Katie Boulter and Taylor Townsend will face off in the 2nd round of the China Open for the 3rd time in their career. They are scheduled to compete on Friday at 1:30 pm on COURT 3. In this post, we analyze their head to head performance and prediction.
Prediction, odds and live streaming
The pick for Tennis Tonic is Taylor Townsend who should win in 3 sets.
As per the initial odds, Taylor Townsend is the pick to win this match.
Taylor Townsend -> 1.65
Katie Boulter -> 2.24
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Prediction and head to head Katie Boulter vs. Taylor Townsend
This will be the 3rd time that Katie Boulter and Taylor Townsend fight against each other. The head to head is 2-0 for Boulter (see full H2H stats), 2-0 on hard.
The last time that they competed against each other, Boulter won 7-6(1) 6-2 in the qualifications in Miami back in 2018.
Katie Boulter
27 - 17win/loss
24
23
LWWLWWWWLW | Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 38-23 | 24-12 | 3-6 | 3-2 | 8-3 | 0-0 |
| 2023 | 40-20 | 22-12 | 1-1 | 3-3 | 10-4 | 4-0 |
| 2022 | 29-18 | 4-7 | 0-0 | 16-7 | 9-4 | 0-0 |
| 2021 | 28-15 | 12-9 | 5-1 | 7-3 | 4-2 | 0-0 |
| 2020 | 14-8 | 10-6 | 1-1 | 3-1 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
Ranked no. 34, Boulter will start her run in Beijing after she played her last match at the New York where she lost 7-5 7-5 to Bouzas in the 2nd round on the 29th of August.
Katie has an overall 27-17 win-loss record in 2024, 15-7 on hard (See FULL STATS).
Her best result of the season was conquering the title in San Diego where she beat Marta Kostyuk in the final 5-7 6-2 6-2 and in Nottingham where she beat Karolina Pliskova in the final 4-6 6-3 6-2.
Talking about her overall career, The Brit has an overall 315-192 record. She has a positive 162-108 record on hard.
Previously in Beijing
Previously, her best result was reaching the 2nd round in 2023. See her history.
Taylor Townsend
23 - 19win/loss
69
46
WLWLWLWWWW | Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 24-20 | 21-13 | 2-4 | 1-0 | 0-3 | 0-0 |
| 2023 | 32-16 | 16-9 | 12-4 | 2-1 | 2-2 | 0-0 |
| 2022 | 23-8 | 14-5 | 9-3 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2021 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2020 | 4-6 | 4-6 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
Ranked no. 52, the American got to the 2nd round after defeating Martina Trevisan 6-2 4-6 6-3.
In the 1st round, The American defeated Trevisan (6-2 4-6 6-3). During the match Townsend scored 82 points vs Trevisan’s 70. Townsend was extremely aggressive to blast 41 winners.
Talking about serving, Townsend fired 15 aces and she committed only 2 double faults. Taylor Townsend lost the serve twice. Furthermore, Townsend put 67% of her first serves in, winning 79% (41/52) of the points behind her 1st serve and 38% (10/26) on the 2nd serve. Taylor broke Trevisan 4 times after converting 80% of her break points (4/5).
Townsend has an aggregate 23-19 win-loss record in 2024, 21-12 on hard (See FULL STATS).
Previously in Beijing
The American has never competed in this tournament before.
Head 2 Head
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WLWLWLWWWW Tennis Scores in Beijing
- 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 NejedlyNejedly (6-3 6-3) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Vit KoprivaKopriva – Michal FranekFranek (3-6 6-1 6-3) – Stats, scores, rankings
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