Arina Rodionova and Mei Yamaguchi will fight against each other in the qualifications of the Chennai Open for the 3rd time in their career. They are scheduled to play on Sunday at 4:00 pm on CENTER COURT. In the following paragraphs, you can find the head to head analysis and prediction.
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The pick for Tennis Tonic is Arina Rodionova who should win in 3 sets.
Arina Rodionova -> 1.5
Mei Yamaguchi -> 2.46
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Prediction and head to head Arina Rodionova vs. Mei Yamaguchi
This will be the 3rd time that Arina Rodionova and Mei Yamaguchi face off. The head to head is 2-0 for Rodionova (see full H2H stats), but they have never played each other on hard.
The last time that they locked horns, Rodionova won 6-3 6-1 in the 2nd round in the W75 Fukuoka back in 2024.
Arina Rodionova
27 - 24win/loss
208
97
| Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 29-25 | 19-13 | 7-9 | 1-1 | 2-2 | 0-0 |
| 2024 | 29-32 | 18-21 | 0-2 | 3-3 | 2-4 | 6-2 |
| 2023 | 78-27 | 40-16 | 4-4 | 22-3 | 8-3 | 4-1 |
| 2022 | 18-12 | 12-6 | 2-4 | 0-0 | 4-2 | 0-0 |
| 2021 | 17-24 | 4-13 | 2-5 | 2-3 | 9-3 | 0-0 |
Ranked no. 250, the Australian reached the qualifications after beating Diya Ramesh Ramesh 6-0 6-1.
In the qualifications, Arina had a good straight sets win against Ramesh Ramesh (6-0 6-1). During the match, Rodionova scored 50 points vs Ramesh Ramesh’s 22. Rodionova was quite aggressive to blast 11 winners.
Regarding the service games, Rodionova was unable to score even 1 ace in the match and she committed only 2 double faults. Arina Rodionova lost the serve once and she saved 1 break points. Furthermore, Rodionova put 49% of her first serves in, winning 65% (11/17) of the points behind her 1st serve and 56% (10/18) on the 2nd serve. Arina broke Ramesh Ramesh 7 times after converting 70% of her break points (7/10).
Rodionova has positive record in the last 10 years having won 56% of her matches (316-249). 17-11 on hard in 2025. Talking about her performance on the same surface of this tournament, Rodionova has a composed 192-149 match record in the last years on hard.
Her best result of the season was winning the title the W75 Luan where she overcame Lanlana Tararudee in the final 6-3 1-6 6-3.
Arina has an aggregate 27-23 win-loss record in 2025, 17-11 on hard (See FULL STATS).
Previously in Chennai
Arina has never competed in this tournament before.
Mei Yamaguchi
28 - 29win/loss
282
242
| Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 33-32 | 25-22 | 5-7 | 2-2 | 0-0 | 1-1 |
| 2024 | 47-28 | 33-24 | 1-1 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 13-3 |
| 2023 | 36-31 | 30-24 | 1-1 | 0-1 | 1-2 | 4-3 |
| 2022 | 15-13 | 1-4 | 8-5 | 1-2 | 0-0 | 5-2 |
| 2021 | 26-13 | 13-4 | 13-9 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
Ranked no. 266, Yamaguchi got to the qualifications after defeating Ankita Raina 6-1 6-3.
In the qualifications, Mei had a good straight sets win against Raina (6-1 6-3). During the match Yamaguchi scored 66 points vs Raina’s 46. The Japanese was extremely aggressive to blast 19 winners.
About the serving games, Yamaguchi scored just 1 ace during the entire match and she committed only 1 double fault for the entire match. Mei Yamaguchi lost the serve 3 times and she saved 2 break points. Furthermore, Yamaguchi put 62% of her first serves in, winning 58% (19/33) of the points behind her 1st serve and 55% (11/20) on the 2nd serve. Mei broke Raina 7 times after converting 41% of her break points (7/17).
Yamaguchi has a composed 27-29 win-loss record in 2025, 19-19 on hard (See FULL STATS).
