Alexei Popyrin and Yibing Wu will face off in the 2nd round of the Citi Open for the 2nd time in their career. They are scheduled to compete on Wednesday at 11:00 am on JOHN HARRIS. Here the head to head stats and relative prediction.

Prediction, odds and live streaming

The pick for Tennis Tonic is Alexei Popyrin who should win in 3 sets.

As per the initial odds, Alexei Popyrin is the pick to win this match.
Alexei Popyrin -> 1.7
Yibing Wu -> 2.15

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Prediction and head to head Alexei Popyrin vs. Yibing Wu

This will be the 2nd time that Alexei Popyrin and Yibing Wu square off. The head to head is 1-0 for Popyrin (see full H2H stats), 1-0 on hard.

The last time that they locked horns, Popyrin won 6-4 3-6 7-5 in the qualifications in Adelaide back in 2023.

Alexei Popyrin

Alexei Popyrin

12 - 17win/loss

Hard
2-7
I Hard
0-1
Clay
9-6
Grass
1-3
Rank
54
High
19
LLLLLWLWLW
Year Total Hard Clay I.hard Grass Carpet
2025 17-24 7-10 9-6 0-5 1-3 0-0
2024 30-22 17-8 4-8 4-3 5-3 0-0
2023 36-29 18-14 15-6 1-4 2-5 0-0
2022 24-31 7-16 7-4 3-5 7-6 0-0
2021 32-26 13-11 8-6 10-5 1-4 0-0

Ranked no. 24, Alexei will start his run in Washington after he played his last match at Wimbledon where he lost 6-4 6-1 4-6 6-4 to Fery in the 1st round on the 30th of June.

Alexei has a compiled 12-16 win-loss record in 2025, 2-6 on hard (See FULL STATS).

Talking about his overall career, The Australian has an overall 285-229 record. He has a positive 138-105 record on hard.

Previously in Washington

Previously, his best result was reaching the 2nd round in 2022. See his history.

Washington
Popyrin's Record

Yibing Wu

Yibing Wu

18 - 5win/loss

Hard
16-3
I Hard
0-0
Clay
2-2
Rank
181
High
54
LLWWWLWWLW
Year Total Hard Clay I.hard Grass Carpet
2025 25-10 23-8 2-2 0-0 0-0 0-0
2024 9-5 7-4 2-1 0-0 0-0 0-0
2023 18-17 5-7 3-5 9-1 1-4 0-0
2022 40-7 20-5 10-2 10-0 0-0 0-0
2021 0-0 0-0 0-0 0-0 0-0 0-0

Ranked no. 243, Yibing reached the 2nd round after defeating Mitchell Krueger 4-6 6-3 7-6(3), Corentin Moutet 4-6 6-4 6-4 and Gael Monfils 6-3 6-1.

In the 1st round, The Chinese had a good straight sets win against Monfils (6-3 6-1). During the match Wu scored 59 points vs Monfils’s 40. Wu was pretty aggressive to blast 26 winners.

About the serving games, Wu scored just 1 ace during the entire match and he committed only 3 double faults. Yibing Wu conceded no breaks for the entire match to save 4 break points. Furthermore, Wu put 64% of his first serves in, winning 81% (26/32) of the points behind his 1st serve and 50% (9/18) on the 2nd serve. Wu broke Monfils 4 times after converting 80% of his break points (4/5).

His best result of the current year was conquering the title the Tyler Challenger where he overcame Yi Zhou in the final 6-4 3-6 6-3.

The Chinese has a composed 17-5 win-loss record in 2025, 15-3 on hard (See FULL STATS).

Washington
Wu's Record

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