Jessika Ponchet and Saisai Zheng will fight against each other in the 1st round of the U.S. Open for the 1st time in their career. They are scheduled to compete on Tuesday at 11:00 am on Court 8. In this post, we analyze their head to head performance and prediction.

Prediction, odds and live streaming

The pick for Tennis Tonic is Jessika Ponchet who should win in 2 sets.

As per the initial odds, Jessika Ponchet is the pick to win this match.
Jessika Ponchet -> 1.111
Saisai Zheng -> 6.6

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Prediction and head to head Jessika Ponchet vs. Saisai Zheng

There is no head to head record between Jessika Ponchet and Saisai Zheng since this will be the first time that they will clash against each other in the main tour.

Jessika Ponchet

Jessika Ponchet

28 - 21win/loss

Hard
10-8
I Hard
6-3
Clay
6-6
Grass
6-4
Rank
133
High
104
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Year Total Hard Clay I.hard Grass Carpet
2024 33-27 15-13 6-6 6-4 6-4 0-0
2023 42-26 10-9 7-4 25-10 0-3 0-0
2022 35-26 13-8 8-3 11-12 3-3 0-0
2021 30-19 19-9 4-3 6-5 0-1 1-1
2020 10-12 2-4 0-2 8-6 0-0 0-0

Ranked no. 143, Ponchet reached the 1st round after beating Jana Fett 6-2 6-1, Lucija Ciric Bagaric 6-1 7-6(2) and Elizabeth Mandlik 7-5 7-6(5).

In the qualifications, Ponchet had a good straight sets win against Mandlik (7-5 7-65). During the match, Ponchet scored 79 points vs Mandlik’s 75. Jessika was extremely aggressive to blast 33 winners.

Regarding the service games, Ponchet struck 7 aces and she committed only 5 double faults. Jessika Ponchet lost the serve 4 times and she saved 1 break points. Furthermore, Ponchet put 63% of her first serves in, winning 70% (33/47) of the points behind her 1st serve and 36% (10/28) on the 2nd serve. Jessika broke Mandlik 5 times after converting 50% of her break points (5/10).

Overall Performance in this tournament

Jessika started her run at this tournament from the qualifications. In the main draw, she hasn’t surrendered yet a set in this event to conquer 55% of the points she played.

Ponchet has a solid win-loss record in the last 9 years having won 60% of her matches (297-197). 10-8 on hard in 2024. Regarding her performance on the same surface of this competition, Ponchet has an overall101-65 record in the last 9 years on hard.

The French player best result of the current season was reaching the final in the Boutheon and the W100 Ilkley.

Jessika has an overall 28-21 win-loss record in 2024, 10-8 on hard (See FULL STATS).

Previously at the U.S. Open

U.S. Open
Ponchet's Record

Saisai Zheng

Saisai Zheng

0 - 5win/loss

Hard
0-3
I Hard
0-0
Clay
0-2
Rank
695
High
34
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Year Total Hard Clay I.hard Grass Carpet
2024 1-10 1-8 0-2 0-0 0-0 0-0
2023 0-0 0-0 0-0 0-0 0-0 0-0
2022 0-0 0-0 0-0 0-0 0-0 0-0
2021 18-20 10-13 3-4 5-3 0-0 0-0
2020 10-5 10-5 0-0 0-0 0-0 0-0

Currently unranked, Saisai will start her run at the New York after she played her last match in Cleveland where she lost 6-3 6-4 to Ishii in the qualifications on the 17th of August.

The Chinese has a composed 0-5 win-loss record in 2024, 0-3 on hard (See FULL STATS).

In terms of her career, Zheng has an overall 322-237 record. She has a positive 226-160 record on hard.

Previously at the U.S. Open

Previously, her best result was reaching the 2nd round in 2014, 2016 and 2017. See her history.

U.S. Open
Zheng's Record

Tennis Scores – U.S. Open

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