Venus Williams vs Yulia PutintsevaPrediction, Head-to-Head Results, and Stats
🇺🇸Venus Williams
#611 · 45 yrs · Right-Handed
144 meetings · sets 7–2
🇰🇿Yulia Putintseva
#80 · 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 | — | 65% | 17/26 | |
| Wins a set when losing | 36% | 4/11 | 42% | 10/24 |
| Goes to a deciding set | 36% | 4/11 | 38% | 19/50 |
| Covers −1.5 sets as favorite | — | 48% | 14/29 | |
| Covers +1.5 sets as underdog | 36% | 4/11 | 53% | 10/19 |
| Tiebreak sets won | 67% | 2/3 | 56% | 9/16 |
| Wins after taking set 1 | 0% | 0/1 | 92% | 22/24 |
| Wins 2-0 after taking set 1 | 0% | 0/1 | 71% | 17/24 |
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
🏹 Frontrunner
Matchup analysis
🤖 Servebot vs 🏹 Frontrunner is historically tight (48% vs 52%, 749 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 | 6–7 |
| Avg odds | 4.35 | 1.75 |
| ROI % | -100.0% | -34.0% |
| Units P/L | -4.00u | -4.42u |
Small sample: ROI stabilizes with more matches; fewer than 10 in the window is noisy.
Travel
Last 30 days
| Metric | Williams | Putintseva |
|---|---|---|
| Countries | 2 | 2 |
| Events | 2 | 2 |
| Matches | 2 | 2 |
| Distance | 411 mi · 662 km | 411 mi · 662 km |
| Route | CAN → POL | CAN → POL |
Host country from the tournament each match was played in, over the last 30 days. 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
Putintseva has a higher win rate against shared opponents (50% vs Williams's 0%).
| Opponent | Williams | Putintseva |
|---|---|---|
| Tatjana Maria | L 46 36 | L 46 46 |
| Diane Parry | L 36 76 16 | W 61 67 61 |
Recent Form
Last five matches per player
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
Ajla Tomljanovic
ATX Open - Austin · 1st Round
Feb 24
Liudmila Samsonova
Cincinnati Open - Cincinnati · 1st Round
Aug 14
Shuai Zhang
National Bank Open - Toronto · 1st Round
Aug 3
Elina Avanesyan
MSC Hamburg Ladies Open - Hamburg · 2nd Round
Jul 23
Mona Barthel
MSC Hamburg Ladies Open - Hamburg · 1st Round
Jul 21
Mayar Sherif
UniCredit Iasi Open - Iasi · Quarterfinals
Jul 17
Alina Charaeva
UniCredit Iasi Open - Iasi · 2nd Round
Jul 15
Claire Liu
UniCredit Iasi Open - Iasi · 1st Round
Jul 14
Chi Fan Liu
Iasi WTA · Round of 32
Jul 14
Rivalry momentum
Cumulative head-to-head lead over time
Win rate
Matches, sets and games won · Last 12 months · 11–50 matches
| Metric | Williams | Putintseva |
|---|---|---|
| Matches won | 0% | 52% |
| Sets won | 15% | 52% |
| Games won | 38% | 51% |
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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