Katie Boulter and Xiyu Wang will square off in the 2nd round of the Hong Kong Tennis Open for the 1st time in their career. They are scheduled to play on Wednesday at 4:30 pm on CENTRE COURT. Here the head to head stats and relative prediction.
Prediction, odds and live streaming
The pick for Tennis Tonic is Katie Boulter who should win in 3 sets.
As per the initial odds, Katie Boulter is the pick to win this match.
Katie Boulter -> 1.615
Xiyu Wang -> 2.31
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Prediction and head to head Katie Boulter vs. Xiyu Wang
There is no head to head record between Katie Boulter and Xiyu Wang since this will be the first time that they will fight against each other in the main tour.
Katie Boulter
33 - 21win/loss
24
23
LWWLWWWWLW | Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 38-23 | 24-12 | 3-6 | 3-2 | 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. 29, the Brit reached the 2nd round after beating Aoi Ito 6-4 6-4.
In the 1st round, Katie had a good straight sets win against Ito (6-4 6-4). During the match, Boulter scored 79 points vs Ito’s 66. Katie was extremely aggressive to blast 34 winners.
Talking about the service games, Boulter blasted 3 aces and she committed only 3 double faults. Katie Boulter conceded no breaks for the entire match to save 3 break points. Furthermore, Boulter put 63% of her first serves in, winning 81% (34/42) of the points behind her 1st serve and 48% (12/25) on the 2nd serve. Katie broke Ito twice after converting 22% of her break points (2/9).
Boulter has a solid match record in the last 10 years having won 63% of her matches (273-163). 21-11 on hard in 2024. Talking about her performance on the same surface of this competition, Boulter has a compiled 137-95 win-loss record in the last years on hard.
Her best result of the current year was winning the title in San Diego where she beat 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.
Katie has an overall 33-21 win-loss record in 2024, 21-11 on hard (See FULL STATS).
Previously in Hong Kong
Boulter has never competed in this tournament before.
Xiyu Wang
27 - 28win/loss
98
49
LWLWLWWLWL | Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 28-30 | 18-19 | 9-8 | 1-1 | 0-2 | 0-0 |
| 2023 | 27-25 | 17-17 | 5-4 | 0-0 | 5-4 | 0-0 |
| 2022 | 41-25 | 15-10 | 23-11 | 3-3 | 0-1 | 0-0 |
| 2021 | 21-19 | 8-7 | 9-7 | 0-1 | 4-3 | 0-1 |
| 2020 | 11-7 | 11-7 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
Ranked no. 100, Wang reached the 2nd round after beating Hina Inoue 6-3 7-6(2).
In the 1st round, The Chinese had a good straight sets win against Inoue (6-3 7-62). During the match Wang scored 78 points vs Inoue’s 59. The Chinese was quite aggressive to blast 33 winners.
Talking about serving, Wang scored just 1 ace during the entire match and she committed only 2 double faults. Overall, Xiyu Wang was pretty efficient on serve to win 83% (33/40) of her 1st serve and 52% (12/23) on the second serve. However, this didn’t prevent her to concede the serve once. Wang broke Inoue 3 times after converting 38% of her break points (3/8).
The Chinese’s best result of the current year was getting to the final in Austin.
Wang has an aggregate 27-28 win-loss record in 2024, 18-18 on hard (See FULL STATS).
Previously in Hong Kong
Previously, her best result was reaching the 1st round in 2023. See her history.
H2H Performance in the tournament
Matches, sets, games and points
| Points | Boulter | Wang |
|---|---|---|
| Match played | 1 | 1 |
| Tot Set | 2 | 2 |
| Tot Games | 20 | 22 |
| Pts | 79-66 | 78-59 |
| Total Points | 145 | 137 |
| Winners | 34 | 33 |
| %Winners | 43% | 42% |
Both Boulter and Wang played 1 match. Both players have not lost a single set in this event so far. Talking about their workload, Boulter and Wang have played the same amount of sets 2. However, Boulter played 2 games less than Wang. The Brit scored 34 winners (43% of the total points). On the other side, Wang made 33 winners (42%).
Serve Performance
| Serve | Boulter | Wang |
|---|---|---|
| Aces | 3 | 1 |
| Avg per match | 3 | 1 |
| 1st in | 42/67 | 40/63 |
| %1st in | 63% | 63% |
| 1st pts | 34/42 | 33/40 |
| %1st pts | 81% | 83% |
| 2nd pts | 12/25 | 12/23 |
| %2nd pts | 48% | 52% |
Boulter recorded 3 aces . Wang made 1 ace . Boulter won 81% points behind her first serve. She quite strong on her second serve to win 48% of the points. On the other side, Wang won 83% of the points behind her first serve. She had a solid display on her second serve to win 52% of the points.
How they played the important points
| Breaks | Boulter | Wang |
|---|---|---|
| Won | 2 | 3 |
| Converted | 2/9 | 3/8 |
| % Converted | 22% | 38% |
| Conceded | 3 | 4 |
| Saved | 3 | 3 |
| % Saved | 100% | 75% |
| Times Broken | 0 | 1 |
The Brit broke her opponent twice with a 22% conversion rate. Boulter very solid her serve as she has never surrendered a single service game after saving 3 break points. The Chinese broke her opponent 3 times with a 38% conversion rate. The Chinese conceded her serve once and she saved 75% of the break points that she conceded.
| Boulter | |||
| R1 Ito |
Total | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Score | 6-4 6-4 | ||
| Tot Set | 2 | 2 | |
| Tot Games | 20 | 20 | |
| pts | 79-66 | 79-66 | |
| Total points | 145 | 145 | |
| Winners | 34 | 34 | |
| %Winners | 43% | 43% | |
| SERVE | |||
| Aces | 3 | 3 | |
| Double Faults | 3 | 3 | |
| 1st in | 42/67 | 42/67 | |
| % 1st in | 63% | 63% | |
| 1st pts | 34/42 | 34/42 | |
| % 1st pts | 81% | 81% | |
| 2nd pts | 12/25 | 12/25 | |
| % 2nd pts | 48% | 48% | |
| Breaks | |||
| Won | 2 | 2 | |
| Converted | 2/9 | 2/9 | |
| Converted % | 22% | 22% | |
| Conceded | 3 | 3 | |
| Saved | 3/3 | 3 | |
| Saved % | 100% | 100% | |
| Times Broken | 0 | 0 | |
| Wang | |||
| R1 Inoue |
Total | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Score | 6-3 7-62 | ||
| Tot Set | 2 | 2 | |
| Tot Games | 22 | 22 | |
| pts | 78-59 | 78-59 | |
| Total points | 137 | 137 | |
| Winners | 33 | 33 | |
| %Winners | 42% | 42% | |
| SERVE | |||
| Aces | 1 | 1 | |
| Double Faults | 2 | 2 | |
| 1st in | 40/63 | 40/63 | |
| % 1st in | 63% | 63% | |
| 1st pts | 33/40 | 33/40 | |
| % 1st pts | 83% | 83% | |
| 2nd pts | 12/23 | 12/23 | |
| % 2nd pts | 52% | 52% | |
| Breaks | |||
| Won | 3 | 3 | |
| Converted | 3/8 | 3/8 | |
| Converted % | 38% | 38% | |
| Conceded | 4 | 4 | |
| Saved | 3/4 | 3 | |
| Saved % | 75% | 75% | |
| Times Broken | 1 | 1 | |
Head 2 Head
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