Victoria Azarenka and Yafan Wang will fight against each other in the 2nd round of the Mubadala Citi DC Open for the 1st time in their career. They are scheduled to compete on Thursday at 5:00 pm on STADIUM. Here the head to head stats and relative prediction.
Prediction, odds and live streaming
The pick for Tennis Tonic is Victoria Azarenka who should win in 2 sets.
Victoria Azarenka -> 1.25
Yafan Wang -> 3.96
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Prediction and head to head Victoria Azarenka vs. Yafan Wang
There is no head to head record between Victoria Azarenka and Yafan Wang since this will be the first time that they will face off in the main tour.
Victoria Azarenka
26 - 11win/loss
20
1
| Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 30-15 | 20-10 | 7-4 | 0-0 | 3-1 | 0-0 |
| 2023 | 23-19 | 17-13 | 2-3 | 0-0 | 4-3 | 0-0 |
| 2022 | 24-13 | 18-9 | 6-3 | 0-1 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2021 | 28-9 | 18-6 | 4-1 | 0-0 | 6-2 | 0-0 |
| 2020 | 18-6 | 11-3 | 4-2 | 3-1 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
Ranked no. 20, Azarenka got to the 2nd round after beating Hailey Baptiste 7-6(6) 7-6(3).
In the 1st round, Victoria had a good straight sets win against Baptiste (7-66 7-63).During the match, Azarenka scored less points (1) than Baptiste. In fact, the world no. 20 won 87 points vs Baptiste’s. That means that Azarenka was more focused during the important points. Victoria was exceptionally aggressive to blast 41 winners.
Talking about the service games, Azarenka fired 2 aces and she committed only 3 double faults. Victoria Azarenka lost the serve twice and she saved 6 break points. Furthermore, Azarenka put 61% of her first serves in, winning 71% (41/58) of the points behind her 1st serve and 46% (17/37) on the 2nd serve. The Belarussian broke Baptiste twice after converting 50% of her break points (2/4).
Azarenka has a solid match record in the last 10 years having won 68% of her matches (222-106). 15-6 on hard in 2024. Talking about her performance on the same surface of this competition, Azarenka has an aggregate 144-64 match record in the last years on hard.
Azarenka’s best result of the current season was reaching the semifinal in Brisbane, Miami and Berlin.
The Belarussian has a compiled 25-11 win-loss record in 2024, 15-6 on hard (See FULL STATS).
Previously in Washington
Yafan Wang
15 - 17win/loss
61
47
| Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 23-23 | 20-15 | 2-4 | 0-0 | 1-4 | 0-0 |
| 2023 | 59-14 | 35-8 | 7-1 | 4-1 | 13-3 | 0-1 |
| 2022 | 21-8 | 3-4 | 18-4 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2021 | 5-17 | 0-6 | 1-7 | 0-0 | 4-4 | 0-0 |
| 2020 | 3-6 | 3-6 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
Ranked no. 73, the Chinese reached the 2nd round after defeating Karolina Pliskova 5-7 6-3 6-0.
In the 1st round against Pliskova, Wang recovered from a 1-set down deficit before winning (5-7 6-3 6-0). During the match Wang scored 100 points vs Pliskova’s 76. Wang was quite aggressive to blast 33 winners.
About the serving games, Wang made 2 aces and she committed only 4 double faults. Yafan Wang lost the serve 3 times and she saved 2 break points. Furthermore, Wang put 58% of her first serves in, winning 70% (33/47) of the points behind her 1st serve and 56% (19/34) on the 2nd serve. Wang broke Pliskova 6 times after converting 50% of her break points (6/12).
Yafan’s best result of the current year was reaching the semifinal in Hua Hin and the Charleston.
The Chinese has an overall 15-16 win-loss record in 2024, 12-8 on hard (See FULL STATS).
Previously in Washington
Previously, her best result was reaching the 1st round in 2019. See her history.
