Yue Yuan

and Irina-Camelia Begu will face off in the qualifications of the Dubai Duty Free Championships for the 2^nd time in their career. They are scheduled to compete on Saturday at 12:30 pm on COURT 1. In the following lines you can find the head to head analysis and prediction.

Prediction, odds and live streaming

The pick for Tennis Tonic is Yue Yuan who should win in 3 sets.

As per the initial odds, Yue Yuan is the pick to win this match.
Yue Yuan -> 1.833
Irina-Camelia Begu -> 1.89

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Prediction and head to head Yue Yuan vs. Irina-Camelia Begu

This will be the 2^nd time that Yue Yuan and Irina-Camelia Begu play each other. The head to head is 1-0 for Yuan (see full H2H stats), 1-0 on hard.

The last time that they competed against each other, Yuan won 6-3 7-6(6) in the 2^nd round in at the U.S. Open back in 2022.

Highlights Yue Yuan vs Irina-Camelia Begu – U.S. Open 01-September-2022

Yue Yuan

Ranked no. 51, Yue reached the qualifications after defeating Cristina Bucsa 6-3 6-1.

In the qualifications, Yuan had a good straight sets win against Bucsa (6-3 6-1). During the match, Yuan scored 62 points vs Bucsa’s 46. Yuan was exceptionally aggressive to blast 30 winners.

Talking about the service games, Yuan couldn’t to score even 1 ace in the encounter and she committed only 2 double faults. Yue Yuan conceded no breaks for the entire match to save 3 break points. Furthermore, Yuan put 68% of her first serves in, winning 70% (30/43) of the points behind her 1st serve and 50% (10/20) on the 2nd serve. Yue broke Bucsa 4 times after converting 67% of her break points (4/6).

Yuan has good record in the last 10 years having won 58% of her matches (263-191). 3-5 on hard in 2025. Regarding her performance on the same surface of this tournament, Yuan has a composed 201-140 match record in the last years on hard.

Yuan has a composed 3-5 win-loss record in 2025, 3-5 on hard (See FULL STATS).

Previously in Dubai

Yuan has never competed in this tournament before.

Irina-Camelia Begu

Ranked no. 78, the Romanian reached the qualifications after beating Leah Baroudi 6-1 6-1.

In the qualifications, Begu had a good straight sets win against Baroudi (6-1 6-1). During the match Begu scored 52 points vs Baroudi’s 18. Begu was quite aggressive to blast 21 winners.

Talking about serving, Begu made 4 aces and she committed only 1 double fault for the entire match. Irina-Camelia Begu was pretty effective on serve to win 100% (21/21) of her 1st serve and 70% (7/10) on the second serve. This was the main reason for not conceding a single break during the match. Begu broke Baroudi 5 times after converting 56% of her break points (5/9).

The Romanian has an overall 2-3 win-loss record in 2025, 2-2 on hard (See FULL STATS).

H2H Performance in the tournament

Matches, sets, games and points

Points	Yuan	Begu
Match played	1	1
Tot Set	2	2
Tot Games	16	14
Pts	62-46	52-18
Total Points	108	70
Winners	30	21
%Winners	48%	40%

Both Yuan and Begu played 1 match. Also both players started their run from the qualifications.Both players have not surrendered a single set in this event so far. Talking about their workload, Yuan and Begu have played the same amount of sets 2. However, Yuan played 2 games more than Begu. Yue scored 30 winners (48% of the total points). On the other side, The Romanian bagged 21 winners (40%).

Serve Performance

Serve	Yuan	Begu
Aces	0	4
Avg per match	0	4
1st in	43/63	21/31
%1st in	68%	68%
1st pts	30/43	21/21
%1st pts	70%	100%
2nd pts	10/20	7/10
%2nd pts	50%	70%

Yuan didn’t manage to fire a single ace to far. Begu struck 4 aces . Yuan won 70% points behind her first serve. She was rock solid on her second serve to win 50% of the points. On the other side, Begu won 100% of the points behind her first serve. She had a solid display on her second serve to win 70% of the points.

How they played the important points

Breaks	Yuan	Begu
Won	4	5
Converted	4/6	5/9
% Converted	67%	56%
Conceded	3	0
Saved	3	0
% Saved	100%	0%
Times Broken	0	0

The Chinese broke her opponent 4 times with a 67% conversion rate. Yuan pretty effective on her serve as she has never surrendered a single service game after saving 3 break points. Begu broke her opponent 5 times with a 56% conversion rate. Irina-Camelia was rock solid on her serve as she has never conceded a single service game after saving 0 break points.

Yuan
	Q1 Bucsa	Total
Score	6-3 6-1
Tot Set	2	2
Tot Games	16	16
pts	62-46	62-46
Total points	108	108
Winners	30	30
%Winners	48%	48%
SERVE
Aces	0	0
Double Faults	2	2
1st in	43/63	43/63
% 1st in	68%	68%
1st pts	30/43	30/43
% 1st pts	70%	70%
2nd pts	10/20	10/20
% 2nd pts	50%	50%
Breaks
Won	4	4
Converted	4/6	4/6
Converted %	67%	67%
Conceded	3	3
Saved	3/3	3
Saved %	100%	100%
Times Broken	0	0

Begu
	Q1 Baroudi	Total
Score	6-1 6-1
Tot Set	2	2
Tot Games	14	14
pts	52-18	52-18
Total points	70	70
Winners	21	21
%Winners	40%	40%
SERVE
Aces	4	4
Double Faults	1	1
1st in	21/31	21/31
% 1st in	68%	68%
1st pts	21/21	21/21
% 1st pts	100%	100%
2nd pts	7/10	7/10
% 2nd pts	70%	70%
Breaks
Won	5	5
Converted	5/9	5/9
Converted %	56%	56%
Conceded	0	0
Saved	0/0	0
Saved %	–	0%
Times Broken	0	0

Tennis Scores in Dubai

• Maxim KrapivinKrapivin – Oleg KhotkovKhotkov (6-2 7-6⁴) – Stats, scores, rankings
• Shunsuke WakitaWakita – Martin ZeljenkaZeljenka (6-3 6-1) – Stats, scores, rankings
• Milan DrinicDrinic – Stefan MicovMicov (6-4 6-1) – Stats, scores, rankings
• Ljubomir CelebicCelebic – Daniil GlinkaGlinka (6-1 6-2) – Stats, scores, rankings

Upcoming matches in the draw

• Yue YuanYuan – Irina-Camelia BeguBegu (1-0) – H2H and prediction
• Veronika KudermetovaKudermetova – (0-0) – H2H and prediction
• Katerina SiniakovaSiniakova – Jaqueline CristianCristian (2-0) – H2H and prediction
• Shuai ZhangZhang – Suzan LamensLamens (0-0) – H2H and prediction
• Alycia ParksParks – Bernarda PeraPera (1-0) – H2H and prediction
• Eva LysLys – Kamilla RakhimovaRakhimova (2-0) – H2H and prediction
• Anastasia ZakharovaZakharova – Moyuka UchijimaUchijima (0-2) – H2H and prediction