Qinwen Zheng and Donna Vekic will play each other in the 4^th round of the U.S. Open for the 4^th time in their career. They are scheduled to compete on Sunday at 10:00 pm on Arthur Ashe Stadium. In this post, we analyze their head to head performance and 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 -> 1.4
Donna Vekic -> 2.96

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Prediction and head to head Qinwen Zheng vs. Donna Vekic

This will be the 4^th time that Qinwen Zheng and Donna Vekic face off. The head to head is 2-1 for Zheng (see full H2H stats), but they have never played each other on hard.

The last time that they squared off, Zheng won 6-2 6-3 in the final in Paris back in August 2024.

Highlights Qinwen Zheng vs Donna Vekic – Paris 03-August-2024

Qinwen Zheng

Qinwen Zheng

37 - 13win/loss

Hard

19-7

I Hard

0-0

Clay

17-4

Grass

1-2

Rank
5

High
5

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Year	Total	Hard	Clay	I.hard	Grass	Carpet
2024	52-18	31-10	17-4	3-2	1-2	0-0
2023	37-19	23-11	11-4	3-1	0-3	0-0
2022	39-19	27-12	10-4	0-0	2-3	0-0
2021	34-11	7-1	16-6	11-4	0-0	0-0
2020	38-8	3-3	26-3	9-2	0-0	0-0

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Ranked no. 7 (career-high), the Chinese reached the 4^th round after beating Amanda Anisimova 4-6 6-4 6-2, Erika Andreeva 6-7(3) 6-1 6-2 and Jule Niemeier 6-2 6-1.

In the 3^rd round, Zheng had a good straight sets win against Niemeier (6-2 6-1). During the match, Zheng scored 57 points vs Niemeier’s 35. Zheng was quite aggressive to blast 21 winners.

Regarding the service games, Zheng struck 7 aces and she committed only 3 double faults. Qinwen Zheng conceded no breaks for the entire match to save 1 break points. Furthermore, Zheng put 51% of her first serves in, winning 84% (21/25) of the points behind her 1st serve and 46% (11/24) on the 2nd serve. Zheng was clinical in her return game without wasting any break point and break Niemeier 5 times.

Overall Performance in this tournament

Qinwen has conceded 2 set in this competition to conquer 56% of the points she played.

Zheng has a fantastic match record in the last 8 years having won 70% of her matches (212-90). 18-7 on hard in 2024. Talking about her performance on the same surface of this tournament, Zheng has an aggregate104-50 win-loss record in the last 8 years on hard.

Her best result of the current season was conquering the title in Palermo where she beat Karolina Muchova in the final 6-4 4-6 6-2 and in Paris where she overcame Donna Vekic in the final 6-2 6-3.

Zheng has a compiled 36-13 win-loss record in 2024, 18-7 on hard (See FULL STATS).

Previously at the U.S. Open

U.S. Open

Zheng's Record

Donna Vekic

Donna Vekic

30 - 18win/loss

Hard

10-8

I Hard

2-1

Clay

8-5

Grass

10-4

Rank
19

High
18

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Year	Total	Hard	Clay	I.hard	Grass	Carpet
2024	32-20	12-10	8-5	2-1	10-4	0-0
2023	29-20	16-9	4-5	2-3	7-3	0-0
2022	28-20	10-9	9-6	2-1	7-4	0-0
2021	19-16	10-12	0-1	5-0	4-3	0-0
2020	8-11	6-6	1-3	1-2	0-0	0-0

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Ranked no. 24, Vekic got to the 4^th round after defeating Kimberly Birrell 6-4 6-4, Greetje Minnen 7-5 6-1 and Peyton Stearns 7-5 6-4.

In the 3^rd round, Donna had a good straight sets win against Stearns (7-5 6-4). During the match Vekic scored 69 points vs Stearns’s 52. The Croatian was pretty aggressive to blast 27 winners.

About the serving games, Vekic bagged 8 aces and she committed only 1 double fault for the entire match. Overall, Donna Vekic was exceptionally efficient on serve to win 87% (27/31) of her 1st serve and 54% (13/24) on the second serve. However, this didn’t prevent her to concede the serve twice. Donna broke Stearns 4 times after converting 57% of her break points (4/7).

Overall Performance in this tournament

Vekic hasn’t dropped yet a set in the tournament to win 56% of the points she played.

Vekic’s best result of the season was reaching the final in Bad Homburg and Paris.

Vekic has a compiled 30-17 win-loss record in 2024, 10-7 on hard (See FULL STATS).

Previously at the U.S. Open

Previously, her best result was reaching the quarter in 2019. See her history.

