Sorana Cirstea and Shuai Zhang will face off in the 2^nd round of the Wuhan Open for the 5^th time in their career. They are scheduled to compete on Wednesday at 2:30 pm on COURT 1. In this post, we analyze their head to head performance and prediction.

Prediction, odds and live streaming

The pick for Tennis Tonic is Sorana Cirstea who should win in 3 sets.

As per the initial odds, Sorana Cirstea is the pick to win this match.
Sorana Cirstea -> 1.5
Shuai Zhang -> 2.58

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Prediction and head to head Sorana Cirstea vs. Shuai Zhang

This will be the 5^th time that Sorana Cirstea and Shuai Zhang face off. The head to head is 2-2 (see full H2H stats), 1-0 on hard.

The last time that they locked horns, Zhang won 4-6 6-1 7-6(5)

in the semifinal in Birmingham back in 2022.

Highlights Shuai Zhang vs Sorana Cirstea – Birmingham 19-June-2022

Sorana Cirstea

Ranked no. 58, Cirstea reached the 2^nd round after defeating Jelena Ostapenko 6-0 2-1 ret..

In the 1^st round against Ostapenko, Sorana had a free pass after Ostapenko retired on a 6-0 2-1 . scoreline.

Cirstea has good record in the last 10 years having won 55% of her matches (243-199). 21-11 on hard in 2025. In connection with her performance on the same surface of this event, Cirstea has a compiled 132-97 record in the last years on hard.

Her best result of the season was conquering the title in Cleveland where she beat Ann Li in the final 6-2 6-4.

Sorana has a composed 25-17 win-loss record in 2025, 21-11 on hard (See FULL STATS).

Previously in Wuhan

Shuai Zhang

Ranked no. 142, Shuai got to the 2^nd round after beating Emma Navarro 6-2 2-6 6-3.

In the 1^st round, Zhang defeated Navarro (6-2 2-6 6-3). During the match Zhang scored 71 points vs Navarro’s 69. Zhang was very aggressive to blast 31 winners.

About the serving games, Zhang scored just 1 ace during the entire match and she committed only 4 double faults. Shuai Zhang lost the serve 4 times and she saved 1 break points. Furthermore, Zhang put 71% of her first serves in, winning 70% (31/44) of the points behind her 1st serve and 28% (5/18) on the 2nd serve. The Chinese broke Navarro 6 times after converting 55% of her break points (6/11).

Her best result of the season was winning the title the W100 Gifu where she defeated Mananchaya Sawangkaew in the final 6-3 6-4 and the W50 Nottingham where she overcame Harmony Tan in the final 6-4 6-2.

Shuai has an aggregate 26-11 win-loss record in 2025, 18-5 on hard (See FULL STATS).

Previously in Wuhan

Previously, her best result was reaching the 3^rd round in 2018. See her history.

H2H Performance in the tournament

Matches, sets, games and points

Points	Cirstea	Zhang
Match played	1	1
Tot Set	3	3
Tot Games	9	25
Pts	33-14	71-69
Total Points	47	140
Winners	9	31
%Winners	27%	44%

Both Cirstea and Zhang played 1 match. At the moment, Shuai Zhang conceded 1 set while Sorana Cirstea hasn’t conceded a set so far. Talking about their workload, Cirstea and Zhang have played the same amount of sets 3. However, Cirstea played 16 games less than Zhang. The Romanian scored 9 winners (27% of the total points). On the other side, Shuai fired 31 winners (44%).

Serve Performance

Serve	Cirstea	Zhang
Aces	3	1
Avg per match	3	1
1st in	13/25	44/62
%1st in	52%	71%
1st pts	9/13	31/44
%1st pts	69%	70%
2nd pts	7/12	5/18
%2nd pts	58%	28%

Cirstea struck 3 aces . Zhang managed to score 1 ace . Cirstea won 69% points on her first serve. She pretty effective on her second serve to win 58% of the points. On the other side, Zhang won 70% of the points behind her first serve. She had a solid display on her second serve to win 28% of the points.

How they played the important points

Breaks	Cirstea	Zhang
Won	4	6
Converted	4/5	6/11
% Converted	80%	55%
Conceded	1	5
Saved	0	1
% Saved	0%	20%
Times Broken	1	4

Cirstea broke her opponent 4 times with a 80% conversion rate. The Romanian surrendered her serve once and she saved 0% of the break points that she conceded. Zhang broke her opponent 6 times with a 55% conversion rate. Zhang conceded her serve 4 times and she saved 20% of the break points that she conceded.

