Kaja Juvan and Aleksandra Krunic will play each other in the 2nd round of the Zavarovalnica Sava Portoroz for the 2nd time in their career. They are scheduled to compete on Thursday at 3:00 pm on Center Court. In this post, we analyze their head to head performance and prediction.
Prediction, odds and live streaming
The pick for Tennis Tonic is Kaja Juvan who should win in 3 sets.
As per the initial odds, Kaja Juvan is the pick to win this match.
Kaja Juvan -> 1.69
Aleksandra Krunic -> 2.22
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Prediction and head to head Kaja Juvan vs. Aleksandra Krunic
This will be the 2nd time that Kaja Juvan and Aleksandra Krunic square off. The head to head is 1-0 for Juvan (see full H2H stats), but they have never played each other on hard.
The last time that they played, Juvan won 7-5 6-3 in the quarter in the Bol back in 2019.
Kaja Juvan
Ranked no. 103, the Slovenian got to the 2nd round after beating Petra Martic 6-3 6-4.
In the 1st round, Kaja had a good straight sets win against Martic (6-3 6-4). During the match, Juvan scored 70 points vs Martic’s 54. The Slovenian was pretty aggressive to blast 21 winners.
Regarding the service games, Juvan scored just 1 ace during the match and she committed only 1 double fault. Kaja Juvan lost the serve once and she saved 7 break points. Furthermore, Juvan put 52% of her first serves in, winning 62% (21/34) of the points behind her 1st serve and 71% (22/31) on the 2nd serve. Juvan broke Martic 3 times after converting 38% of her break points (3/8).
Juvan has a solid match record in the last 6 years having won 68% of her matches (152-71). 13-6 on hard in 2021. In connection with her performance on the same surface of this event, Juvan has a compiled40-22 record in the last 6 years on hard.
Juvan has an overall 16-15 win-loss record in 2021, 13-6 on hard (See FULL STATS).
Previously in Portoroz
The Slovenian has never competed in this tournament before.
Aleksandra Krunic
Ranked no. 176, the Serbian got to the 2nd round after defeating Tina Cvetkovic 6-1 6-1, Susan Bandecchi 2-6 6-1 6-3 and Ziva Falkner 6-3 6-1.
In the 1st round, Krunic had a good straight sets win against Falkner (6-3 6-1). During the match Krunic scored 62 points vs Falkner’s 41. Krunic was pretty aggressive to blast 17 winners.
Talking about serving, Krunic scored just 1 ace during the entire match and she committed only 1 double fault for the entire match. Overall, Aleksandra Krunic was exceptionally effective on serve to win 74% (17/23) of her 1st serve and 62% (13/21) on the second serve. However, this didn’t prevent her to concede the serve once. The Serbian broke Falkner 5 times after converting 71% of her break points (5/7).
Aleksandra’s best result of the current season was getting to the final in the W60 Stare Splavy.
Krunic has a composed 28-13 win-loss record in 2021, 6-2 on hard (See FULL STATS).
H2H Performance in the tournament
Matches, sets, games and points
| Points | Juvan | Krunic |
|---|---|---|
| Match played | 1 | 3 |
| Tot Set | 2 | 7 |
| Tot Games | 19 | 54 |
| Pts | 70-54 | 205-149 |
| Total Points | 124 | 354 |
| Winners | 21 | 71 |
| %Winners | 30% | 35% |
Juvan played 1 match while Krunic competed in 3 matches. Krunic started her run from the qualifications while Juvan had a direct access to the main draw. At the moment, Aleksandra Krunic surrendered 1 set while Kaja Juvan hasn’t lost a set so far. Juvan has played 5 set(s) less than Krunic (2 vs 7). Therefore, Juvan played 35 games less than Krunic. Kaja scored 21 winners (30% of the total points). On the other side, The Serbian fired 71 winners (35%).
Serve Performance
| Serve | Juvan | Krunic |
|---|---|---|
| Aces | 1 | 7 |
| Avg per match | 1 | 2.3 |
| 1st in | 34/65 | 102/190 |
| %1st in | 52% | 54% |
| 1st pts | 21/34 | 71/102 |
| %1st pts | 62% | 70% |
| 2nd pts | 22/31 | 46/88 |
| %2nd pts | 71% | 52% |
Juvan bagged 1 ace . Krunic also managed to score 7 aces (2.3 per match). Juvan won 62% points on her first serve. She pretty effective on her second serve to win 71% of the points. On the other side, Krunic won 70% of the points behind her first serve. She had a solid display on her second serve to win 52% of the points.
