Iga Swiatek and Arantxa Rus will face off in the 1st round of the Internazionali BNL d’Italia for the 1st time in their career. They are scheduled to play on Tuesday at 12 pm on Court 2. In this post, we analyze their head to head performance and the prediction.
Prediction, odds and live streaming
The pick for Tennis Tonic is Iga Swiatek who should win in 3 sets.
As per the initial odds, Iga Swiatek is the pick to win this match.
Iga Swiatek -> 1.61
Arantxa Rus -> 2.375
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Prediction and head to head Iga Swiatek vs. Arantxa Rus
There is no head to head record between Iga Swiatek and Arantxa Rus since this will be the first time that they will face off in the main tour.
Iga Swiatek
Ranked no. 52, Swiatek will start her run in Rome after she played her last match at the New York where she lost 6-4 6-2 to Azarenka in the 3rd round the 5th of September.
Swiatek has a 9-4 win-loss record in 2020, 0-0 on clay (See FULL STATS).
This will be the first match of the year on clay.
Talking about her overall career, Iga has an overall 124-37 record. She has positive 65-13 record on clay.
Last year in Rome
Swiatek didn’t play in Rome in 2019.
Arantxa Rus
Ranked no. 71, Rus reached the 1st round after beating Liudmila Samsonova 6-1 6-3 and Timea Babos 6-0 6-1.
In the qualifications, Arantxa had a good straight sets win against Babos (6-0 6-1). During the match Rus scored 54 points vs Babos’s 27. The Dutch was very aggressive to blast 24 winners.
Talking about serving, Rus struck 2 aces and she was quite steady in conceding no double faults for the entire match. Arantxa Rus was quite efficent on serve to win 77% (24/31) of her 1st serve and 55% (6/11) on the second serve. This was the main reason for not conceding a single break during the match. Arantxa broke Babos 5 times after converting 56% of her break points (5/9).
Overall Performance in this tournament
The Dutch hasn’t dropped yet a set in the tournament to win 63% of the points she played.
The Dutch’s best result of the season was reaching the final in the Boutheon.
Arantxa has a 18-12 win-loss record in 2020, 3-4 on clay (See FULL STATS).
Last year in Rome
Rus didn’t play in Rome in 2019.
Head 2 Head
Tennis Scores in Rome
- Barbora StrycovaStrycova – Veronika KudermetovaKudermetova (6-3 6-3) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Marie BouzkovaBouzkova – Ajla TomljanovicTomljanovic (6-3 6-4) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Jasmine PaoliniPaolini – Anastasija SevastovaSevastova (6-2 6-3) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Danka KovinicKovinic – Julia GoergesGoerges (6-1 6-0) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Dayana YastremskaYastremska – Camila GiorgiGiorgi (7-5 6-75 6-4) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Aliona BolsovaBolsova – Alison RiskeRiske (5-7 7-64 6-3) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Elise MertensMertens – Su-Wei HsiehHsieh (6-3 6-1) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Amanda AnisimovaAnisimova – Donna VekicVekic (7-64 7-66) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Magda LinetteLinette – Jelena OstapenkoOstapenko (6-4 6-3) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Anastasia PavlyuchenkovaPavlyuchenkova – Shuai ZhangZhang (6-4 6-75 6-1) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Elena RybakinaRybakina – Ekaterina AlexandrovaAlexandrova (6-0 6-4) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Anna BlinkovaBlinkova – Jil TeichmannTeichmann (6-3 6-3) – Stats, scores, rankings
Upcoming matches in the draw
- Yulia PutintsevaPutintseva – Rebecca PetersonPeterson (0-2) – H2H and prediction
- Victoria AzarenkaAzarenka – Venus WilliamsWilliams (2-6) – H2H and prediction
- Darya KasatkinaKasatkina – Vera ZvonarevaZvonareva (0-1) – H2H and prediction
- Katerina SiniakovaSiniakova – Angelique KerberKerber (0-3) – H2H and prediction
- Garbine MuguruzaMuguruza – Sloane StephensStephens (1-2) – H2H and prediction
- Ons JabeurJabeur – Cori GauffGauff (0-1) – H2H and prediction
- Elisabetta CocciarettoCocciaretto – Irina-Camelia BeguBegu (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Kaja JuvanJuvan – Polona HercogHercog (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Iga SwiatekSwiatek – Arantxa RusRus (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Misaki DoiDoi – Marketa VondrousovaVondrousova (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Anett KontaveitKontaveit – Caroline GarciaGarcia (1-1) – H2H and prediction
- Bernarda PeraPera – Svetlana KuznetsovaKuznetsova (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Simona HalepHalep – Jasmine PaoliniPaolini (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Dayana YastremskaYastremska – Amanda AnisimovaAnisimova (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Elena RybakinaRybakina – Marie BouzkovaBouzkova (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Anastasia PavlyuchenkovaPavlyuchenkova – Elina SvitolinaSvitolina (3-1) – H2H and prediction
- Belinda BencicBencic – Danka KovinicKovinic (0-1) – H2H and prediction
- Magda LinetteLinette – Elise MertensMertens (0-2) – H2H and prediction
- Aliona BolsovaBolsova – Anna BlinkovaBlinkova (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Barbora StrycovaStrycova – Karolina PliskovaPliskova (1-4) – H2H and prediction