Diana Shnaider and Marta Kostyuk will face off in the quarter of the Korea Open for the 1st time in their career. They are scheduled to play on Saturday at 2:00 pm on Grandstand. In this post, we analyze their head to head performance and prediction.
Prediction, odds and live streaming
The pick for Tennis Tonic is Diana Shnaider who should win in 3 sets.
As per the initial odds, Diana Shnaider is the pick to win this match.
Diana Shnaider -> 1.75
Marta Kostyuk -> 2.08
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Prediction and head to head Diana Shnaider vs. Marta Kostyuk
There is no head to head record between Diana Shnaider and Marta Kostyuk since this will be the first time that they will clash against each other in the main tour.
Diana Shnaider
47 - 18win/loss
16
16
LWWLWWWLWW | Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 48-19 | 24-11 | 15-5 | 0-0 | 9-3 | 0-0 |
| 2023 | 25-22 | 14-13 | 10-8 | 0-0 | 1-1 | 0-0 |
| 2022 | 58-17 | 11-4 | 46-11 | 1-2 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2021 | 9-3 | 0-0 | 8-2 | 1-1 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2020 | 2-2 | 0-0 | 2-2 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
Ranked no. 16 (career-high), Shnaider got to the quarter after defeating Unknown Player bye and Carol Zhao 6-3 6-3.
In the 2nd round, Shnaider had a good straight sets win against Zhao (6-3 6-3). During the match, Shnaider scored 61 points vs Zhao’s 41. Diana was quite aggressive to blast 26 winners.
Talking about the service games, Shnaider was unable to score even 1 ace throughout the match and she committed only 1 double fault. Overall, Diana Shnaider was quite efficient on serve to win 74% (26/35) of her 1st serve and 65% (11/17) on the second serve. However, this didn’t prevent her to concede the serve once. Diana broke Zhao 4 times after converting 57% of her break points (4/7).
Shnaider has a solid record in the last 6 years having won 69% of her matches (141-62). 23-10 on hard in 2024. In connection with her performance on the same surface of this competition, Shnaider has an overall48-27 win-loss record in the last 6 years on hard.
Her best result of the season was conquering the title in Hua Hin where she overcame Lin Zhu in the final 6-3 2-6 6-1 and the Paris where she overcame Emma Navarro in the final 6-2 3-6 6-4 and in Bad Homburg where she beat Donna Vekic in the final 6-3 2-6 6-3 and in Budapest where she beat Aliaksandra Sasnovich in the final 6-4 6-4.
Diana has a compiled 47-18 win-loss record in 2024, 23-10 on hard (See FULL STATS).
Previously in Seoul
Diana has never competed in this tournament before.
Marta Kostyuk
33 - 17win/loss
18
16
LWWLWWLWWL | Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 33-18 | 23-10 | 8-5 | 0-0 | 2-3 | 0-0 |
| 2023 | 26-22 | 22-16 | 2-4 | 0-0 | 2-2 | 0-0 |
| 2022 | 28-20 | 18-11 | 3-4 | 4-3 | 3-2 | 0-0 |
| 2021 | 25-17 | 8-9 | 10-4 | 3-1 | 4-3 | 0-0 |
| 2020 | 27-12 | 16-6 | 7-3 | 4-3 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
Ranked no. 18, the Ukrainian reached the quarter after beating Arantxa Rus 6-3 6-1 and Heather Watson 6-2 6-2.
In the 2nd round, Marta had a good straight sets win against Watson (6-2 6-2). During the match Kostyuk scored 61 points vs Watson’s 39. Kostyuk was pretty aggressive to blast 19 winners.
About the serving games, Kostyuk scored 9 aces and she committed only 2 double faults. Marta Kostyuk lost the serve once. Furthermore, Kostyuk put 50% of her first serves in, winning 86% (19/22) of the points behind her 1st serve and 50% (11/22) on the 2nd serve. Kostyuk broke Watson 5 times after converting 63% of her break points (5/8).
Overall Performance in this tournament
Kostyuk hasn’t dropped yet a set in the tournament to win 58% of the points she played.
The Ukrainian’s best result of the current year was reaching the final in San Diego and Stuttgart.
Marta has an overall 33-17 win-loss record in 2024, 23-9 on hard (See FULL STATS).
H2H Performance in the tournament (main draw)
Matches, sets, games and points
| Points | Shnaider | Kostyuk |
|---|---|---|
| Match played | 1 | 2 |
| Tot Set | 2 | 4 |
| Tot Games | 18 | 32 |
| Pts | 61-41 | 128-92 |
| Total Points | 102 | 220 |
| Winners | 26 | 36 |
| %Winners | 43% | 28% |
Shnaider played 1 match while Kostyuk competed in 2 matches. Both players have not conceded a single set in this event so far. Shnaider has played 2 set(s) less than Kostyuk (2 vs 4). Therefore, Shnaider played 14 games less than Kostyuk. Diana scored 26 winners (43% of the total points). On the other side, Kostyuk fired 36 winners (28%).
