Sara Errani and Yexin Ma will clash against each other in the qualifications of the Ningbo Open for the 1st time in their career. They are scheduled to play on Sunday at 1:00 pm on Center Court. 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 Sara Errani who should win in 3 sets.
As per the initial odds, Sara Errani is the pick to win this match.
Sara Errani -> 1.49
Yexin Ma -> 2.47
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Prediction and head to head Sara Errani vs. Yexin Ma
There is no head to head record between Sara Errani and Yexin Ma since this will be the first time that they will play each other in the main tour.
Sara Errani
27 - 20win/loss
105
5
LWLWWLLWWL | Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 29-22 | 9-11 | 13-7 | 4-2 | 3-2 | 0-0 |
| 2023 | 36-31 | 11-9 | 21-17 | 3-2 | 1-3 | 0-0 |
| 2022 | 33-29 | 8-10 | 21-15 | 0-2 | 4-2 | 0-0 |
| 2021 | 16-21 | 6-10 | 9-9 | 0-0 | 1-2 | 0-0 |
| 2020 | 17-13 | 9-8 | 8-4 | 0-1 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
Ranked no. 88, the Italian got to the qualifications after beating Xinyu Gao 7-5 6-1.
In the qualifications, The Italian had a good straight sets win against Gao (7-5 6-1). During the match, Errani scored 69 points vs Gao’s 54. Errani was quite aggressive to blast 31 winners.
Regarding the service games, Errani was unable to score even 1 ace throughout the match and she committed only 1 double fault. Sara Errani lost the serve 3 times and she saved 2 break points. Furthermore, Errani put 77% of her first serves in, winning 61% (31/51) of the points behind her 1st serve and 33% (5/15) on the 2nd serve. Sara broke Gao 6 times after converting 75% of her break points (6/8).
Errani has favorable match record in the last 10 years having won 55% of her matches (279-228). 7-9 on hard in 2024. Regarding her performance on the same surface of this tournament, Errani has an overall 108-92 record in the last years on hard.
Sara’s best result of the current year was reaching the semifinal in Bogota and the Gaiba.
Sara has an aggregate 27-20 win-loss record in 2024, 7-9 on hard (See FULL STATS).
Previously in Ningbo
Errani has never competed in this tournament before.
Yexin Ma
27 - 29win/loss
238
177
LLLLLWLWLW | Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 29-36 | 25-28 | 1-2 | 1-1 | 0-3 | 2-2 |
| 2023 | 44-29 | 24-22 | 3-2 | 3-1 | 7-3 | 7-1 |
| 2022 | 31-27 | 26-21 | 2-3 | 3-3 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2021 | 34-14 | 34-14 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2020 | 6-8 | 3-4 | 3-4 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
Ranked no. 264, Ma got to the qualifications after beating Sijia Wei 7-5 0-6 6-3.
In the qualifications, Yexin defeated Wei (7-5 0-6 6-3).During the match Ma scored less points (2) than Wei. In fact, the world no. 88 won 84 points vs Wei’s. That means that Ma was more focused during the important points. Ma was very aggressive to blast 21 winners.
Talking about serving, Ma scored just 1 ace during the entire match and she committed only 5 double faults. Yexin Ma lost the serve 7 times and she saved 4 break points. Furthermore, Ma put 51% of her first serves in, winning 54% (21/39) of the points behind her 1st serve and 46% (17/37) on the 2nd serve. Yexin broke Wei 7 times after converting 39% of her break points (7/18).
Ma’s best result of the year was getting to the final in the W35 Traralgon.
The Chinese has a compiled 27-29 win-loss record in 2024, 23-22 on hard (See FULL STATS).
