H2H, prediction of Yulia Putintseva vs Shuai Zhang at the Australian Open with odds, preview, pick | 16th January 2025

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Prediction and head to head Yulia Putintseva vs. Shuai Zhang

Yulia Putintseva and Shuai Zhang will face off in the 2nd round of the Australian Open for the 8th time in their career. They are scheduled to play on Thursday at 12:30 pm on Court 7. Here the head to head stats and relative prediction.

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The pick for Tennis Tonic is Yulia Putintseva who should win in 2 sets.

See updated oddsAs per the initial odds, Yulia Putintseva is the pick to win this match.
Yulia Putintseva -> 1.162
Shuai Zhang -> 5.2

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Prediction and head to head Yulia Putintseva vs. Shuai Zhang

This will be the 8th time that Yulia Putintseva and Shuai Zhang clash against each other. The head to head is 5-2 for Putintseva (see full H2H stats), 4-1 on hard.

The last time that they squared off, Putintseva won 6-4 6-4 in the 1st round in Wuhan back in 2024.

Yulia Putintseva

Yulia Putintseva
Yulia Putintseva

5 - 2win/loss

Hard
5-2
I Hard
0-0
Rank
23
High
23
LWWLWWWLW
Year Total Hard Clay I.hard Grass Carpet
2025 6-3 6-3 0-0 0-0 0-0 0-0
2024 40-22 22-15 9-4 1-2 8-1 0-0
2023 34-27 19-17 13-8 2-0 0-2 0-0
2022 26-21 9-11 15-7 1-1 1-2 0-0
2021 32-24 14-12 12-8 5-2 1-2 0-0

Ranked no. 23 (career-high), Putintseva reached the 2nd round after beating Elina Avanesyan 4-6 7-5 6-2.

In the 1st round against Avanesyan, The Kazakhstani recovered from a 1-set down deficit before winning (4-6 7-5 6-2). During the match, Putintseva scored 100 points vs Avanesyan’s 87. The Kazakhstani was very aggressive to blast 48 winners.

Regarding the service games, Putintseva scored just 1 ace during the match and she committed only 3 double faults. Yulia Putintseva lost the serve 4 times and she saved 1 break points. Furthermore, Putintseva put 74% of her first serves in, winning 71% (48/68) of the points behind her 1st serve and 33% (8/24) on the 2nd serve. Yulia broke Avanesyan 6 times after converting 50% of her break points (6/12).

Putintseva has favorable record in the last 10 years having won 56% of her matches (269-213). 5-2 on hard in 2025. In connection with her performance on the same surface of this tournament, Putintseva has an overall 144-128 record in the last years on hard.

Putintseva’s best result of the season was reaching the semifinal in Adelaide.

Yulia has a composed 5-2 win-loss record in 2025, 5-2 on hard (See FULL STATS).

Previously at the Australian Open

Putintseva
Australian Open
Putintseva's Record

Shuai Zhang

Shuai Zhang
Shuai Zhang

1 - 1win/loss

Hard
1-1
I Hard
0-0
Rank
204
High
22
Year Total Hard Clay I.hard Grass Carpet
2025 1-2 1-2 0-0 0-0 0-0 0-0
2024 6-14 6-12 0-1 0-0 0-1 0-0
2023 4-19 3-10 0-4 1-1 0-4 0-0
2022 39-31 17-14 4-7 10-7 8-3 0-0
2021 23-28 8-11 4-8 5-5 6-4 0-0

Ranked no. 204, Shuai got to the 2nd round after defeating Mccartney Kessler 6-3 6-4.

In the 1st round, Shuai had a good straight sets win against Kessler (6-3 6-4). During the match Zhang scored 68 points vs Kessler’s 49. Shuai was exceptionally aggressive to blast 24 winners.

Talking about serving, Zhang couldn’t to score even 1 ace for the entire match and she was quite steady in conceding no double faults for the entire match. Overall, Shuai Zhang was pretty effective on serve to win 77% (24/31) of her 1st serve and 65% (11/17) on the second serve. However, this didn’t prevent her to concede the serve once. Zhang broke Kessler 4 times after converting 50% of her break points (4/8).

The Chinese has a composed 1-1 win-loss record in 2025, 1-1 on hard (See FULL STATS).

Previously at the Australian Open

Previously, her best result was reaching the quarter in 2016. See her history.

