Caty Mcnally vs Yuliia StarodubtsevaPrediction, Head-to-Head Results, and Stats
🇺🇸Caty Mcnally
#70 · 24 yrs · Right-Handed
1 meeting · sets 2–1
🇺🇦Yuliia Starodubtseva
#44 · 26 yrs · Right-Handed
3Caty Mcnally and Yuliia Starodubtseva have met 1 time since 2026; Caty Mcnally leads 1–0. Across all meetings Mcnally has taken 2 sets to Starodubtseva's 1. Their most recent meeting: Caty Mcnally won at Austin 125 - Austin (2026).
Upcoming match
- Tournament
- Wuhan Open - Wuhan
- Level
- WTA 1000
- Round
- 1st Round
- Surface
- Hard
- Date & time
- October 12 · 4:10 AM ET
Book odds
Set spread
Game spread
Record at prices like this
At 1.57 or shorter, Caty Mcnally has won 41 of 62 (66%). That is level with the 67% the price implied.
At 2.37 or longer, Yuliia Starodubtseva has won 12 of 23 (52%). The price implied 32%, so Yuliia Starodubtseva has beaten it by 20 points.
Book prices with the bookmaker margin removed, across every priced match we hold for each player. Green beats the price by 3 points or more, red falls that far short, grey is within 3 points. Samples under ten are not shown.
Caty McNally meets Yuliia Starodubtseva in the first round of the Wuhan Open on October 12 on hard court. McNally, ranked 70th, has won two straight after playing three times in the past two weeks. Starodubtseva, ranked 44th, has not played in eleven days and arrives on a two-match losing streak.
McNally leads the head-to-head 1-0 against Starodubtseva from their lone prior meeting. In recent hard court form, McNally has won 12 of 21 matches at 60%, while Starodubtseva has won 9 of 20 at 45%. McNally has posted a 60% win rate over her last five and last ten matches; Starodubtseva has won 40% of hers in both samples.
Both players operate as counterpunchers, preferring to absorb pace and redirect off the ground rather than dictate play. McNally has converted opportunities against common opponents Elena Gabriela Ruse, Solana Sierra, and Xiyu Wang, while Starodubtseva fell to those same three. The match will test which player can maintain consistency without match rhythm and sustain the reactive style that defines her game.
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Spread & Straight-Sets Form
Completed best-of-3 matches · Last 12 months
| Indicator | Mcnally | Starodubtseva | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Indicator | Caty Mcnally | Yuliia Starodubtseva | ||
| Wins in straight sets | 57% | 17/30 | 74% | 23/31 |
| Wins a set when losing | 50% | 12/24 | 52% | 15/29 |
| Goes to a deciding set | 46% | 25/54 | 38% | 23/60 |
| Covers −1.5 sets as favorite | 37% | 13/35 | 42% | 15/36 |
| Covers +1.5 sets as underdog | 63% | 10/16 | 67% | 16/24 |
| Tiebreak sets won | 73% | 8/11 | 54% | 7/13 |
| Wins after taking set 1 | 81% | 25/31 | 77% | 27/35 |
| Wins 2-0 after taking set 1 | 55% | 17/31 | 66% | 23/35 |
Colored rows are higher-is-better: green above 50%, red below. Favorite/underdog set by book odds; cover rows count only matches with odds on record. Head-to-head: 0 of 1 completed meetings ended in straight sets (Mcnally 0, Starodubtseva 0).
Style Matchup
Playing styles and historical archetype record
Mcnally
🪃 Counterpuncher
Starodubtseva
🪃 Counterpuncher
Matchup analysis
Both Caty Mcnally and Yuliia Starodubtseva are 🪃 Counterpuncher types. Mirror matchups usually come down to execution, fitness, and surface fit, across 15,398 matches in our dataset the historical split is about even.
