Wang has only lost 2 matches out of 27 in 2026!! Granted, it’s at a level below the WTA.

Hailey Baptiste, 24 years old, WTA No. 26, right-handed from Washington DC coached by Will Woodall, is going through the best period of her career. Yesterday on Suzanne-Lenglen, she pulled off one of the comebacks of this first round by beating Krejčíková 6-7 7-6 6-2 after saving two match points in the tiebreak of the second set. A few weeks earlier in Madrid, she had beaten Sabalenka and reached her first WTA 1000 semifinal. The first Grand Slam top seed of her career, she arrives with a level of confidence and court awareness she never had before. On clay over the last 52 weeks at WTA level: 10–5, her best surface. Her serve is her main weapon: 76.8% of service games won on clay, 69.5% of points won behind her first serve, and 4.7 aces per match.

Wang Xiyu, 25 years old, WTA No. 168, a left-hander born in Taixing, China, has an unusual profile. She’s 9–1 in her last ten matches and has a 76.9% win rate over the last 52 weeks according to overall stats. But these numbers are built almost exclusively on the secondary circuit, where she dominates with an 87.5% win rate on hard courts and 80% on clay. At main WTA level on clay: just one match played and won this season. Against top-50 players, her record speaks for itself: 0–4 over the last 52 weeks, 21.3% over her career. She came through two qualifying rounds here this week to reach the main draw, and now steps onto a Grand Slam court against a player coming off the win of her life.