H2H Performance in the tournament
Matches, sets, games and points
| Points | Azarenka | Wang |
|---|---|---|
| Match played | 1 | 1 |
| Tot Set | 2 | 3 |
| Tot Games | 26 | 27 |
| Pts | 87-88 | 100-76 |
| Total Points | 175 | 176 |
| Winners | 41 | 33 |
| %Winners | 47% | 33% |
Both Azarenka and Wang played 1 match. At the moment, Yafan Wang dropped 1 set while Victoria Azarenka hasn’t dropped a set so far. Azarenka has played 1 set(s) less than Wang (2 vs 3). Therefore, Azarenka played 1 game less than Wang. The Belarussian scored 41 winners (47% of the total points). On the other side, Wang made 33 winners (33%).
Serve Performance
| Serve | Azarenka | Wang |
|---|---|---|
| Aces | 2 | 2 |
| Avg per match | 2 | 2 |
| 1st in | 58/95 | 47/81 |
| %1st in | 61% | 58% |
| 1st pts | 41/58 | 33/47 |
| %1st pts | 71% | 70% |
| 2nd pts | 17/37 | 19/34 |
| %2nd pts | 46% | 56% |
Azarenka bagged 2 aces . Wang made 2 aces . Azarenka won 71% points behind her first serve. She very solid her second serve to win 46% of the points. On the other side, Wang won 70% of the points on her first serve. She had a solid display on her second serve to win 56% of the points.
How they played the important points
| Breaks | Azarenka | Wang |
|---|---|---|
| Won | 2 | 6 |
| Converted | 2/4 | 6/12 |
| % Converted | 50% | 50% |
| Conceded | 8 | 5 |
| Saved | 6 | 2 |
| % Saved | 75% | 40% |
| Times Broken | 2 | 3 |
Victoria broke her opponent twice with a 50% conversion rate. Azarenka lost her serve twice and she saved 75% of the break points that she conceded. Wang broke her opponent 6 times with a 50% conversion rate. Yafan conceded her serve 3 times and she saved 40% of the break points that she conceded.
| Azarenka | |||
| R1 Baptiste | Total | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Score | 7-66 7-63 | ||
| Tot Set | 2 | 2 | |
| Tot Games | 26 | 26 | |
| pts | 87-88 | 87-88 | |
| Total points | 175 | 175 | |
| Winners | 41 | 41 | |
| %Winners | 47% | 47% | |
| SERVE | |||
| Aces | 2 | 2 | |
| Double Faults | 3 | 3 | |
| 1st in | 58/95 | 58/95 | |
| % 1st in | 61% | 61% | |
| 1st pts | 41/58 | 41/58 | |
| % 1st pts | 71% | 71% | |
| 2nd pts | 17/37 | 17/37 | |
| % 2nd pts | 46% | 46% | |
| Breaks | |||
| Won | 2 | 2 | |
| Converted | 2/4 | 2/4 | |
| Converted % | 50% | 50% | |
| Conceded | 8 | 8 | |
| Saved | 6/8 | 6 | |
| Saved % | 75% | 75% | |
| Times Broken | 2 | 2 | |
| Wang | |||
| R1 Pliskova | Total | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Score | 5-7 6-3 6-0 | ||
| Tot Set | 3 | 3 | |
| Tot Games | 27 | 27 | |
| pts | 100-76 | 100-76 | |
| Total points | 176 | 176 | |
| Winners | 33 | 33 | |
| %Winners | 33% | 33% | |
| SERVE | |||
| Aces | 2 | 2 | |
| Double Faults | 4 | 4 | |
| 1st in | 47/81 | 47/81 | |
| % 1st in | 58% | 58% | |
| 1st pts | 33/47 | 33/47 | |
| % 1st pts | 70% | 70% | |
| 2nd pts | 19/34 | 19/34 | |
| % 2nd pts | 56% | 56% | |
| Breaks | |||
| Won | 6 | 6 | |
| Converted | 6/12 | 6/12 | |
| Converted % | 50% | 50% | |
| Conceded | 5 | 5 | |
| Saved | 2/5 | 2 | |
| Saved % | 40% | 40% | |
| Times Broken | 3 | 3 | |
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