Katerina Siniakova and Yuliia Starodubtseva will face off in the 2^nd round of the China Open for the 2^nd time in their career. They are scheduled to compete on Friday at 11:00 am on COURT 5. In this post, we analyze their head to head performance and prediction.

Prediction, odds and live streaming

The pick for Tennis Tonic is Katerina Siniakova who should win in 3 sets.

As per the initial odds, Katerina Siniakova is the pick to win this match.
Katerina Siniakova -> 1.56
Yuliia Starodubtseva -> 2.43

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Prediction and head to head Katerina Siniakova vs. Yuliia Starodubtseva

This will be the 2^nd time that Katerina Siniakova and Yuliia Starodubtseva clash against each other. The head to head is 1-0 for Siniakova (see full H2H stats), but they have never competed against each other on hard.

The last time that they played, Siniakova won 6-2 6-2 in the qualifications in Berlin back in June 2024.

Katerina Siniakova

Ranked no. 37, Siniakova will start her run in Beijing after she played her last match in Hua Hin where she lost 6-3 6-3 to Podoroska in the 2^nd round on the 19^th of September.

Katerina has an overall 30-21 win-loss record in 2024, 13-12 on hard (See FULL STATS).

Her best result of the current season was winning the title the Lleida where she defeated Mayar Sherif in the final 6-4 4-6 6-3.

Talking about her overall career, Siniakova has an overall 365-262 record. She has a positive 150-128 record on hard.

Previously in Beijing

Previously, her best result was reaching the quarter in 2018. See her history.

Yuliia Starodubtseva

Ranked no. 115 (career-high), the Ukrainian reached the 2^nd round after defeating Carol Zhao 6-2 6-2, Su Jeong Jang 6-0 6-2 and Laura Siegemund 6-4 7-6(3).

In the 1^st round, Yuliia had a good straight sets win against Siegemund (6-4 7-6³). During the match Starodubtseva scored 89 points vs Siegemund’s 79. Yuliia was exceptionally aggressive to blast 25 winners.

Talking about serving, Starodubtseva scored just 1 ace during the entire match and she was extremely solid in conceding no double faults for the entire match. Yuliia Starodubtseva lost the serve 6 times and she saved 4 break points. Furthermore, Starodubtseva put 71% of her first serves in, winning 48% (25/52) of the points behind her 1st serve and 62% (13/21) on the 2nd serve. Yuliia broke Siegemund 7 times after converting 44% of her break points (7/16).

The Ukrainian’s best result of the current year was reaching the semifinal in the W100 Oeiras.

Yuliia has an overall 36-21 win-loss record in 2024, 22-10 on hard (See FULL STATS).

Previously in Beijing

Yuliia has never competed in this tournament before.

Tennis Scores in Beijing

• Oscar Jose GutierrezJose Gutierrez – Robin StanekStanek (6-2 6-4) – Stats, scores, rankings
• Tomas MachacMachac – Roman SafiullinSafiullin (6-1 6-4) – Stats, scores, rankings
• Patrik RiklRikl – Pavel NejedlyNejedly (6-3 6-3) – Stats, scores, rankings
• Vit KoprivaKopriva – Michal FranekFranek (3-6 6-1 6-3) – Stats, scores, rankings
• Alexander VasilenkoVasilenko – Tadeas ParoulekParoulek (6-2 6-2) – Stats, scores, rankings
• David PoljakPoljak – Mikalai HaliakHaliak (6-2 5-2 ret.) – Stats, scores, rankings
• Jan MertlMertl – Pavel KotovKotov (7-6³ 6-3) – Stats, scores, rankings

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• Sijia WeiWei – Beatriz Haddad MaiaHaddad Maia (0-0) – H2H and prediction
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• Elisabetta CocciarettoCocciaretto – Elise MertensMertens (1-1) – H2H and prediction
• Yue YuanYuan – Karolina MuchovaMuchova (0-0) – H2H and prediction
• Jaqueline CristianCristian – Barbora KrejcikovaKrejcikova (1-1) – H2H and prediction
• Jasmine PaoliniPaolini – Clara TausonTauson (0-0) – H2H and prediction
• Moyuka UchijimaUchijima – Magda LinetteLinette (0-2) – H2H and prediction
• Viktorija GolubicGolubic – Donna VekicVekic (1-0) – H2H and prediction
• Darya KasatkinaKasatkina – Jana FettFett (1-0) – H2H and prediction
• Maria Camila Osorio SerranoCamila Osorio Serrano – Amanda AnisimovaAnisimova (0-1) – H2H and prediction
• Dayana YastremskaYastremska – Nadia PodoroskaPodoroska (1-0) – H2H and prediction
• Kamilla RakhimovaRakhimova – Qinwen ZhengZheng (0-0) – H2H and prediction
• Caroline DolehideDolehide – Elina AvanesyanAvanesyan (1-1) – H2H and prediction
• Yulia StarodubtsewaStarodubtsewa – Katerina SiniakovaSiniakova (0-1) – H2H and prediction
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• Hailey BaptisteBaptiste – Anna KalinskayaKalinskaya (0-1) – H2H and prediction
• Marta KostyukKostyuk – Katie VolynetsVolynets (0-0) – H2H and prediction
• Naomi OsakaOsaka – Yulia PutintsevaPutintseva (2-3) – H2H and prediction
• Katie BoulterBoulter – Taylor TownsendTownsend (2-0) – H2H and prediction
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• Emma NavarroNavarro – Shuai ZhangZhang (0-0) – H2H and prediction
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• Sofia KeninKenin – (0-0) – H2H and prediction
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