Victoria Azarenka and Hina Inoue will fight against each other in the 1st round of the U.S. Open for the 1st time in their career. They are scheduled to compete on Sunday at 7:00 pm on Court 12. 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 Victoria Azarenka who should win in 2 sets.

As per the initial odds, Victoria Azarenka is the pick to win this match.
Victoria Azarenka -> 1.106
Hina Inoue -> 6.7

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Prediction and head to head Victoria Azarenka vs. Hina Inoue

There is no head to head record between Victoria Azarenka and Hina Inoue since this will be the first time that they will play each other in the main tour.

Victoria Azarenka

Victoria Azarenka

9 - 11win/loss

Hard
4-6
I Hard
0-0
Clay
2-3
Grass
3-2
Rank
135
High
1
LWWLLWWWLW
Year Total Hard Clay I.hard Grass Carpet
2025 11-12 6-7 2-3 0-0 3-2 0-0
2024 30-15 20-10 7-4 0-0 3-1 0-0
2023 23-19 17-13 2-3 0-0 4-3 0-0
2022 24-13 18-9 6-3 0-1 0-0 0-0
2021 28-9 18-6 4-1 0-0 6-2 0-0

Ranked no. 133, Victoria will start her run at the U.S. Open after she played her last match at the London where she lost 6-2 2-6 6-1 to Zakharova in the 1st round on the 1st of July.

Azarenka has a composed 9-11 win-loss record in 2025, 4-6 on hard (See FULL STATS).

Talking about her overall career, The Belarussian has an overall 658-270 record. She has a positive 401-150 record on hard.

Previously at the U.S. Open

Previously, her best result was reaching the final in 2012, 2013 and 2020. See her history.

U.S. Open
Azarenka's Record

Hina Inoue

Hina Inoue

30 - 19win/loss

Hard
28-14
I Hard
1-2
Clay
0-2
Grass
1-1
Rank
232
High
203
LWWWWLLWWW
Year Total Hard Clay I.hard Grass Carpet
2025 38-27 36-22 0-2 1-2 1-1 0-0
2024 64-25 63-23 0-0 1-2 0-0 0-0
2023 30-28 21-16 5-7 4-5 0-0 0-0
2022 38-24 31-17 6-4 1-3 0-0 0-0
2021 30-19 17-11 13-8 0-0 0-0 0-0

Ranked no. 218, Inoue got to the 1st round after defeating Lauren Davis 6-1 6-2, Simona Waltert 6-3 6-2 and Lucrezia Stefanini 7-6(4) 6-1.

In the qualifications, The American had a good straight sets win against Stefanini (7-64 6-1). During the match Inoue scored 77 points vs Stefanini’s 66. Hina was quite aggressive to blast 27 winners.

About the serving games, Inoue scored 9 aces and she was not very solid on her 2nd serve to score 10 double faults. Hina Inoue lost the serve 3 times and she saved 3 break points. Furthermore, Inoue put 43% of her first serves in, winning 79% (27/34) of the points behind her 1st serve and 36% (16/45) on the 2nd serve. Inoue broke Stefanini 6 times after converting 67% of her break points (6/9).

Overall Performance in this tournament

Inoue started her run at this tournament from the qualifications. In the main draw, she hasn’t dropped yet a set in this tournament to win 57% of the points she played.

Inoue has a compiled 30-19 win-loss record in 2025, 28-14 on hard (See FULL STATS).

Previously at the U.S. Open

Inoue has never competed in this tournament before.

U.S. Open
Inoue's Record

Tennis Scores – U.S. Open

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