Karolina Pliskova and Shuai Zhang will face off in the 1st round of the Dubai Duty Free Championships for the 9th time in their career. They are scheduled to compete on Monday at 11:00 am on Centre Court. In this post, we analyze their head to head performance and prediction.
Prediction, odds and live streaming
The pick for Tennis Tonic is Karolina Pliskova who should win in 2 sets.
As per the initial odds, Karolina Pliskova is the pick to win this match.
Karolina Pliskova -> 1.193
Shuai Zhang -> 4.7
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Prediction and head to head Karolina Pliskova vs. Shuai Zhang
This will be the 9th time that Karolina Pliskova and Shuai Zhang fight against each other. The head to head is 8-0 for Pliskova (see full H2H stats), 6-0 on hard.
The last time that they played each other, Pliskova won 6-0 6-4 in the 4th round in at the Australian Open back in 2023.
Highlights Karolina Pliskova vs Shuai Zhang – Australian Open 23-January-2023
Karolina Pliskova
| Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 17-13 | 7-7 | 1-3 | 5-0 | 4-3 | 0-0 |
| 2023 | 22-19 | 19-13 | 2-3 | 0-0 | 1-3 | 0-0 |
| 2022 | 21-21 | 12-9 | 6-6 | 0-3 | 3-3 | 0-0 |
| 2021 | 37-19 | 23-12 | 8-4 | 0-0 | 6-3 | 0-0 |
| 2020 | 14-8 | 9-5 | 5-2 | 0-1 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
Ranked no. 59, Karolina will start her run in Dubai after she played her last match in Doha where she lost w/o to Swiatek in the semifinal on the 16th of February.
Karolina has an overall 10-3 win-loss record in 2024, 5-3 on hard (See FULL STATS).
Her best result of the season was winning the title in Napoca where she beat Ana Bogdan in the final 6-4 6-3.
Karolina won her last 9 matches.
Talking about her overall career, The Czech has an overall 613-335 record. She has a positive 323-169 record on hard.
Previously in Dubai
Previously, her best result was reaching the final in 2015. See her history.
Shuai Zhang
| Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 0-5 | 0-3 | 0-1 | 0-0 | 0-1 | 0-0 |
| 2023 | 4-19 | 3-10 | 0-4 | 1-1 | 0-4 | 0-0 |
| 2022 | 39-31 | 17-14 | 4-7 | 10-7 | 8-3 | 0-0 |
| 2021 | 23-28 | 8-11 | 4-8 | 5-5 | 6-4 | 0-0 |
| 2020 | 16-11 | 10-7 | 6-3 | 0-1 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
Ranked no. 768, Zhang will start her run in Dubai after she played her last match in Montreal where she lost 4-6 6-2 6-3 to Blinkova in the 1st round on the 8th of August.
This will be the first match of the season on hard.
In terms of her career, Zhang has an overall 503-390 record. She has a positive 340-231 record on hard.
Previously in Dubai
Previously, her best result was reaching the 2nd round in 2011 and 2019. See her history.
Head 2 Head
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- Lin ZhuZhu – Anastasia PotapovaPotapova (0-1) – H2H and prediction
- Elise MertensMertens – Elisabetta CocciarettoCocciaretto (1-0) – H2H and prediction
- Karolina PliskovaPliskova – Shuai ZhangZhang (8-0) – H2H and prediction
- Jelena OstapenkoOstapenko – Xiyu WangWang (1-0) – H2H and prediction
- Paula Badosa GibertBadosa Gibert – Lulu SunSun (0-0) – H2H and prediction
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- Petra MarticMartic – Caroline DolehideDolehide (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Arantxa RusRus – Victoria AzarenkaAzarenka (0-1) – H2H and prediction
- Anastasia PavlyuchenkovaPavlyuchenkova – Marie BouzkovaBouzkova (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Viktoriya TomovaTomova – Ludmilla SamsonovaSamsonova (1-1) – H2H and prediction
- Veronika KudermetovaKudermetova – Dayana YastremskaYastremska (3-0) – H2H and prediction
- Sofia KeninKenin – Sorana CirsteaCirstea (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Iga SwiatekSwiatek – Sloane StephensStephens (2-0) – H2H and prediction
- Nao HibinoHibino – Qinwen ZhengZheng (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Anna KalinskayaKalinskaya – Ons JabeurJabeur (0-2) – H2H and prediction
- Maria SakkariSakkari – Emma NavarroNavarro (0-1) – H2H and prediction
- Marketa VondrousovaVondrousova – Peyton StearnsStearns (2-0) – H2H and prediction
- Donna VekicVekic – Aryna SabalenkaSabalenka (5-2) – H2H and prediction
