Katerina Siniakova and Yuliia Starodubtseva will play each other in the 2^nd round of the China Open for the 2^nd time in their career. They are scheduled to play 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 played each other on hard.

The last time that they fought against each other, Siniakova won 6-2 6-2 in the qualifications in Berlin back in June 2024.

Katerina Siniakova

Ranked no. 37, Katerina 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.

The Czech has a compiled 30-21 win-loss record in 2024, 13-12 on hard (See FULL STATS).

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

Talking about her overall career, Katerina 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), Yuliia reached the 2^nd round after beating 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 pretty aggressive to blast 25 winners.

About the serving games, Starodubtseva scored just 1 ace during the entire match and she was quite 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. Starodubtseva broke Siegemund 7 times after converting 44% of her break points (7/16).

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

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

Previously in Beijing

Starodubtseva has never competed in this tournament before.

Tennis Scores in Beijing

• 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
• 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 Nejedly
  Nejedly (6-3 6-3) – Stats, scores, rankings

Upcoming matches in the draw

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• Madison KeysKeys – Sara Sorribes TormoSorribes Tormo (0-1) – H2H and prediction
• Sijia WeiWei – Beatriz Haddad MaiaHaddad Maia (0-0) – H2H and prediction
• Ludmilla SamsonovaSamsonova – Cristina BucsaBucsa (0-0) – H2H and prediction
• 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
• Leylah Annie FernandezAnnie Fernandez – Peyton StearnsStearns (1-1) – H2H and prediction
• 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
• Clara BurelBurel – Cori GauffGauff (0-1) – H2H and prediction
• Emma NavarroNavarro – Shuai ZhangZhang (0-0) – H2H and prediction
• Greetje MinnenMinnen – Anastasia PotapovaPotapova (0-0) – H2H and prediction
• Magdalena FrechFrech – Alycia ParksParks (1-0) – H2H and prediction
• Sofia KeninKenin – (0-0) – H2H and prediction
• Paula Badosa GibertBadosa Gibert – Viktoriya TomovaTomova (1-0) – H2H and prediction
• Rebecca SramkovaSramkova – Ekaterina AlexandrovaAlexandrova (1-3) – H2H and prediction
• Veronika KudermetovaKudermetova – Xin Yu WangYu Wang (0-1) – H2H and prediction
• Diane ParryParry – Jessica PegulaPegula (0-0) – H2H and prediction