Sofia Kenin and Taylor Townsend will clash against each other in the 2^nd round of the Mubadala Citi DC Open for the 7^th time in their career. They are scheduled to play on Thursday at 3:00 pm on JOHN HARRIS. Here the head to head stats and relative prediction.

Prediction, odds and live streaming

The pick for Tennis Tonic is Sofia Kenin who should win in 3 sets.

As per the initial odds, Sofia Kenin is the pick to win this match.
Sofia Kenin -> 1.48
Taylor Townsend -> 2.65

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Prediction and head to head Sofia Kenin vs. Taylor Townsend

This will be the 7^th time that Sofia Kenin and Taylor Townsend play each other. The head to head is 4-2 for Kenin (see full H2H stats), but Townsend leads 1-0 on hard.

The last time that they played, Kenin won 7-6(5) 6-2 in the 1^st round in at the Wimbledon back in July 2025.

Sofia Kenin

Ranked no. 26, Kenin reached the 2^nd round after defeating Hailey Baptiste 6-3 7-6(4).

In the 1^st round, The American had a good straight sets win against Baptiste (6-3 7-6⁴). During the match, Kenin scored 75 points vs Baptiste’s 64. The American was very aggressive to blast 28 winners.

Talking about the service games, Kenin bagged 2 aces and she committed only 1 double fault. Overall, Sofia Kenin was exceptionally effective on serve to win 74% (28/38) of her 1st serve and 67% (16/24) on the second serve. However, this didn’t prevent her to concede the serve once. Kenin broke Baptiste 3 times after converting 50% of her break points (3/6).

Kenin has positive record in the last 10 years having won 59% of her matches (275-193). 13-8 on hard in 2025. In connection with her performance on the same surface of this competition, Kenin has an overall 170-114 match record in the last years on hard.

Kenin’s best result of the year was reaching the final in Charleston.

The American has a compiled 25-16 win-loss record in 2025, 13-8 on hard (See FULL STATS).

Previously in Washington

Taylor Townsend

Ranked no. 97, Taylor reached the 2^nd round after defeating Maria Camila Osorio Serrano 6-4 2-6 6-0, Emiliana Arango 6-4 6-2 and Tatjana Maria 6-4 7-5.

In the 1^st round, The American had a good straight sets win against Maria (6-4 7-5). During the match Townsend scored 81 points vs Maria’s 72. Townsend was pretty aggressive to blast 28 winners.

About the serving games, Townsend fired 4 aces and she committed only 5 double faults. Taylor Townsend lost the serve twice and she saved 8 break points. Furthermore, Townsend put 60% of her first serves in, winning 60% (28/47) of the points behind her 1st serve and 65% (20/31) on the 2nd serve. Taylor broke Maria 4 times after converting 31% of her break points (4/13).

The American has a composed 13-11 win-loss record in 2025, 8-6 on hard (See FULL STATS).

Previously in Washington

Previously, her best result was reaching the 2^nd round in 2014 and 2024. See her history.

H2H Performance in the tournament

Matches, sets, games and points

Points	Kenin	Townsend
Match played	1	3
Tot Set	2	7
Tot Games	22	64
Pts	75-64	231-201
Total Points	139	432
Winners	28	91
%Winners	37%	39%

Kenin played 1 match while Townsend competed in 3 matches. Townsend started her run from the qualifications while Kenin had a direct access to the main draw. At the moment, Taylor Townsend dropped 1 set while Sofia Kenin hasn’t surrendered a set so far. Kenin has played 5 set(s) less than Townsend (2 vs 7). Therefore, Kenin played 42 games less than Townsend. Kenin scored 28 winners (37% of the total points). On the other side, Taylor struck 91 winners (39%).

Serve Performance

Serve	Kenin	Townsend
Aces	2	12
Avg per match	2	4
1st in	38/62	146/230
%1st in	61%	63%
1st pts	28/38	91/146
%1st pts	74%	62%
2nd pts	16/24	50/84
%2nd pts	67%	60%

Kenin managed to score 2 aces . Townsend scored 12 aces (4 per match). Kenin won 74% points on her first serve. She was rock solid on her second serve to win 67% of the points. On the other side, Townsend won 62% of the points behind her first serve. She had a solid display on her second serve to win 60% of the points.

How they played the important points

Breaks	Kenin	Townsend
Won	3	13
Converted	3/6	13/32
% Converted	50%	41%
Conceded	3	31
Saved	2	25
% Saved	67%	81%
Times Broken	1	6

Kenin broke her opponent 3 times with a 50% conversion rate. Kenin lost her serve once and she saved 67% of the break points that she conceded. Townsend broke her opponents 13 times with a 41% conversion rate. Taylor conceded her serve 6 times and she saved 81% of the break points that she conceded.