H2H Performance in the tournament
Matches, sets, games and points
| Points | Errani | Ma |
|---|---|---|
| Match played | 1 | 1 |
| Tot Set | 2 | 3 |
| Tot Games | 19 | 27 |
| Pts | 69-54 | 84-86 |
| Total Points | 123 | 170 |
| Winners | 31 | 21 |
| %Winners | 45% | 25% |
Both Errani and Ma played 1 match. Also both players started their run from the qualifications.At the moment, Yexin Ma dropped 1 set while Sara Errani hasn’t lost a set so far. Errani has played 1 set(s) less than Ma (2 vs 3). Therefore, Errani played 8 games less than Ma. The Italian scored 31 winners (45% of the total points). On the other side, Ma struck 21 winners (25%).
Serve Performance
| Serve | Errani | Ma |
|---|---|---|
| Aces | 0 | 1 |
| Avg per match | 0 | 1 |
| 1st in | 51/66 | 39/76 |
| %1st in | 77% | 51% |
| 1st pts | 31/51 | 21/39 |
| %1st pts | 61% | 54% |
| 2nd pts | 5/15 | 17/37 |
| %2nd pts | 33% | 46% |
Errani didn’t manage to fire a single ace to far. Ma recorded 1 ace . Errani won 61% points on her first serve. She quite strong on her second serve to win 33% of the points. On the other side, Ma won 54% of the points behind her first serve. She had a solid display on her second serve to win 46% of the points.
How they played the important points
| Breaks | Errani | Ma |
|---|---|---|
| Won | 6 | 7 |
| Converted | 6/8 | 7/18 |
| % Converted | 75% | 39% |
| Conceded | 5 | 11 |
| Saved | 2 | 4 |
| % Saved | 40% | 36% |
| Times Broken | 3 | 7 |
The Italian broke her opponent 6 times with a 75% conversion rate. Sara dropped her serve 3 times and she saved 40% of the break points that she conceded. Ma broke her opponent 7 times with a 39% conversion rate. Ma conceded her serve 7 times and she saved 36% of the break points that she conceded.
| Errani | |||
| Q1 Gao |
Total | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Score | 7-5 6-1 | ||
| Tot Set | 2 | 2 | |
| Tot Games | 19 | 19 | |
| pts | 69-54 | 69-54 | |
| Total points | 123 | 123 | |
| Winners | 31 | 31 | |
| %Winners | 45% | 45% | |
| SERVE | |||
| Aces | 0 | 0 | |
| Double Faults | 1 | 1 | |
| 1st in | 51/66 | 51/66 | |
| % 1st in | 77% | 77% | |
| 1st pts | 31/51 | 31/51 | |
| % 1st pts | 61% | 61% | |
| 2nd pts | 5/15 | 5/15 | |
| % 2nd pts | 33% | 33% | |
| Breaks | |||
| Won | 6 | 6 | |
| Converted | 6/8 | 6/8 | |
| Converted % | 75% | 75% | |
| Conceded | 5 | 5 | |
| Saved | 2/5 | 2 | |
| Saved % | 40% | 40% | |
| Times Broken | 3 | 3 | |
| Ma | |||
| Q1 Wei |
Total | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Score | 7-5 0-6 6-3 | ||
| Tot Set | 3 | 3 | |
| Tot Games | 27 | 27 | |
| pts | 84-86 | 84-86 | |
| Total points | 170 | 170 | |
| Winners | 21 | 21 | |
| %Winners | 25% | 25% | |
| SERVE | |||
| Aces | 1 | 1 | |
| Double Faults | 5 | 5 | |
| 1st in | 39/76 | 39/76 | |
| % 1st in | 51% | 51% | |
| 1st pts | 21/39 | 21/39 | |
| % 1st pts | 54% | 54% | |
| 2nd pts | 17/37 | 17/37 | |
| % 2nd pts | 46% | 46% | |
| Breaks | |||
| Won | 7 | 7 | |
| Converted | 7/18 | 7/18 | |
| Converted % | 39% | 39% | |
| Conceded | 11 | 11 | |
| Saved | 4/11 | 4 | |
| Saved % | 36% | 36% | |
| Times Broken | 7 | 7 | |
Head 2 Head
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