Katie Boulter and Sara Errani will fight against each other in the 1st round of the Ningbo Open for the 2nd time in their career. They are scheduled to compete on Tuesday at 4:30 pm on COURT 7. In this post, we analyze their head to head performance 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 -> 1.36
Sara Errani -> 3.14

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Prediction and head to head Katie Boulter vs. Sara Errani

This will be the 2nd time that Katie Boulter and Sara Errani play each other. The head to head is 1-0 for Boulter (see full H2H stats), 1-0 on hard.

The last time that they fought against each other, Boulter won 6-3 6-3 in the qualifications in Indian Wells back in 2022.

Katie Boulter

Katie Boulter

28 - 19win/loss

Hard
16-9
I Hard
1-1
Clay
3-6
Grass
8-3
Rank
35
High
27
LLWLWLLWWL
Year Total Hard Clay I.hard Grass Carpet
2024 28-19 16-9 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. 35, Katie will start her run in Ningbo after she played her last match in Wuhan where she lost 6-2 7-5

to Tsurenko in the 1st round on the 8th of October.

Boulter has an aggregate 28-19 win-loss record in 2024, 16-9 on hard (See FULL STATS).

Her best result of the season 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 defeated Karolina Pliskova in the final 4-6 6-3 6-2.

Talking about her overall career, Katie has an overall 316-194 record. She has a positive 163-110 record on hard.

Previously in Ningbo

Previously, her best result was reaching the 1st round in 2023. See her history.

Ningbo
Boulter's Record

Sara Errani

Sara Errani

28 - 20win/loss

Hard
8-9
I Hard
4-2
Clay
13-7
Grass
3-2
Rank
90
High
5
WWLLWWLLLL
Year Total Hard Clay I.hard Grass Carpet
2024 28-20 8-9 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. 90, Sara reached the 1st round after beating Xinyu Gao 7-5 6-1 and Yexin Ma 6-0 4-6 6-4.

In the qualifications, Sara defeated Ma (6-0 4-6 6-4). During the match Errani scored 85 points vs Ma’s 64. The Italian was pretty aggressive to blast 34 winners.

Talking about serving, Errani wasn’t able to score even 1 ace for the entire match and she committed only 2 double faults. Sara Errani lost the serve 5 times and she saved 2 break points. Furthermore, Errani put 85% of her first serves in, winning 60% (34/57) of the points behind her 1st serve and 40% (4/10) on the 2nd serve. The Italian broke Ma 8 times after converting 62% of her break points (8/13).

Overall Performance in this tournament

Errani started her run at this tournament from the qualifications. In the main draw, she has conceded 1 set in the tournament to win 57% of the points she played.

Sara’s best result of the current year was reaching the semifinal in Bogota and the Gaiba.

Errani has an aggregate 28-20 win-loss record in 2024, 8-9 on hard (See FULL STATS).

Previously in Ningbo

Errani has never competed in this tournament before.

Ningbo
Errani's Record

Tennis Scores in Ningbo

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