U.S. Open

Vekic's Record

H2H Performance in the tournament (main draw)

Matches, sets, games and points

Both Zheng and Vekic played 3 matches. At the moment, Qinwen Zheng dropped 2 sets while Donna Vekic hasn’t surrendered a set so far. Zheng has played 2 sets more than Vekic (8 vs 6). Therefore, Zheng played 10 games more than Vekic. Qinwen scored 91 winners (37% of the total points). On the other side, Donna fired 74 winners (37%).

Serve Performance

Zheng made 39 aces (13 per match). Vekic scored 16 aces (5.3 per match). Zheng won 79% points on her first serve. She very solid her second serve to win 47% of the points. On the other side, Vekic won 80% 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

Zheng broke her opponents 17 times with a 55% conversion rate. Zheng conceded her serve 6 times and she saved 67% of the break points that she conceded. The Croatian broke her opponents 12 times with a 67% conversion rate. Vekic conceded her serve 4 times and she saved 60% of the break points that she conceded.

Head 2 Head

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Qinwen
Zheng

3:1

Donna
Vekic

Rank

5

High

5

1Hard0

1Clay0

1I.hard1

Rank

19

High

18

Win Loss

Zheng

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Vekic

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2024 2023 2022

52 - 18

32 - 20

31-10

Hard

12-10

3-2

I Hard

2-1

17-4

Clay

8-5

1-2

Grass

10-4

Tennis Scores – U.S. Open

• Jessica PegulaPegula – Jessica Bouzas ManeiroBouzas Maneiro (6-3 6-3) – See score progression
• Caroline WozniackiWozniacki – Jessika PonchetPonchet (6-3 6-2) – See score progression
• Karolina MuchovaMuchova – Anastasia PotapovaPotapova (6-4 6-2) – See score progression
• Liudmila SamsonovaSamsonova – Ashlyn KruegerKrueger (6-1 6-1) – See score progression
• Beatriz Haddad MaiaHaddad Maia – Anna KalinskayaKalinskaya (6-3 6-1) – See score progression
• Diana ShnaiderShnaider – Sara ErraniErrani (6-2 6-2) – See score progression
• Jasmine PaoliniPaolini – Yulia PutintsevaPutintseva (6-3 6-4) – See score progression
• Iga SwiatekSwiatek – Anastasia PavlyuchenkovaPavlyuchenkova (6-4 6-2) – See score progression
• Donna VekicVekic – Peyton StearnsStearns (7-5 6-4) – See score progression
• Yafan WangWang – Victoria AzarenkaAzarenka (6-4 3-6 6-1) – See score progression
• Aryna SabalenkaSabalenka – Ekaterina AlexandrovaAlexandrova (2-6 6-1 6-2) – See score progression
• Emma NavarroNavarro – Marta KostyukKostyuk (6-4 4-6 6-3) – See score progression
• Qinwen ZhengZheng – Jule NiemeierNiemeier (6-2 6-1) – See score progression
• Elise MertensMertens – Madison KeysKeys (6-7⁵ 7-5 6-4) – See score progression
• Cori GauffGauff – Elina SvitolinaSvitolina (3-6 6-3 6-3) – See score progression
• Paula BadosaBadosa – Elena Gabriela RuseGabriela Ruse (4-6 6-1 7-6⁸) – See score progression
• Iga SwiatekSwiatek – Anastasia PavlyuchenkovaPavlyuchenkova (6-4 6-2) – See score progression
• Liudmila SamsonovaSamsonova – Ashlyn KruegerKrueger (6-1 6-1) – See score progression
• Caroline WozniackiWozniacki – Jessika PonchetPonchet (6-3 6-2) – See score progression
• Beatriz Haddad MaiaHaddad Maia – Anna KalinskayaKalinskaya (6-3 6-1) – See score progression

Upcoming matches in the draw

• Iga SwiatekSwiatek – Ludmilla SamsonovaSamsonova (3-0) – H2H and prediction
• Caroline WozniackiWozniacki – Beatriz Haddad MaiaHaddad Maia (0-0) – H2H and prediction
• Karolina MuchovaMuchova – Jasmine PaoliniPaolini (3-0) – H2H and prediction
• Paula Badosa GibertBadosa Gibert – Yafan WangWang (0-1) – H2H and prediction
• Emma NavarroNavarro – Cori GauffGauff (1-1) – H2H and prediction
• Qinwen ZhengZheng – Donna VekicVekic (2-1) – H2H and prediction
• Elise MertensMertens – Aryna SabalenkaSabalenka (2-7) – H2H and prediction

Zheng

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Vekic