Aliaksandra Sasnovich and Lin Zhu will fight against each other in the 1^st round of the Rothesay Open for the 3^rd time in their career. They are scheduled to compete on Monday at 6:30 pm on COURT 1. In this post, we analyze their head to head performance and prediction.

Prediction, odds and live streaming

The pick for Tennis Tonic is Aliaksandra Sasnovich who should win in 2 sets.

As per the initial odds, Aliaksandra Sasnovich is the pick to win this match.
Aliaksandra Sasnovich -> 1.41
Lin Zhu -> 2.91

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Prediction and head to head Aliaksandra Sasnovich vs. Lin Zhu

This will be the 3^rd time that Aliaksandra Sasnovich and Lin Zhu square off. The head to head is 2-0 for Sasnovich (see full H2H stats), 1-0 on grass.

The last time that they fought against each other, Sasnovich won 7-6(3) 6-4 in the qualifications in Wuhan back in 2017.

Aliaksandra Sasnovich

Ranked no. 108, Sasnovich reached the 1^st round after beating Maya Joint 3-6 6-4 6-1 and Cristina Bucsa 6-3 6-4.

In the qualifications, The Belarussian had a good straight sets win against Bucsa (6-3 6-4). During the match, Sasnovich scored 84 points vs Bucsa’s 71. Aliaksandra was pretty aggressive to blast 31 winners.

Regarding the service games, Sasnovich bagged 3 aces and she committed only 5 double faults. Aliaksandra Sasnovich lost the serve twice and she saved 6 break points. Furthermore, Sasnovich put 64% of her first serves in, winning 74% (31/42) of the points behind her 1st serve and 46% (11/24) on the 2nd serve. The Belarussian broke Bucsa 4 times after converting 31% of her break points (4/13).

Overall Performance in this tournament

Sasnovich started her run at this tournament from the qualifications. In the main draw, she has lost 1 set in this competition to win 54% of the points she played.

Sasnovich has positive record in the last 10 years having won 54% of her matches (262-220). 3-1 on grass in 2025. Talking about her performance on the same surface of this competition, Sasnovich has a compiled 21-22 record in the last years on grass.

Sasnovich’s best result of the season was reaching the semifinal in Napoca,the Vic and the Paris.

Sasnovich has an aggregate 22-15 win-loss record in 2025, 3-1 on grass (See FULL STATS).

Previously in Nottingham

Aliaksandra has never competed in this tournament before.

Lin Zhu

Ranked no. 309, Zhu will start her run in Nottingham after she played her last match in the W35 Goyang where she lost 6-4 6-1

to Tjen in the final on the 11^th of May.

Lin has a compiled 10-6 win-loss record in 2025, 0-0 on grass (See FULL STATS).

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

The Chinese’s best result of the year was getting to the final in the W35 Goyang.

In terms of her career, Zhu has an overall 417-292 record. She has a negative 18-29 record on grass.

Previously in Nottingham

Previously, her best result was reaching the 2^nd

round in 2023. See her history.

Tennis Scores in Nottingham

• Maksim TikhomirovTikhomirov – Kazuki NishiwakiNishiwaki (6-3 6-4) – Stats, scores, rankings
• Kelsey StevensonStevenson – Apuroop Patlolla ReddyPatlolla Reddy (6-1 6-0) – Stats, scores, rankings
• Siddhant BanthiaBanthia – Digvijaypratap SinghSingh (6-7⁵ 6-2 6-1) – Stats, scores, rankings
• Jonathan GrayGray – Roy HobbsHobbs (6-3 6-4) – Stats, scores, rankings
• Manish SureshkumarSureshkumar – Shaheed AlamAlam (6-4 6-1) – Stats, scores, rankings
• David Agung SusantoAgung Susanto – Anthony SusantoSusanto (7-5 6-3) – Stats, scores, rankings
• Takuto NikiNiki – Jatin DahiyaDahiya (6-1 6-4) – Stats, scores, rankings
• Rimpei KawakamiKawakami – Shamirul Shahril Mohd Adam DasShahril Mohd Adam Das (6-1 6-4) – Stats, scores, rankings
• Harry BourchierBourchier – Jesse RossRoss (6-1 6-2) – Stats, scores, rankings
• Kazuma KawachiKawachi – Timothy LimLim (6-0 6-1) – Stats, scores, rankings
• Ryota TanumaTanuma – Dusty H. BoyerH. Boyer (6-4 6-1) – Stats, scores, rankings

Upcoming matches in the draw

• Beatriz Haddad MaiaHaddad Maia – Mccartney KesslerKessler (0-1) – H2H and prediction
• Lin ZhuZhu – Aliaksandra SasnovichSasnovich (0-2) – H2H and prediction
• Lulu SunSun – Katie BoulterBoulter (1-0) – H2H and prediction
• Yulia PutintsevaPutintseva – (0-0) – H2H and prediction
• Laura SiegemundSiegemund – Rebecca SramkovaSramkova (0-2) – H2H and prediction
• Francesca JonesJones – Harriet DartDart (0-0) – H2H and prediction
• Leylah Annie FernandezAnnie Fernandez – Suzan LamensLamens (0-0) – H2H and prediction
• Petra KvitovaKvitova – Tatjana MariaMaria (0-1) – H2H and prediction
• Dayana YastremskaYastremska – Olga DanilovicDanilovic (0-0) – H2H and prediction
• Magda LinetteLinette – (1-0) – H2H and prediction
• Anna BlinkovaBlinkova – Kamilla RakhimovaRakhimova (2-1) – H2H and prediction
• Kimberly BirrellBirrell – Clara TausonTauson (0-0) – H2H and prediction