Karolina Muchova and Jaqueline Cristian will square off in the 2nd round of the Ningbo Open for the 3rd time in their career. They are scheduled to compete on Thursday at 8:00 pm on CENTER 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 Karolina Muchova who should win in 2 sets.

(image) As per the initial odds, Karolina Muchova is the pick to win this match.
Karolina Muchova -> 1.093
Jaqueline Cristian -> 7.2

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Prediction and head to head Karolina Muchova vs. Jaqueline Cristian

This will be the 3rd time that Karolina Muchova and Jaqueline Cristian square off. The head to head is 2-0 for Muchova (see full H2H stats), 1-0 on hard.

The last time that they fought against each other, Muchova won 6-1 6-3 in the 3rd round in Beijing back in September 2024.

Karolina Muchova

Ranked no. 29, the Czech got to the 2nd round after defeating Olivia Gadecki 6-3 7-5.

In the 1st round, The Czech had a good straight sets win against Gadecki (6-3 7-5). During the match, Muchova scored 75 points vs Gadecki’s 60. Muchova was quite aggressive to blast 24 winners.

Talking about the service games, Muchova scored just 1 ace and she committed only 1 double fault. Overall, Karolina Muchova was extremely efficient on serve to win 83% (24/29) of her 1st serve and 55% (12/22) on the second serve. However, this didn’t prevent her to concede the serve twice. Karolina broke Gadecki 5 times after converting 42% of her break points (5/12).

Muchova has a solid win-loss record in the last 9 years having won 68% of her matches (224-107). 13-3 on hard in 2024. In connection with her performance on the same surface of this tournament, Muchova has a composed110-44 record in the last 9 years on hard.

The Czech’s best result of the current year was getting to the final in Palermo and Beijing.

Karolina has a composed 19-6 win-loss record in 2024, 13-3 on hard (See FULL STATS).

Previously in Ningbo

Muchova has never competed in this tournament before.

Jaqueline Cristian

Ranked no. 73, Jaqueline got to the 2nd round after defeating

Jaqueline’s best result of the season was reaching the semifinal in Napoca.

Jaqueline has an aggregate 27-29 win-loss record in 2024, 4-13 on hard (See FULL STATS).

Tennis Scores in Ningbo

Yulia PutintsevaPutintseva – Ella SeidelSeidel (6-4 6-4) – Stats, scores, rankings
Daria KasatkinaKasatkina – Katerina SiniakovaSiniakova (1-6 6-3 6-2) – Stats, scores, rankings
Paula BadosaBadosa – Xiyu WangWang (6-74 6-1 6-2) – Stats, scores, rankings
Mirra AndreevaAndreeva – Tamara KorpatschKorpatsch (6-0 6-4) – Stats, scores, rankings
Jonas MerckxMerckx – Georgii KravchenkoKravchenko (6-1 6-3) – Stats, scores, rankings
Omar SalmanSalman – Dimitriy VoroninVoronin (7-68 6-71 6-3) – Stats, scores, rankings
Michael GeertsGeerts – Jeroen VannesteVanneste (6-4 5-7 6-0) – Stats, scores, rankings
Dragos Nicolae MadarasNicolae Madaras – Clement GeensGeens (6-2 2-0 ret.) – Stats, scores, rankings
Franjo RaspudicRaspudic – Luka PavlovicPavlovic (6-1 6-3) – Stats, scores, rankings
Christopher HeymanHeyman – Nikita MashtakovMashtakov (6-3 6-2) – Stats, scores, rankings

Upcoming matches in the draw

Beatriz Haddad MaiaHaddad Maia – Katie BoulterBoulter (0-3) – H2H and prediction
Yexin MaMa – Barbora KrejcikovaKrejcikova (0-0) – H2H and prediction
Anna KalinskayaKalinskaya – Yue YuanYuan (0-0) – H2H and prediction
Karolina MuchovaMuchova – Jaqueline CristianCristian (2-0) – H2H and prediction
Darya KasatkinaKasatkina – Yulia PutintsevaPutintseva (1-1) – H2H and prediction