H2H Performance in the tournament
Matches, sets, games and points
| Points | Rodionova | Yamaguchi |
|---|---|---|
| Match played | 1 | 1 |
| Tot Set | 2 | 2 |
| Tot Games | 13 | 16 |
| Pts | 50-22 | 66-46 |
| Total Points | 72 | 112 |
| Winners | 11 | 19 |
| %Winners | 22% | 29% |
Both Rodionova and Yamaguchi played 1 match. Also both players started their run from the qualifications.Both players have not surrendered a single set in this event so far. Talking about their workload, Rodionova and Yamaguchi have played the same amount of sets 2. However, Rodionova played 3 games less than Yamaguchi. Rodionova scored 11 winners (22% of the total points). On the other side, Yamaguchi made 19 winners (29%).
Serve Performance
| Serve | Rodionova | Yamaguchi |
|---|---|---|
| Aces | 0 | 1 |
| Avg per match | 0 | 1 |
| 1st in | 17/35 | 33/53 |
| %1st in | 49% | 62% |
| 1st pts | 11/17 | 19/33 |
| %1st pts | 65% | 58% |
| 2nd pts | 10/18 | 11/20 |
| %2nd pts | 56% | 55% |
Rodionova didn’t manage to fire a single ace to far. Yamaguchi fired 1 ace . Rodionova won 65% points on her first serve. She pretty effective on her second serve to win 56% of the points. On the other side, Yamaguchi won 58% of the points behind her first serve. She had a solid display on her second serve to win 55% of the points.
How they played the important points
| Breaks | Rodionova | Yamaguchi |
|---|---|---|
| Won | 7 | 7 |
| Converted | 7/10 | 7/17 |
| % Converted | 70% | 41% |
| Conceded | 2 | 5 |
| Saved | 1 | 2 |
| % Saved | 50% | 40% |
| Times Broken | 1 | 3 |
The Australian broke her opponent 7 times with a 70% conversion rate. Arina lost her serve once and she saved 50% of the break points that she conceded. The Japanese broke her opponent 7 times with a 41% conversion rate. Mei conceded her serve 3 times and she saved 40% of the break points that she conceded.
| Rodionova | |||
| Q1 Ramesh | Total | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Score | 6-0 6-1 | ||
| Tot Set | 2 | 2 | |
| Tot Games | 13 | 13 | |
| pts | 50-22 | 50-22 | |
| Total points | 72 | 72 | |
| Winners | 11 | 11 | |
| %Winners | 22% | 22% | |
| SERVE | |||
| Aces | 0 | 0 | |
| Double Faults | 2 | 2 | |
| 1st in | 17/35 | 17/35 | |
| % 1st in | 49% | 49% | |
| 1st pts | 11/17 | 11/17 | |
| % 1st pts | 65% | 65% | |
| 2nd pts | 10/18 | 10/18 | |
| % 2nd pts | 56% | 56% | |
| Breaks | |||
| Won | 7 | 7 | |
| Converted | 7/10 | 7/10 | |
| Converted % | 70% | 70% | |
| Conceded | 2 | 2 | |
| Saved | 1/2 | 1 | |
| Saved % | 50% | 50% | |
| Times Broken | 1 | 1 | |
| Yamaguchi | |||
| Q1 Raina | Total | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Score | 6-1 6-3 | ||
| Tot Set | 2 | 2 | |
| Tot Games | 16 | 16 | |
| pts | 66-46 | 66-46 | |
| Total points | 112 | 112 | |
| Winners | 19 | 19 | |
| %Winners | 29% | 29% | |
| SERVE | |||
| Aces | 1 | 1 | |
| Double Faults | 1 | 1 | |
| 1st in | 33/53 | 33/53 | |
| % 1st in | 62% | 62% | |
| 1st pts | 19/33 | 19/33 | |
| % 1st pts | 58% | 58% | |
| 2nd pts | 11/20 | 11/20 | |
| % 2nd pts | 55% | 55% | |
| Breaks | |||
| Won | 7 | 7 | |
| Converted | 7/17 | 7/17 | |
| Converted % | 41% | 41% | |
| Conceded | 5 | 5 | |
| Saved | 2/5 | 2 | |
| Saved % | 40% | 40% | |
| Times Broken | 3 | 3 | |
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