Heather Watson vs Yanina WickmayerPrediction, Head-to-Head Results, and Stats
🇬🇧Heather Watson
#445 · 34 yrs · Right-Handed
9w33 meetings · sets 4–3
🇧🇪Yanina Wickmayer
Unranked · 36 yrs · Right-Handed
61wHeather Watson and Yanina Wickmayer have met 3 times since 2016; Heather Watson leads 2–1. Their first meeting came at Miami in 2016 on hard. On hard courts Watson leads 2–1. Across all meetings Watson has taken 4 sets to Wickmayer's 3. Their most recent meeting: Yanina Wickmayer won at BNP Paribas Poland Open - Warsaw (2023).
Spread & Straight-Sets Form
Completed best-of-3 matches · Last 12 months
| Indicator | Watson | Wickmayer | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Indicator | Heather Watson | Yanina Wickmayer | ||
| Wins in straight sets | 83% | 5/6 | — | |
| Wins a set when losing | 38% | 3/8 | — | |
| Goes to a deciding set | 29% | 4/14 | — | |
| Covers −1.5 sets as favorite | 50% | 3/6 | — | |
| Covers +1.5 sets as underdog | 63% | 5/8 | — | |
| Tiebreak sets won | 33% | 1/3 | — | |
| Wins after taking set 1 | 71% | 5/7 | — | |
| Wins 2-0 after taking set 1 | 71% | 5/7 | — | |
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. Small sample — read with care. Head-to-head: 2 of 3 completed meetings ended in straight sets (Watson 1, Wickmayer 1).
Style Matchup
Playing styles and historical archetype record
Watson
💥 Big Hitter
Wickmayer
💥 Big Hitter
Matchup analysis
Both Heather Watson and Yanina Wickmayer are 💥 Big Hitter types. Mirror matchups usually come down to execution, fitness, and surface fit, across 5,096 matches in our dataset the historical split is about even.
Previous meetings
3 career meetings, newest first
Jul 29, 2023
BNP Paribas Poland Open - Warsaw
H Hard · Quarterfinals
Oct 18, 2017
Luxembourg
H Hard · Round of 32
Mar 23, 2016
Miami
H Hard · Round of 32
Player ROI
Hypothetical if you put 1u on each player to win every one of their matches · Last 90 days
| Metric | Watson | Wickmayer |
|---|---|---|
| W-L | 3–2 | - |
| Avg odds | 2.01 | - |
| ROI % | +13.8% | - |
| Units P/L | +0.69u | - |
Small sample: ROI stabilizes with more matches; fewer than 10 in the window is noisy.
Recent Form
Last five matches per player
Maria Timofeeva
Wimbledon
Jun 25
Tatiana Prozorova
Wimbledon
Jun 24
Mayar Sherif
Wimbledon
Jun 23
Beatriz Haddad Maia
Queen's Club
Jun 7
Shuai Zhang
Queen's Club
Jun 7
Viktoria Hruncakova
Birmingham
May 30
Xiaodi You
Jiangxi Open - Jiujiang · Quarterfinals
May 8
Kyoka Okamura
Jiangxi Open - Jiujiang · 2nd Round
May 6
Renata Zarazua
Wimbledon - London · 1st Round
Jun 30
Suzan Lamens
Libema Open - 's-Hertogenbosch · 1st Round
Jun 10
Victoria Azarenka
French Open - Paris · 1st Round
May 27
Sara Errani
Fifth Third Charleston - Charleston · 1st Round
Mar 12
Kamilla Rakhimova
ATX Open - Austin · 1st Round
Feb 27
Leolia Jeanjean
Puerto Vallarta Open - Puerto Vallarta · 1st Round
Feb 20
Alize Cornet
Transylvania Open - Cluj-Napoca · 1st Round
Feb 6
Varvara Gracheva
Australian Open - Melbourne · 1st Round
Jan 15
Rivalry momentum
Cumulative head-to-head lead over time
Win rate
Matches, sets and games won · Last 12 months · 14–14 matches
| Metric | Watson | Wickmayer |
|---|---|---|
| Matches won | 43% | - |
| Sets won | 47% | - |
| Games won | 50% | - |
Record by tier
Head-to-head record by tournament tier
| Stage | Watson | Wickmayer |
|---|---|---|
| WTA 250 | 1 | 1 |
| WTA 1000 | 1 | 0 |
By surface
Head-to-head record per surface
| Surface | Watson | Wickmayer |
|---|---|---|
| Hard | 2 | 1 |
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