Ekaterina Alexandrova and Yue Yuan will fight against each other in the 2nd round of the Ningbo Open for the 3rd time in their career. They are scheduled to compete on Thursday at 4:30 pm on CENTER COURT. 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 Ekaterina Alexandrova who should win in 2 sets.
As per the initial odds, Ekaterina Alexandrova is the pick to win this match.
Ekaterina Alexandrova -> 1.25
Yue Yuan -> 3.92
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Prediction and head to head Ekaterina Alexandrova vs. Yue Yuan
This will be the 3rd time that Ekaterina Alexandrova and Yue Yuan fight against each other. The head to head is 1-1 (see full H2H stats), 1-0 on hard.
The last time that they played, Alexandrova won 7-5 7-6(3) in the quarter in Monterrey back in 2024.
Highlights Ekaterina Alexandrova vs Yue Yuan – Monterrey 22-August-2024
Ekaterina Alexandrova
43 - 22win/loss
10
10
LLWLWWWLWW | Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 47-25 | 22-16 | 13-5 | 4-1 | 8-3 | 0-0 |
| 2024 | 26-25 | 17-13 | 1-7 | 3-2 | 5-3 | 0-0 |
| 2023 | 33-21 | 17-13 | 6-5 | 0-1 | 10-2 | 0-0 |
| 2022 | 35-18 | 12-10 | 13-5 | 4-2 | 6-1 | 0-0 |
| 2021 | 26-23 | 10-9 | 6-5 | 7-7 | 3-2 | 0-0 |
Ranked no. 10 (career-high), Alexandrova will start her run in Ningbo after she played her last match in Wuhan where she lost 7-5 3-6 6-3 to Pegula in the 3rd round on the 9th of October.
Ekaterina has a compiled 43-22 win-loss record in 2025, 18-14 on hard (See FULL STATS).
Her best result of the season was winning the title in Linz where she beat Dayana Yastremska in the final 6-2 3-6 7-5.
Talking about her overall career, Alexandrova has an overall 370-239 record. She has a positive 125-100 record on hard.
Previously in Ningbo
Alexandrova has never competed in this tournament before.
Yue Yuan
19 - 25win/loss
128
36
LLWLWLWLLL | Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 19-27 | 11-18 | 5-4 | 0-1 | 3-4 | 0-0 |
| 2024 | 32-27 | 27-17 | 3-6 | 0-0 | 2-4 | 0-0 |
| 2023 | 41-29 | 27-17 | 8-7 | 1-2 | 5-3 | 0-0 |
| 2022 | 44-25 | 33-16 | 9-7 | 0-0 | 2-2 | 0-0 |
| 2021 | 24-17 | 6-7 | 3-6 | 15-4 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
Ranked no. 108, the Chinese got to the 2nd round after defeating Xinyu Wang 6-3 6-3.
In the 1st round, Yuan had a good straight sets win against Wang (6-3 6-3). During the match Yuan scored 67 points vs Wang’s 50. The Chinese was exceptionally aggressive to blast 28 winners.
Talking about serving, Yuan managed to score 3 aces and she committed only 2 double faults. Yue Yuan lost the serve 3 times and she saved 3 break points. Furthermore, Yuan put 74% of her first serves in, winning 72% (28/39) of the points behind her 1st serve and 36% (5/14) on the 2nd serve. Yuan broke Wang 6 times after converting 50% of her break points (6/12).
Her best result of the current year was winning the title the W100 Oeiras where she defeated Greetje Minnen in the final 4-6 6-4 6-2.
Yue has an overall 19-25 win-loss record in 2025, 11-16 on hard (See FULL STATS).
Previously in Ningbo
Previously, her best result was reaching the 2nd round in 2024. See her history.
Head 2 Head
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LLWLWLWLLL Tennis Scores in Ningbo
- Belinda BencicBencic – Yuliia StarodubtsevaStarodubtseva (5-7 6-4 7-5) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Ajla TomljanovicTomljanovic – Zeynep SonmezSonmez (7-66 6-3) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Diana ShnaiderShnaider – Karolina MuchovaMuchova (2-6 6-1 6-2) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Viktor GalovicGalovic – Pavel KotovKotov (7-64 6-4) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Lukas LackoLacko – Alen AvidzbaAvidzba (6-2 6-4) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Alessandro BegaBega – Lorenzo GiustinoGiustino (7-64 6-2) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Emilio GomezGomez – Thiago Seyboth WildSeyboth Wild (6-4 3-4 ret.) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Sergiy StakhovskyStakhovsky – Illya MarchenkoMarchenko (7-64 3-6 7-5) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Mats MoraingMoraing – Samuele RamazzottiRamazzotti (6-4 6-4) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Ramkumar RamanathanRamanathan – Nikola CacicCacic (6-3 6-3) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Matteo ViolaViola – Ilya IvashkaIvashka (6-4 5-7 6-4) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Raul BrancaccioBrancaccio – Adrian Menendez-MaceirasMenendez-Maceiras (4-6 6-3 6-3) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Kenny de Schepperde Schepper – Evgeny DonskoyDonskoy (6-3 6-4) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Roberto MarcoraMarcora – Mirza BasicBasic (6-3 6-4) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Jurij RodionovRodionov – Stefano NapolitanoNapolitano (6-4 6-3) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Yosuke WatanukiWatanuki – Enrique Lopez-PerezLopez-Perez (6-2 6-4) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Andrea VavassoriVavassori – Filippo BaldiBaldi (6-3 6-76 6-2) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Matthias BachingerBachinger – Zhizhen ZhangZhang (6-1 6-4) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Egor GerasimovGerasimov – Marc-Andrea HueslerHuesler (7-5 7-65) – Stats, scores, rankings
Upcoming matches in the draw
- Ekaterina AlexandrovaAlexandrova – Yue YuanYuan (1-1) – H2H and prediction
- Mccartney KesslerKessler – Ludmilla SamsonovaSamsonova (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Dayana YastremskaYastremska – Elena RybakinaRybakina (0-2) – H2H and prediction
- Veronika KudermetovaKudermetova – Jasmine PaoliniPaolini (3-2) – H2H and prediction
