Greetje Minnen and Shuai Zhang will square off in the 3rd round of the China Open for the 1st time in their career. They are scheduled to play on Sunday at 3:30 pm on CAPITAL GROUP DIAMOND. Here the head to head stats and relative prediction.

Prediction, odds and live streaming

The pick for Tennis Tonic is Greetje Minnen who should win in 3 sets.

As per the initial odds, Greetje Minnen is the pick to win this match.
Greetje Minnen -> 1.533
Shuai Zhang -> 2.5

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Prediction and head to head Greetje Minnen vs. Shuai Zhang

There is no head to head record between Greetje Minnen and Shuai Zhang since this will be the first time that they will fight against each other in the main tour.

Greetje Minnen

Greetje Minnen

25 - 28win/loss

Hard
17-15
I Hard
0-2
Clay
2-7
Grass
6-4
Rank
96
High
59
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Year Total Hard Clay I.hard Grass Carpet
2024 26-32 18-19 2-7 0-2 6-4 0-0
2023 56-20 12-6 13-4 22-6 5-3 4-1
2022 19-21 0-9 2-4 10-4 2-4 5-0
2021 39-27 19-12 7-6 8-7 5-2 0-0
2020 13-15 11-7 1-6 1-2 0-0 0-0
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Ranked no. 94, the Belgian got to the 3rd round after defeating Erika Andreeva 7-5 6-2 and Anastasia Potapova 7-5 2-6 6-4.

In the 2nd round, Greetje defeated Potapova (7-5 2-6 6-4). During the match, Minnen and Potapova scored the same amount of points (105). However, the world no. 94 was stronger during the important points and that was the most significant difference in the match. Minnen was exceptionally aggressive to blast 35 winners.

Talking about the service games, Minnen scored just 1 ace in the course of the match and she was not very consistent on her 2nd serve to score 10 double faults. Greetje Minnen lost the serve 6 times and she saved 12 break points. Furthermore, Minnen put 54% of her first serves in, winning 56% (35/62) of the points behind her 1st serve and 49% (26/53) on the 2nd serve. Greetje broke Potapova 6 times after converting 75% of her break points (6/8).

Overall Performance in this tournament

The Belgian has surrendered 1 set in this event to conquer 53% of the points she played.

Minnen has a solid win-loss record in the last 10 years having won 64% of her matches (343-192). 17-15 on hard in 2024. Talking about her performance on the same surface of this tournament, Minnen has an aggregate 132-79 record in the last years on hard.

The Belgian’s best result of the year was reaching the semifinal in the Charleston.

The Belgian has a composed 25-28 win-loss record in 2024, 17-15 on hard (See FULL STATS).

Previously in Beijing

Greetje has never competed in this tournament before.

Beijing
Minnen's Record

Shuai Zhang

Shuai Zhang

2 - 8win/loss

Hard
2-6
I Hard
0-0
Clay
0-1
Grass
0-1
Rank
219
High
22
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Year Total Hard Clay I.hard Grass Carpet
2024 5-13 5-11 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
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Ranked no. 595, the Chinese got to the 3rd round after defeating Mccartney Kessler 7-6(5) 7-6(1) and Emma Navarro 6-4 6-2.

In the 2nd round, Shuai had a good straight sets win against Navarro (6-4 6-2). During the match Zhang scored 68 points vs Navarro’s 48. Shuai was quite aggressive to blast 28 winners.

Talking about serving, Zhang wasn’t able to score even 1 ace for the entire match and she was pretty steady in conceding no double faults for the entire match. Shuai Zhang lost the serve twice and she saved 5 break points. Furthermore, Zhang put 75% of her first serves in, winning 64% (28/44) of the points behind her 1st serve and 60% (9/15) on the 2nd serve. Zhang broke Navarro 5 times after converting 71% of her break points (5/7).

Overall Performance in this tournament

Zhang hasn’t dropped yet a set in the tournament to win 55% of the points she played.

Shuai has an aggregate 2-8 win-loss record in 2024, 2-6 on hard (See FULL STATS).