Kenin
	R1 Baptiste	Total
Score	6-3 7-64
Tot Set	2	2
Tot Games	22	22
pts	75-64	75-64
Total points	139	139
Winners	28	28
%Winners	37%	37%
SERVE
Aces	2	2
Double Faults	1	1
1st in	38/62	38/62
% 1st in	61%	61%
1st pts	28/38	28/38
% 1st pts	74%	74%
2nd pts	16/24	16/24
% 2nd pts	67%	67%
Breaks
Won	3	3
Converted	3/6	3/6
Converted %	50%	50%
Conceded	3	3
Saved	2/3	2
Saved %	67%	67%
Times Broken	1	1

Townsend
	Q1 Camila Osorio Serrano	Q3 Arango	R1 Maria	Total
Score	6-4 2-6 6-0	6-4 6-2	6-4 7-5
Tot Set	3	2	2	7
Tot Games	24	18	22	64
pts	87-79	63-50	81-72	231-201
Total points	166	113	153	432
Winners	33	30	28	91
%Winners	38%	48%	35%	39%
SERVE
Aces	5	3	4	12
Double Faults	2	2	5	9
1st in	56/85	43/67	47/78	146/230
% 1st in	66%	64%	60%	63%
1st pts	33/56	30/43	28/47	91/146
% 1st pts	59%	70%	60%	62%
2nd pts	15/29	15/24	20/31	50/84
% 2nd pts	52%	63%	65%	60%
Breaks
Won	6	3	4	13
Converted	6/13	3/6	4/13	13/32
Converted %	46%	50%	31%	41%
Conceded	12	9	10	31
Saved	8/12	9/9	8/10	25
Saved %	67%	100%	80%	247%
Times Broken	4	0	2	6

Tennis Scores in Washington

• Elena RybakinaRybakina – Victoria MbokoMboko (6-3 7-5) – Stats, scores, rankings
• Anna KalinskayaKalinskaya – Magda LinetteLinette (6-4 6-0) – Stats, scores, rankings
• Clara TausonTauson – Caroline DolehideDolehide (3-6 7-5 6-4) – Stats, scores, rankings
• Maria SakkariSakkari – Emma NavarroNavarro (7-5 7-6¹) – Stats, scores, rankings
• Alejandro TabiloTabilo – Steven DiezDiez (6-3 6-1) – Stats, scores, rankings
• Goncalo OliveiraOliveira – Vladyslav ManafovManafov (6-4 7-5) – Stats, scores, rankings
• Nicola KuhnKuhn – Malek JaziriJaziri (7-6⁶ 7-6²) – Stats, scores, rankings
• Denis IstominIstomin – Alexander ZhurbinZhurbin (6-1 6-4) – Stats, scores, rankings
• Mario Vilella MartinezVilella Martinez – Marc PolmansPolmans (6-2 7-6⁶) – Stats, scores, rankings
• Andrej MartinMartin – Di WuWu (6-0 6-4) – Stats, scores, rankings
• Federico CoriaCoria – Ivan GakhovGakhov (6-4 5-7 6-4) – Stats, scores, rankings
• Marc-Andrea HueslerHuesler – Akira SantillanSantillan (3-6 6-3 7-6⁵) – Stats, scores, rankings
• Aleksandr NedovesovNedovesov – Andrea CollariniCollarini (6-3 6-1) – Stats, scores, rankings
• Yannick HanfmannHanfmann – Roman SafiullinSafiullin (7-5 6-3) – Stats, scores, rankings
• Nikola MilojevicMilojevic – Evan KingKing (6-2 7-5) – Stats, scores, rankings
• Santiago GiraldoGiraldo – Tung-Lin WuWu (2-6 6-3 6-2) – Stats, scores, rankings
• Daniel Gimeno-TraverGimeno-Traver – Marcelo Tomas Barrios VeraTomas Barrios Vera (7-6⁷ 6-1) – Stats, scores, rankings
• Evgeny KarlovskiyKarlovskiy – Ante PavicPavic (6-3 7-6⁴) – Stats, scores, rankings
• Pavel KotovKotov – Pedja KrstinKrstin (6-3 6-4) – Stats, scores, rankings
• Lorenzo GiustinoGiustino – Nino SerdarusicSerdarusic (3-6 6-3 6-2) – Stats, scores, rankings

Upcoming matches in the draw

• Jessica PegulaPegula – Leylah Annie FernandezAnnie Fernandez (2-0) – H2H and prediction
• Taylor TownsendTownsend – Sofia KeninKenin (2-4) – H2H and prediction
• Venus WilliamsWilliams – Magdalena FrechFrech (0-0) – H2H and prediction
• Emma RaducanuRaducanu – Naomi OsakaOsaka (0-0) – H2H and prediction
• Anna KalinskayaKalinskaya – Clara TausonTauson (1-1) – H2H and prediction