Daria Kasatkina and Yulia Putintseva will fight against each other in the quarter of the Ningbo Open for the 3^rd time in their career. They are scheduled to compete on Friday at 2:00 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 Yulia Putintseva who should win in 3 sets.

As per the initial odds, Yulia Putintseva is the pick to win this match.
Yulia Putintseva -> 1.89
Daria Kasatkina -> 1.909

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Prediction and head to head Daria Kasatkina vs. Yulia Putintseva

This will be the 3^rd time that Daria Kasatkina and Yulia Putintseva square off. The head to head is 1-1 for Kasatkina and Putintseva (see full H2H stats), but they have never played each other on hard.

The last time that they played, Putintseva won 3-6 6-2 6-2 in the 4^th round in Madrid back in April 2024.

Daria Kasatkina

Ranked no. 11, the Russian reached the quarter after defeating Unknown Player bye and Katerina Siniakova 1-6 6-3 6-2.

In the 2^nd round against Siniakova, Darya recovered from a 1-set down deficit before winning (1-6 6-3 6-2). During the match, Kasatkina scored 87 points vs Siniakova’s 82. Kasatkina was pretty aggressive to blast 34 winners.

Regarding the service games, Kasatkina was unable to score even 1 ace during the encounter and she committed only 5 double faults. Daria Kasatkina lost the serve 5 times and she saved 10 break points. Furthermore, Kasatkina put 68% of her first serves in, winning 63% (34/54) of the points behind her 1st serve and 40% (10/25) on the 2nd serve. Kasatkina broke Siniakova 6 times after converting 43% of her break points (6/14).

Kasatkina has a solid match record in the last 10 years having won 63% of her matches (353-205). 20-15 on hard in 2024. Regarding her performance on the same surface of this event, Kasatkina has a compiled 155-118 record in the last years on hard.

Her best result of the season was conquering the title in Eastbourne where she overcame Leylah Annie Fernandez in the final 6-3 6-4.

Darya has a compiled 36-21 win-loss record in 2024, 20-15 on hard (See FULL STATS).

Previously in Ningbo

Darya has never competed in this tournament before.

Yulia Putintseva

Ranked no. 32, the Kazakhstani reached the quarter after beating Caroline Dolehide 6-2 6-0 and Ella Seidel 6-4 6-4.

In the 2^nd round, The Kazakhstani had a good straight sets win against Seidel (6-4 6-4). During the match Putintseva scored 66 points vs Seidel’s 56. Putintseva was very aggressive to blast 27 winners.

About the serving games, Putintseva managed to score 7 aces and she committed only 3 double faults. Overall, Yulia Putintseva was very effective on serve to win 71% (27/38) of her 1st serve and 55% (12/22) on the second serve. However, this didn’t prevent her to concede the serve twice. Yulia broke Seidel 4 times after converting 44% of her break points (4/9).

Overall Performance in this tournament

Yulia hasn’t dropped yet a set in the tournament to win 58% of the points she played.

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

Yulia has an aggregate 39-21 win-loss record in 2024, 22-14 on hard (See FULL STATS).

Previously in Ningbo

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

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H2H Performance in the tournament (main draw)

Matches, sets, games and points

Points	Kasatkina	Putintseva
Match played	1	2
Tot Set	3	4
Tot Games	24	34
Pts	87-82	122-90
Total Points	169	212
Winners	34	52
%Winners	39%	43%

Kasatkina played 1 match while Putintseva competed in 2 matches. At the moment, Daria Kasatkina surrendered 1 set while Yulia Putintseva hasn’t conceded a set so far. Kasatkina has played 1 set(s) less than Putintseva (3 vs 4). Therefore, Kasatkina played 10 games less than Putintseva. The Russian scored 34 winners (39% of the total points). On the other side, The Kazakhstani blasted 52 winners (43%).

Serve Performance

Serve	Kasatkina	Putintseva
Aces	0	7
Avg per match	0	3.5
1st in	54/79	72/103
%1st in	68%	70%
1st pts	34/54	52/72
%1st pts	63%	72%
2nd pts	10/25	14/31
%2nd pts	40%	45%

Kasatkina didn’t manage to fire a single ace to far. Putintseva struck 7 aces (3.5 per match). Kasatkina won 63% points behind her first serve. She quite strong on her second serve to win 40% of the points. On the other side, Putintseva won 72% of the points behind her first serve. She had a solid display on her second serve to win 45% of the points.

How they played the important points

Breaks	Kasatkina	Putintseva
Won	6	10
Converted	6/14	10/22
% Converted	43%	45%
Conceded	15	7
Saved	10	4
% Saved	67%	57%
Times Broken	5	3

The Russian broke her opponent 6 times with a 43% conversion rate. Darya dropped her serve 5 times and she saved 67% of the break points that she conceded. Putintseva broke her opponents 10 times with a 45% conversion rate. Putintseva conceded her serve 3 times and she saved 57% of the break points that she conceded.

Kasatkina
	R2 Siniakova	Total
Score	1-6 6-3 6-2
Tot Set	3	3
Tot Games	24	24
pts	87-82	87-82
Total points	169	169
Winners	34	34
%Winners	39%	39%
SERVE
Aces	0	0
Double Faults	5	5
1st in	54/79	54/79
% 1st in	68%	68%
1st pts	34/54	34/54
% 1st pts	63%	63%
2nd pts	10/25	10/25
% 2nd pts	40%	40%
Breaks
Won	6	6
Converted	6/14	6/14
Converted %	43%	43%
Conceded	15	15
Saved	10/15	10
Saved %	67%	67%
Times Broken	5	5

Putintseva
	R1 Dolehide	R2 Seidel	Total
Score	6-2 6-0	6-4 6-4
Tot Set	2	2	4
Tot Games	14	20	34
pts	56-34	66-56	122-90
Total points	90	122	212
Winners	25	27	52
%Winners	45%	41%	43%
SERVE
Aces	0	7	7
Double Faults	3	3	6
1st in	34/43	38/60	72/103
% 1st in	79%	63%	70%
1st pts	25/34	27/38	52/72
% 1st pts	74%	71%	72%
2nd pts	2/9	12/22	14/31
% 2nd pts	22%	55%	45%
Breaks
Won	6	4	10
Converted	6/13	4/9	10/22
Converted %	46%	44%	45%
Conceded	2	5	7
Saved	1/2	3/5	4
Saved %	50%	60%	110%
Times Broken	1	2	3

Tennis Scores in Ningbo

• Nicole Melichar/Ellen PerezMelichar/Ellen Perez – Ulrikke Eikeri/Fang-Hsien WuEikeri/Fang-Hsien Wu (6-0 6-4) – Stats, scores, rankings
• Aldila Sutjiadi/Yifan XuSutjiadi/Yifan Xu – Zhaoxuan Yang/Shuai ZhangYang/Shuai Zhang (6-4 6-4) – Stats, scores, rankings
• Michael GeertsGeerts – Christopher HeymanHeyman (4-6 7-6⁵ 6-3) – Stats, scores, rankings
• Dragos Nicolae MadarasNicolae Madaras – Jonas MerckxMerckx (w/o) – Stats, scores, rankings

Upcoming matches in the draw

• Beatriz Haddad MaiaHaddad Maia – Paula Badosa GibertBadosa Gibert (1-1) – H2H and prediction
• Darya KasatkinaKasatkina – Yulia PutintsevaPutintseva (1-1) – H2H and prediction
• Anna KalinskayaKalinskaya – Karolina MuchovaMuchova (0-2) – H2H and prediction