Mai Hontama vs Varvara GrachevaPrediction, Head-to-Head Results, and Stats
🇯🇵Mai Hontama
#164 · 26 yrs · Right-Handed
1 meeting · sets 0–2
🇫🇷Varvara Gracheva
#172 · 25 yrs · Right-Handed
30wMai Hontama and Varvara Gracheva have met 1 time since 2024; Varvara Gracheva leads 1–0. Across all meetings Hontama has taken 0 sets to Gracheva's 2. Their most recent meeting: Varvara Gracheva won at Toray Pan Pacific Open - Tokyo (2024).
Spread & Straight-Sets Form
Completed best-of-3 matches · Last 12 months
| Indicator | Hontama | Gracheva | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Indicator | Mai Hontama | Varvara Gracheva | ||
| Wins in straight sets | 61% | 23/38 | 40% | 4/10 |
| Wins a set when losing | 35% | 11/31 | 22% | 2/9 |
| Goes to a deciding set | 38% | 26/69 | 42% | 8/19 |
| Covers −1.5 sets as favorite | 46% | 16/35 | 40% | 2/5 |
| Covers +1.5 sets as underdog | 59% | 17/29 | 54% | 7/13 |
| Tiebreak sets won | 46% | 6/13 | 50% | 1/2 |
| Wins after taking set 1 | 80% | 33/41 | 89% | 8/9 |
| Wins 2-0 after taking set 1 | 56% | 23/41 | 44% | 4/9 |
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: 1 of 1 completed meetings ended in straight sets (Hontama 0, Gracheva 1).
Style Matchup
Playing styles and historical archetype record
Hontama
🪃 Counterpuncher
Gracheva
💥 Big Hitter
Matchup analysis
The 💥 Big Hitter archetype wins about 53% vs 🪃 Counterpuncher across 7,733 matches in our dataset: a stylistic lean toward Varvara Gracheva.
Big Hitter players often use power groundstrokes and high winner count to pressure the counterpuncher's elite bp conversion.
Previous meetings
1 career meeting, newest first
Oct 21, 2024
Toray Pan Pacific Open - Tokyo
H Hard · 1st Round
Player ROI
Hypothetical if you put 1u on each player to win every one of their matches · Last 90 days
| Metric | Hontama | Gracheva |
|---|---|---|
| W-L | 10–7 | - |
| Avg odds | 1.88 | - |
| ROI % | +2.2% | - |
| Units P/L | +0.37u | - |
Travel
Last 30 days
| Metric | Hontama | Gracheva |
|---|---|---|
| Countries | 2 | — |
| Events | 3 | — |
| Matches | 5 | — |
| Distance | — | — |
| Route | POR → ROU | — |
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
Hontama has a higher win rate against shared opponents (50% vs Gracheva's 0%).
| Opponent | Hontama | Gracheva |
|---|---|---|
| Lilli Tagger | L 46 46 | L 26 46 |
| Magda Linette | W 64 75 | L 62 26 06 |
Recent Form
Last five matches per player
Emerson Jones
Suzhou WTA 125 - Suzhou · 1st Round
Oct 6
Katie Boulter
China Open - Beijing · 1st Round
Sep 30
Jodie Burrage
China Open - Beijing · 3rd Round Qualifying
Sep 29
Alexandra Panova
China Open - Beijing · 1st Round Qualifying
Sep 28
Eunhye Lee
Korea Open - Seoul · 1st Round Qualifying
Sep 19
Andrea Lazaro Garcia
U.S. Open - New York · 2nd Round Qualifying
Aug 26
Lina Gjorcheska
U.S. Open - New York · 1st Round Qualifying
Aug 24
Katrina Scott
W100 Landisville · Quarterfinals
Aug 8
Magda Linette
Miami Open - Miami · 1st Round
Mar 17
Lilli Tagger
BNP Paribas Open - Indian Wells · 1st Round
Mar 5
Jessica Pegula
Dubai Duty Free Championships - Dubai · 2nd Round
Feb 17
Rebecca Sramkova
Dubai Duty Free Championships - Dubai · 1st Round
Feb 16
Magdalena Frech
Dubai Duty Free Championships - Dubai · 3rd Round Qualifying
Feb 14
Priscilla Hon
Dubai Duty Free Championships - Dubai · 1st Round Qualifying
Feb 13
Maria Sakkari
Qatar TotalEnergies Open - Doha · 3rd Round
Feb 11
Linda Noskova
Qatar TotalEnergies Open - Doha · 2nd Round
Feb 10
Win rate
Matches, sets and games won · Last 12 months · 19–69 matches
| Metric | Hontama | Gracheva |
|---|---|---|
| Matches won | 55% | 53% |
| Sets won | 53% | 48% |
| Games won | 51% | 48% |
Record by tier
Head-to-head record by tournament tier
| Stage | Hontama | Gracheva |
|---|---|---|
| WTA 500 | 0 | 1 |
By surface
Head-to-head record per surface
| Surface | Hontama | Gracheva |
|---|---|---|
| Hard | 0 | 1 |
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