Yulia Putintseva and Heather Watson will face off in the 1st round of the LTA London Championships for the 6th time in their career. They are scheduled to compete on Tuesday at 12:00 pm on COURT 1. In the following paragraphs, you can find the head to head analysis and prediction.
Prediction, odds and live streaming
The pick for Tennis Tonic is Yulia Putintseva who should win in 2 sets.
As per the initial odds, Yulia Putintseva is the pick to win this match.
Yulia Putintseva -> 1.39
Heather Watson -> 3
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Prediction and head to head Yulia Putintseva vs. Heather Watson
This will be the 6th time that Yulia Putintseva and Heather Watson face off. The head to head is 3-2 for Watson (see full H2H stats), 1-0 on grass.
The last time that they fought against each other, Watson won 6-3 3-4 ret. in the qualifications in Eastbourne back in 2023.
Yulia Putintseva
14 - 13win/loss
27
20
LWLLWWLWWL | Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 15-15 | 7-8 | 5-5 | 2-0 | 1-2 | 0-0 |
| 2024 | 40-22 | 22-15 | 9-4 | 1-2 | 8-1 | 0-0 |
| 2023 | 34-27 | 19-17 | 13-8 | 2-0 | 0-2 | 0-0 |
| 2022 | 26-21 | 9-11 | 15-7 | 1-1 | 1-2 | 0-0 |
| 2021 | 32-24 | 14-12 | 12-8 | 5-2 | 1-2 | 0-0 |
Ranked no. 27, Yulia will start her run in London after she played her last match at the Paris where she lost 6-3 6-1 to Andreeva in the 3rd round on the 31st of May.
Putintseva has a composed 14-13 win-loss record in 2025, 0-0 on grass (See FULL STATS).
This will be the first match of the year on grass.
Yulia’s best result of the current year was getting to the semifinal in Adelaide.
Talking about her overall career, The Kazakhstani has an overall 466-347 record. She has a flat 24-24 record on grass.
Previously in London
The Kazakhstani has never competed in this tournament before.
Heather Watson
12 - 11win/loss
147
38
WLLWWWLWLL | Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 14-13 | 9-7 | 0-2 | 0-1 | 5-3 | 0-0 |
| 2024 | 26-20 | 16-11 | 1-4 | 8-2 | 1-3 | 0-0 |
| 2023 | 32-25 | 18-13 | 2-4 | 6-3 | 6-5 | 0-0 |
| 2022 | 29-26 | 14-13 | 4-6 | 6-3 | 5-4 | 0-0 |
| 2021 | 11-21 | 6-13 | 0-3 | 1-1 | 4-4 | 0-0 |
Ranked no. 164, Watson reached the 1st round after defeating Ena Shibahara 6-1 5-7 6-4 and Zeynep Sonmez 6-0 6-3.
In the qualifications, Heather had a good straight sets win against Sonmez (6-0 6-3). During the match Watson scored 59 points vs Sonmez’s 36. The Brit was quite aggressive to blast 23 winners.
About the serving games, Watson struck 2 aces and she committed only 2 double faults. Heather Watson was very efficient on serve to win 72% (23/32) of her 1st serve and 64% (14/22) on the second serve. This was the main reason for not conceding a single break during the match. The Brit broke Sonmez 4 times after converting 50% of her break points (4/8).
Overall Performance in this tournament
Watson started her run at this tournament from the qualifications. In the main draw, she has conceded 1 set in the tournament to win 56% of the points she played.
The Brit’s best result of the season was reaching the semifinal in the Puerto Vallarta and the W100 Gifu.
Heather has an overall 12-11 win-loss record in 2025, 3-1 on grass (See FULL STATS).
Previously in London
Watson has never competed in this tournament before.
Head 2 Head
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WLLWWWLWLL Tennis Scores in London
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- Tatjana MariaMaria – Leylah Annie FernandezAnnie Fernandez (7-64 6-2) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Anastasia ZakharovaZakharova – Donna VekicVekic (6-3 6-3) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Katie Boulter/Emma RaducanuBoulter/Emma Raducanu – Xinyu Jiang/Fang-Hsien WuJiang/Fang-Hsien Wu (6-4 6-2) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Beatriz Haddad MaiaHaddad Maia – Petra KvitovaKvitova (2-6 6-4 6-4) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Andrea GuerrieriGuerrieri – Francesco VilardoVilardo (6-2 2-0 ret.) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Paul WoernerWoerner – Dane SweenySweeny (6-2 6-0) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Kirill KivattsevKivattsev – Alexander WeisWeis (6-4 6-4) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Ronald SlobodchikovSlobodchikov – Alessandro IngaraoIngarao (6-3 6-3) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Davide AlbertoniAlbertoni – Andrea BassoBasso (3-6 5-3 ret.) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Edoardo LavagnoLavagno – Luca PrevostoPrevosto (6-2 2-6 10-1) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Adrian AndreevAndreev – Adrian ObertObert (6-1 7-61) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Pietro RondoniRondoni – Yannik SteineggerSteinegger (6-1 6-3) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Savriyan DanilovDanilov – Giacomo DambrosiDambrosi (6-1 6-1) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Giorgio RiccaRicca – Lorenzo BocchiBocchi (7-5 6-1) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Emiliano MaggioliMaggioli – Gianluca Di NicolaDi Nicola (7-66 4-6 10-7) – Stats, scores, rankings
Upcoming matches in the draw
- Francesca JonesJones – Mccartney KesslerKessler (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Emma RaducanuRaducanu – Cristina BucsaBucsa (0-1) – H2H and prediction
- Rebecca SramkovaSramkova – Barbora KrejcikovaKrejcikova (1-2) – H2H and prediction
- Jodie Anna BurrageAnna Burrage – Amanda AnisimovaAnisimova (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Karolina MuchovaMuchova – Maddison InglisInglis (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Heather WatsonWatson – Yulia PutintsevaPutintseva (3-2) – H2H and prediction
- Ajla TomljanovicTomljanovic – Katie BoulterBoulter (1-1) – H2H and prediction
- Emma NavarroNavarro – Beatriz Haddad MaiaHaddad Maia (2-3) – H2H and prediction
- Anastasia ZakharovaZakharova – Madison KeysKeys (0-0) – H2H and prediction
