H2H, prediction of Petra Martic vs Xinyu Gao at the Australian Open with odds, preview, pick | 8th January 2025

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Prediction and head to head Petra Martic vs. Xinyu Gao

Petra Martic and Xinyu Gao will fight against each other in the qualifications of the Australian Open for the 1st time in their career. They are scheduled to compete on Wednesday at 3:00 pm on Court 7. Here the head to head stats and relative prediction.

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The pick for Tennis Tonic is Petra Martic who should win in 3 sets.

See updated oddsAs per the initial odds, Petra Martic is the pick to win this match.
Petra Martic -> 1.83
Xinyu Gao -> 1.94

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Prediction and head to head Petra Martic vs. Xinyu Gao

There is no head to head record between Petra Martic and Xinyu Gao since this will be the first time that they will square off in the main tour.

Petra Martic

Petra Martic
Petra Martic

1 - 1win/loss

Hard
1-1
I Hard
0-0
Rank
132
High
14
Year Total Hard Clay I.hard Grass Carpet
2025 1-1 1-1 0-0 0-0 0-0 0-0
2024 18-24 9-10 7-9 0-2 2-3 0-0
2023 24-22 8-13 6-4 5-2 5-3 0-0
2022 33-21 11-10 18-6 1-2 3-3 0-0
2021 15-21 7-12 6-5 0-1 2-3 0-0

Ranked no. 132, the Croatian reached the qualifications after beating Petra Hule 6-2 7-6(6).

In the qualifications, Martic had a good straight sets win against Hule (6-2 7-66). During the match, Martic scored 73 points vs Hule’s 56. Petra was extremely aggressive to blast 31 winners.

Regarding the service games, Martic struck 10 aces and she committed only 7 double faults. Petra Martic lost the serve once and she saved 1 break points. Furthermore, Martic put 61% of her first serves in, winning 79% (31/39) of the points behind her 1st serve and 48% (12/25) on the 2nd serve. The Croatian broke Hule 3 times after converting 50% of her break points (3/6).

Martic has favorable record in the last 10 years having won 58% of her matches (214-155). 1-1 on hard in 2025. In connection with her performance on the same surface of this competition, Martic has a compiled 83-78 match record in the last years on hard.

Petra has a compiled 1-1 win-loss record in 2025, 1-1 on hard (See FULL STATS).

Previously at the Australian Open

Martic
Australian Open
Martic's Record

Xinyu Gao

Xinyu Gao
Xinyu Gao

3 - 0win/loss

Hard
3-0
I Hard
0-0
Rank
146
High
146
Year Total Hard Clay I.hard Grass Carpet
2025 3-0 3-0 0-0 0-0 0-0 0-0
2024 35-19 31-12 4-4 0-2 0-1 0-0
2023 40-22 29-19 8-1 3-2 0-0 0-0
2022 23-6 23-5 0-1 0-0 0-0 0-0
2021 0-0 0-0 0-0 0-0 0-0 0-0

Ranked no. 146 (career-high), Xinyu got to the qualifications after defeating Anouk Koevermans 6-0 6-0.

In the qualifications, Xinyu had a good straight sets win against Koevermans (6-0 6-0). During the match Gao scored 53 points vs Koevermans’s 22. The Chinese was pretty aggressive to blast 12 winners.

About the serving games, Gao wasn’t able to score even 1 ace for the entire match and she committed only 1 double fault for the entire match. Xinyu Gao conceded no breaks for the entire match to put 50% of her first serves in, win 63% (12/19) of the points behind her 1st serve and 74% (14/19) on the 2nd serve. The Chinese broke Koevermans 6 times after converting 75% of her break points (6/8).

The Chinese has a composed 3-0 win-loss record in 2025, 3-0 on hard (See FULL STATS).

Previously at the Australian Open

Xinyu has never competed in this tournament before.

