H2H, prediction of Daria Kasatkina vs Yafan Wang at the Australian Open with odds, preview, pick | 16th January 2025

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Prediction and head to head Daria Kasatkina vs. Yafan Wang

Daria Kasatkina and Yafan Wang will face off in the 2nd round of the Australian Open for the 1st time in their career. They are scheduled to compete on Thursday at 11:00 am on 1573 Arena. In the following lines you can find the head to head analysis and prediction.

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The pick for Tennis Tonic is Daria Kasatkina who should win in 2 sets.

See updated oddsAs per the initial odds, Daria Kasatkina is the pick to win this match.
Daria Kasatkina -> 1.186
Yafan Wang -> 4.75

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Prediction and head to head Daria Kasatkina vs. Yafan Wang

There is no head to head record between Daria Kasatkina and Yafan Wang since this will be the first time that they will clash against each other in the main tour.

Daria Kasatkina

Daria Kasatkina
Daria Kasatkina

4 - 2win/loss

Hard
4-2
I Hard
0-0
Rank
17
High
8
LLLWLWLLWL
Year Total Hard Clay I.hard Grass Carpet
2025 11-12 9-8 2-4 0-0 0-0 0-0
2024 40-23 24-16 8-4 0-1 8-2 0-0
2023 39-25 19-15 12-6 2-1 6-3 0-0
2022 41-22 24-14 12-5 1-1 4-2 0-0
2021 38-19 19-10 5-5 7-1 7-3 0-0

Ranked no. 10, Darya reached the 2nd round after beating Viktoriya Tomova 6-1 6-3.

In the 1st round, Kasatkina had a good straight sets win against Tomova (6-1 6-3). During the match, Kasatkina scored 63 points vs Tomova’s 38. Kasatkina was quite aggressive to blast 25 winners.

Talking about the service games, Kasatkina bagged 2 aces and she was extremely solid in conceding no double faults. Overall, Daria Kasatkina was pretty efficient on serve to win 74% (25/34) of her 1st serve and 61% (11/18) on the second serve. However, this didn’t prevent her to concede the serve once. Darya broke Tomova 5 times after converting 50% of her break points (5/10).

Kasatkina has a solid record in the last 10 years having won 61% of her matches (303-194). 4-2 on hard in 2025. Regarding her performance on the same surface of this event, Kasatkina has a compiled 158-118 record in the last years on hard.

Kasatkina has an aggregate 4-2 win-loss record in 2025, 4-2 on hard (See FULL STATS).

Previously at the Australian Open

Kasatkina
Australian Open
Kasatkina's Record

Yafan Wang

Yafan Wang
Yafan Wang

1 - 1win/loss

Hard
1-1
I Hard
0-0
Rank
110
High
47
Year Total Hard Clay I.hard Grass Carpet
2025 1-2 1-2 0-0 0-0 0-0 0-0
2024 23-23 20-15 2-4 0-0 1-4 0-0
2023 59-14 35-8 7-1 4-1 13-3 0-1
2022 21-8 3-4 18-4 0-0 0-0 0-0
2021 5-17 0-6 1-7 0-0 4-4 0-0

Ranked no. 64, the Chinese reached the 2nd round after beating Anna Bondar 3-6 6-3 6-4.

In the 1st round against Bondar, Yafan recovered from a 1-set down deficit before winning (3-6 6-3 6-4). During the match Wang scored 94 points vs Bondar’s 86. The Chinese was pretty aggressive to blast 44 winners.

Talking about serving, Wang struck 2 aces and she committed only 6 double faults. Yafan Wang lost the serve twice and she saved 9 break points. Furthermore, Wang put 68% of her first serves in, winning 68% (44/65) of the points behind her 1st serve and 55% (17/31) on the 2nd serve. Yafan broke Bondar 3 times after converting 50% of her break points (3/6).

Wang 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 3rd round in 2024. See her history.

