Aryna Sabalenka vs Qinwen Zheng Prediction Wuhan Open Tennis Picks 10/13/24

Aryna Sabalenka and Qinwen Zheng meet in the final at the 2024 Wuhan Open. The match is scheduled for Sunday, October 13, 2024. Here’s our Aryna Sabalenka vs Qinwen Zheng prediction. This article will also contain an Aryna Sabalenka vs Qinwen Zheng pick.

Aryna Sabalenka vs Qinwen Zheng Preview

Aryna Sabalenka snapped Coco Gauff’s nine-match win streak to keep her unbeaten run at the Wuhan Open intact. Sabalenka has yet to lose a match in this tournament, which made its return to the WTA calendar for the first time since 2019.

She is the two-time defending champion and will get a chance to lift her fourth title of a stellar season. For a fleeting moment, it looked like Sabalenka had hit a snag as she trailed 1-6, 2-4 to the in-form Gauff, but the American’s serve deteriorated massively, coughing a high of 21 double faults in the match including on match point. Sabalenka completed the comeback to win 1-6, 6-4, 6-4, to improve to 16-0 in Wuhan.

In the final, she will meet Qinwen Zheng in a rematch of this year’s Australian Open final. Zheng defeated countrywoman Wang Xinyu in a historic all-Chinese semifinal on Saturday in straight sets. The match took 19 games to decide. 

Zheng fired eight aces and four double faults. She converted five of 12 break points to motor into her fourth final of the season.

Aryna Sabalenka vs Qinwen Zheng Head-To-Head

• Aryna Sabalenka leads Qinwen Zheng 3-0 in their head-to-head.

• They have played twice this year at Grand Slam level, with Sabalenka dropping a combined eight games.

Aryna Sabalenka vs Qinwen Zheng Prediction

Aryna Sabalenka has been getting a lot of love from Chinese fans, but not on Sunday as she plays the golden girl of Chinese tennis. But this is such an awkward matchup for Qinwen Zheng, who has been demolished twice by the Belarusian.

Sabalenka suffocates the court with her intensity and powerful groundstrokes, leaving Zheng bereft of ideas, as we saw at the Australian Open and, more recently, at the US Open. This is a movie we have seen, and I’m afraid we’ll be getting another one-sided match between them.