Diana Shnaider and Caty McNally will fight against each other in the 1^st round of the Korea Open for the 1^st time in their career. They are scheduled to compete on Wednesday at 1:30 pm on GRANDSTAND. 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 Diana Shnaider who should win in 3 sets.

As per the initial odds, Diana Shnaider is the pick to win this match.
Diana Shnaider -> 1.51
Caty McNally -> 2.56

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Prediction and head to head Diana Shnaider vs. Caty McNally

There is no head to head record between Diana Shnaider and Caty McNally since this will be the first time that they will play each other in the main tour.

Diana Shnaider

Ranked no. 19, Diana will start her run in Seoul after she played her last match at the New York where she lost 7-6(3) 2-6 6-3 to Siegemund in the 1^st round on the 26^th of August.

The Russian has an aggregate 23-20 win-loss record in 2025, 11-11 on hard (See FULL STATS).

Her best result of the year was conquering the title in Monterrey where she beat Ekaterina Alexandrova in the final 6-3 4-6 6-4.

Talking about her overall career, Shnaider has an overall 172-87 record. She has a positive 67-43 record on hard.

Previously in Seoul

Previously, her best result was reaching the semifinal in 2024. See her history.

Caty McNally

Ranked no. 93, the American reached the 1^st round after defeating Yafan Wang 6-4 6-1 and En Shuo Liang 6-3 6-3.

In the qualifications, McNally had a good straight sets win against Shuo Liang (6-3 6-3). During the match McNally scored 61 points vs Shuo Liang’s 40. Caty was pretty aggressive to blast 31 winners.

About the serving games, McNally managed to score 2 aces and she committed only 2 double faults. Caty McNally lost the serve once and she saved 1 break points. Furthermore, McNally put 81% of her first serves in, winning 82% (31/38) of the points behind her 1st serve and 33% (3/9) on the 2nd serve. McNally broke Shuo Liang 4 times after converting 80% of her break points (4/5).

Overall Performance in this tournament

The American started her run at this tournament from the qualifications. In the main draw, she hasn’t conceded yet a set in this event to win 58% of the points she played.

Her best result of the year was winning the title the Newport where she overcame Tatjana Maria in the final 2-6 6-4 6-2 and the W100 Evansville where she beat Darja Vidmanova in the final 7-5 6-4.

Caty has an overall 42-16 win-loss record in 2025, 17-7 on hard (See FULL STATS).

Previously in Seoul

The American has never competed in this tournament before.

Tennis Scores in Seoul

• Barbora KrejcikovaKrejcikova – Tatiana ProzorovaProzorova (6-1 6-2) – Stats, scores, rankings
• Ella SeidelSeidel – Jessika PonchetPonchet (5-7 6-4 6-2) – Stats, scores, rankings
• Eva LysLys – Ashlyn KruegerKrueger (6-3 6-4) – Stats, scores, rankings
• Sofia KeninKenin – Laura Siegemund
  Siegemund (2-6 6-3 7-5) – Stats, scores, rankings
• Maya JointJoint – Linda FruhvirtovaFruhvirtova (6-4 7-6⁴) – Stats, scores, rankings
• Katerina SiniakovaSiniakova – Sohyun ParkPark (6-2 6-2) – Stats, scores, rankings
• Lois BoissonBoisson – Yeon Woo KuWoo Ku (6-2 6-1) – Stats, scores, rankings
• Ariel Behar/Gonzalo EscobarBehar/Gonzalo Escobar – Marco Bortolotti/Scott PuodziunasBortolotti/Scott Puodziunas (6-1 7-6⁵) – Stats, scores, rankings
• Gianluca Di NicolaDi Nicola – Antoine EscoffierEscoffier (7-5 6-2) – Stats, scores, rankings
• Julian LenzLenz – Riccardo BonadioBonadio (7-6¹ 6-2) – Stats, scores, rankings
• Andrea BassoBasso – Francesco FortiForti (6-1 5-7 6-3) – Stats, scores, rankings
• Marco BortolottiBortolotti – Emiliano MaggioliMaggioli (6-1 2-6 6-2) – Stats, scores, rankings
• Jacopo BerrettiniBerrettini – Lorenzo MusettiMusetti (6-4 7-5) – Stats, scores, rankings
• Raul BrancaccioBrancaccio – Fabrizio OrnagoOrnago (6-4 6-3) – Stats, scores, rankings
• Andrea CollariniCollarini – Carlos Boluda-PurkissBoluda-Purkiss (6-3 6-0) – Stats, scores, rankings
• Giulio ZeppieriZeppieri – Enrico Dalla ValleDalla Valle (6-4 ret.) – Stats, scores, rankings
• Sandro EhratEhrat – Johannes HaerteisHaerteis (6-2 2-1 ret.) – Stats, scores, rankings
• Nerman FaticFatic – Matias Franco DescotteFranco Descotte (6-3 5-2 ret.) – Stats, scores, rankings
• Alessandro BegaBega – Gonzalo EscobarEscobar (6-4 6-3) – Stats, scores, rankings
• Andrea PellegrinoPellegrino – Julian OcleppoOcleppo (6-4 6-0) – Stats, scores, rankings
• Martin CuevasCuevas – Jan SatralSatral (6-3 7-6¹) – Stats, scores, rankings
• Jacob GrillsGrills – Christopher HeymanHeyman (7-6³ 6-1) – Stats, scores, rankings
• Andrea VavassoriVavassori – Adelchi VirgiliVirgili (7-6⁷ 7-6⁵) – Stats, scores, rankings
• Dimitar KuzmanovKuzmanov – Alen AvidzbaAvidzba (6-4 4-6 6-2) – Stats, scores, rankings

Upcoming matches in the draw

• Anastasia ZakharovaZakharova – Sorana CirsteaCirstea (0-1) – H2H and prediction
• Jaqueline CristianCristian – Emma RaducanuRaducanu (0-0) – H2H and prediction
• Suzan LamensLamens – Tatjana MariaMaria (1-1) – H2H and prediction
• Beatriz Haddad MaiaHaddad Maia – Dayeon BackBack (0-0) – H2H and prediction
• Clara TausonTauson – Eva LysLys (0-0) – H2H and prediction
• Katerina SiniakovaSiniakova – Darya KasatkinaKasatkina (1-6) – H2H and prediction