Diana Shnaider and Kyoka Okamura will play each other in the 1st round of the Hong Kong Tennis Open for the 1st time in their career. They are scheduled to play on Tuesday at 4:30 pm on CENTRE COURT. In this post, we analyze their head to head performance and prediction.

Prediction, odds and live streaming

The pick for Tennis Tonic is Diana Shnaider who should win in 2 sets.

As per the initial odds, Diana Shnaider is the pick to win this match.
Diana Shnaider -> 1.025
Kyoka Okamura -> 13

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Prediction and head to head Diana Shnaider vs. Kyoka Okamura

There is no head to head record between Diana Shnaider and Kyoka Okamura since this will be the first time that they will fight against each other in the main tour.

Diana Shnaider

Diana Shnaider

50 - 23win/loss

Hard
26-15
I Hard
0-0
Clay
15-5
Grass
9-3
Rank
13
High
12
WWWWWLWLLL
Year Total Hard Clay I.hard Grass Carpet
2024 55-23 31-15 15-5 0-0 9-3 0-0
2023 25-22 14-13 10-8 0-0 1-1 0-0
2022 58-17 11-4 46-11 1-2 0-0 0-0
2021 9-3 0-0 8-2 1-1 0-0 0-0
2020 2-2 0-0 2-2 0-0 0-0 0-0

Ranked no. 14 (career-high), Shnaider will start her run in Hong Kong after she played her last match in Tokyo where she lost 7-6(5) 6-3 to Zheng in the semifinal on the 26th of October.

The Russian has an overall 50-23 win-loss record in 2024, 26-15 on hard (See FULL STATS).

Her best result of the season was winning the title in Hua Hin where she beat Lin Zhu in the final 6-3 2-6 6-1 and the Paris where she beat Emma Navarro in the final 6-2 3-6 6-4 and in Bad Homburg where she defeated Donna Vekic in the final 6-3 2-6 6-3 and in Budapest where she defeated Aliaksandra Sasnovich in the final 6-4 6-4.

Talking about her overall career, The Russian has an overall 144-67 record. She has a positive 51-32 record on hard.

Previously in Hong Kong

Shnaider has never competed in this tournament before.

Hong Kong
Shnaider's Record

Kyoka Okamura

Kyoka Okamura

40 - 29win/loss

Hard
37-27
I Hard
0-1
Carpet
3-1
Rank
225
High
223
LWWLLWWLWW
Year Total Hard Clay I.hard Grass Carpet
2024 46-34 43-32 0-0 0-1 0-0 3-1
2023 34-30 26-24 0-1 4-3 0-0 4-2
2022 31-27 24-21 0-2 5-2 0-1 2-1
2021 12-24 6-13 6-10 0-1 0-0 0-0
2020 9-12 3-7 5-4 1-1 0-0 0-0

Ranked no. 237, Okamura got to the 1st round after beating I-Hsuan Cho 6-4 6-2

and Su Jeong Jang 7-5 6-0.

In the qualifications, Kyoka had a good straight sets win against Jeong Jang (7-5 6-0). During the match Okamura scored 67 points vs Jeong Jang’s 43. Okamura was quite aggressive to blast 25 winners.

Talking about serving, Okamura couldn’t to score even 1 ace for the entire match and she committed only 4 double faults. Overall, Kyoka Okamura was pretty efficient on serve to win 74% (25/34) of her 1st serve and 54% (13/24) on the second serve. However, this didn’t prevent her to concede the serve once. Kyoka broke Jeong Jang 5 times after converting 50% of her break points (5/10).

Overall Performance in this tournament

Kyoka started her run at this tournament from the qualifications. In the main draw, she hasn’t conceded yet a set in this tournament to win 60% of the points she played.

Okamura’s best result of the current season was getting to the final in the W35 Taipei and the W35 Nakhon Si Thammarat.

The Japanese has a compiled 40-29 win-loss record in 2024, 37-27 on hard (See FULL STATS).

Previously in Hong Kong

Okamura has never competed in this tournament before.

Hong Kong
Okamura's Record

Tennis Scores in Hong Kong

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