Qinwen Zheng and Jaqueline Cristian will clash against each other in the quarter of the Palermo Ladies Open for the 3^rd time in their career. They are scheduled to play on Friday at 8:00 pm on Center Court. Here the head to head stats and relative prediction.

Prediction, odds and live streaming

The pick for Tennis Tonic is Qinwen Zheng who should win in 2 sets.

As per the initial odds, Qinwen Zheng is the pick to win this match.
Qinwen Zheng -> 1.23
Jaqueline Cristian -> 4.2

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Prediction and head to head Qinwen Zheng vs. Jaqueline Cristian

This will be the 3^rd time that Qinwen Zheng and Jaqueline Cristian square off. The head to head is 2-0 for Cristian (see full H2H stats), 2-0 on clay.

The last time that they squared off, Cristian won 6-1 6-4 in the 2^nd round in Palermo back in 2021.

Qinwen Zheng

Ranked no. 7 (career-high), the Chinese got to the quarter after defeating Sara Errani 6-3 6-2, Petra Martic 6-4 6-4

and Jaqueline Cristian .

In the 2^nd round, Qinwen had a good straight sets win against Martic (6-4 6-4). During the match, Zheng scored 63 points vs Martic’s 53. Zheng was exceptionally aggressive to blast 22 winners.

Talking about the service games, Zheng made 6 aces and she committed only 3 double faults. Overall, Qinwen Zheng was pretty effective on serve to win 79% (22/28) of her 1st serve and 56% (15/27) on the second serve. However, this didn’t prevent her to concede the serve once. Zheng broke Martic 3 times after converting 50% of her break points (3/6).

Overall Performance in this tournament

Qinwen hasn’t surrendered yet a set in this event to conquer 57% of the points she played.

Zheng has a solid win-loss record in the last 8 years having won 69% of her matches (199-89). 8-4 on clay in 2024. In connection with her performance on the same surface of this event, Zheng has an aggregate73-25 win-loss record in the last 8 years on clay.

Qinwen’s best result of the current season was getting to the final at the Australian Open .

The Chinese has a compiled 23-12 win-loss record in 2024, 8-4 on clay (See FULL STATS).

Previously in Palermo

Jaqueline Cristian

Ranked no. 66, Jaqueline got to the quarter after defeating Julia Riera 6-3 6-2 and Lucia Bronzetti 6-3 6-2.

In the 2^nd round, The Romanian had a good straight sets win against Bronzetti (6-3 6-2). During the match Cristian scored 67 points vs Bronzetti’s 48. The Romanian was exceptionally aggressive to blast 25 winners.

Talking about serving, Cristian managed to score 4 aces and she was very solid in conceding no double faults for the entire match. Jaqueline Cristian lost the serve 3 times and she saved 2 break points. Furthermore, Cristian put 67% of her first serves in, winning 64% (25/39) of the points behind her 1st serve and 47% (9/19) on the 2nd serve. Cristian broke Bronzetti 6 times after converting 60% of her break points (6/10).

Overall Performance in this tournament

Cristian hasn’t dropped yet a set in the tournament to win 59% of the points she played.

Jaqueline’s best result of the season was getting to the semifinal Napoca.

Cristian has a composed 21-20 win-loss record in 2024, 14-8 on clay (See FULL STATS).

Previously in Palermo

Previously, her best result was reaching the quarter in 2021. See her history

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H2H Performance in the tournament (main draw)

Matches, sets, games and points

Points	Zheng	Cristian
Match played	2	2
Tot Set	4	4
Tot Games	37	34
Pts	123-94	127-90
Total Points	217	217
Winners	45	51
%Winners	37%	40%

Both Zheng and Cristian played 2 matches. Both players have not surrendered a single set in this event so far. Talking about their workload, Zheng and Cristian have played the same amount of sets 4. However, Zheng played 3 games more than Cristian. The Chinese scored 45 winners (37% of the total points). On the other side, Jaqueline managed to score 51 winners (40%).

Serve Performance

Serve	Zheng	Cristian
Aces	12	8
Avg per match	6	4
1st in	57/104	70/111
%1st in	55%	63%
1st pts	45/57	51/70
%1st pts	79%	73%
2nd pts	26/47	22/41
%2nd pts	55%	54%

Zheng managed to score 12 aces (6 per match). Cristian managed to score 8 aces (4 per match). Zheng won 79% points behind her first serve. She pretty solid on her second serve to win 55% of the points. On the other side, Cristian won 73% of the points on her first serve. She had a solid display on her second serve to win 54% of the points.

How they played the important points

Breaks	Zheng	Cristian
Won	7	9
Converted	7/13	9/17
% Converted	54%	53%
Conceded	3	10
Saved	1	7
% Saved	33%	70%
Times Broken	2	3

The Chinese broke her opponents 7 times with a 54% conversion rate. Zheng dropped her serve twice and she saved 33% of the break points that she conceded. Jaqueline broke her opponents 9 times with a 53% conversion rate. Jaqueline conceded her serve 3 times and she saved 70% of the break points that she conceded.

Zheng
	R1 Errani	R2 Martic	Total
Score	6-3 6-2	6-4 6-4
Tot Set	2	2	4
Tot Games	17	20	37
pts	60-41	63-53	123-94
Total points	101	116	217
Winners	23	22	45
%Winners	38%	35%	37%
SERVE
Aces	6	6	12
Double Faults	1	3	4
1st in	29/49	28/55	57/104
% 1st in	59%	51%	55%
1st pts	23/29	22/28	45/57
% 1st pts	79%	79%	79%
2nd pts	11/20	15/27	26/47
% 2nd pts	55%	56%	55%
Breaks
Won	4	3	7
Converted	4/7	3/6	7/13
Converted %	57%	50%	54%
Conceded	1	2	3
Saved	0/1	1/2	1
Saved %	0%	50%	25%
Times Broken	1	1	2

Cristian
	R1 Riera	R2 Bronzetti	Total
Score	6-3 6-2	6-3 6-2
Tot Set	2	2	4
Tot Games	17	17	34
pts	60-42	67-48	127-90
Total points	102	115	217
Winners	26	25	51
%Winners	43%	37%	40%
SERVE
Aces	4	4	8
Double Faults	4	0	4
1st in	31/53	39/58	70/111
% 1st in	58%	67%	63%
1st pts	26/31	25/39	51/70
% 1st pts	84%	64%	73%
2nd pts	13/22	9/19	22/41
% 2nd pts	59%	47%	54%
Breaks
Won	3	6	9
Converted	3/7	6/10	9/17
Converted %	43%	60%	53%
Conceded	5	5	10
Saved	5/5	2/5	7
Saved %	100%	40%	70%
Times Broken	0	3	3

Tennis Scores in Palermo

• Jumpei YamasakiYamasaki – Chukang WangWang (6-0 6-2) – Stats, scores, rankings
• Yuki MochizukiMochizuki – Haru InoueInoue (6-3 6-1) – Stats, scores, rankings
• Congsup CongcarCongcar – Sidharth RawatRawat (7-6⁶ 6-4) – Stats, scores, rankings

Upcoming matches in the draw

• Qinwen ZhengZheng – Jaqueline CristianCristian (0-2) – H2H and prediction
• Diane ParryParry – Chloe PaquetPaquet (0-3) – H2H and prediction
• Irina-Camelia BeguBegu – Ann LiLi (0-1) – H2H and prediction
• Astra SharmaSharma – Karolina MuchovaMuchova (0-0) – H2H and prediction