Qinwen Zheng and Anastasia Potapova will face off in the 2nd round of the Mutua Madrid Open for the 5th time in their career. They are scheduled to compete on Friday at 3:00 pm on ARANTXA SANCHEZ STADIUM. 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 Qinwen Zheng who should win in 2 sets.

As per the initial odds, Qinwen Zheng is the pick to win this match.
Qinwen Zheng -> 1.44
Anastasia Potapova -> 2.79

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Prediction and head to head Qinwen Zheng vs. Anastasia Potapova

This will be the 5th time that Qinwen Zheng and Anastasia Potapova fight against each other. The head to head is 3-1 for Zheng (see full H2H stats), but they have never played each other on clay.

The last time that they fought against each other, Zheng won 6-3 6-2 in the 3rd round in Dubai back in 2024.

Highlights Qinwen Zheng vs Anastasia Potapova – Dubai 21-February-2024

Qinwen Zheng

Qinwen Zheng

9 - 6win/loss

Hard
7-5
I Hard
0-0
Clay
2-1
Rank
24
High
4
LWLLWWLWWW
Year Total Hard Clay I.hard Grass Carpet
2025 20-12 8-6 10-4 0-0 2-2 0-0
2024 52-18 31-10 17-4 3-2 1-2 0-0
2023 37-19 23-11 11-4 3-1 0-3 0-0
2022 39-19 27-12 10-4 0-0 2-3 0-0
2021 34-11 7-1 16-6 11-4 0-0 0-0

Ranked no. 8, Zheng will start her run in Madrid after she played her last match in Charleston where she lost 6-1 6-4 to Alexandrova in the quarter on the 4th of April.

Zheng has a compiled 9-6 win-loss record in 2025, 2-1 on clay (See FULL STATS).

Talking about her overall career, The Chinese has an overall 237-101 record. She has a positive 84-26 record on clay.

Previously in Madrid

Previously, her best result was reaching the 3rd round in 2023. See her history.

Madrid
Zheng's Record

Anastasia Potapova

Anastasia Potapova

14 - 6win/loss

Hard
5-5
I Hard
7-1
Clay
2-0
Rank
51
High
21
LWWWLWLLWL
Year Total Hard Clay I.hard Grass Carpet
2025 24-16 10-11 6-3 7-1 1-1 0-0
2024 28-22 17-13 6-5 2-1 3-3 0-0
2023 30-21 11-14 7-4 7-1 5-2 0-0
2022 35-24 14-14 18-7 3-2 0-1 0-0
2021 21-23 11-11 3-5 5-5 2-2 0-0

Ranked no. 39, Potapova got to the 2nd round after defeating Ashlyn Krueger 6-7(7) 6-4 6-2.

In the 1st round against Krueger, The Russian recovered from a 1-set down deficit before winning (6-77 6-4 6-2). During the match Potapova scored 106 points vs Krueger’s 88. Potapova was pretty aggressive to blast 38 winners.

Talking about serving, Potapova was unable to score even 1 ace for the entire match and she committed only 8 double faults. Anastasia Potapova lost the serve 4 times and she saved 4 break points. Furthermore, Potapova put 56% of her first serves in, winning 66% (38/58) of the points behind her 1st serve and 52% (24/46) on the 2nd serve. Anastasia broke Krueger 7 times after converting 58% of her break points (7/12).

Her best result of the current year was winning the title in Napoca where she beat Lucia Bronzetti in the final 4-6 6-1 6-2.

Anastasia has an overall 14-6 win-loss record in 2025, 2-0 on clay (See FULL STATS).

Previously in Madrid

Previously, her best result was reaching the 3rd round in 2023. See her history.

Madrid
Potapova's Record

Tennis Scores in Madrid

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