Anna Kalinskaya and Shuai Zhang will clash against each other in the 2^nd round of the Hong Kong Tennis Open for the 1^st time in their career. They are scheduled to play on Thursday at 2:00 pm on CENTRE COURT. In the following lines you can find the head to head analysis and prediction.

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The pick for Tennis Tonic is Anna Kalinskaya who should win in 3 sets.

As per the initial odds, Anna Kalinskaya is the pick to win this match.
Anna Kalinskaya -> 1.68
Shuai Zhang -> 2.18

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Prediction and head to head Anna Kalinskaya vs. Shuai Zhang

There is no head to head record between Anna Kalinskaya and Shuai Zhang since this will be the first time that they will fight against each other in the main tour.

Anna Kalinskaya

Ranked no. 35, the Russian reached the 2^nd round after defeating Kamilla Rakhimova 6-4 6-4.

In the 1^st round, The Russian had a good straight sets win against Rakhimova (6-4 6-4). During the match, Kalinskaya and Rakhimova scored the same amount of points (). However, the world no. 35 was stronger during the important points and that was the most significant difference in the match. Kalinskaya was not very aggressive to strike just winners.

Talking about the service games, Kalinskaya couldn’t to score even 1 ace in the encounter and she was exceptionally steady in conceding no double faults. Anna Kalinskaya conceded no breaks for the entire match to put 0% of her first serves in, win 0% (0) of the points behind her 1st serve and 0% (0) on the 2nd serve.

Kalinskaya has a solid match record in the last 10 years having won 62% of her matches (303-189). 15-13 on hard in 2025. Regarding her performance on the same surface of this tournament, Kalinskaya has an aggregate 156-89 match record in the last years on hard.

The Russian’s best result of the year was reaching the final in Washington.

Anna has an aggregate 24-20 win-loss record in 2025, 15-13 on hard (See FULL STATS).

Previously in Hong Kong

Kalinskaya has never competed in this tournament before.

Shuai Zhang

Ranked no. 107, the Chinese got to the 2^nd round after beating Veronika Erjavec 6-2 6-2.

In the 1^st round, Shuai had a good straight sets win against Erjavec (6-2 6-2). During the match Zhang scored 64 points vs Erjavec’s 37. The Chinese was exceptionally aggressive to blast 23 winners.

Talking about serving, Zhang blasted 4 aces and she committed only 3 double faults. Overall, Shuai Zhang was exceptionally effective on serve to win 74% (23/31) of her 1st serve and 62% (8/13) on the second serve. However, this didn’t prevent her to concede the serve once. The Chinese broke Erjavec 5 times after converting 71% of her break points (5/7).

Her best result of the year was winning the title the W100 Gifu where she beat 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.

Shuai has a composed 31-13 win-loss record in 2025, 23-7 on hard (See FULL STATS).

H2H Performance in the tournament

Matches, sets, games and points

Points	Kalinskaya	Zhang
Match played	1	1
Tot Set	2	2
Tot Games	20	16
Pts	0-0	64-37
Total Points	0	101
Winners	0	23
%Winners	0%	36%

Both Kalinskaya and Zhang played 1 match. Both players have not conceded a single set in this event so far. Talking about their workload, Kalinskaya and Zhang have played the same amount of sets 2. However, Kalinskaya played 4 games more than Zhang. Kalinskaya scored 0 winners (0% of the total points). On the other side, The Chinese bagged 23 winners (36%).

Serve Performance

Serve	Kalinskaya	Zhang
Aces	0	4
Avg per match	0	4
1st in	0/0	31/44
%1st in	0%	70%
1st pts	0/0	23/31
%1st pts	0%	74%
2nd pts	0/0	8/13
%2nd pts	0%	62%

Kalinskaya didn’t manage to fire a single ace to far. Zhang scored 4 aces . Kalinskaya won 0% points on her first serve. She quite strong on her second serve to win 0% of the points. On the other side, Zhang won 74% of the points on her first serve. She had a solid display on her second serve to win 62% of the points.

How they played the important points

Breaks	Kalinskaya	Zhang
Won	0	5
Converted	0/0	5/7
% Converted	0%	71%
Conceded	0	1
Saved	0	0
% Saved	0%	0%
Times Broken	0	1

Kalinskaya hasn’t manged yet to break her opponent. She didn’t manage to even clinch a single break point. The Russian was rock solid on her serve as she has never dropped a single service game after saving 0 break points without even conceding a single break point. Shuai broke her opponent 5 times with a 71% conversion rate. The Chinese conceded her serve once and she saved 0% of the break points that she conceded.

Kalinskaya
	R1 Rakhimova	Total
Score	6-4 6-4
Tot Set	2	2
Tot Games	20	20
pts	–	0-0
Total points	0	0
Winners		0
%Winners	0%	0%
SERVE
Aces	0	0
Double Faults		0
1st in	/	0/0
% 1st in	0%	0%
1st pts	/	0/0
% 1st pts	0%	%
2nd pts	/	0/0
% 2nd pts	0%	0%
Breaks
Won		0
Converted	/	0/0
Converted %	0%	0%
Conceded		0
Saved	0/	0
Saved %	–	0%
Times Broken		0

Zhang
	R1 Erjavec	Total
Score	6-2 6-2
Tot Set	2	2
Tot Games	16	16
pts	64-37	64-37
Total points	101	101
Winners	23	23
%Winners	36%	36%
SERVE
Aces	4	4
Double Faults	3	3
1st in	31/44	31/44
% 1st in	70%	70%
1st pts	23/31	23/31
% 1st pts	74%	74%
2nd pts	8/13	8/13
% 2nd pts	62%	62%
Breaks
Won	5	5
Converted	5/7	5/7
Converted %	71%	71%
Conceded	1	1
Saved	0/1	0
Saved %	0%	0%
Times Broken	1	1

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