Yuliia Starodubtseva and Tamara Zidansek will clash against each other in the qualifications of the French Open for the 1^st time in their career. They are scheduled to play on Thursday at 12:00 pm on Court 2. In this post, we analyze their head to head performance and prediction.

Prediction, odds and live streaming

The pick for Tennis Tonic is Yuliia Starodubtseva who should win in 3 sets.

As per the initial odds, Yuliia Starodubtseva is the pick to win this match.
Yuliia Starodubtseva -> 1.69
Tamara Zidansek -> 2.12

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Prediction and head to head Yuliia Starodubtseva vs. Tamara Zidansek

There is no head to head record between Yuliia Starodubtseva and Tamara Zidansek since this will be the first time that they will fight against each other in the main tour.

Yuliia Starodubtseva

Yuliia Starodubtseva

9 - 15win/loss

Hard

3-8

I Hard

0-1

Clay

6-6

Rank
113

High
63

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Year	Total	Hard	Clay	I.hard	Grass	Carpet
2025	24-35	12-21	9-8	0-1	3-5	0-0
2024	40-26	26-15	9-9	0-0	5-2	0-0
2023	46-17	20-5	19-10	7-2	0-0	0-0
2022	0-0	0-0	0-0	0-0	0-0	0-0
2021	0-0	0-0	0-0	0-0	0-0	0-0

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Ranked no. 86, Starodubtseva reached the qualifications after defeating Hanne Vandewinkel 6-3 6-1.

In the qualifications, The Ukrainian had a good straight sets win against Vandewinkel (6-3 6-1). During the match, Starodubtseva scored 63 points vs Vandewinkel’s 46. Starodubtseva was exceptionally aggressive to blast 21 winners.

Talking about the service games, Starodubtseva was unable to score even 1 ace in the course of the match and she committed only 5 double faults. Yuliia Starodubtseva lost the serve once and she saved 7 break points. Furthermore, Starodubtseva put 60% of her first serves in, winning 62% (21/34) of the points behind her 1st serve and 61% (14/23) on the 2nd serve. The Ukrainian broke Vandewinkel 5 times after converting 63% of her break points (5/8).

Starodubtseva has a solid match record in the last 7 years having won 61% of her matches (122-79). 6-6 on clay in 2025. Talking about her performance on the same surface of this event, Starodubtseva has a composed52-39 record in the last 7 years on clay.

Starodubtseva has a composed 9-15 win-loss record in 2025, 6-6 on clay (See FULL STATS).

Previously at the French Open

French Open

Starodubtseva's Record

Tamara Zidansek

Tamara Zidansek

14 - 10win/loss

Hard

3-2

I Hard

0-1

Clay

11-7

Rank
161

High
22

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Year	Total	Hard	Clay	I.hard	Grass	Carpet
2025	36-21	3-3	31-16	2-1	0-1	0-0
2024	20-25	6-10	12-11	1-3	1-1	0-0
2023	42-26	7-8	27-11	6-4	1-2	1-1
2022	21-24	12-9	7-11	0-0	2-4	0-0
2021	30-20	9-13	21-6	0-0	0-1	0-0

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Ranked no. 154, Tamara reached the qualifications after defeating Dominika Salkova 6-1 7-5.

In the qualifications, Zidansek had a good straight sets win against Salkova (6-1 7-5). During the match Zidansek scored 68 points vs Salkova’s 48. The Slovenian was exceptionally aggressive to blast 25 winners.

Talking about serving, Zidansek struck 2 aces and she committed only 2 double faults. Tamara Zidansek lost the serve 3 times and she saved 1 break points. Furthermore, Zidansek put 67% of her first serves in, winning 71% (25/35) of the points behind her 1st serve and 47% (8/17) on the 2nd serve. Zidansek broke Salkova 6 times after converting 55% of her break points (6/11).

Tamara has a compiled 14-10 win-loss record in 2025, 11-7 on clay (See FULL STATS).

Previously at the French Open

Previously, her best result was reaching the semifinal in 2021. See her history.

French Open

Zidansek's Record

H2H Performance in the tournament

Matches, sets, games and points

Both Starodubtseva and Zidansek played 1 match. Also both players started their run from the qualifications.Both players have not dropped a single set in this event so far. Talking about their workload, Starodubtseva and Zidansek have played the same amount of sets 2. However, Starodubtseva played 3 games less than Zidansek. Starodubtseva scored 21 winners (33% of the total points). On the other side, The Slovenian struck 25 winners (37%).

Serve Performance

Starodubtseva didn’t manage to fire a single ace to far. Zidansek recorded 2 aces . Starodubtseva won 62% points on her first serve. She pretty effective on her second serve to win 61% of the points. On the other side, Zidansek won 71% of the points behind her first serve. She had a solid display on her second serve to win 47% of the points.

How they played the important points

Starodubtseva broke her opponent 5 times with a 63% conversion rate. Yuliia dropped her serve once and she saved 88% of the break points that she conceded. Tamara broke her opponent 6 times with a 55% conversion rate. The Slovenian conceded her serve 3 times and she saved 25% of the break points that she conceded.

Head 2 Head

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Yuliia
Starodubtseva

1:0

Tamara
Zidansek

Rank

113

High

63

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Rank

161

High

22

Win Loss

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2025 2024 2023

24 - 35

36 - 21

12-21

Hard

3-3

0-1

I Hard

2-1

9-8

Clay

31-16

3-5

Grass

0-1

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Starodubtsewa

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Zidansek