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

D.Kasatkina
Y.Wang
1h:07
1h:07
Time on court​
!
2h:13
2h:13
1h:07
1h:07
Last match​
!
2h:13
2h:13
1
1
Match played
1
1
16
16
Games Played​
28
28
2
2
Set played​​
3
3
63
63
Total points​
94
94
63
63
Avg point​
94
94
25
25
Winners
44
44
25
25
Avg Winners​
44
44
40%
40%
Ratio winners
47%
47%
-- Serve --
2
2
Aces
2
2
2
2
Avg Aces
2
2
0
0
Double Faults
6
6
0
0
Avg Double Faults
!
6
6
25/34
25/34
1st won total​
44/65
44/65
!
74%
74%
1st won %
68%
68%
11/18
11/18
2nd won total​
17/31
17/31
!
61%
61%
2nd won %
55%
55%
-- Break Points --
5/10
5/10
BP won
3/6
3/6
5/10
5/10
Avg BP won
3/6
3/6
50%
50%
Won
50%
50%
5
5
Conceded
11
11
5
5
Avg Conceded
11
11
1
1
Broken
2
2
1
1
Avg Broken
2
2
4
4
Saved
9
9

Matches, sets, games and points

Points Kasatkina Wang
Match played 1 1
Tot Set 2 3
Tot Games 16 28
Pts 63-38 94-86
Total Points 101 180
Winners 25 44
%Winners 40% 47%

Both Kasatkina and Wang played 1 match. At the moment, Yafan Wang lost 1 set while Daria Kasatkina hasn’t lost a set so far. Kasatkina has played 1 set(s) less than Wang (2 vs 3). Therefore, Kasatkina played 12 games less than Wang. Darya scored 25 winners (40% of the total points). On the other side, The Chinese blasted 44 winners (47%).

Serve Performance

Serve Kasatkina Wang
Aces 2 2
Avg per match 2 2
1st in 34/52 65/96
%1st in 65% 68%
1st pts 25/34 44/65
%1st pts 74% 68%
2nd pts 11/18 17/31
%2nd pts 61% 55%

Kasatkina scored 2 aces . Wang blasted 2 aces . Kasatkina won 74% points behind her first serve. She extremely effective on her second serve to win 61% of the points. On the other side, Wang won 68% of the points on her first serve. She had a solid display on her second serve to win 55% of the points.

How they played the important points

Breaks Kasatkina Wang
Won 5 3
Converted 5/10 3/6
% Converted 50% 50%
Conceded 5 11
Saved 4 9
% Saved 80% 82%
Times Broken 1 2

The Russian broke her opponent 5 times with a 50% conversion rate. Darya conceded her serve once and she saved 80% of the break points that she conceded. The Chinese broke her opponent 3 times with a 50% conversion rate. The Chinese conceded her serve twice and she saved 82% of the break points that she conceded.

Kasatkina
R1
Tomova
Total
Score 6-1 6-3
Tot Set 2 2
Tot Games 16 16
pts 63-38 63-38
Total points 101 101
Winners 25 25
%Winners 40% 40%
SERVE
Aces 2 2
Double Faults 0 0
1st in 34/52 34/52
% 1st in 65% 65%
1st pts 25/34 25/34
% 1st pts 74% 74%
2nd pts 11/18 11/18
% 2nd pts 61% 61%
Breaks
Won 5 5
Converted 5/10 5/10
Converted % 50% 50%
Conceded 5 5
Saved 4/5 4
Saved % 80% 80%
Times Broken 1 1
Wang
R1
Bondar
Total
Score 3-6 6-3 6-4
Tot Set 3 3
Tot Games 28 28
pts 94-86 94-86
Total points 180 180
Winners 44 44
%Winners 47% 47%
SERVE
Aces 2 2
Double Faults 6 6
1st in 65/96 65/96
% 1st in 68% 68%
1st pts 44/65 44/65
% 1st pts 68% 68%
2nd pts 17/31 17/31
% 2nd pts 55% 55%
Breaks
Won 3 3
Converted 3/6 3/6
Converted % 50% 50%
Conceded 11 11
Saved 9/11 9
Saved % 82% 82%
Times Broken 2 2

Head 2 Head

Win Loss
Kasatkina
LLLWLWLLWL
Wang
LWL
2025 2024 2023
11 - 12
1 - 2
9-8
Hard
1-2
2-4
Clay
0-0

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