Katie Boulter and Lesya Tsurenko will clash against each other in the 1st round of the Wuhan Open for the 5th time in their career. They are scheduled to compete on Tuesday at 3:00 pm on Court 1. In the following lines you can find the head to head analysis and prediction.

Prediction, odds and live streaming

The pick for Tennis Tonic is Katie Boulter who should win in 2 sets.

As per the initial odds, Katie Boulter is the pick to win this match.
Katie Boulter -> 1.3
Lesya Tsurenko -> 3.52

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Prediction and head to head Katie Boulter vs. Lesya Tsurenko

This will be the 5th time that Katie Boulter and Lesya Tsurenko fight against each other. The head to head is 3-1 for Tsurenko (see full H2H stats), 3-1 on hard.

The last time that they locked horns, Boulter won 6-3 6-1 in the 1st round in San Diego back in February 2024.

Katie Boulter

Katie Boulter

28 - 18win/loss

Hard
16-8
I Hard
1-1
Clay
3-6
Grass
8-3
Rank
34
High
27
LWLWLLWWLL
Year Total Hard Clay I.hard Grass Carpet
2024 28-18 16-8 3-6 1-1 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 Wuhan after she played her last match in Beijing where she lost 7-5 6-2 to Gauff in the 3rd round on the 29th of September.

The Brit has an aggregate 28-18 win-loss record in 2024, 16-8 on hard (See FULL STATS).

Her best result of the current year was winning the title in San Diego where she overcame 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, Boulter has an overall 316-193 record. She has a positive 163-109 record on hard.

Previously in Wuhan

Boulter has never competed in this tournament before.

Wuhan
Boulter's Record

Lesya Tsurenko

Lesya Tsurenko

12 - 19win/loss

Hard
10-13
I Hard
0-0
Clay
2-5
Grass
0-1
Rank
96
High
23
WWLLLLLLWL
Year Total Hard Clay I.hard Grass Carpet
2024 12-19 10-13 2-5 0-0 0-1 0-0
2023 42-16 31-10 8-4 0-0 3-2 0-0
2022 25-14 8-7 8-4 0-1 9-2 0-0
2021 30-17 10-10 2-2 15-5 3-0 0-0
2020 12-6 8-5 4-1 0-0 0-0 0-0

Ranked no. 96, the Ukrainian reached the 1st round after beating Linda Fruhvirtova 6-4 6-1 and Erika Andreeva 7-6(3) 7-5.

In the qualifications, Tsurenko had a good straight sets win against Andreeva (7-63 7-5). During the match Tsurenko scored 98 points vs Andreeva’s 90. Lesya was pretty aggressive to blast 46 winners.

Talking about serving, Tsurenko couldn’t to score even 1 ace for the entire match and she committed only 9 double faults. Lesya Tsurenko lost the serve 3 times and she saved 8 break points. Furthermore, Tsurenko put 66% of her first serves in, winning 70% (46/66) of the points behind her 1st serve and 35% (12/34) on the 2nd serve. Lesya broke Andreeva 4 times after converting 36% of her break points (4/11).

Overall Performance in this tournament

The Ukrainian started her run at this tournament from the qualifications. In the main draw, she hasn’t lost yet a set in this tournament to win 54% of the points she played.

The Ukrainian has an overall 12-19 win-loss record in 2024, 10-13 on hard (See FULL STATS)

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Wuhan
Tsurenko's Record

Tennis Scores in Wuhan

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