Donna Vekic and Yulia Putintseva will fight against each other in the 2nd round of the Wuhan Open for the 7th 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.
Prediction, odds and live streaming
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 7th 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 1st round in San Jose back in 2021.
Donna Vekic
32 - 19win/loss
19
18
LWLWLWWWLL | Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 32-20 | 12-10 | 8-5 | 2-1 | 10-4 | 0-0 |
| 2023 | 29-20 | 16-9 | 4-5 | 2-3 | 7-3 | 0-0 |
| 2022 | 28-20 | 10-9 | 9-6 | 2-1 | 7-4 | 0-0 |
| 2021 | 19-16 | 10-12 | 0-1 | 5-0 | 4-3 | 0-0 |
| 2020 | 8-11 | 6-6 | 1-3 | 1-2 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
Ranked no. 18 (career-high), Donna got to the 2nd round after defeating Elise Mertens 3-6 6-1 6-3.
In the 1st 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
36 - 20win/loss
29
27
LWWLWWLLLW | Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 39-22 | 22-15 | 9-4 | 0-2 | 8-1 | 0-0 |
| 2023 | 34-27 | 19-17 | 13-8 | 2-0 | 0-2 | 0-0 |
| 2022 | 26-21 | 9-11 | 15-7 | 1-1 | 1-2 | 0-0 |
| 2021 | 32-24 | 14-12 | 12-8 | 5-2 | 1-2 | 0-0 |
| 2020 | 21-11 | 16-7 | 4-2 | 1-2 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
Ranked no. 35, Yulia got to the 2nd round after beating Shuai Zhang 6-4 6-4.
In the 1st 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 | |
Head 2 Head
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- Louis WesselsWessels – Marco NeubauNeubau (6-1 7-66) – Stats, scores, rankings
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