Gao
Australian Open
Gao's Record
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H2H Performance in the tournament

P.Martic
X.Gao
!
1h:36
1h:36
Time on court​
1h:03
1h:03
1h:36
1h:36
Last match​
1h:03
1h:03
1
1
Match played
1
1
21
21
Games Played​
12
12
2
2
Set played​​
2
2
73
73
Total points​
53
53
73
73
Avg point​
53
53
31
31
Winners
12
12
31
31
Avg Winners​
12
12
42%
42%
Ratio winners
23%
23%
-- Serve --
10
10
Aces
0
0
10
10
Avg Aces
0
0
7
7
Double Faults
1
1
!
7
7
Avg Double Faults
1
1
31/39
31/39
1st won total​
12/19
12/19
!
79%
79%
1st won %
63%
63%
12/25
12/25
2nd won total​
14/19
14/19
48%
48%
2nd won %
!
74%
74%
-- Break Points --
3/6
3/6
BP won
6/8
6/8
3/6
3/6
Avg BP won
6/8
6/8
50%
50%
Won
!
75%
75%
2
2
Conceded
0
0
2
2
Avg Conceded
0
0
1
1
Broken
0
0
1
1
Avg Broken
!
0
0
1
1
Saved
0
0

Matches, sets, games and points

Points Martic Gao
Match played 1 1
Tot Set 2 2
Tot Games 21 12
Pts 73-56 53-22
Total Points 129 75
Winners 31 12
%Winners 42% 23%

Both Martic and Gao 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, Martic and Gao have played the same amount of sets 2. However, Martic played 9 games more than Gao. Martic scored 31 winners (42% of the total points). On the other side, Gao managed to score 12 winners (23%).

Serve Performance

Serve Martic Gao
Aces 10 0
Avg per match 10 0
1st in 39/64 19/38
%1st in 61% 50%
1st pts 31/39 12/19
%1st pts 79% 63%
2nd pts 12/25 14/19
%2nd pts 48% 74%

Martic fired 10 aces . Gao didn’t manage to fire a single ace to far. Martic won 79% points behind her first serve. She pretty solid on her second serve to win 48% of the points. On the other side, Gao won 63% of the points on her first serve. She had a solid display on her second serve to win 74% of the points.

How they played the important points

Breaks Martic Gao
Won 3 6
Converted 3/6 6/8
% Converted 50% 75%
Conceded 2 0
Saved 1 0
% Saved 50% 0%
Times Broken 1 0

Martic broke her opponent 3 times with a 50% conversion rate. Martic lost her serve once and she saved 50% of the break points that she conceded. The Chinese broke her opponent 6 times with a 75% conversion rate. Gao was rock solid on her serve as she has never conceded a single service game after saving 0 break points.

Martic
Q1
Hule
Total
Score 6-2 7-66
Tot Set 2 2
Tot Games 21 21
pts 73-56 73-56
Total points 129 129
Winners 31 31
%Winners 42% 42%
SERVE
Aces 10 10
Double Faults 7 7
1st in 39/64 39/64
% 1st in 61% 61%
1st pts 31/39 31/39
% 1st pts 79% 79%
2nd pts 12/25 12/25
% 2nd pts 48% 48%
Breaks
Won 3 3
Converted 3/6 3/6
Converted % 50% 50%
Conceded 2 2
Saved 1/2 1
Saved % 50% 50%
Times Broken 1 1
Gao
Q1
Koevermans
Total
Score 6-0 6-0
Tot Set 2 2
Tot Games 12 12
pts 53-22 53-22
Total points 75 75
Winners 12 12
%Winners 23% 23%
SERVE
Aces 0 0
Double Faults 1 1
1st in 19/38 19/38
% 1st in 50% 50%
1st pts 12/19 12/19
% 1st pts 63% 63%
2nd pts 14/19 14/19
% 2nd pts 74% 74%
Breaks
Won 6 6
Converted 6/8 6/8
Converted % 75% 75%
Conceded 0 0
Saved 0/0 0
Saved % 0%
Times Broken 0 0

Head 2 Head

Win Loss
Martic
WL
Gao
WWW
2025 2024 2023
1 - 1
3 - 0
1-1
Hard
3-0

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