Jia-Jing Lu and Mei Yamaguchi will fight against each other in the qualifications of the Hong Kong Tennis Open for the 1st time in their career. They are scheduled to play on Sunday at 2:00 pm on Court 1. Here the head to head stats and relative prediction.
Prediction, odds and live streaming
The pick for Tennis Tonic is Jia-Jing Lu who should win in 3 sets.
As per the initial odds, Jia-Jing Lu is the pick to win this match.
Jia-Jing Lu -> 1.56
Mei Yamaguchi -> 2.3
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Prediction and head to head Jia-Jing Lu vs. Mei Yamaguchi
There is no head to head record between Jia-Jing Lu and Mei Yamaguchi since this will be the first time that they will play each other in the main tour.
Jia-Jing Lu
31 - 21win/loss
273
162
LWLLWWWLLW | Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 35-26 | 31-23 | 3-1 | 0-0 | 1-2 | 0-0 |
| 2023 | 33-25 | 26-19 | 7-6 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2022 | 26-30 | 19-20 | 6-7 | 0-2 | 0-0 | 1-1 |
| 2021 | 11-23 | 8-8 | 0-8 | 3-5 | 0-1 | 0-1 |
| 2020 | 1-3 | 0-1 | 0-0 | 1-2 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
Ranked no. 253, the Chinese reached the qualifications after defeating Nadiya Kolb 6-3 6-3.
In the qualifications, Jia-Jing had a good straight sets win against Kolb (6-3 6-3). During the match, Lu scored 62 points vs Kolb’s 43. Jia-Jing was very aggressive to blast 22 winners.
Talking about the service games, Lu wasn’t able to score even 1 ace throughout the match and she committed only 2 double faults. Overall, Jia-Jing Lu was extremely effective on serve to win 73% (22/30) of her 1st serve and 68% (13/19) on the second serve. However, this didn’t prevent her to concede the serve once. The Chinese broke Kolb 4 times after converting 57% of her break points (4/7).
Lu has good win-loss record in the last 10 years having won 55% of her matches (276-227). 27-18 on hard in 2024. Talking about her performance on the same surface of this competition, Lu has a compiled 226-161 win-loss record in the last years on hard.
Jia-Jing’s best result of the year was reaching the final in the W50 Taizhou.
Jia-Jing has an aggregate 31-21 win-loss record in 2024, 27-18 on hard (See FULL STATS).
Previously in Hong Kong
Mei Yamaguchi
36 - 23win/loss
277
277
LWWWWLLWWW | Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 47-27 | 33-23 | 1-1 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 13-3 |
| 2023 | 36-31 | 30-24 | 1-1 | 0-1 | 1-2 | 4-3 |
| 2022 | 15-13 | 1-4 | 8-5 | 1-2 | 0-0 | 5-2 |
| 2021 | 26-13 | 13-4 | 13-9 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2020 | 8-4 | 7-3 | 0-0 | 1-1 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
Ranked no. 410, the Japanese reached the qualifications after defeating Meiqi Guo 7-5 6-4.
In the qualifications, The Japanese had a good straight sets win against Guo (7-5 6-4). During the match Yamaguchi scored 76 points vs Guo’s 65. Yamaguchi was extremely aggressive to blast 28 winners.
Talking about serving, Yamaguchi scored just 1 ace during the entire match and she was very steady in conceding no double faults for the entire match. Mei Yamaguchi lost the serve 3 times and she saved 2 break points. Furthermore, Yamaguchi put 71% of her first serves in, winning 61% (28/46) of the points behind her 1st serve and 63% (12/19) on the 2nd serve. Yamaguchi broke Guo 5 times after converting 38% of her break points (5/13).
Mei’s best result of the season was getting to the semifinal in the W75 Kurume.
Mei has a composed 36-23 win-loss record in 2024, 27-19 on hard (See FULL STATS).
Previously in Hong Kong
The Japanese has never competed in this tournament before.
