Petra Martic and Barbora Strycova will clash against each other in the 2^nd round of the Dubai Duty Free Championships for the 5^th time of their career. They are scheduled to play on Wednesday at 4:30 pm on COURT 1. In this post, we analyze their head to head performance and the prediction.

Prediction, odds and live streaming

The pick for Tennis Tonic is Petra Martic who should win in 2 sets.

As per the initial odds, Petra Martic is the pick to win this match.
Petra Martic -> 1.36
Barbora Strycova -> 3.00

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Prediction and head to head Petra Martic vs. Barbora Strycova

This will be the 5^th time that Petra Martic and Barbora Strycova square off. The head to head is 3-1 for Martic (see full H2H stats), 3-1 on hard.

The last time that they fought against each other, Martic won 6-2 6-3 in the 1^st round in Beijing back in 2018.

Petra Martic

Ranked no. 15, Petra got to the 1^st round after beating Su-Wei Hsieh 6-4 6-3.

In the 1^st round, Martic had a good straight sets win against Hsieh (6-4 6-3). During the match Martic scored 73 points vs Hsieh’s 62. Martic was extremely aggressive to blast 26 winners.

Talking about serving, Martic blasted 3 aces and she committed only 6 double faults. Petra Martic lost the serve 3 times and she saved 10 break points. Furthermore, Martic put 54% of her first serves in, winning 59% (26/44) of the points behind her 1st serve and 47% (18/38) on the 2nd serve. Martic broke Hsieh 6 times after converting 86% of her break points (6/7).

Martic has a favorable win-loss record in the last 10 years having won 56% of her matches (475-370). 3-3 on hard in 2020. Regarding her performance on the same surface of this event, Martic has a 186-137 record in the last 10 years on hard.

The Croatian has a 3-3 win-loss record in 2020, 3-3 on hard (See FULL STATS).

Last year in Dubai

The Croatian lost in the 1^st round 6-4 6-3 to Katerina Siniakova.

Barbora Strycova

Ranked no. 35, the Czech reached the 1^st round after beating Amanda Anisimova 7-6³ 2-6 6-4.

In the 1^st round, Barbora defeated Anisimova (7-6³ 2-6 6-4).-100) than Anisimova. In fact, the world no. 15 won 100 points vs Anisimova’s. That means that Strycova was more focused during the important points. Strycova was extremely aggressive to blast 36 winners.

Talking about serving, Strycova blasted 2 aces and she committed only 6 double faults. Barbora Strycova lost the serve 7 times and she saved 9 break points. Furthermore, Strycova put 57% of her first serves in, winning 59% (36/61) of the points behind her 1st serve and 39% (18/46) on the 2nd serve. The Czech broke Anisimova 6 times after converting 43% of her break points (6/14).

Strycova has a winning record in the last 10 years having won 52% of her matches (637-598). 2-3 on hard in 2020. Talking about her performance on the same surface of this competition, Strycova has a 250-207 win-loss record in the last 10 years on hard.

The Czech has a 2-3 win-loss record in 2020, 2-3 on hard (See FULL STATS).

Last year in Dubai

Barbora lost in the 1^st round 6-1 6-3 to Carla Suarez Navarro.

Live score

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H2H Performance in the tournament

Matches, sets, games and points

Both Martic and Strycova played 1 matche. At the moment, Barbora Strycova dropped 1 set while Petra Martic hasn’t conceded a set so far. Martic has played 1 sets less than Strycova (2 vs 3). Therefore, Martic played 12 games less than Strycova. Petra scored 26 winners (36% on total points). On the other side, The Czech blasted 36 winners (36%).

Serve Performance

Martic blasted 3 aces . Strycova blasted 2 aces . Martic won 59% points on her first serve. She had a solid display on her second serve to win 47% of the points. On the other side, Strycova won 59% points behind her first serve. She had a solid display on her second serve to win 39% of the points.

How they played the important points

Petra broke her opponent 6 times with 86% conversion rate. Martic conceded her serve 3 times and she saved 77% of the break points that she conceded. Barbora broke her opponent 6 times with 43% conversion rate. Strycova conceded her serve 7 times and she saved 56% of the break points that she conceded.

Head 2 Head

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Petra
Martic

4:2

Barbora
Strycova

Rank

122

High

14

4Hard2

Rank

430

High

16

Win Loss

Martic

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Strycova

2024 2023 2022

18 - 24

0 - 0

9-10

Hard

0-0

7-9

Clay

0-0

2-3

Grass

0-0

Tennis Scores in Dubai

• Kristina MladenovicMladenovic – Aliaksandra SasnovichSasnovich (6-4 6-3) – See score progression
• Elena RybakinaRybakina – Sofia KeninKenin (6-7² 6-3 6-3) – See score progression
• Anett KontaveitKontaveit – Sorana CirsteaCirstea (6-1 6-3) – See score progression
• Aryna SabalenkaSabalenka – Maria SakkariSakkari (6-2 4-6 6-1) – See score progression
• Anastasia PavlyuchenkovaPavlyuchenkova – Belinda BencicBencic (1-6 6-1 6-1) – See score progression
• Veronika KudermetovaKudermetova – Dayana YastremskaYastremska (5-7 6-3 7-6²) – See score progression
• Katerina SiniakovaSiniakova – Karolina MuchovaMuchova (6-4 4-6 6-0) – See score progression
• Jennifer BradyBrady – Elina SvitolinaSvitolina (6-2 6-1) – See score progression
• Petra MarticMartic – Su-Wei HsiehHsieh (6-4 6-3) – See score progression
• Garbine MuguruzaMuguruza – Kim ClijstersClijsters (6-2 7-6⁶) – See score progression
• Marketa VondrousovaVondrousova – Anastasija SevastovaSevastova (6-3 6-2) – See score progression
• Barbora StrycovaStrycova – Amanda AnisimovaAnisimova (7-6³ 2-6 6-4) – See score progression
• Elise MertensMertens – Qiang WangWang (6-3 6-0) – See score progression
• Ons JabeurJabeur – Alison RiskeRiske (7-6³ 1-6 6-3) – See score progression

Upcoming matches

• Simona HalepHalep – Ons JabeurJabeur (0-1) – See H2H details
• Elise MertensMertens – Aryna SabalenkaSabalenka (2-2) – See H2H details
• Jennifer BradyBrady – Marketa VondrousovaVondrousova (0-0) – See H2H details
• Veronika KudermetovaKudermetova – Garbine MuguruzaMuguruza (0-0) – See H2H details
• Petra MarticMartic – Barbora StrycovaStrycova (3-1) – See H2H details
• Anett KontaveitKontaveit – Anastasia PavlyuchenkovaPavlyuchenkova (3-2) – See H2H details
• Elena RybakinaRybakina – Katerina SiniakovaSiniakova (2-2) – See H2H details
• Kristina MladenovicMladenovic – Karolina PliskovaPliskova (2-3) – See H2H details

Martic

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