Anastasia Potapova and Zeynep Sonmez will play each other in the 3rd round of the China Open for the 1st time in their career. They are scheduled to compete on Monday at 5:30 pm on MOON. Here the head to head stats and relative prediction.

Prediction, odds and live streaming

The pick for Tennis Tonic is Anastasia Potapova who should win in 3 sets.

As per the initial odds, Anastasia Potapova is the pick to win this match.
Anastasia Potapova -> 1.66
Zeynep Sonmez -> 2.22

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Prediction and head to head Anastasia Potapova vs. Zeynep Sonmez

There is no head to head record between Anastasia Potapova and Zeynep Sonmez since this will be the first time that they will play each other in the main tour.

Anastasia Potapova

Anastasia Potapova

23 - 15win/loss

Hard
9-10
I Hard
7-1
Clay
6-3
Grass
1-1
Rank
51
High
21
LWWWLWLLWL
Year Total Hard Clay I.hard Grass Carpet
2025 24-16 10-11 6-3 7-1 1-1 0-0
2024 28-22 17-13 6-5 2-1 3-3 0-0
2023 30-21 11-14 7-4 7-1 5-2 0-0
2022 35-24 14-14 18-7 3-2 0-1 0-0
2021 21-23 11-11 3-5 5-5 2-2 0-0

Ranked no. 59, Potapova reached the 3rd round after beating Katerina Siniakova 6-3 6-4 and Victoria Mboko 7-6(5) 7-5.

In the 2nd round, Anastasia had a good straight sets win against Mboko (7-65 7-5). During the match, Potapova scored 89 points vs Mboko’s 75. Anastasia was extremely aggressive to blast 23 winners.

Regarding the service games, Potapova fired 2 aces and she committed only 1 double fault. Anastasia Potapova lost the serve 4 times and she saved 3 break points. Furthermore, Potapova put 61% of her first serves in, winning 53% (23/43) of the points behind her 1st serve and 70% (19/27) on the 2nd serve. Potapova broke Mboko 5 times after converting 31% of her break points (5/16).

Overall Performance in this tournament

The Russian hasn’t lost yet a set in this competition to win 55% of the points she played.

Potapova has good match record in the last 10 years having won 59% of her matches (239-169). 9-10 on hard in 2025. In connection with her performance on the same surface of this competition, Potapova has a compiled 109-95 win-loss record in the last years on hard.

Her best result of the current year was winning the title in Napoca where she defeated Lucia Bronzetti in the final 4-6 6-1 6-2.

Potapova has an overall 23-15 win-loss record in 2025, 9-10 on hard (See FULL STATS).

Previously in Beijing

Beijing
Potapova's Record

Zeynep Sonmez

Zeynep Sonmez

21 - 21win/loss

Hard
10-11
I Hard
4-1
Clay
3-5
Grass
4-4
Rank
113
High
69
LWLWLLWWWL
Year Total Hard Clay I.hard Grass Carpet
2025 26-27 14-16 3-5 5-2 4-4 0-0
2024 41-25 19-9 12-10 4-3 6-3 0-0
2023 54-28 4-4 23-10 17-8 6-4 4-2
2022 38-21 22-8 14-10 2-3 0-0 0-0
2021 21-19 2-3 14-12 5-4 0-0 0-0

Ranked no. 82, Zeynep got to the 3rd round after defeating Sijia Wei 6-2 6-0 and Clara Tauson 6-4 2-6 6-3.

In the 2nd round, Zeynep defeated Tauson (6-4 2-6 6-3). During the match Sonmez and Tauson scored the same amount of points (79). However, the world no. 59 was stronger during the important points and that was the most significant difference in the match. Sonmez was extremely aggressive to blast 27 winners.

About the serving games, Sonmez was unable to score even 1 ace for the entire match and she committed only 1 double fault for the entire match. Zeynep Sonmez lost the serve 4 times and she saved 3 break points. Furthermore, Sonmez put 56% of her first serves in, winning 60% (27/45) of the points behind her 1st serve and 56% (20/36) on the 2nd serve. The Turk broke Tauson 5 times after converting 71% of her break points (5/7).

Overall Performance in this tournament

The Turk has conceded 1 set in the tournament to win 55% of the points she played.