Beijing
Zhang's Record

H2H Performance in the tournament (main draw)

G.Minnen
S.Zhang
4h:13
4h:13
Time on court​
3h:15
3h:15
!
2h:32
2h:32
Last match​
1h:15
1h:15
2
2
Match played
2
2
50
50
Games Played​
44
44
5
5
Set played​​
4
4
178
178
Total points​
162
162
89
89
Avg point​
81
81
62
62
Winners
66
66
31
31
Avg Winners​
33
33
35%
35%
Ratio winners
41%
41%
-- Serve --
3
3
Aces
0
0
1.5
1.5
Avg Aces
0
0
14
14
Double Faults
2
2
!
7
7
Avg Double Faults
1
1
62/99
62/99
1st won total​
66/96
66/96
63%
63%
1st won %
69%
69%
40/80
40/80
2nd won total​
24/48
24/48
50%
50%
2nd won %
50%
50%
-- Break Points --
11/15
11/15
BP won
9/18
9/18
5.5/7.5
5.5/7.5
Avg BP won
4.5/9
4.5/9
!
73%
73%
Won
50%
50%
24
24
Conceded
13
13
12
12
Avg Conceded
6.5
6.5
8
8
Broken
6
6
4
4
Avg Broken
3
3
16
16
Saved
7
7
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Matches, sets, games and points

Points Minnen Zhang
Match played 2 2
Tot Set 5 4
Tot Games 50 44
Pts 178-160 162-130
Total Points 338 292
Winners 62 66
%Winners 35% 41%

Both Minnen and Zhang played 2 matches. At the moment, Greetje Minnen surrendered 1 set while Shuai Zhang hasn’t dropped a set so far. Minnen has played 1 set more than Zhang (5 vs 4). Therefore, Minnen played 6 games more than Zhang. The Belgian scored 62 winners (35% of the total points). On the other side, The Chinese managed to score 66 winners (41%).

Serve Performance

Serve Minnen Zhang
Aces 3 0
Avg per match 1.5 0
1st in 99/179 96/144
%1st in 55% 67%
1st pts 62/99 66/96
%1st pts 63% 69%
2nd pts 40/80 24/48
%2nd pts 50% 50%

Minnen fired 3 aces (1.5 per match). Zhang didn’t manage to fire a single ace to far. Minnen won 63% points behind her first serve. She very solid her second serve to win 50% of the points. On the other side, Zhang won 69% of the points on her first serve. She had a solid display on her second serve to win 50% of the points.

How they played the important points

Breaks Minnen Zhang
Won 11 9
Converted 11/15 9/18
% Converted 73% 50%
Conceded 24 13
Saved 16 7
% Saved 67% 54%
Times Broken 8 6

The Belgian broke her opponents 11 times with a 73% conversion rate. Greetje dropped her serve 8 times and she saved 67% of the break points that she conceded. The Chinese broke her opponents 9 times with a 50% conversion rate. Shuai conceded her serve 6 times and she saved 54% of the break points that she conceded.

Minnen
R1
Andreeva		 R2
Potapova		 Total
Score 7-5 6-2 7-5 2-6 6-4
Tot Set 2 3 5
Tot Games 20 30 50
pts 73-55 105-105 178-160
Total points 128 210 338
Winners 27 35 62
%Winners 37% 33% 35%
SERVE
Aces 2 1 3
Double Faults 4 10 14
1st in 37/64 62/115 99/179
% 1st in 58% 54% 55%
1st pts 27/37 35/62 62/99
% 1st pts 73% 56% 63%
2nd pts 14/27 26/53 40/80
% 2nd pts 52% 49% 50%
Breaks
Won 5 6 11
Converted 5/7 6/8 11/15
Converted % 71% 75% 73%
Conceded 6 18 24
Saved 4/6 12/18 16
Saved % 67% 67% 67%
Times Broken 2 6 8
Zhang
R1
Kessler		 R2
Navarro		 Total
Score 7-65 7-61 6-4 6-2
Tot Set 2 2 4
Tot Games 26 18 44
pts 94-82 68-48 162-130
Total points 176 116 292
Winners 38 28 66
%Winners 40% 41% 41%
SERVE
Aces 0 0 0
Double Faults 2 0 2
1st in 52/85 44/59 96/144
% 1st in 61% 75% 67%
1st pts 38/52 28/44 66/96
% 1st pts 73% 64% 69%
2nd pts 15/33 9/15 24/48
% 2nd pts 45% 60% 50%
Breaks
Won 4 5 9
Converted 4/11 5/7 9/18
Converted % 36% 71% 50%
Conceded 6 7 13
Saved 2/6 5/7 7
Saved % 33% 71% 52%
Times Broken 4 2 6

Tennis Scores in Beijing

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