Sofia Kenin and Mei Yamaguchi will face off 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 6:30 pm on CENTRE 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 Sofia Kenin who should win in 2 sets.
As per the initial odds, Sofia Kenin is the pick to win this match.
Sofia Kenin -> 1.13
Mei Yamaguchi -> 5.95
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Prediction and head to head Sofia Kenin vs. Mei Yamaguchi
There is no head to head record between Sofia Kenin and Mei Yamaguchi since this will be the first time that they will face off in the main tour.
Sofia Kenin
14 - 25win/loss
81
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LWWLWWWWLL | Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 16-26 | 10-17 | 5-6 | 0-0 | 1-3 | 0-0 |
| 2023 | 27-21 | 17-12 | 3-4 | 1-2 | 6-3 | 0-0 |
| 2022 | 10-17 | 7-14 | 0-0 | 3-3 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2021 | 11-10 | 7-5 | 3-4 | 0-0 | 1-1 | 0-0 |
| 2020 | 24-9 | 12-6 | 6-2 | 6-1 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
Ranked no. 88, Kenin 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 final on the 27th of October.
The American has a composed 14-25 win-loss record in 2024, 8-16 on hard (See FULL STATS).
Sofia’s best result of the year was reaching the final in Tokyo.
Talking about her overall career, Kenin has an overall 271-190 record. She has a positive 164-111 record on hard.
Previously in Hong Kong
The American has never competed in this tournament before.
Mei Yamaguchi
37 - 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. 362 (career-high), Mei reached the 1st round after beating Meiqi Guo 7-5 6-4 and Jia-Jing Lu 6-1 7-6(7).
In the qualifications, The Japanese had a good straight sets win against Lu (6-1 7-67). During the match Yamaguchi scored 86 points vs Lu’s 66. Mei was extremely aggressive to blast 35 winners.
Talking about serving, Yamaguchi scored just 1 ace during the entire match and she committed only 2 double faults. Mei Yamaguchi lost the serve twice and she saved 6 break points. Furthermore, Yamaguchi put 72% of her first serves in, winning 67% (35/52) of the points behind her 1st serve and 60% (12/20) on the 2nd serve. Mei broke Lu 4 times after converting 40% of her break points (4/10).
Overall Performance in this tournament
The Japanese started her run at this tournament from the qualifications. In the main draw, she hasn’t lost yet a set in this tournament to conquer 55% of the points she played.
Mei’s best result of the year was getting to the semifinal in the W75 Kurume.
Mei has a compiled 37-23 win-loss record in 2024, 28-19 on hard (See FULL STATS).
Previously in Hong Kong
Yamaguchi has never competed in this tournament before.
Head 2 Head
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LWWWWLLWWW Tennis Scores in Hong Kong
- Yue YuanYuan – Simona HalepHalep (6-3 6-3) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Jessika PonchetPonchet – Xinyu WangWang (4-6 7-5 6-2) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Ulrikke Eikeri/Makoto NinomiyaEikeri/Makoto Ninomiya – En Shuo Liang/Chia Yi TsaoShuo Liang/Chia Yi Tsao (7-65 2-6 10-3) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Bernarda PeraPera – Sara SaitoSaito (6-4 6-4) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Han ShiShi – Margarita BetovaBetova (6-4 6-2) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Xiyu WangWang – Hina InoueInoue (6-3 7-62) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Priscilla HonHon – Eudice Wong ChongWong Chong (6-3 6-4) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Aoran WangWang – Jose StathamStatham (7-5 6-4) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Tung-Lin WuWu – Aryan GoveasGoveas (6-2 6-1) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Jianhui LiLi – Fajing SunSun (6-2 7-61) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Maverick BanesBanes – Li-Wie TanTan (6-4 7-61) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Blake EllisEllis – Karunuday SinghSingh (6-2 6-1) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Yibing WuWu – Jie CuiCui (7-65 6-4) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Ji Sung NamSung Nam – Seong Chan HongChan Hong (6-3 6-3) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Michael ZhuZhu – Zhe ZhouZhou (6-0 6-3) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Ajeet RaiRai – Huixin WangWang (7-5 6-2) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Yan BaiBai – Mousheg HovhannisyanHovhannisyan (7-64 6-3) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Xin GaoGao – Ji Hoon SonHoon Son (7-64 7-65) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Rigele TeTe – Yuuya KibiKibi (3-6 6-2 6-1) – Stats, scores, rankings
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- Hong Yi Cody WongYi Cody Wong – Cristina BucsaBucsa (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Leylah Annie FernandezAnnie Fernandez – Heather WatsonWatson (0-3) – H2H and prediction
- Ana BogdanBogdan – Kimberly BirrellBirrell (0-1) – H2H and prediction
- Nao HibinoHibino – Jia-Jing LuLu (1-1) – H2H and prediction
- Mei YamaguchiYamaguchi – Sofia KeninKenin (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Varvara GrachevaGracheva – (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Su Jeong JangJeong Jang – Anastasia ZakharovaZakharova (0-1) – H2H and prediction
