Venus Williams vs Yulia PutintsevaPrediction, Head-to-Head Results, and Stats
🇺🇸Venus Williams
#596 · 45 yrs · Right-Handed
6w4 meetings · sets 7–2
🇰🇿Yulia Putintseva
#79 · 31 yrs · Right-Handed
3Venus Williams and Yulia Putintseva have met 4 times since 2015; Venus Williams leads 3–1. Their first meeting came at Wimbledon in 2015 on grass. On hard courts Williams leads 2–0. Across all meetings Williams has taken 7 sets to Putintseva's 2. Their most recent meeting: Venus Williams won at Wuhan (2016).
Spread & Straight-Sets Form
Completed best-of-3 matches · Last 12 months
| Indicator | Williams | Putintseva | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Indicator | Venus Williams | Yulia Putintseva | ||
| Wins in straight sets | — | 74% | 23/31 | |
| Wins a set when losing | 33% | 4/12 | 44% | 11/25 |
| Goes to a deciding set | 33% | 4/12 | 34% | 19/56 |
| Covers −1.5 sets as favorite | — | 53% | 18/34 | |
| Covers +1.5 sets as underdog | 33% | 4/12 | 60% | 12/20 |
| Tiebreak sets won | 50% | 2/4 | 71% | 10/14 |
| Wins after taking set 1 | 0% | 0/1 | 87% | 27/31 |
| Wins 2-0 after taking set 1 | 0% | 0/1 | 74% | 23/31 |
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: 3 of 4 completed meetings ended in straight sets (Williams 3, Putintseva 0).
Style Matchup
Playing styles and historical archetype record
Williams
🤖 Servebot
Putintseva
🪃 Counterpuncher
Matchup analysis
🤖 Servebot vs 🪃 Counterpuncher is historically tight (52% vs 48%, 3,089 matches). Neither style has a clear edge, so form, surface, and the head-to-head matter most.
Previous meetings
4 career meetings, newest first
Sep 28, 2016
Wuhan
H Hard · Round of 32
Apr 7, 2016
Charleston
C Clay · Round of 16
Feb 13, 2016
Kaohsiung
H Hard · Semifinals
Jul 1, 2015
Wimbledon
G Grass · Round of 64
Player ROI
Hypothetical if you put 1u on each player to win every one of their matches · Last 90 days
| Metric | Williams | Putintseva |
|---|---|---|
| W-L | 0–4 | 6–6 |
| Avg odds | 4.97 | 2.07 |
| ROI % | -100.0% | +3.2% |
| Units P/L | -4.00u | +0.38u |
Small sample: ROI stabilizes with more matches; fewer than 10 in the window is noisy.
Travel
Last 30 days
| Metric | Williams | Putintseva |
|---|---|---|
| Countries | — | 1 |
| Events | — | 1 |
| Matches | — | 2 |
| Distance | — | 0 mi · 0 km |
| Route | — | 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
Across 1 shared opponent, both Williams and Putintseva posted a 0% win rate.
| Opponent | Williams | Putintseva |
|---|---|---|
| Tatjana Maria | L 46 36 | L 46 46 |
Recent Form
Last five matches per player
Sofia Kenin
U.S. Open - New York · 1st Round
Aug 31
Emiliana Arango
Cincinnati Open - Cincinnati · 1st Round
Aug 14
Kamilla Rakhimova
National Bank Open - Toronto · 1st Round
Aug 2
Anastasia Potapova
Mubadala DC Open - Washington · 1st Round
Jul 29
Irina Camelia Begu
Bad Homburg Open - Bad Homburg · 1st Round
Jun 22
Kaitlin Quevedo
Mutua Madrid Open - Madrid · 1st Round
Apr 21
Francesca Jones
Miami Open - Miami · 1st Round
Mar 19
Diane Parry
BNP Paribas Open - Indian Wells · 1st Round
Mar 5
Ashlyn Krueger
Wuhan Open - Wuhan · 3rd Round Qualifying
Oct 11
Elena Gabriela Ruse
Wuhan Open - Wuhan · 1st Round Qualifying
Oct 10
Qinwen Zheng
U.S. Open - New York · 2nd Round
Sep 3
Belinda Bencic
U.S. Open - New York · 1st Round
Sep 1
Maya Joint
Abierto GNP Seguros - Monterrey · 3rd Round Qualifying
Aug 24
Victoria Rodriguez
Abierto GNP Seguros - Monterrey · 1st Round Qualifying
Aug 23
Liudmila Samsonova
Cincinnati Open - Cincinnati · 1st Round
Aug 14
Shuai Zhang
National Bank Open - Toronto · 1st Round
Aug 3
Rivalry momentum
Cumulative head-to-head lead over time
Win rate
Matches, sets and games won · Last 12 months · 12–56 matches
| Metric | Williams | Putintseva |
|---|---|---|
| Matches won | 0% | 55% |
| Sets won | 14% | 56% |
| Games won | 38% | 52% |
Record by tier
Head-to-head record by tournament tier
| Stage | Williams | Putintseva |
|---|---|---|
| Grand Slam | 1 | 0 |
| WTA 500 | 0 | 1 |
| WTA 250 | 1 | 0 |
| WTA 1000 | 1 | 0 |
By surface
Head-to-head record per surface
| Surface | Williams | Putintseva |
|---|---|---|
| Hard | 2 | 0 |
| Clay | 0 | 1 |
| Grass | 1 | 0 |
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