Francesca Jones and Mei Yamaguchi will fight against each other in the 1st round of the Chennai Open for the 1st time in their career. They are scheduled to compete on Wednesday at 1:30 pm on COURT 1. Here the head to head stats and relative prediction.
Prediction, odds and live streaming
The pick for Tennis Tonic is Francesca Jones who should win in 2 sets.
As per the initial odds, Francesca Jones is the pick to win this match.
Francesca Jones -> 1.082
Mei Yamaguchi -> 7.7
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Prediction and head to head Francesca Jones vs. Mei Yamaguchi
There is no head to head record between Francesca Jones and Mei Yamaguchi since this will be the first time that they will clash against each other in the main tour.
Francesca Jones
45 - 17win/loss
74
71
LLLWWWLWWL | Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 45-18 | 15-8 | 26-5 | 2-1 | 2-4 | 0-0 |
| 2024 | 33-18 | 3-3 | 28-13 | 0-0 | 2-2 | 0-0 |
| 2023 | 21-11 | 1-2 | 18-7 | 2-2 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2022 | 0-2 | 0-2 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2021 | 30-21 | 6-5 | 24-12 | 0-0 | 0-4 | 0-0 |
Ranked no. 71 (career-high), Jones will start her run in Chennai after she played her last match in Guangzhou where she lost 6-4 6-4 to Wang in the 1st round on the 20th of October.
Francesca has an aggregate 45-17 win-loss record in 2025, 15-7 on hard (See FULL STATS).
Her best result of the current year was conquering the title the W75 Vacaria where she defeated Leolia Jeanjean in the final 1-6 6-4 6-1 and the W75 Prague where she defeated Ena Shibahara in the final 6-3 6-4 and the Contrexeville where she beat Elsa Jacquemot in the final 6-4 7-6(2) and the Palermo where she overcame Anouk Koevermans in the final 6-3 6-2.
Talking about her overall career, The Brit has an overall 246-131 record. She has a positive 37-28 record on hard.
Previously in Chennai
Francesca has never competed in this tournament before.
Mei Yamaguchi
28 - 29win/loss
272
242
LWWLWLWWLW | Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 36-34 | 28-24 | 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. 279, Mei reached the 1st round after defeating Ankita Raina 6-1 6-3 and Arina Rodionova 2-6 6-4 6-2.
In the qualifications against Rodionova, Mei recovered from a 1-set down deficit before winning (2-6 6-4 6-2). During the match Yamaguchi scored 90 points vs Rodionova’s 84. The Japanese was extremely aggressive to blast 38 winners.
About the serving games, Yamaguchi couldn’t to score even 1 ace for the entire match and she committed only 6 double faults. Mei Yamaguchi lost the serve 3 times and she saved 6 break points. Furthermore, Yamaguchi put 65% of her first serves in, winning 69% (38/55) of the points behind her 1st serve and 50% (15/30) on the 2nd serve. The Japanese broke Rodionova 4 times after converting 36% of her break points (4/11).
Overall Performance in this tournament
The Japanese started her run at this tournament from the qualifications. In the main draw, she has conceded 1 set in the tournament to win 55% of the points she played.
Yamaguchi has a composed 28-29 win-loss record in 2025, 20-19 on hard (See FULL STATS).
Head 2 Head
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LWWLWLWWLW Tennis Scores in Chennai
- Mei YamaguchiYamaguchi – Arina RodionovaRodionova (2-6 6-4 6-2) – See score progression
- Astrid Lew Yan FoonLew Yan Foon – Vaishnavi AdkarAdkar (6-2 6-3) – See score progression
- Caroline WernerWerner – Thasaporn NakloNaklo (6-3 7-64) – See score progression
- Arianne HartonoHartono – Priska Madelyn NugrohoMadelyn Nugroho (6-2 6-1) – See score progression
Upcoming matches in the draw
- Zeynep SonmezSonmez – (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Katarzyna KawaKawa – Lucia BronzettiBronzetti (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Nao HibinoHibino – (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Thasaporn NakloNaklo – Diane ParryParry (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Kimberly BirrellBirrell – (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Leolia JeanjeanJeanjean – Nina StojanovicStojanovic (1-0) – H2H and prediction
- Mai HontamaHontama – Storm SandersSanders (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Arianne HartonoHartono – Joanna GarlandGarland (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Mei YamaguchiYamaguchi – Francesca JonesJones (0-0) – H2H and prediction
