Yue Yuan and Wakana Sonobe will fight against each other in the 1st round of the Mubadala Abu Dhabi Open for the 1st time in their career. They are scheduled to compete on Monday at 1:00 pm on STADIUM COURT. In this post, we analyze their head to head performance and prediction.
Prediction, odds and live streaming
The pick for Tennis Tonic is Yue Yuan who should win in 2 sets.
As per the initial odds, Yue Yuan is the pick to win this match.
Yue Yuan -> 1.31
Wakana Sonobe -> 3.45
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Prediction and head to head Yue Yuan vs. Wakana Sonobe
There is no head to head record between Yue Yuan and Wakana Sonobe since this will be the first time that they will clash against each other in the main tour.
Yue Yuan
| Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 11-16 | 3-9 | 5-4 | 0-0 | 3-3 | 0-0 |
| 2024 | 32-27 | 27-17 | 3-6 | 0-0 | 2-4 | 0-0 |
| 2023 | 41-29 | 27-17 | 8-7 | 1-2 | 5-3 | 0-0 |
| 2022 | 44-25 | 33-16 | 9-7 | 0-0 | 2-2 | 0-0 |
| 2021 | 24-17 | 6-7 | 3-6 | 15-4 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
Ranked no. 54, the Chinese will start her run in Abu Dhabi after she played her last match at the Melbourne where she lost 6-4 4-6 6-3 to Pavlyuchenkova in the 1st round on the 13th of January.
Yuan has a compiled 2-3 win-loss record in 2025, 2-3 on hard (See FULL STATS).
Talking about her overall career, The Chinese has an overall 262-189 record. She has a positive 200-138 record on hard.
Previously in Abu Dhabi
Yue has never competed in this tournament before.
Wakana Sonobe
| Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 14-9 | 12-5 | 2-4 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2024 | 17-10 | 5-3 | 12-6 | 0-1 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2023 | 7-4 | 1-1 | 6-3 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2022 | 13-6 | 4-1 | 9-5 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
Ranked no. 834, Sonobe got to the 1st round after beating Hailey Baptiste 6-3 6-1 and Cristina Bucsa 6-3 6-3.
In the qualifications, Sonobe had a good straight sets win against Bucsa (6-3 6-3). During the match Sonobe scored 62 points vs Bucsa’s 50. Sonobe was quite aggressive to blast 28 winners.
About the serving games, Sonobe fired 3 aces and she committed only 3 double faults. Wakana Sonobe lost the serve twice and she saved 3 break points. Furthermore, Sonobe put 67% of her first serves in, winning 68% (28/41) of the points behind her 1st serve and 40% (8/20) on the 2nd serve. Wakana broke Bucsa 5 times after converting 71% of her break points (5/7).
Overall Performance in this tournament
Wakana started her run at this tournament from the qualifications. In the main draw, she hasn’t surrendered yet a set in this event to conquer 59% of the points she played.
The Japanese has an overall 2-0 win-loss record in 2025, 2-0 on hard (See FULL STATS).
Previously in Abu Dhabi
Previously, her best result was reaching the qualifications in 2024. See her history.
Head 2 Head
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- Peter HellerHeller – Tobias SimonSimon (3-1 ret.) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Evan FurnessFurness – Jan SatralSatral (6-3 7-5) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Alejandro TabiloTabilo – Bruno Sant’AnnaSant’Anna (6-4 5-7 6-1) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Lukas KleinKlein – Vaclav SafranekSafranek (3-6 7-62 7-62) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Andrew PaulsonPaulson – Nik RazborsekRazborsek (6-4 6-3) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Lucas GerchGerch – Fabien ReboulReboul (6-3 6-1) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Patrik RiklRikl – Marek GengelGengel (7-5 6-1) – Stats, scores, rankings
- David PoljakPoljak – Sadio DoumbiaDoumbia (2-3 ret.) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Jiri LeheckaLehecka – Fabrizio OrnagoOrnago (7-5 6-0) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Marco BortolottiBortolotti – Michal KonecnyKonecny (6-4 6-2) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Daniel Dutra Da SilvaDutra Da Silva – Danylo KalenichenkoKalenichenko (6-75 6-0 6-2) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Colin SinclairSinclair – Marvin NetuschilNetuschil (6-3 7-64) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Gijs BrouwerBrouwer – Francesco FortiForti (7-65 7-68) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Peter TorebkoTorebko – Vit KoprivaKopriva (7-65 6-1) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Sekou BangouraBangoura – Yannick MertensMertens (6-4 6-0) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Jacob GrillsGrills – Tomas VankoVanko (2-1 ret.) – Stats, scores, rankings
Upcoming matches in the draw
- Yue YuanYuan – (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Ons JabeurJabeur – Jelena OstapenkoOstapenko (3-2) – H2H and prediction
- Marketa VondrousovaVondrousova – Emma RaducanuRaducanu (1-1) – H2H and prediction
- Belinda BencicBencic – Rebecca SramkovaSramkova (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Leylah Annie FernandezAnnie Fernandez – Ekaterina AlexandrovaAlexandrova (1-3) – H2H and prediction
- Caroline GarciaGarcia – Lulu SunSun (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Mccartney KesslerKessler – (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Anastasia PavlyuchenkovaPavlyuchenkova – Sofia KeninKenin (0-2) – H2H and prediction
- Renata ZarazuaZarazua – Magda LinetteLinette (0-1) – H2H and prediction
- Magdalena FrechFrech – (1-1) – H2H and prediction