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

Y.Putintseva
S.Zhang
!
2h:07
2h:07
Time on court​
1h:16
1h:16
!
2h:07
2h:07
Last match​
1h:16
1h:16
1
1
Match played
1
1
30
30
Games Played​
19
19
3
3
Set played​​
2
2
100
100
Total points​
68
68
100
100
Avg point​
68
68
48
48
Winners
24
24
48
48
Avg Winners​
24
24
48%
48%
Ratio winners
35%
35%
-- Serve --
1
1
Aces
0
0
1
1
Avg Aces
0
0
3
3
Double Faults
0
0
3
3
Avg Double Faults
0
0
48/68
48/68
1st won total​
24/31
24/31
!
71%
71%
1st won %
!
77%
77%
8/24
8/24
2nd won total​
11/17
11/17
!
33%
33%
2nd won %
!
65%
65%
-- Break Points --
6/12
6/12
BP won
4/8
4/8
6/12
6/12
Avg BP won
4/8
4/8
50%
50%
Won
50%
50%
5
5
Conceded
2
2
5
5
Avg Conceded
2
2
4
4
Broken
1
1
4
4
Avg Broken
1
1
1
1
Saved
1
1

Matches, sets, games and points

Points Putintseva Zhang
Match played 1 1
Tot Set 3 2
Tot Games 30 19
Pts 100-87 68-49
Total Points 187 117
Winners 48 24
%Winners 48% 35%

Both Putintseva and Zhang played 1 match. At the moment, Yulia Putintseva dropped 1 set while Shuai Zhang hasn’t lost a set so far. Putintseva has played 1 set more than Zhang (3 vs 2). Therefore, Putintseva played 11 games more than Zhang. Putintseva scored 48 winners (48% of the total points). On the other side, Shuai recorded 24 winners (35%).

Serve Performance

Serve Putintseva Zhang
Aces 1 0
Avg per match 1 0
1st in 68/92 31/48
%1st in 74% 65%
1st pts 48/68 24/31
%1st pts 71% 77%
2nd pts 8/24 11/17
%2nd pts 33% 65%

Putintseva blasted 1 ace . Zhang didn’t manage to fire a single ace to far. Putintseva won 71% points behind her first serve. She very solid her second serve to win 33% of the points. On the other side, Zhang won 77% of the points on her first serve. She had a solid display on her second serve to win 65% of the points.

How they played the important points

Breaks Putintseva Zhang
Won 6 4
Converted 6/12 4/8
% Converted 50% 50%
Conceded 5 2
Saved 1 1
% Saved 20% 50%
Times Broken 4 1

Putintseva broke her opponent 6 times with a 50% conversion rate. The Kazakhstani dropped her serve 4 times and she saved 20% of the break points that she conceded. The Chinese broke her opponent 4 times with a 50% conversion rate. The Chinese conceded her serve once and she saved 50% of the break points that she conceded.

Putintseva
R1
Avanesyan
Total
Score 4-6 7-5 6-2
Tot Set 3 3
Tot Games 30 30
pts 100-87 100-87
Total points 187 187
Winners 48 48
%Winners 48% 48%
SERVE
Aces 1 1
Double Faults 3 3
1st in 68/92 68/92
% 1st in 74% 74%
1st pts 48/68 48/68
% 1st pts 71% 71%
2nd pts 8/24 8/24
% 2nd pts 33% 33%
Breaks
Won 6 6
Converted 6/12 6/12
Converted % 50% 50%
Conceded 5 5
Saved 1/5 1
Saved % 20% 20%
Times Broken 4 4
Zhang
R1
Kessler
Total
Score 6-3 6-4
Tot Set 2 2
Tot Games 19 19
pts 68-49 68-49
Total points 117 117
Winners 24 24
%Winners 35% 35%
SERVE
Aces 0 0
Double Faults 0 0
1st in 31/48 31/48
% 1st in 65% 65%
1st pts 24/31 24/31
% 1st pts 77% 77%
2nd pts 11/17 11/17
% 2nd pts 65% 65%
Breaks
Won 4 4
Converted 4/8 4/8
Converted % 50% 50%
Conceded 2 2
Saved 1/2 1
Saved % 50% 50%
Times Broken 1 1

Head 2 Head

Win Loss
Putintseva
LWWLWWWLW
Zhang
LWL
2025 2024 2023
6 - 3
1 - 2
6-3
Hard
1-2

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