October 6 - October 12

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Nadia Kichenok vs. Xinyun Han Nadia Kichenok will face Xinyun Han in the last qualifiying round for the WTA tournement in Tianjin (China). Kichenok played a horrible year with a 12/18 record on all surfaces and 7/10 on hardcourt. There were so many disappointing matches on hardcourt that I can not name them all, but she lost against Amanmuradova (rank 251), Hozumi (rank 172), Morita (rank 182) and more disappointing results. She could only win two of her last eight matches on hardcourt and will play her second match of the qualifiying tonight. Last night she won against Yuxuan Zhang who is only ranked 435 in the world and who already had huge problems in the first round against a player who is outside the top 900 so Kichenok needed to win this match. But tonight she will face a different and better player: Xinyun Han. Han is only two years older and played a really good year with a 34/21 record on all surfaces and 24/19 on hardcourt. She is a left hander and played a great qualifying here so far and only lost eight games in two matches: This is really good. She only plays in Asia and already played some great matches here: She played a really taff first set against Linette and won against many top 300 players. She definetly likes playing in China because this is her homecountry . For me the odds on Han Ml are value because she played a better season on hardcourt and has the better record in general this season on all surfaces. Tonight the will play on the second biggest court in Tianjin and the people will support her. She already won more money then Kichenok with tennis and I am not sure if Kichenok, who is totally out of form is able ton handle asian tennis style in general. I think that the players are nearly on the same level at the moment and the odds are clearly to high. Xinyun Han Ml @2.61 ( pinnacle ) 1/10

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