Cori Gauff and Shuai Zhang will square off in the 3^rd round of the Wuhan Open for the 4^th time in their career. They are scheduled to compete on Thursday at 9:30 pm on CENTER. In this post, we analyze their head to head performance and prediction.

Prediction, odds and live streaming

The pick for Tennis Tonic is Cori Gauff who should win in 2 sets.

As per the initial odds, Cori Gauff is the pick to win this match.
Cori Gauff -> 1.24
Shuai Zhang -> 4.05

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Prediction and head to head Cori Gauff vs. Shuai Zhang

This will be the 4^th time that Cori Gauff and Shuai Zhang fight against each other. The head to head is 3-0 for Gauff (see full H2H stats), 3-0 on hard.

The last time that they played each other, Gauff won 7-6(4) 6-2 in the quarter in Australia back in January 2025.

Highlights Cori Gauff vs Shuai Zhang – Australia 01-January-2025

Cori Gauff

Ranked no. 3, Cori got to the 3^rd round after defeating Moyuka Uchijima 6-1 6-0

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In the 2^nd round, Cori had a good straight sets win against Uchijima (6-1 6-0). During the match, Gauff scored 55 points vs Uchijima’s 22. The American was pretty aggressive to blast 25 winners.

Talking about the service games, Gauff struck 5 aces and she was very consistent in conceding no double faults. Cori Gauff was extremely effective on serve to win 89% (25/28) of her 1st serve and 60% (3/5) on the second serve. This was the main reason for not conceding a single break during the match. Gauff broke Uchijima 5 times after converting 63% of her break points (5/8).

Gauff has a fantastic match record in the last 9 years having won 70% of her matches (272-114). 25-9 on hard in 2025. Regarding her performance on the same surface of this competition, Gauff has an aggregate155-67 record in the last 9 years on hard.

Her best result of the year was winning the title in Australia where she overcame Iga Swiatek in the final 6-4 6-4 and at the French Open where she overcame Aryna Sabalenka in the final 6-7(5) 6-2 6-4.

Gauff has an aggregate 43-14 win-loss record in 2025, 25-9 on hard (See FULL STATS).

Previously in Wuhan

Shuai Zhang

Ranked no. 142, the Chinese got to the 3^rd round after beating Emma Navarro 6-2 2-6 6-3 and Sorana Cirstea 6-4 3-6 6-4.

In the 2^nd round, The Chinese defeated Cirstea (6-4 3-6 6-4). During the match Zhang and Cirstea scored the same amount of points (95). However, the world no. 3 was stronger during the important points and that was the most significant difference in the match. The Chinese was quite aggressive to blast 35 winners.

About the serving games, Zhang scored 5 aces and she committed only 3 double faults. Shuai Zhang lost the serve 3 times and she saved 4 break points. Furthermore, Zhang put 66% of her first serves in, winning 59% (35/59) of the points behind her 1st serve and 61% (19/31) on the 2nd serve. The Chinese broke Cirstea 4 times after converting 50% of her break points (4/8).

Overall Performance in this tournament

Zhang has conceded 2 set in the tournament to win 50% of the points she played.

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

Shuai has a composed 27-11 win-loss record in 2025, 19-5 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 (main draw)

Matches, sets, games and points

Points	Gauff	Zhang
Match played	1	2
Tot Set	2	6
Tot Games	13	54
Pts	55-22	166-164
Total Points	77	330
Winners	25	66
%Winners	45%	40%

Gauff played 1 match while Zhang competed in 2 matches. At the moment, Shuai Zhang dropped 2 sets while Cori Gauff hasn’t surrendered a set so far. Gauff has played 4 set(s) less than Zhang (2 vs 6). Therefore, Gauff played 41 games less than Zhang. Cori scored 25 winners (45% of the total points). On the other side, Shuai bagged 66 winners (40%).

