Sloane Stephens and Ann Li will clash against each other in the 1st round of the Hobart International for the 3rd time in their career. They are scheduled to compete on Tuesday at 11:00 am on WEST COURT. In the following paragraphs, you can find the head to head analysis and prediction.
Prediction, odds and live streaming
The pick for Tennis Tonic is Ann Li who should win in 3 sets.
Ann Li -> 1.61
Sloane Stephens -> 2.32
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Prediction and head to head Sloane Stephens vs. Ann Li
This will be the 3rd time that Sloane Stephens and Ann Li face off. The head to head is 1-1 for Stephens and Li (see full H2H stats),but they are 1-1 on hard.
The last time that they played, Li won 5-7 6-4 6-4 in the 1st round in Auckland back in 2024.
Sloane Stephens
| Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 0-1 | 0-1 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2024 | 19-22 | 8-13 | 9-6 | 0-0 | 2-3 | 0-0 |
| 2023 | 25-20 | 11-14 | 13-5 | 0-0 | 1-1 | 0-0 |
| 2022 | 18-17 | 13-9 | 5-6 | 0-0 | 0-2 | 0-0 |
| 2021 | 20-19 | 6-11 | 11-6 | 1-1 | 2-1 | 0-0 |
Ranked no. 84, Stephens will start her run in Hobart after she played her last match in Auckland where she lost 5-7 6-4 6-4 to Li in the 1st round on the 30th of December.
Stephens has an overall 0-1 win-loss record in 2025, 0-1 on hard (See FULL STATS).
Talking about her overall career, Sloane has an overall 382-284 record. She has a positive 201-171 record on hard.
Previously in Hobart
Previously, her best result was reaching the semifinal in 2013. See her history.
Ann Li
| Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 3-1 | 3-1 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2024 | 42-27 | 16-14 | 22-9 | 4-3 | 0-1 | 0-0 |
| 2023 | 36-28 | 16-13 | 15-9 | 4-4 | 1-2 | 0-0 |
| 2022 | 16-20 | 7-10 | 2-3 | 4-3 | 3-4 | 0-0 |
| 2021 | 25-14 | 19-8 | 1-1 | 4-2 | 1-3 | 0-0 |
Ranked no. 91, Ann reached the 1st round after beating Chloe Paquet 2-6 6-3 6-1 and Suzan Lamens 6-1 6-4.
In the qualifications, Li had a good straight sets win against Lamens (6-1 6-4). During the match Li scored 63 points vs Lamens’s 47. Ann was very aggressive to blast 27 winners.
Talking about serving, Li blasted 8 aces and she committed only 3 double faults. Ann Li was extremely effective on serve to win 77% (27/35) of her 1st serve and 57% (16/28) on the second serve. This was the main reason for not conceding a single break during the match. The American broke Lamens 3 times after converting 50% of her break points (3/6).
Overall Performance in this tournament
Ann started her run at this tournament from the qualifications. In the main draw, she has conceded 1 set in the tournament to win 55% of the points she played.
Ann has a composed 3-1 win-loss record in 2025, 3-1 on hard (See FULL STATS).
Previously in Hobart
The American has never competed in this tournament before.
Tennis Scores in Hobart
- Anna BondarBondar – Mayar SherifSherif (7-5 6-4) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Elina AvanesyanAvanesyan – Xiyu WangWang (6-3 7-5) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Mccartney KesslerKessler – Rebecca SramkovaSramkova (6-3 7-5) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Ulrikke Eikeri/Makoto NinomiyaEikeri/Makoto Ninomiya – Maia Lumsden/Anna SiskovaLumsden/Anna Siskova (6-0 5-7 10-3) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Greetje MinnenMinnen – Viktoriya TomovaTomova (7-5 6-3) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Maria Lourdes CarleLourdes Carle – Jessica Bouzas ManeiroBouzas Maneiro (6-3 3-6 6-0) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Gage BrymerBrymer – Nicholas BybelBybel (6-3 6-4) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Austin RappRapp – Cayetano MarchMarch (6-1 6-1) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Ivan EndaraEndara – Ivar Aramburu ContrerasAramburu Contreras (6-2 6-0) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Christian LangmoLangmo – Cameron GreenGreen (7-65 7-62) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Alejandro GomezGomez – George GoldhoffGoldhoff (2-6 6-3 6-4) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Camilo Ugo CarabelliUgo Carabelli – Jody MaginleyMaginley (7-63 6-1) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Alejandro MendozaMendoza – Jorge Blanco GuadalupeBlanco Guadalupe (3-0 ret.) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Ryan PenistonPeniston – Brandon WalkinWalkin (6-2 2-6 6-4) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Tomas Martin EtcheverryMartin Etcheverry – Tyler MercierMercier (6-3 6-3) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Matthew Christopher RomiosChristopher Romios – Alexis CanterCanter (6-2 6-3) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Marco BrugnerottoBrugnerotto – Nick ChappellChappell (4-6 7-5 7-5) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Connor FarrenFarren – Evan ZhuZhu (1-6 6-3 6-4) – Stats, scores, rankings
Upcoming matches in the draw
- Dayana YastremskaYastremska – Katie VolynetsVolynets (0-1) – H2H and prediction
- Sloane StephensStephens – Ann LiLi (1-1) – H2H and prediction
- Amanda AnisimovaAnisimova – Daria GavrilovaGavrilova (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Lulu SunSun – Sofia KeninKenin (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Anna BlinkovaBlinkova – Bernarda PeraPera (3-3) – H2H and prediction
- Olga DanilovicDanilovic – (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Varvara GrachevaGracheva – Magda LinetteLinette (1-2) – H2H and prediction
- Yue YuanYuan – Maria Camila Osorio SerranoCamila Osorio Serrano (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Veronika KudermetovaKudermetova – Elisabetta CocciarettoCocciaretto (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Anhelina KalininaKalinina – Lucia BronzettiBronzetti (2-1) – H2H and prediction
- Nuria Parrizas-DiazParrizas-Diaz – Elise MertensMertens (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Maria Lourdes CarleLourdes Carle – Mccartney KesslerKessler (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Greetje MinnenMinnen – Elina AvanesyanAvanesyan (0-0) – H2H and prediction