Serve Performance
| Serve | Shnaider | Kostyuk |
|---|---|---|
| Aces | 0 | 13 |
| Avg per match | 0 | 6.5 |
| 1st in | 35/52 | 46/96 |
| %1st in | 67% | 48% |
| 1st pts | 26/35 | 36/46 |
| %1st pts | 74% | 78% |
| 2nd pts | 11/17 | 23/50 |
| %2nd pts | 65% | 46% |
Shnaider didn’t manage to fire a single ace to far. Kostyuk recorded 13 aces (6.5 per match). Shnaider won 74% points behind her first serve. She had a solid display on her second serve to win 65% of the points. On the other side, Kostyuk won 78% of the points behind her first serve. She had a solid display on her second serve to win 46% of the points.
How they played the important points
| Breaks | Shnaider | Kostyuk |
|---|---|---|
| Won | 4 | 11 |
| Converted | 4/7 | 11/22 |
| % Converted | 57% | 50% |
| Conceded | 5 | 6 |
| Saved | 4 | 3 |
| % Saved | 80% | 50% |
| Times Broken | 1 | 3 |
Diana broke her opponent 4 times with a 57% conversion rate. Shnaider surrendered her serve once and she saved 80% of the break points that she conceded. Kostyuk broke her opponents 11 times with a 50% conversion rate. Kostyuk conceded her serve 3 times and she saved 50% of the break points that she conceded.
| Shnaider | |||
| R2 Zhao |
Total | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Score | 6-3 6-3 | ||
| Tot Set | 2 | 2 | |
| Tot Games | 18 | 18 | |
| pts | 61-41 | 61-41 | |
| Total points | 102 | 102 | |
| Winners | 26 | 26 | |
| %Winners | 43% | 43% | |
| SERVE | |||
| Aces | 0 | 0 | |
| Double Faults | 1 | 1 | |
| 1st in | 35/52 | 35/52 | |
| % 1st in | 67% | 67% | |
| 1st pts | 26/35 | 26/35 | |
| % 1st pts | 74% | 74% | |
| 2nd pts | 11/17 | 11/17 | |
| % 2nd pts | 65% | 65% | |
| Breaks | |||
| Won | 4 | 4 | |
| Converted | 4/7 | 4/7 | |
| Converted % | 57% | 57% | |
| Conceded | 5 | 5 | |
| Saved | 4/5 | 4 | |
| Saved % | 80% | 80% | |
| Times Broken | 1 | 1 | |
| Kostyuk | ||||
| R1 Rus |
R2 Watson |
Total | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Score | 6-3 6-1 | 6-2 6-2 | ||
| Tot Set | 2 | 2 | 4 | |
| Tot Games | 16 | 16 | 32 | |
| pts | 67-53 | 61-39 | 128-92 | |
| Total points | 120 | 100 | 220 | |
| Winners | 17 | 19 | 36 | |
| %Winners | 25% | 31% | 28% | |
| SERVE | ||||
| Aces | 4 | 9 | 13 | |
| Double Faults | 10 | 2 | 12 | |
| 1st in | 24/52 | 22/44 | 46/96 | |
| % 1st in | 46% | 50% | 48% | |
| 1st pts | 17/24 | 19/22 | 36/46 | |
| % 1st pts | 71% | 86% | 78% | |
| 2nd pts | 12/28 | 11/22 | 23/50 | |
| % 2nd pts | 43% | 50% | 46% | |
| Breaks | ||||
| Won | 6 | 5 | 11 | |
| Converted | 6/14 | 5/8 | 11/22 | |
| Converted % | 43% | 63% | 50% | |
| Conceded | 5 | 1 | 6 | |
| Saved | 3/5 | 0/1 | 3 | |
| Saved % | 60% | 0% | 60% | |
| Times Broken | 2 | 1 | 3 | |
Head 2 Head
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LWWLWWLWWL Tennis Scores in Seoul
- Hao-Ching Chan/Veronika KudermetovaChan/Veronika Kudermetova – Makoto Ninomiya/Viktoriya TomovaNinomiya/Viktoriya Tomova (5-7 6-3 12-10) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Miyu Kato/Shuai ZhangKato/Shuai Zhang – Su Jeong Jang/Sloane StephensJeong Jang/Sloane Stephens (6-4 6-4) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Mario Vilella MartinezVilella Martinez – Giorgio PortaluriPortaluri (6-1 6-0) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Bruno Sant’AnnaSant’Anna – Manuel Pena LopezPena Lopez (6-2 6-1) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Bogdan BobrovBobrov – Mick VeldheerVeldheer (6-3 7-612) – Stats, scores, rankings
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