Emma Navarro and Shuai Zhang will fight against each other in the 2nd round of the China Open for the 1st time in their career. They are scheduled to play on Friday at 11:00 am on LOTUS. In the following paragraphs, you can find the head to head analysis and prediction.

Prediction, odds and live streaming

The pick for Tennis Tonic is Emma Navarro who should win in 2 sets.

As per the initial odds, Emma Navarro is the pick to win this match.
Emma Navarro -> 1.062
Shuai Zhang -> 9

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Prediction and head to head Emma Navarro vs. Shuai Zhang

There is no head to head record between Emma Navarro and Shuai Zhang since this will be the first time that they will square off in the main tour.

Emma Navarro

Emma Navarro

52 - 21win/loss

Hard
31-11
I Hard
0-0
Clay
14-7
Grass
7-3
Rank
8
High
8
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Year Total Hard Clay I.hard Grass Carpet
2024 52-22 31-12 14-7 0-0 7-3 0-0
2023 64-24 17-9 37-11 3-1 7-3 0-0
2022 31-18 8-8 23-10 0-0 0-0 0-0
2021 19-13 6-6 13-7 0-0 0-0 0-0
2020 2-7 0-4 2-2 0-1 0-0 0-0

Ranked no. 8 (career-high), Navarro will start her run in Beijing after she played her last match at the New York where she lost 6-3 7-6(2) to Sabalenka in the semifinal on the 5th of September.

Navarro has a compiled 52-21 win-loss record in 2024, 31-11 on hard (See FULL STATS).

Her best result of the current season was conquering the title in Hobart where she defeated Elise Mertens in the final 6-1 4-6 7-5.

Talking about her overall career, The American has an overall 201-108 record. She has a positive 69-47 record on hard.

Previously in Beijing

Navarro has never competed in this tournament before.

Beijing
Navarro's Record

Shuai Zhang

Shuai Zhang

1 - 8win/loss

Hard
1-6
I Hard
0-0
Clay
0-1
Grass
0-1
Rank
595
High
22
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Year Total Hard Clay I.hard Grass Carpet
2024 1-8 1-6 0-1 0-0 0-1 0-0
2023 4-19 3-10 0-4 1-1 0-4 0-0
2022 39-31 17-14 4-7 10-7 8-3 0-0
2021 23-28 8-11 4-8 5-5 6-4 0-0
2020 16-11 10-7 6-3 0-1 0-0 0-0

Ranked no. 595, the Chinese reached the 2nd round after defeating Mccartney Kessler 7-6(5) 7-6(1).

In the 1st round, The Chinese had a good straight sets win against Kessler (7-65 7-61). During the match Zhang scored 94 points vs Kessler’s 82. Zhang was extremely aggressive to blast 38 winners.

Talking about serving, Zhang was unable to score even 1 ace for the entire match and she committed only 2 double faults. Shuai Zhang lost the serve 4 times and she saved 2 break points. Furthermore, Zhang put 61% of her first serves in, winning 73% (38/52) of the points behind her 1st serve and 45% (15/33) on the 2nd serve. Zhang broke Kessler 4 times after converting 36% of her break points (4/11).

The Chinese has an aggregate 1-8 win-loss record in 2024, 1-6 on hard (See FULL STATS).

Beijing
Zhang's Record

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