{"id":225333,"date":"2025-10-19T20:31:08","date_gmt":"2025-10-19T20:31:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/225333\/"},"modified":"2025-10-19T20:31:08","modified_gmt":"2025-10-19T20:31:08","slug":"tennis-wta-guangzhou-2025-seventh-seed-francesca-jones-faces-wildcard-wang-xiyu-in-her-opener","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/225333\/","title":{"rendered":"Tennis | WTA Guangzhou 2025 | Seventh seed Francesca Jones faces wildcard Wang Xiyu in her opener"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\nBy Ros Satar<\/p>\n<p>Francesca Jones [7] v Wang Xiyu [WC]<br \/>\nH2H: First Meeting<\/p>\n<p>GUANGZHOU, CHINA \u2013 Francesca Jones is the seventh seed and faces Chinese wildcard Wang Xiyu in the opener.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Francesca Jones [7] v Wang Xiyu [WC] | H2H &amp; Match Fundamentals<\/p>\n<p>Francesca Jones [7] v Wang Xiyu [WC]<br \/>\nH2H: Sierra leads 1-0 (ITF)<\/p>\n<p>WTA Guangzhou<br \/>\nChina<\/p>\n<p>Hard (O)<br \/>\nPrize Money: $2,975<\/p>\n<p>Third on Centre Court, not before 8pm (8am BST)<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nowtv.com\/watch-sky-sports-online\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Sky\/Now TV<\/a> &lt;- Subscription Required<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/britwatchsports.com\/francesca-jones\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Francesca Jones<\/a> arrives having reached the Sao Paulo semi-final in September, and faces wildcard <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tennisabstract.com\/cgi-bin\/wplayer.cgi?p=XiyuWang\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Wang Xiyu<\/a>, who reached the quarter-final here last year, and is a former champion.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Also See |\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/britwatchsports.com\/tennis-the-weekly-watch-20-october-2025-alexander-zverev-and-taylor-fritz-eye-atp-finals-berth-in-vienna-and-basel-wta-finals-line-up-to-be-confirmed-in-tokyo\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Tennis | WTA Tokyo 2025 | Katie Boulter must defend semi-final points from 2024, as she faces Eva Lys in the first round<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Tale of the Tape \u2013 Key Stats (2025)<\/p>\n<p>H2H:<br \/>\nFrancesca Jones (WR 85)<br \/>\nWang Xiyu (WR 145)<\/p>\n<p>Tournament Previous Best<br \/>\nDebut<br \/>\nTitle (2023)<\/p>\n<p>1st Serve Return Points Won %<br \/>\n38.6<br \/>\n37.2<\/p>\n<p>Return Points Won %<br \/>\n45.8<br \/>\n45.6<\/p>\n<p>Break Point Conversion %<br \/>\n53.0<br \/>\n47.0<\/p>\n<p>Break Points Saved %<br \/>\n58.2<br \/>\n46.8<\/p>\n<p>Overall Service Points Won %<br \/>\n60.2<br \/>\n62.3<\/p>\n<p>Jones is riding higher in the rankings, but Wang has the form here, despite trailing in most of the stats.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\t<a href=\"https:\/\/www.connectedclubs.co.uk\/?wpam_id=24\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-56592 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/Connected-Clubs-Graphic.png\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Playing Styles &amp; Prediction<\/p>\n<p>Jones\u2019 last two tournaments have been decent with runs to the quarter-finals in Guadalajara and the semi-finals in Sao Paulo. But that was last month, and she returns to the tour after a bit of a break.<\/p>\n<p>It has not been a great year for Wang, who win here in 2023, and made the quarter-final last year. She has bolstered her results with more solid performances at ITF level tournaments, and in the Asian swing she has had just one main draw win.<\/p>\n<p>Jones comes in certainly as a higher seed and is a slight favourite but there is a log on the line for Wang.<\/p>\n<p>Prediction: Jones in three sets.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>How to Watch\/Follow WTA Guangzhou<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"By Ros Satar Francesca Jones [7] v Wang Xiyu [WC] H2H: First Meeting GUANGZHOU, CHINA \u2013 Francesca Jones&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":225334,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[442],"tags":[49,48,1020,82,593,107862,107863],"class_list":["post-225333","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tennis","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-francesca-jones","tag-sports","tag-tennis","tag-wang-xiyu","tag-wta-guangzhou"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/225333","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=225333"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/225333\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/225334"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=225333"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=225333"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=225333"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}