Heather Watson and Iryna Shymanovich will face off in the 1^st round of the Credit One Charleston Open for the 2^nd time in their career. They are scheduled to play on Tuesday at 11:00 am on ALTHEA GIBSON. 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 Heather Watson who should win in 3 sets.

As per the initial odds, Heather Watson is the pick to win this match.
Heather Watson -> 1.58
Iryna Shymanovich -> 2.38

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Prediction and head to head Heather Watson vs. Iryna Shymanovich

This will be the 2^nd time that Heather Watson and Iryna Shymanovich play each other. The head to head is 1-0 for Shymanovich (see full H2H stats), but they have never competed against each other on clay.

The last time that they squared off, Shymanovich won 6-2 6-4 in the 1^st round in the Stanford back in 2023.

Heather Watson

Ranked no. 182, the Brit will start her run in Charleston after she played her last match in the Puerto Vallarta where she lost 6-2 6-4 to Fruhvirtova in the semifinal on the 29^th of March.

Watson has a composed 4-6 win-loss record in 2025, 0-0 on clay (See FULL STATS).

This will be the first match of the year on clay.

The Brit’s best result of the season was reaching the semifinal in the Puerto Vallarta.

Talking about her overall career, The Brit has an overall 436-358 record. She has a negative 58-59 record on clay.

Previously in Charleston

Previously, her best result was reaching the 1^st round in 2010, 2011, 2015, 2018 and 2022. See her history.

Iryna Shymanovich

Ranked no. 215, Shymanovich got to the 1^st round after beating Lyudmyla Kichenok 6-2 0-6 6-3 and Elvina Kalieva 7-6(6) 6-4.

In the qualifications, The Belarussian had a good straight sets win against Kalieva (7-6⁶ 6-4). During the match Shymanovich scored 82 points vs Kalieva’s 72. Iryna was very aggressive to blast 22 winners.

Talking about serving, Shymanovich couldn’t to score even 1 ace for the entire match and she committed only 2 double faults. Iryna Shymanovich lost the serve 5 times and she saved 3 break points. Furthermore, Shymanovich put 51% of her first serves in, winning 58% (22/38) of the points behind her 1st serve and 47% (17/36) on the 2nd serve. Shymanovich broke Kalieva 6 times after converting 43% of her break points (6/14).

Overall Performance in this tournament

The Belarussian started her run at this tournament from the qualifications. In the main draw, she has conceded 1 set in the tournament to win 51% of the points she played.

The Belarussian’s best result of the current season was getting to the final in the W50 Vacaria.

The Belarussian has a compiled 13-6 win-loss record in 2025, 6-1 on clay (See FULL STATS).

Previously in Charleston

The Belarussian has never competed in this tournament before.

Tennis Scores in Charleston

• Polina KudermetovaKudermetova – Irina-Camelia BeguBegu (6-3 6-4) – Stats, scores, rankings
• Veronika KudermetovaKudermetova – Maria MateasMateas (6-0 6-2) – Stats, scores, rankings
• Robin MontgomeryMontgomery – Viktoriya TomovaTomova (6-1 6-3) – Stats, scores, rankings
• Varvara GrachevaGracheva – Harriet Dart
  Dart (6-1 3-6 6-1) – Stats, scores, rankings
• Katie VolynetsVolynets – Katherine SebovSebov (6-0 6-0) – Stats, scores, rankings
• Ajla TomljanovicTomljanovic – Kyoka OkamuraOkamura (3-6 6-1 6-2) – Stats, scores, rankings
• Caty McNallyMcNally – Anhelina KalininaKalinina (4-6 6-1 6-4) – Stats, scores, rankings
• Caroline DolehideDolehide – Elisabetta CocciarettoCocciaretto (6-4 6-1) – Stats, scores, rankings
• Niklas GuttauGuttau – Paul WoernerWoerner (6-1 6-2) – Stats, scores, rankings
• Ergi KirkinKirkin – Horst RiederRieder (6-2 6-3) – Stats, scores, rankings
• Koray KirciKirci – Yanki ErelErel (6-4 6-4) – Stats, scores, rankings
• Mirko CutuliCutuli – Marsel IlhanIlhan (6-3 6-4) – Stats, scores, rankings
• Alexander OvcharovOvcharov – Mert Naci TurkerNaci Turker (7-6² 6-1) – Stats, scores, rankings
• Christopher HeymanHeyman – Zura TkemaladzeTkemaladze (7-6² 6-0) – Stats, scores, rankings
• Jean ThirouinThirouin – Michalis SakellaridisSakellaridis (6-3 6-2) – Stats, scores, rankings
• Vladimir KorolevKorolev – Jesper De JongDe Jong (3-6 6-1 6-4) – Stats, scores, rankings
• Denys KlokKlok – Viacheslav YulikYulik (6-1 5-0 ret.) – Stats, scores, rankings
• Adrian ObertObert – Sarp AgabigunAgabigun (2-6 6-2 6-2) – Stats, scores, rankings
• Dimitriy VoroninVoronin – Cengiz AksuAksu (6-2 6-4) – Stats, scores, rankings
• Matias ZukasZukas – Bekir Berk SahinBerk Sahin (6-0 6-0) – Stats, scores, rankings

Upcoming matches in the draw

• Heather WatsonWatson – Iryna ShymanovichShymanovich (0-1) – H2H and prediction
• Louisa ChiricoChirico – (0-0) – H2H and prediction
• Maria SakkariSakkari – (0-0) – H2H and prediction
• Ann LiLi – Anna BlinkovaBlinkova (0-3) – H2H and prediction
• Shuai ZhangZhang – Lucia BronzettiBronzetti (1-0) – H2H and prediction
• Olivia GadeckiGadecki – Hailey BaptisteBaptiste (0-1) – H2H and prediction
• Lauren DavisDavis – Jamie LoebLoeb (1-1) – H2H and prediction
• Sofia KeninKenin – Bernarda PeraPera (0-1) – H2H and prediction
• Ajla TomljanovicTomljanovic – Peyton StearnsStearns (0-0) – H2H and prediction
• Varvara GrachevaGracheva – Elise MertensMertens (0-2) – H2H and prediction
• Amanda AnisimovaAnisimova – Veronika KudermetovaKudermetova (0-2) – H2H and prediction
• Anna KalinskayaKalinskaya – Caty McNallyMcNally (0-1) – H2H and prediction
• Caroline DolehideDolehide – Madison KeysKeys (0-2) – H2H and prediction