Victoria Azarenka and Yulia Putintseva will play each other in the 2nd round of the Grampians Trophy for the 1st time in their career. They are scheduled to compete on Friday at 11 am on Court 3. In this post, we analyze their head to head performance and the prediction.
Prediction, odds and live streaming
The pick for Tennis Tonic is Victoria Azarenka who should win in 3 sets.
As per the initial odds, Victoria Azarenka is the pick to win this match.
Victoria Azarenka -> 1.53
Yulia Putintseva -> 2.57
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Prediction and head to head Victoria Azarenka vs. Yulia Putintseva
There is no head to head record between Victoria Azarenka and Yulia Putintseva since this will be the first time that they will clash against each other in the main tour.
Victoria Azarenka
Ranked no. 13, the Belarussian will start her run in Melbourne after she played her last match in Ostrava where she lost 6-2 6-2 to Sabalenka in the final on the 25th of October.
This will be the first match of the season on hard.
Talking about her overall career, The Belarussian has an overall 544-203 record. She has a positive 324-106 record on hard.
Last year in Melbourne
Azarenka didn’t compete in Melbourne in 2020.
Yulia Putintseva
Ranked no. 28, Yulia reached the 2nd round after beating Georgina Garcia-Perez 7-61 6-4.
In the 1st round, Putintseva had a good straight sets win against Garcia-Perez (7-61 6-4). During the match Putintseva scored 83 points vs Garcia-Perez’s 69. Yulia was very aggressive to blast 32 winners.
Talking about serving, Putintseva couldn’t to score even 1 ace for the entire match and she was exceptionally steady in conceding no double faults for the entire match. Yulia Putintseva conceded no breaks for the entire match to save 2 break points. Furthermore, Putintseva put 65% of her first serves in, winning 68% (32/47) of the points behind her 1st serve and 84% (21/25) on the 2nd serve. Yulia broke Garcia-Perez once after converting 25% of her break points (1/4).
Yulia has a 3-1 win-loss record in 2021, 3-1 on hard (See FULL STATS).
Last year in Melbourne
The Kazakhstani lost in the 3rd round to Simona Halep.
Head 2 Head
Tennis Scores in Melbourne
- Jennifer BradyBrady – Svetlana KuznetsovaKuznetsova (6-3 6-0) – See score progression
- Barbora KrejcikovaKrejcikova – Lauren DavisDavis (6-4 4-6 6-4) – See score progression
- Leylah Annie FernandezAnnie Fernandez – Sloane StephensStephens (6-3 6-1) – See score progression
- Ann LiLi – Ellen PerezPerez (5-3 ret.) – See score progression
- Yulia PutintsevaPutintseva – Georgina Garcia-PerezGarcia-Perez (7-61 6-4) – See score progression
- Angelique KerberKerber – Katerina SiniakovaSiniakova (6-3 4-6 6-3) – See score progression
- Ons JabeurJabeur – Anna BlinkovaBlinkova (6-1 6-1) – See score progression
- Marta KostyukKostyuk – Gabriela DabrowskiDabrowski (6-0 6-3) – See score progression
- Sorana CirsteaCirstea – Oksana KalashnikovaKalashnikova (6-1 6-1) – See score progression
- Bethanie Mattek-SandsMattek-Sands – Barbora StrycovaStrycova (7-63 6-2) – See score progression
- Veronika KudermetovaKudermetova – Heather WatsonWatson (6-2 6-2) – See score progression
- Anett KontaveitKontaveit – Christina MchaleMchale (6-1 6-3) – See score progression
- Corrado SummariaSummaria – Simone RoncalliRoncalli (4-6 6-1 7-5) – See score progression
Upcoming matches in the draw
- Maria SakkariSakkari – Leylah Annie FernandezAnnie Fernandez (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Ons JabeurJabeur – Angelique KerberKerber (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Victoria AzarenkaAzarenka – Yulia PutintsevaPutintseva (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Bethanie Mattek-SandsMattek-Sands – Anett KontaveitKontaveit (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Jennifer BradyBrady – Marta KostyukKostyuk (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Barbora KrejcikovaKrejcikova – Elena RybakinaRybakina (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Ann LiLi – Veronika KudermetovaKudermetova (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Sorana CirsteaCirstea – Belinda BencicBencic (0-0) – H2H and prediction