Donna Vekic and Yulia Putintseva will fight against each other in the 2^nd round of the Wuhan Open for the 7^th time in their career. They are scheduled to play on Wednesday at 11:00 am on Court 1. Here the head to head stats and relative prediction.

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The pick for Tennis Tonic is Donna Vekic who should win in 3 sets.

As per the initial odds, Donna Vekic is the pick to win this match.
Donna Vekic -> 1.88
Yulia Putintseva -> 1.92

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Prediction and head to head Donna Vekic vs. Yulia Putintseva

This will be the 7^th time that Donna Vekic and Yulia Putintseva square off. The head to head is 4-2 for Vekic (see full H2H stats),but they are 2-2 on hard.

The last time that they locked horns, Putintseva won 7-5 6-3 in the 1^st round in San Jose back in 2021.

Donna Vekic

Ranked no. 18 (career-high), Donna got to the 2^nd round after defeating Elise Mertens 3-6 6-1 6-3.

In the 1^st round against Mertens, Donna recovered from a 1-set down deficit before winning (3-6 6-1 6-3). During the match, Vekic scored 85 points vs Mertens’s 73. Donna was extremely aggressive to blast 23 winners.

Regarding the service games, Vekic made 4 aces and she committed only 4 double faults. Donna Vekic lost the serve 5 times and she saved 3 break points. Furthermore, Vekic put 44% of her first serves in, winning 74% (23/31) of the points behind her 1st serve and 38% (15/40) on the 2nd serve. The Croatian broke Mertens 8 times after converting 47% of her break points (8/17).

Vekic has winning match record in the last 10 years having won 56% of her matches (279-222). 12-9 on hard in 2024. Regarding her performance on the same surface of this tournament, Vekic has a compiled 131-111 match record in the last years on hard.

The Croatian’s best result of the season was reaching the final in Bad Homburg and Paris.

Vekic has an aggregate 32-19 win-loss record in 2024, 12-9 on hard (See FULL STATS).

Previously in Wuhan

Yulia Putintseva

Ranked no. 35, Yulia got to the 2^nd round after beating Shuai Zhang 6-4 6-4.

In the 1^st round, Putintseva had a good straight sets win against Zhang (6-4 6-4). During the match Putintseva scored 58 points vs Zhang’s 46. Yulia was exceptionally aggressive to blast 28 winners.

Talking about serving, Putintseva fired 3 aces and she committed only 1 double fault for the entire match. Overall, Yulia Putintseva was exceptionally effective on serve to win 80% (28/35) of her 1st serve and 71% (10/14) on the second serve. However, this didn’t prevent her to concede the serve once. Yulia broke Zhang 3 times after converting 60% of her break points (3/5).

Her best result of the current year was winning the title in Birmingham where she overcame Ajla Tomljanovic in the final 6-1 7-6(8).

Putintseva has a compiled 36-20 win-loss record in 2024, 19-13 on hard (See FULL STATS).

H2H Performance in the tournament

Matches, sets, games and points

Points	Vekic	Putintseva
Match played	1	1
Tot Set	3	2
Tot Games	25	20
Pts	85-73	58-46
Total Points	158	104
Winners	23	28
%Winners	27%	48%

Both Vekic and Putintseva played 1 match. At the moment, Donna Vekic surrendered 1 set while Yulia Putintseva hasn’t lost a set so far. Vekic has played 1 set more than Putintseva (3 vs 2). Therefore, Vekic played 5 games more than Putintseva. Donna scored 23 winners (27% of the total points). On the other side, Yulia blasted 28 winners (48%).

Serve Performance

Serve	Vekic	Putintseva
Aces	4	3
Avg per match	4	3
1st in	31/71	35/49
%1st in	44%	71%
1st pts	23/31	28/35
%1st pts	74%	80%
2nd pts	15/40	10/14
%2nd pts	38%	71%

Vekic managed to score 4 aces . Putintseva managed to score 3 aces . Vekic won 74% points on her first serve. She was rock solid on her second serve to win 38% of the points. On the other side, Putintseva won 80% of the points behind her first serve. She had a solid display on her second serve to win 71% of the points.

How they played the important points

Breaks	Vekic	Putintseva
Won	8	3
Converted	8/17	3/5
% Converted	47%	60%
Conceded	8	2
Saved	3	1
% Saved	38%	50%
Times Broken	5	1

Donna broke her opponent 8 times with a 47% conversion rate. Vekic surrendered her serve 5 times and she saved 38% of the break points that she conceded. Yulia broke her opponent 3 times with a 60% conversion rate. Yulia conceded her serve once and she saved 50% of the break points that she conceded.

Vekic
	R1 Mertens	Total
Score	3-6 6-1 6-3
Tot Set	3	3
Tot Games	25	25
pts	85-73	85-73
Total points	158	158
Winners	23	23
%Winners	27%	27%
SERVE
Aces	4	4
Double Faults	4	4
1st in	31/71	31/71
% 1st in	44%	44%
1st pts	23/31	23/31
% 1st pts	74%	74%
2nd pts	15/40	15/40
% 2nd pts	38%	38%
Breaks
Won	8	8
Converted	8/17	8/17
Converted %	47%	47%
Conceded	8	8
Saved	3/8	3
Saved %	38%	38%
Times Broken	5	5

Putintseva
	R1 Zhang	Total
Score	6-4 6-4
Tot Set	2	2
Tot Games	20	20
pts	58-46	58-46
Total points	104	104
Winners	28	28
%Winners	48%	48%
SERVE
Aces	3	3
Double Faults	1	1
1st in	35/49	35/49
% 1st in	71%	71%
1st pts	28/35	28/35
% 1st pts	80%	80%
2nd pts	10/14	10/14
% 2nd pts	71%	71%
Breaks
Won	3	3
Converted	3/5	3/5
Converted %	60%	60%
Conceded	2	2
Saved	1/2	1
Saved %	50%	50%
Times Broken	1	1

Tennis Scores in Wuhan

• Nicole Melichar/Ellen PerezMelichar/Ellen Perez – Hanyu Guo/Xinyu JiangGuo/Xinyu Jiang (6-0 6-4) – Stats, scores, rankings
• Vasile AntonescuAntonescu – Aziz KijametovicKijametovic (4-6 6-3 7-5) – Stats, scores, rankings
• Peter NagyNagy – Nikolas Walterscheid-TukicWalterscheid-Tukic (6-2 1-6 6-3) – Stats, scores, rankings
• Louis WesselsWessels – Marco NeubauNeubau (6-1 7-6⁶) – Stats, scores, rankings
• Shalva DzhanashiaDzhanashia – Yan SabaninSabanin (7-6³ 6-4) – Stats, scores, rankings
• Christoph NegrituNegritu – Alex KnaffKnaff (6-2 6-4) – Stats, scores, rankings
• Paul WoernerWoerner – Leonard Von HindteVon Hindte (6-2 6-3) – Stats, scores, rankings

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