Cirstea
	R1 Ostapenko	Total
Score	6-0 2-1 ret.
Tot Set	2	2
Tot Games	9	9
pts	33-14	33-14
Total points	47	47
Winners	9	9
%Winners	27%	27%
SERVE
Aces	3	3
Double Faults	0	0
1st in	13/25	13/25
% 1st in	52%	52%
1st pts	9/13	9/13
% 1st pts	69%	69%
2nd pts	7/12	7/12
% 2nd pts	58%	58%
Breaks
Won	4	4
Converted	4/5	4/5
Converted %	80%	80%
Conceded	1	1
Saved	0/1	0
Saved %	0%	0%
Times Broken	1	1

Zhang
	R1 Navarro	Total
Score	6-2 2-6 6-3
Tot Set	3	3
Tot Games	25	25
pts	71-69	71-69
Total points	140	140
Winners	31	31
%Winners	44%	44%
SERVE
Aces	1	1
Double Faults	4	4
1st in	44/62	44/62
% 1st in	71%	71%
1st pts	31/44	31/44
% 1st pts	70%	70%
2nd pts	5/18	5/18
% 2nd pts	28%	28%
Breaks
Won	6	6
Converted	6/11	6/11
Converted %	55%	55%
Conceded	5	5
Saved	1/5	1
Saved %	20%	20%
Times Broken	4	4

Tennis Scores in Wuhan

• Laura SiegemundSiegemund – Mirra AndreevaAndreeva (6-7⁴ 6-3 6-3) – Stats, scores, rankings
• Iga SwiatekSwiatek – Marie BouzkovaBouzkova (6-1 6-1) – Stats, scores, rankings
• Dustin BrownBrown – Sebastian FanselowFanselow (6-3 6-2) – Stats, scores, rankings
• Yannick HanfmannHanfmann – Johannes HaerteisHaerteis (6-3 6-3) – Stats, scores, rankings
• Facundo BagnisBagnis – Zsombor PirosPiros (6-4 4-6 6-1) – Stats, scores, rankings
• Andrej MartinMartin – Nicola KuhnKuhn (7-5 4-6 6-3) – Stats, scores, rankings
• Henri LaaksonenLaaksonen – Lucas MiedlerMiedler (6-4 7-6⁴) – Stats, scores, rankings
• Elias YmerYmer – Gian Marco MoroniMarco Moroni (6-4 6-4) – Stats, scores, rankings
• Daniel Elahi GalanElahi Galan – Peter HellerHeller (6-3 7-6⁵) – Stats, scores, rankings
• Filip HoranskyHoransky – Daniel AltmaierAltmaier (6-2 7-5) – Stats, scores, rankings
• Stefano TravagliaTravaglia – Santiago GiraldoGiraldo (6-1 7-6⁶) – Stats, scores, rankings
• Oscar OtteOtte – Aleksandre MetreveliMetreveli (6-3 6-3) – Stats, scores, rankings
• Constant LestienneLestienne – Thiemo de Bakkerde Bakker (6-3 6-4) – Stats, scores, rankings
• Gianluca MagerMager – Pedro CachinCachin (6-3 5-7 6-1) – Stats, scores, rankings
• Daniel Gimeno-TraverGimeno-Traver – Rogerio Dutra Da SilvaDutra Da Silva (3-6 7-6⁵ 6-0) – Stats, scores, rankings
• Alex MolcanMolcan – Tim Van RijthovenVan Rijthoven (6-7⁴ 6-2 6-4) – Stats, scores, rankings
• Bernabe Zapata MirallesZapata Miralles – Daniel MasurMasur (0-6 6-1 6-0) – Stats, scores, rankings
• Benjamin HassanHassan – Pedro SousaSousa (6-2 6-2) – Stats, scores, rankings

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• Naomi OsakaOsaka – (0-0) – H2H and prediction
• Jaqueline CristianCristian – Elena RybakinaRybakina (1-2) – H2H and prediction
• Ekaterina AlexandrovaAlexandrova – Ann LiLi (1-0) – H2H and prediction
• Hailey BaptisteBaptiste – Jessica PegulaPegula (0-2) – H2H and prediction
• Magdalena FrechFrech – Karolina MuchovaMuchova (0-2) – H2H and prediction
• Shuai ZhangZhang – Sorana CirsteaCirstea (2-2) – H2H and prediction
• Moyuka UchijimaUchijima – Cori GauffGauff (0-1) – H2H and prediction
• Jasmine PaoliniPaolini – Yue YuanYuan (3-0) – H2H and prediction
• Belinda BencicBencic – Elise MertensMertens (0-1) – H2H and prediction