostyukKostyuk – Elisabetta CocciarettoCocciaretto (1-6 6-3 6-4) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Yue YuanYuan – Elise MertensMertens (3-6 6-1 6-4) – Stats, scores, rankings
Upcoming matches in the draw
- Qinwen ZhengZheng – Elena RybakinaRybakina (0-1) – H2H and prediction
- Xin Yu WangYu Wang – Vera ZvonarevaZvonareva (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Mayar SherifSherif – Darya KasatkinaKasatkina (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Lesya TsurenkoTsurenko – Lin ZhuZhu (2-1) – H2H and prediction
- Ekaterina AlexandrovaAlexandrova – Cori GauffGauff (1-1) – H2H and prediction
- Kateryna KozlovaKozlova – Caroline GarciaGarcia (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Sara Sorribes TormoSorribes Tormo – Iga SwiatekSwiatek (0-1) – H2H and prediction
- Aryna SabalenkaSabalenka – Katie BoulterBoulter (2-0) – H2H and prediction
- Yue YuanYuan – Jasmine PaoliniPaolini (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Jessica PegulaPegula – Anna BlinkovaBlinkova (1-0) – H2H and prediction
- Petra KvitovaKvitova – Ludmilla SamsonovaSamsonova (1-0) – H2H and prediction
- Maria SakkariSakkari – (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Anhelina KalininaKalinina – Daria GavrilovaGavrilova (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Magda LinetteLinette – Jennifer BradyBrady (1-4) – H2H and prediction