The Turk has a composed 21-21 win-loss record in 2025, 10-11 on hard (See FULL STATS)

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Previously in Beijing

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

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Beijing
Sonmez's Record

H2H Performance in the tournament (main draw)

A.Potapova
Z.Sonmez
3h:27
3h:27
Time on court​
3h:02
3h:02
!
2h:06
2h:06
Last match​
2h:00
2h:00
2
2
Match played
2
2
44
44
Games Played​
41
41
4
4
Set played​​
5
5
157
157
Total points​
134
134
78.5
78.5
Avg point​
67
67
44
44
Winners
46
46
22
22
Avg Winners​
23
23
28%
28%
Ratio winners
34%
34%
-- Serve --
3
3
Aces
1
1
1.5
1.5
Avg Aces
0.5
0.5
4
4
Double Faults
2
2
2
2
Avg Double Faults
1
1
44/70
44/70
1st won total​
46/66
46/66
63%
63%
1st won %
70%
70%
32/52
32/52
2nd won total​
32/59
32/59
!
62%
62%
2nd won %
54%
54%
-- Break Points --
10/24
10/24
BP won
10/17
10/17
5/12
5/12
Avg BP won
5/8.5
5/8.5
42%
42%
Won
!
59%
59%
11
11
Conceded
8
8
5.5
5.5
Avg Conceded
4
4
7
7
Broken
4
4
3.5
3.5
Avg Broken
2
2
4
4
Saved
4
4

Matches, sets, games and points

Points Potapova Sonmez
Match played 2 2
Tot Set 4 5
Tot Games 44 41
Pts 157-127 134-108
Total Points 284 242
Winners 44 46
%Winners 28% 34%

Both Potapova and Sonmez played 2 matches. At the moment, Zeynep Sonmez surrendered 1 set while Anastasia Potapova hasn’t lost a set so far. Potapova has played 1 set(s) less than Sonmez (4 vs 5). However, it’s interesting to notice that Potapova played 3 games more than Sonmez. Anastasia scored 44 winners (28% of the total points). On the other side, Zeynep struck 46 winners (34%).

Serve Performance

Serve Potapova Sonmez
Aces 3 1
Avg per match 1.5 0.5
1st in 70/122 66/125
%1st in 57% 53%
1st pts 44/70 46/66
%1st pts 63% 70%
2nd pts 32/52 32/59
%2nd pts 62% 54%

Potapova fired 3 aces (1.5 per match). Sonmez blasted 1 ace (0.5 per match). Potapova won 63% points behind her first serve. She pretty effective on her second serve to win 62% of the points. On the other side, Sonmez won 70% of the points on her first serve. She had a solid display on her second serve to win 54% of the points.

How they played the important points

Breaks Potapova Sonmez
Won 10 10
Converted 10/24 10/17
% Converted 42% 59%
Conceded 11 8
Saved 4 4
% Saved 36% 50%
Times Broken 7 4

Anastasia broke her opponents 10 times with a 42% conversion rate. Anastasia lost her serve 7 times and she saved 36% of the break points that she conceded. The Turk broke her opponents 10 times with a 59% conversion rate. Sonmez conceded her serve 4 times and she saved 50% of the break points that she conceded.

Potapova
R1
Siniakova
R2
Mboko
Total
Score 6-3 6-4 7-65 7-5
Tot Set 2 2 4
Tot Games 19 25 44
pts 68-52 89-75 157-127
Total points 120 164 284
Winners 21 23 44
%Winners 31% 26% 28%
SERVE
Aces 1 2 3
Double Faults 3 1 4
1st in 27/52 43/70 70/122
% 1st in 52% 61% 57%
1st pts 21/27 23/43 44/70
% 1st pts 78% 53% 63%
2nd pts 13/25 19/27 32/52
% 2nd pts 52% 70% 62%
Breaks
Won 5 5 10
Converted 5/8 5/16 10/24
Converted % 63% 31% 42%
Conceded 4 7 11
Saved 1/4 3/7 4
Saved % 25% 43% 34%
Times Broken 3 4 7
Sonmez
R1
Wei
R2
Tauson
Total
Score 6-2 6-0 6-4 2-6 6-3
Tot Set 2 3 5
Tot Games 14 27 41
pts 55-29 79-79 134-108
Total points 84 158 242
Winners 19 27 46
%Winners 35% 34% 34%
SERVE
Aces 1 0 1
Double Faults 1 1 2
1st in 21/44 45/81 66/125
% 1st in 48% 56% 53%
1st pts 19/21 27/45 46/66
% 1st pts 90% 60% 70%
2nd pts 12/23 20/36 32/59
% 2nd pts 52% 56% 54%
Breaks
Won 5 5 10
Converted 5/10 5/7 10/17
Converted % 50% 71% 59%
Conceded 1 7 8
Saved 1/1 3/7 4
Saved % 100% 43% 72%
Times Broken 0 4 4

Tennis Scores in Beijing

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