Katie Volynets and Shuai Zhang will play each other in the quarter of the Guangzhou Open for the 2^nd time in their career. They are scheduled to play on Friday at 7:00 pm on CENTER COURT. In this post, we analyze their head to head performance and prediction.

Prediction, odds and live streaming

The pick for Tennis Tonic is Shuai Zhang who should win in 3 sets.

As per the initial odds, Shuai Zhang is the pick to win this match.
Shuai Zhang -> 1.57
Katie Volynets -> 2.4

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Prediction and head to head Katie Volynets vs. Shuai Zhang

This will be the 2^nd time that Katie Volynets and Shuai Zhang face off. The head to head is 1-0 for Zhang (see full H2H stats), 1-0 on hard.

The last time that they competed against each other, Zhang won 6-3 6-2 in the 3^rd round in at the Australian Open back in 2023.

Highlights Shuai Zhang vs Katie Volynets – Australian Open 21-January-2023

Katie Volynets

Ranked no. 98, the American got to the quarter after beating Dominika Salkova 6-2 7-5, Lanlana Tararudee 6-2 4-6 6-4, Katarzyna Kawa 4-6 6-2 6-2 and Tiantsoa Rakotomanga Rajaonah 6-3 6-3.

In the 2^nd round, Volynets had a good straight sets win against Rakotomanga Rajaonah (6-3 6-3). During the match, Volynets scored 64 points vs Rakotomanga Rajaonah’s 49. Volynets was exceptionally aggressive to blast 32 winners.

Talking about the service games, Volynets was unable to score even 1 ace in the encounter and she was exceptionally steady in conceding no double faults. Katie Volynets lost the serve once and she saved 4 break points. Furthermore, Volynets put 85% of her first serves in, winning 68% (32/47) of the points behind her 1st serve and 50% (4/8) on the 2nd serve. Katie broke Rakotomanga Rajaonah 4 times after converting 50% of her break points (4/8).

Overall Performance in this tournament

Katie started her run at this tournament from the qualifications. In the main draw, she has surrendered 2 set in this competition to conquer 55% of the points she played.

Volynets has a winning win-loss record in the last 9 years having won 59% of her matches (239-167). 25-15 on hard in 2025. In connection with her performance on the same surface of this competition, Volynets has a composed139-97 win-loss record in the last 9 years on hard.

Katie’s best result of the year was getting to the final in the Oeiras and the Suzhou.

Volynets has an overall 39-26 win-loss record in 2025, 25-15 on hard (See FULL STATS).

Previously in Guangzhou

The American has never competed in this tournament before.

Shuai Zhang

Ranked no. 122, Shuai reached the quarter after defeating Anastasia Zakharova 6-4 6-1 and Veronika Erjavec 3-6 6-3 6-2.

In the 2^nd round against Erjavec, Zhang recovered from a 1-set down deficit before winning (3-6 6-3 6-2). During the match Zhang scored 89 points vs Erjavec’s 79. The Chinese was pretty aggressive to blast 27 winners.

Talking about serving, Zhang scored just 1 ace during the entire match and she committed only 3 double faults. Shuai Zhang lost the serve 5 times and she saved 2 break points. Furthermore, Zhang put 61% of her first serves in, winning 59% (27/46) of the points behind her 1st serve and 40% (12/30) on the 2nd serve. The Chinese broke Erjavec 7 times after converting 47% of her break points (7/15).

Overall Performance in this tournament

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

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

Zhang has a composed 29-12 win-loss record in 2025, 21-6 on hard (See FULL STATS)

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Previously in Guangzhou

Previously, she won this tournament twice in 2013 and 2017. See her history.

H2H Performance in the tournament (main draw)

Matches, sets, games and points

Points	Volynets	Zhang
Match played	4	2
Tot Set	10	5
Tot Games	92	43
Pts	355-293	156-128
Total Points	648	284
Winners	170	53
%Winners	48%	34%

Volynets played 4 matches while Zhang competed in 2 matches. Volynets started her run from the qualifications while Zhang had a direct access to the main draw. Both players lost a set in the event. Katie Volynets conceded 2 sets, while Shuai Zhang surrendered 1 set. Volynets has played 5 sets more than Zhang (10 vs 5). Therefore, Volynets played 49 games more than Zhang. Katie scored 170 winners (48% of the total points). On the other side, The Chinese scored 53 winners (34%).

