Samantha Stosur vs Shuai ZhangPrediction, Head-to-Head Results, and Stats
🇦🇺Samantha Stosur
Unranked · 42 yrs · Right-Handed
230w4 meetings · sets 2–6
🇨🇳Shuai Zhang
#81 · 37 yrs · Right-Handed
6w3Samantha Stosur and Shuai Zhang have met 4 times since 2016; Shuai Zhang leads 3–1. Their first meeting came at Roland Garros in 2016 on clay. On hard courts Zhang leads 3–0. Zhang has won the last 3 meetings. Across all meetings Stosur has taken 2 sets to Zhang's 6. Their most recent meeting: Shuai Zhang won at Wuhan (2018).
Spread & Straight-Sets Form
Completed best-of-3 matches · Last 12 months
| Indicator | Stosur | Zhang | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Indicator | Samantha Stosur | Shuai Zhang | ||
| Wins in straight sets | — | 70% | 23/33 | |
| Wins a set when losing | — | 30% | 9/30 | |
| Goes to a deciding set | — | 30% | 19/63 | |
| Covers −1.5 sets as favorite | — | 47% | 16/34 | |
| Covers +1.5 sets as underdog | — | 41% | 12/29 | |
| Tiebreak sets won | — | 75% | 6/8 | |
| Wins after taking set 1 | — | 91% | 29/32 | |
| Wins 2-0 after taking set 1 | — | 72% | 23/32 | |
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: 4 of 4 completed meetings ended in straight sets (Stosur 1, Zhang 3).
Style Matchup
Playing styles and historical archetype record
Stosur
🤖 Servebot
Zhang
🎯 Baseliner
Matchup analysis
The 🤖 Servebot archetype wins about 55% vs 🎯 Baseliner across 269 matches in our dataset: a stylistic lean toward Samantha Stosur.
Servebot players often use high ace rate and dominant service to pressure the baseliner's precise groundstrokes.
Previous meetings
4 career meetings, newest first
Sep 26, 2018
Wuhan
H Hard · Round of 64
Oct 5, 2016
Beijing
H Hard · Round of 64
Aug 31, 2016
US Open
H Hard · Round of 64
May 25, 2016
Roland Garros
C Clay · Round of 64
Player ROI
Hypothetical if you put 1u on each player to win every one of their matches · Last 90 days
| Metric | Stosur | Zhang |
|---|---|---|
| W-L | - | 2–5 |
| Avg odds | - | 3.35 |
| ROI % | - | -32.4% |
| Units P/L | - | -2.27u |
Small sample: ROI stabilizes with more matches; fewer than 10 in the window is noisy.
Recent Form
Last five matches per player
Harmony Tan
Internationaux de Strasbourg - Strasbourg · 1st Round
May 15
Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova
Australian Open - Melbourne · 2nd Round
Jan 20
Robin Anderson
Australian Open - Melbourne · 1st Round
Jan 18
Lin Zhu
Melbourne Summer Set 2 - Melbourne · 1st Round
Jan 5
Anett Kontaveit
U.S. Open - New York · 1st Round
Aug 31
Elena Rybakina
Western & Southern Open - Cincinnati · 1st Round
Aug 17
Elena Rybakina
Olympics - Tokyo · 1st Round
Jul 24
Grace Min
Livesport Prague Open - Prague · 1st Round
Jul 12
Leylah Fernandez
U.S. Open - New York · 1st Round
Aug 30
Maria Timofeeva
Abierto GNP Seguros - Monterrey · 1st Round
Aug 26
Ann Li
Cincinnati Open - Cincinnati · 2nd Round
Aug 16
Kayla Day
Cincinnati Open - Cincinnati · 1st Round
Aug 15
Aryna Sabalenka
National Bank Open - Toronto · 3rd Round
Aug 7
Jelena Ostapenko
National Bank Open - Toronto · 2nd Round
Aug 4
Yulia Putintseva
National Bank Open - Toronto · 1st Round
Aug 3
Gabriela Andrea Knutson
Mubadala DC Open - Washington · 1st Round Qualifying
Jul 25
Rivalry momentum
Cumulative head-to-head lead over time
Win rate
Matches, sets and games won · Last 12 months · 63–63 matches
| Metric | Stosur | Zhang |
|---|---|---|
| Matches won | - | 52% |
| Sets won | - | 52% |
| Games won | - | 51% |
Record by tier
Head-to-head record by tournament tier
| Stage | Stosur | Zhang |
|---|---|---|
| Grand Slam | 1 | 1 |
| WTA 1000 | 0 | 2 |
By surface
Head-to-head record per surface
| Surface | Stosur | Zhang |
|---|---|---|
| Hard | 0 | 3 |
| Clay | 1 | 0 |
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