Varvara Gracheva and Lin Zhu will face off in the 1st round of the Omnium Banque Nationale for the 3rd time in their career. They are scheduled to play on Sunday at 1:30 pm on ROGERS. In the following lines you can find the head to head analysis and prediction.
Prediction, odds and live streaming
The pick for Tennis Tonic is Varvara Gracheva who should win in 3 sets.
As per the initial odds, Varvara Gracheva is the pick to win this match.
Varvara Gracheva -> 1.48
Lin Zhu -> 2.65
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Prediction and head to head Varvara Gracheva vs. Lin Zhu
This will be the 3rd time that Varvara Gracheva and Lin Zhu clash against each other. The head to head is 2-0 for Zhu (see full H2H stats), 2-0 on hard.
The last time that they played each other, Zhu won 6-1 6-1 in the 1st round in Doha back in 2024.
Varvara Gracheva
19 - 21win/loss
77
39
LWWWLWWLWW | Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 34-28 | 20-14 | 9-8 | 1-3 | 4-3 | 0-0 |
| 2024 | 29-28 | 13-15 | 15-10 | 0-1 | 1-2 | 0-0 |
| 2023 | 36-30 | 23-18 | 7-6 | 3-3 | 3-3 | 0-0 |
| 2022 | 29-32 | 7-11 | 12-14 | 10-7 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2021 | 27-31 | 11-10 | 7-10 | 9-9 | 0-2 | 0-0 |
Ranked no. 107, Varvara got to the 1st round after defeating Maddison Inglis 6-3 6-2.
In the qualifications, Varvara had a good straight sets win against Inglis (6-3 6-2). During the match, Gracheva scored 61 points vs Inglis’s 43. Varvara was quite aggressive to blast 27 winners.
Talking about the service games, Gracheva managed to score 3 aces and she committed only 3 double faults. Overall, Varvara Gracheva was exceptionally efficient on serve to win 73% (27/37) of her 1st serve and 55% (11/20) on the second serve. However, this didn’t prevent her to concede the serve once. Varvara was clinical in her return game without wasting any break point and break Inglis 4 times.
Gracheva has positive match record in the last 10 years having won 57% of her matches (283-211). 5-6 on hard in 2025. Talking about her performance on the same surface of this tournament, Gracheva has an aggregate 81-82 match record in the last years on hard.
Gracheva’s best result of the current year was getting to the semifinal in the Paris and Eastbourne.
Varvara has an overall 19-20 win-loss record in 2025, 5-6 on hard (See FULL STATS).
Previously in Toronto
Lin Zhu
| Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 21-17 | 19-14 | 0-0 | 1-1 | 1-2 | 0-0 |
| 2024 | 15-19 | 12-10 | 0-5 | 0-0 | 3-4 | 0-0 |
| 2023 | 28-24 | 23-17 | 0-2 | 1-2 | 4-3 | 0-0 |
| 2022 | 41-26 | 34-15 | 6-6 | 1-2 | 0-3 | 0-0 |
| 2021 | 13-14 | 8-10 | 0-1 | 4-0 | 1-3 | 0-0 |
Ranked no. 489, Zhu will start her run in Montreal after she played her last match at the London where she lost 6-3 6-2 to Kudermetova in the 1st round on the 1st of July.
Zhu has an overall 11-8 win-loss record in 2025, 9-5 on hard (See FULL STATS).
Zhu’s best result of the current year was getting to the final in the W35 Goyang.
In terms of her career, Zhu has an overall 418-294 record. She has a positive 349-214 record on hard.
Head 2 Head
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