Sofia Kenin and Himeno Sakatsume will play each other in the 1st round of the Hong Kong Tennis Open for the 1st time in their career. They are scheduled to play on Tuesday at 2:00 pm on COURT 1. In this post, we analyze their head to head performance and prediction.
Prediction, odds and live streaming
The pick for Tennis Tonic is Sofia Kenin who should win in 2 sets.
Sofia Kenin -> 1.26
Himeno Sakatsume -> 3.84
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Prediction and head to head Sofia Kenin vs. Himeno Sakatsume
There is no head to head record between Sofia Kenin and Himeno Sakatsume since this will be the first time that they will clash against each other in the main tour.
Sofia Kenin
31 - 25win/loss
28
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| Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 31-26 | 19-18 | 9-5 | 0-0 | 3-3 | 0-0 |
| 2024 | 16-26 | 10-17 | 5-6 | 0-0 | 1-3 | 0-0 |
| 2023 | 27-21 | 17-12 | 3-4 | 1-2 | 6-3 | 0-0 |
| 2022 | 10-17 | 7-14 | 0-0 | 3-3 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2021 | 11-10 | 7-5 | 3-4 | 0-0 | 1-1 | 0-0 |
Ranked no. 28, Kenin will start her run in Hong Kong after she played her last match in Tokyo where she lost 7-6(5) 3-6 6-2 to Bencic in the semifinal on the 25th of October.
Sofia has an overall 31-25 win-loss record in 2025, 19-17 on hard (See FULL STATS).
The American’s best result of the year was reaching the final in Charleston.
Talking about her overall career, Kenin has an overall 304-216 record. She has a positive 185-129 record on hard.
Previously in Hong Kong
Previously, her best result was reaching the quarter in 2024. See her history
.Himeno Sakatsume
39 - 22win/loss
181
164
| Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 42-24 | 30-18 | 0-0 | 6-3 | 1-1 | 5-2 |
| 2024 | 40-28 | 32-15 | 2-7 | 6-6 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2023 | 37-23 | 23-15 | 3-3 | 10-3 | 1-2 | 0-0 |
| 2022 | 30-23 | 21-18 | 8-4 | 1-1 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2021 | 29-14 | 22-10 | 5-3 | 2-1 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
Ranked no. 228, Sakatsume reached the 1st round after beating Anastasia Kulikova 6-2 6-3 and Miho Kuramochi 6-0 6-1.
In the qualifications, The Japanese had a good straight sets win against Kuramochi (6-0 6-1). During the match Sakatsume scored 53 points vs Kuramochi’s 21. Sakatsume was quite aggressive to blast 22 winners.
About the serving games, Sakatsume wasn’t able to score even 1 ace for the entire match and she committed only 2 double faults. Himeno Sakatsume was exceptionally effective on serve to win 81% (22/27) of her 1st serve and 60% (9/15) on the second serve. This was the main reason for not conceding a single break during the match. Sakatsume broke Kuramochi 5 times after converting 83% of her break points (5/6).
Overall Performance in this tournament
Sakatsume started her run at this tournament from the qualifications. In the main draw, she hasn’t surrendered yet a set in this tournament to win 64% of the points she played.
Her best result of the season was winning the title the W50 Saskatoon where she beat Anca Alexia Todoni in the final 7-6(1) 6-3.
The Japanese has a compiled 39-22 win-loss record in 2025, 27-16 on hard (See FULL STATS).
Previously in Hong Kong
Himeno has never competed in this tournament before.
Tennis Scores in Hong Kong
- Yafan WangWang – Maddison InglisInglis (6-4 6-76 6-3) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Cristina BucsaBucsa – Yexin MaMa (6-1 6-2) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Eva LysLys – Kristiana SidorovaSidorova (6-0 6-3) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Gabriel Diallo/Nicaise MuambaDiallo/Nicaise Muamba – John-Paul Fruttero/Ruben GonzalesFruttero/Ruben Gonzales (3-6 6-3 11-9) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Benjamin SigouinSigouin – Carlos Gomez-HerreraGomez-Herrera (6-2 3-6 6-3) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Shintaro ImaiImai – Jacob GrillsGrills (6-76 7-60 6-0) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Daniel NguyenNguyen – Alexis GalarneauGalarneau (1-6 6-1 7-5) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Joao MenezesMenezes – Marcelo Tomas Barrios VeraTomas Barrios Vera (6-3 6-3) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Nicaise MuambaMuamba – Hans Hach VerdugoHach Verdugo (6-4 7-5) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Toshihide MatsuiMatsui – Alexander LebedevLebedev (7-64 6-4) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Alexander RitschardRitschard – Takanyi GarangangaGaranganga (6-4 6-4) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Dennis NovikovNovikov – Joshua PeckPeck (6-4 7-63) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Roberto Ortega-OlmedoOrtega-Olmedo – Evan SongSong (6-1 6-4) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Maxime CressyCressy – Alejandro TabiloTabilo (6-1 7-64) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Lucas CatarinaCatarina – Gabriel DialloDiallo (6-3 6-2) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Jeff WolfWolf – Strong KirchheimerKirchheimer (6-4 6-4) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Cem IlkelIlkel – Borna GojoGojo (6-4 4-6 6-3) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Brydan KleinKlein – Bernardo SaraivaSaraiva (6-1 6-2) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Justin BoulaisBoulais – Issei OkamuraOkamura (6-2 7-5) – Stats, scores, rankings
Upcoming matches in the draw
- Belinda BencicBencic – Aliaksandra SasnovichSasnovich (1-2) – H2H and prediction
- Moyuka UchijimaUchijima – Emiliana ArangoArango (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Sofia KeninKenin – Himeno SakatsumeSakatsume (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Eudice Wong ChongWong Chong – Suzan LamensLamens (1-1) – H2H and prediction
- Hong Yi Cody WongYi Cody Wong – Viktoria MorvayovaMorvayova (1-1) – H2H and prediction
- Anastasija SevastovaSevastova – (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Anna KalinskayaKalinskaya – Kamilla RakhimovaRakhimova (2-0) – H2H and prediction
- Veronika ErjavecErjavec – Shuai ZhangZhang (0-1) – H2H and prediction
- Sorana CirsteaCirstea – Dalma GalfiGalfi (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Momoko KoboriKobori – Ajla TomljanovicTomljanovic (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Xiyu WangWang – Leylah Annie FernandezAnnie Fernandez (0-1) – H2H and prediction