Serve Performance

Serve	Volynets	Zhang
Aces	2	3
Avg per match	0.5	1.5
1st in	266/328	90/140
%1st in	81%	64%
1st pts	170/266	53/90
%1st pts	64%	59%
2nd pts	33/62	20/50
%2nd pts	53%	40%

Volynets managed to score 2 aces (0.5 per match). Zhang bagged 3 aces (1.5 per match). Volynets won 64% points behind her first serve. She extremely effective on her second serve to win 53% of the points. On the other side, Zhang won 59% of the points behind her first serve. She had a solid display on her second serve to win 40% of the points.

How they played the important points

Breaks	Volynets	Zhang
Won	19	14
Converted	19/44	14/25
% Converted	43%	56%
Conceded	45	14
Saved	37	5
% Saved	82%	36%
Times Broken	8	9

The American broke her opponents 19 times with a 43% conversion rate. The American dropped her serve 8 times and she saved 82% of the break points that she conceded. Shuai broke her opponents 14 times with a 56% conversion rate. Zhang conceded her serve 9 times and she saved 36% of the break points that she conceded.

Volynets
	Q1 Salkova	Q3 Tararudee	R1 Kawa	R2 Rakotomanga	Total
Score	6-2 7-5	6-2 4-6 6-4	4-6 6-2 6-2	6-3 6-3
Tot Set	2	3	3	2	10
Tot Games	20	28	26	18	92
pts	84-68	110-95	97-81	64-49	355-293
Total points	152	205	178	113	648
Winners	43	55	40	32	170
%Winners	51%	50%	41%	50%	48%
SERVE
Aces	2	0	0	0	2
Double Faults	0	0	0	0	0
1st in	64/75	93/116	62/82	47/55	266/328
% 1st in	85%	80%	76%	85%	81%
1st pts	43/64	55/93	40/62	32/47	170/266
% 1st pts	67%	59%	65%	68%	64%
2nd pts	5/11	14/23	10/20	4/8	33/62
% 2nd pts	45%	61%	50%	50%	53%
Breaks
Won	4	5	6	4	19
Converted	4/13	5/8	6/15	4/8	19/44
Converted %	31%	63%	40%	50%	43%
Conceded	17	16	7	5	45
Saved	16/17	13/16	4/7	4/5	37
Saved %	94%	81%	57%	80%	78%
Times Broken	1	3	3	1	8

Zhang
	R1 Zakharova	R2 Erjavec	Total
Score	6-4 6-1	3-6 6-3 6-2
Tot Set	2	3	5
Tot Games	17	26	43
pts	67-49	89-79	156-128
Total points	116	168	284
Winners	26	27	53
%Winners	39%	30%	34%
SERVE
Aces	2	1	3
Double Faults	2	3	5
1st in	44/64	46/76	90/140
% 1st in	69%	61%	64%
1st pts	26/44	27/46	53/90
% 1st pts	59%	59%	59%
2nd pts	8/20	12/30	20/50
% 2nd pts	40%	40%	40%
Breaks
Won	7	7	14
Converted	7/10	7/15	14/25
Converted %	70%	47%	56%
Conceded	7	7	14
Saved	3/7	2/7	5
Saved %	43%	29%	18%
Times Broken	4	5	9

Tennis Scores in Guangzhou

• Federico DelbonisDelbonis – Federico GaioGaio (6-3 6-4) – Stats, scores, rankings
• Guillermo Garcia-LopezGarcia-Lopez – Gianluigi QuinziQuinzi (6-3 1-6 7-6²) – Stats, scores, rankings
• Albert Ramos-VinolasRamos-Vinolas – Alessandro GiannessiGiannessi (6-2 3-0 ret.) – Stats, scores, rankings
• Daniel Elahi GalanElahi Galan – Gian Marco MoroniMarco Moroni (3-6 6-4 6-3) – Stats, scores, rankings

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• Claire LiuLiu – (0-1) – H2H and prediction
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• Elisabetta CocciarettoCocciaretto – Ann LiLi (0-0) – H2H and prediction