Serve Performance

Serve	Gauff	Zhang
Aces	5	6
Avg per match	5	3
1st in	28/33	103/152
%1st in	85%	68%
1st pts	25/28	66/103
%1st pts	89%	64%
2nd pts	3/5	24/49
%2nd pts	60%	49%

Gauff recorded 5 aces . Zhang managed to score 6 aces (3 per match). Gauff won 89% points behind her first serve. She extremely effective on her second serve to win 60% of the points. On the other side, Zhang won 64% of the points behind her first serve. She had a solid display on her second serve to win 49% of the points.

How they played the important points

Breaks	Gauff	Zhang
Won	5	10
Converted	5/8	10/19
% Converted	63%	53%
Conceded	0	12
Saved	0	5
% Saved	0%	42%
Times Broken	0	7

Cori broke her opponent 5 times with a 63% conversion rate. Gauff quite strong on her serve as she has never dropped a single service game after saving 0 break points. The Chinese broke her opponents 10 times with a 53% conversion rate. The Chinese conceded her serve 7 times and she saved 42% of the break points that she conceded.

Gauff
	R2 Uchijima	Total
Score	6-1 6-0
Tot Set	2	2
Tot Games	13	13
pts	55-22	55-22
Total points	77	77
Winners	25	25
%Winners	45%	45%
SERVE
Aces	5	5
Double Faults	0	0
1st in	28/33	28/33
% 1st in	85%	85%
1st pts	25/28	25/28
% 1st pts	89%	89%
2nd pts	3/5	3/5
% 2nd pts	60%	60%
Breaks
Won	5	5
Converted	5/8	5/8
Converted %	63%	63%
Conceded	0	0
Saved	0/0	0
Saved %	–	0%
Times Broken	0	0

Zhang
	R1 Navarro	R2 Cirstea	Total
Score	6-2 2-6 6-3	6-4 3-6 6-4
Tot Set	3	3	6
Tot Games	25	29	54
pts	71-69	95-95	166-164
Total points	140	190	330
Winners	31	35	66
%Winners	44%	37%	40%
SERVE
Aces	1	5	6
Double Faults	4	3	7
1st in	44/62	59/90	103/152
% 1st in	71%	66%	68%
1st pts	31/44	35/59	66/103
% 1st pts	70%	59%	64%
2nd pts	5/18	19/31	24/49
% 2nd pts	28%	61%	49%
Breaks
Won	6	4	10
Converted	6/11	4/8	10/19
Converted %	55%	50%	53%
Conceded	5	7	12
Saved	1/5	4/7	5
Saved %	20%	57%	77%
Times Broken	4	3	7

Tennis Scores in Wuhan

• Elias YmerYmer – Daniel Elahi GalanElahi Galan (6-4 6-4) – Stats, scores, rankings
• Facundo BagnisBagnis – Andrej MartinMartin (6-1 6-3) – Stats, scores, rankings
• Alex MolcanMolcan – Benjamin HassanHassan (6-3 6-2) – Stats, scores, rankings
• Bernabe Zapata MirallesZapata Miralles – Dustin BrownBrown (6-3 6-4) – Stats, scores, rankings
• Stefano TravagliaTravaglia – Daniel Gimeno-TraverGimeno-Traver (6-4 6-2) – Stats, scores, rankings
• Yannick HanfmannHanfmann – Gianluca MagerMager (6-1 6-2) – Stats, scores, rankings
• Filip HoranskyHoransky – Oscar OtteOtte (6-7² 1-0 ret.) – Stats, scores, rankings
• Constant LestienneLestienne – Henri LaaksonenLaaksonen (7-6¹ 7-6⁶) – Stats, scores, rankings

Upcoming matches in the draw

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• Jasmine PaoliniPaolini – Yue YuanYuan (3-0) – H2H and prediction
• Aryna SabalenkaSabalenka – Ludmilla SamsonovaSamsonova (3-2) – H2H and prediction
• Ekaterina AlexandrovaAlexandrova – Jessica PegulaPegula (3-2) – H2H and prediction
• Laura SiegemundSiegemund – Magdalena FrechFrech (2-0) – H2H and prediction
• Shuai ZhangZhang – Cori GauffGauff (0-3) – H2H and prediction
• Belinda BencicBencic – Iga SwiatekSwiatek (1-4) – H2H and prediction