H2H Performance in the tournament
Matches, sets, games and points
| Points | Lu | Yamaguchi |
|---|---|---|
| Match played | 1 | 1 |
| Tot Set | 2 | 2 |
| Tot Games | 18 | 22 |
| Pts | 62-43 | 76-65 |
| Total Points | 105 | 141 |
| Winners | 22 | 28 |
| %Winners | 35% | 37% |
Both Lu and Yamaguchi played 1 match. Also both players started their run from the qualifications.Both players have not conceded a single set in this event so far. Talking about their workload, Lu and Yamaguchi have played the same amount of sets 2. However, Lu played 4 games less than Yamaguchi. Jia-Jing scored 22 winners (35% of the total points). On the other side, The Japanese fired 28 winners (37%).
Serve Performance
| Serve | Lu | Yamaguchi |
|---|---|---|
| Aces | 0 | 1 |
| Avg per match | 0 | 1 |
| 1st in | 30/49 | 46/65 |
| %1st in | 61% | 71% |
| 1st pts | 22/30 | 28/46 |
| %1st pts | 73% | 61% |
| 2nd pts | 13/19 | 12/19 |
| %2nd pts | 68% | 63% |
Lu didn’t manage to fire a single ace to far. Yamaguchi blasted 1 ace . Lu won 73% points behind her first serve. She had a solid display on her second serve to win 68% of the points. On the other side, Yamaguchi won 61% of the points behind her first serve. She had a solid display on her second serve to win 63% of the points.
How they played the important points
| Breaks | Lu | Yamaguchi |
|---|---|---|
| Won | 4 | 5 |
| Converted | 4/7 | 5/13 |
| % Converted | 57% | 38% |
| Conceded | 2 | 5 |
| Saved | 1 | 2 |
| % Saved | 50% | 40% |
| Times Broken | 1 | 3 |
The Chinese broke her opponent 4 times with a 57% conversion rate. The Chinese dropped her serve once and she saved 50% of the break points that she conceded. Mei broke her opponent 5 times with a 38% conversion rate. Mei conceded her serve 3 times and she saved 40% of the break points that she conceded.
| Lu | |||
| Q1 Kolb |
Total | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Score | 6-3 6-3 | ||
| Tot Set | 2 | 2 | |
| Tot Games | 18 | 18 | |
| pts | 62-43 | 62-43 | |
| Total points | 105 | 105 | |
| Winners | 22 | 22 | |
| %Winners | 35% | 35% | |
| SERVE | |||
| Aces | 0 | 0 | |
| Double Faults | 2 | 2 | |
| 1st in | 30/49 | 30/49 | |
| % 1st in | 61% | 61% | |
| 1st pts | 22/30 | 22/30 | |
| % 1st pts | 73% | 73% | |
| 2nd pts | 13/19 | 13/19 | |
| % 2nd pts | 68% | 68% | |
| Breaks | |||
| Won | 4 | 4 | |
| Converted | 4/7 | 4/7 | |
| Converted % | 57% | 57% | |
| Conceded | 2 | 2 | |
| Saved | 1/2 | 1 | |
| Saved % | 50% | 50% | |
| Times Broken | 1 | 1 | |
| Yamaguchi | |||
| Q1 Guo |
Total | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Score | 7-5 6-4 | ||
| Tot Set | 2 | 2 | |
| Tot Games | 22 | 22 | |
| pts | 76-65 | 76-65 | |
| Total points | 141 | 141 | |
| Winners | 28 | 28 | |
| %Winners | 37% | 37% | |
| SERVE | |||
| Aces | 1 | 1 | |
| Double Faults | 0 | 0 | |
| 1st in | 46/65 | 46/65 | |
| % 1st in | 71% | 71% | |
| 1st pts | 28/46 | 28/46 | |
| % 1st pts | 61% | 61% | |
| 2nd pts | 12/19 | 12/19 | |
| % 2nd pts | 63% | 63% | |
| Breaks | |||
| Won | 5 | 5 | |
| Converted | 5/13 | 5/13 | |
| Converted % | 38% | 38% | |
| Conceded | 5 | 5 | |
| Saved | 2/5 | 2 | |
| Saved % | 40% | 40% | |
| Times Broken | 3 | 3 | |
Head 2 Head
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