Ekaterina Alexandrova and Lin Zhu will square off in the 2nd round of the Omnium Banque Nationale for the 2nd time in their career. They are scheduled to compete on Tuesday at 6:30 pm on COURT 9. 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 Ekaterina Alexandrova who should win in 2 sets.
Ekaterina Alexandrova -> 1.113
Lin Zhu -> 6.45
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Prediction and head to head Ekaterina Alexandrova vs. Lin Zhu
This will be the 2nd time that Ekaterina Alexandrova and Lin Zhu play each other. The head to head is 1-0 for Alexandrova (see full H2H stats), 1-0 on hard.
The last time that they played each other, Alexandrova won 7-5 6-2 in the semifinal in Cleveland back in 2023.
Ekaterina Alexandrova
30 - 15win/loss
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| Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 47-25 | 22-16 | 13-5 | 4-1 | 8-3 | 0-0 |
| 2024 | 26-25 | 17-13 | 1-7 | 3-2 | 5-3 | 0-0 |
| 2023 | 33-21 | 17-13 | 6-5 | 0-1 | 10-2 | 0-0 |
| 2022 | 35-18 | 12-10 | 13-5 | 4-2 | 6-1 | 0-0 |
| 2021 | 26-23 | 10-9 | 6-5 | 7-7 | 3-2 | 0-0 |
Ranked no. 15 (career-high), Ekaterina will start her run in Toronto after she played her last match in Hamburg where she lost 6-7(1) 6-3 7-6(4) to Bondar in the quarter on the 18th of July.
Alexandrova has a compiled 30-15 win-loss record in 2025, 5-7 on hard (See FULL STATS).
Her best result of the current season was winning the title in Linz where she beat Dayana Yastremska in the final 6-2 3-6 7-5.
Talking about her overall career, Ekaterina has an overall 357-232 record. She has a positive 112-93 record on hard.
Previously in Toronto
Previously, her best result was reaching the 3rd round in 2019. See her history.
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. 493, Zhu reached the 2nd round after defeating Varvara Gracheva 6-4 7-6(3).
In the 1st round, The Chinese had a good straight sets win against Gracheva (6-4 7-63). During the match Zhu scored 84 points vs Gracheva’s 76. Lin was extremely aggressive to blast 27 winners.
About the serving games, Zhu scored just 1 ace during the entire match and she committed only 3 double faults. Lin Zhu lost the serve twice and she saved 5 break points. Furthermore, Zhu put 55% of her first serves in, winning 64% (27/42) of the points behind her 1st serve and 62% (21/34) on the 2nd serve. Zhu broke Gracheva 3 times after converting 21% of her break points (3/14).
The Chinese’s best result of the current season was getting to the final in the W35 Goyang.
The Chinese has an overall 12-8 win-loss record in 2025, 10-5 on hard (See FULL STATS).
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