Previous meetings
1 career meeting, newest first
Mar 9, 2026
Austin 125 - Austin
H Hard · 1st Round
Prop Research
Hit rates on common betting markets · Last 90 days
| Outcome | Mcnally | Starodubtseva | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Outcome | Caty Mcnally | Yuliia Starodubtseva | ||
| 1 or more | 62% | 8/13 | 70% | 7/10 |
| 3 or more | 15% | 2/13 | 40% | 4/10 |
| 5 or more | 15% | 2/13 | 20% | 2/10 |
| 10 or more | 0% | 0/13 | 0% | 0/10 |
| 15 or more | 0% | 0/13 | 0% | 0/10 |
| 20 or more | 0% | 0/13 | 0% | 0/10 |
Player ROI
Hypothetical if you put 1u on each player to win every one of their matches · Last 90 days
| Metric | Mcnally | Starodubtseva |
|---|---|---|
| W-L | 8–5 | 4–6 |
| Avg odds | 1.87 | 2.64 |
| ROI % | +8.8% | -11.4% |
| Units P/L | +1.14u | -1.14u |
Travel
Last 30 days
| Metric | Mcnally | Starodubtseva |
|---|---|---|
| Countries | 2 | 2 |
| Events | 2 | 2 |
| Matches | 3 | 1 |
| Distance | 654 mi · 1,053 km | 654 mi · 1,053 km |
| Route | ROU → CZE | ROU → CZE |
Host country from each tournament in the last 30 days, including the current event even when a player arrived on a bye. Route is the order of countries visited; consecutive stops in the same country are shown once. Distance is the great-circle total between host cities, shown only when every stop in the window is geocoded. A rough fatigue signal, not a headline stat.
Common opponents
Results vs. opponents both players faced · Last 12 months
Mcnally has a higher win rate against shared opponents (60% vs Starodubtseva's 30%).
| Opponent | Mcnally | Starodubtseva |
|---|---|---|
| Elena Rybakina | L 16 26 | L 67 36 |
| Emma Navarro | L 63 26 36 | L 46 76 46 |
| Janice Tjen | W 75 67 63 | W 64 63 |
| Mccartney Kessler | W 63 64 | W 64 64 |
| Xiyu Wang | W 46 63 76 | L 36 57 |
| Elena Gabriela Ruse | W 75 63 | L 26 76 16 |
| Antonia Ruzic | W 63 60 | W 62 62 |
| Ajla Tomljanovic | L 46 46 | L 64 67 16 |
| Solana Sierra | W 64 63 | L 46 36 |
| Belinda Bencic | L 46 06 | L 75 46 57 |
Recent Form
Last five matches per player
Lanlana Tararudee
Wuhan Open - Wuhan · 3rd Round Qualifying
Oct 11
Yue Yuan
Wuhan Open - Wuhan · 1st Round Qualifying
Oct 10
Dayana Yastremska
China Open - Beijing · 1st Round
Sep 30
Emma Navarro
U.S. Open - New York · 2nd Round
Sep 2
Anouk Koevermans
U.S. Open - New York · 1st Round
Aug 31
Anna Kalinskaya
Cincinnati Open - Cincinnati · 2nd Round
Aug 15
Mccartney Kessler
Cincinnati Open - Cincinnati · 1st Round
Aug 14
Alexandra Eala
National Bank Open - Toronto · 3rd Round
Aug 8
Alina Charaeva
China Open - Beijing · 1st Round
Oct 1
Elena Rybakina
U.S. Open - New York · 3rd Round
Sep 6
Maria Sakkari
U.S. Open - New York · 2nd Round
Sep 4
Ella Seidel
U.S. Open - New York · 1st Round
Sep 1
Elise Mertens
Abierto GNP Seguros - Monterrey · Quarterfinals
Aug 28
Janice Tjen
Abierto GNP Seguros - Monterrey · 2nd Round
Aug 26
Lilli Tagger
Abierto GNP Seguros - Monterrey · 1st Round
Aug 24
Daria Snigur
Cincinnati Open - Cincinnati · 1st Round
Aug 14
Win rate
Matches, sets and games won · Last 12 months · 54–60 matches
| Metric | Mcnally | Starodubtseva |
|---|---|---|
| Matches won | 56% | 52% |
| Sets won | 54% | 54% |
| Games won | 52% | 52% |
Record by tier
Head-to-head record by tournament tier
| Stage | Mcnally | Starodubtseva |
|---|---|---|
| WTA 125 | 1 | 0 |
By surface
Head-to-head record per surface
| Surface | Mcnally | Starodubtseva |
|---|---|---|
| Hard | 1 | 0 |