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.
Prediction, odds and live streaming
The pick for Tennis Tonic is Yulia Putintseva who should win in 2 sets.
As 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
Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
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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
Shuai Zhang
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.
H2H Performance in the tournament
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 |
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