How they played the important points
| Breaks | Juvan | Krunic |
|---|---|---|
| Won | 3 | 16 |
| Converted | 3/8 | 16/25 |
| % Converted | 38% | 64% |
| Conceded | 8 | 14 |
| Saved | 7 | 9 |
| % Saved | 88% | 64% |
| Times Broken | 1 | 5 |
Juvan broke her opponent 3 times with a 38% conversion rate. Kaja dropped her serve once and she saved 88% of the break points that she conceded. Krunic broke her opponents 16 times with a 64% conversion rate. Krunic conceded her serve 5 times and she saved 64% of the break points that she conceded.
| Juvan | |||
| R1 Martic |
Total | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Score | 6-3 6-4 | ||
| Tot Set | 2 | 2 | |
| Tot Games | 19 | 19 | |
| pts | 70-54 | 70-54 | |
| Total points | 124 | 124 | |
| Winners | 21 | 21 | |
| %Winners | 30% | 30% | |
| SERVE | |||
| Aces | 1 | 1 | |
| Double Faults | 1 | 1 | |
| 1st in | 34/65 | 34/65 | |
| % 1st in | 52% | 52% | |
| 1st pts | 21/34 | 21/34 | |
| % 1st pts | 62% | 62% | |
| 2nd pts | 22/31 | 22/31 | |
| % 2nd pts | 71% | 71% | |
| Breaks | |||
| Won | 3 | 3 | |
| Converted | 3/8 | 3/8 | |
| Converted % | 38% | 38% | |
| Conceded | 8 | 8 | |
| Saved | 7/8 | 7 | |
| Saved % | 88% | 88% | |
| Times Broken | 1 | 1 | |
| Krunic | |||||
| Q1 Cvetkovic |
Q3 Bandecchi |
R1 Falkner |
Total | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Score | 6-1 6-1 | 2-6 6-1 6-3 | 6-3 6-1 | ||
| Tot Set | 2 | 3 | 2 | 7 | |
| Tot Games | 14 | 24 | 16 | 54 | |
| pts | 57-35 | 86-73 | 62-41 | 205-149 | |
| Total points | 92 | 159 | 103 | 354 | |
| Winners | 20 | 34 | 17 | 71 | |
| %Winners | 35% | 40% | 27% | 35% | |
| SERVE | |||||
| Aces | 3 | 3 | 1 | 7 | |
| Double Faults | 3 | 4 | 1 | 8 | |
| 1st in | 29/58 | 50/88 | 23/44 | 102/190 | |
| % 1st in | 50% | 57% | 52% | 54% | |
| 1st pts | 20/29 | 34/50 | 17/23 | 71/102 | |
| % 1st pts | 69% | 68% | 74% | 70% | |
| 2nd pts | 16/29 | 17/38 | 13/21 | 46/88 | |
| % 2nd pts | 55% | 45% | 62% | 52% | |
| Breaks | |||||
| Won | 5 | 6 | 5 | 16 | |
| Converted | 5/7 | 6/11 | 5/7 | 16/25 | |
| Converted % | 71% | 55% | 71% | 64% | |
| Conceded | 3 | 10 | 1 | 14 | |
| Saved | 3/3 | 6/10 | 0/1 | 9 | |
| Saved % | 100% | 60% | 0% | 160% | |
| Times Broken | 0 | 4 | 1 | 5 | |
Head 2 Head
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LLWWLWLWWL Tennis Scores in Portoroz
- Yulia PutintsevaPutintseva – Katie BoulterBoulter (6-3 6-1) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Alison RiskeRiske – Viktoria KuzmovaKuzmova (3-6 6-3 6-3) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Lucia BronzettiBronzetti – Bernarda PeraPera (2-6 6-3 6-3) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Kristina MladenovicMladenovic – Ana KonjuhKonjuh (6-0 6-4) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Lorenzo FrigerioFrigerio – Joshua ParisParis (6-1 6-3) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Viktor DurasovicDurasovic – Marcus ManssonMansson (7-5 6-1) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Hunter CallahanCallahan – Elmar EjupovicEjupovic (7-5 6-3) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Marc-Andrea HueslerHuesler – Martin BeranBeran (6-4 7-610) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Lucas MiedlerMiedler – Robin ThourThour (6-1 6-2) – Stats, scores, rankings
Upcoming matches in the draw
- Kaja JuvanJuvan – Aleksandra KrunicKrunic (1-0) – H2H and prediction
- Anhelina KalininaKalinina – Tamara ZidansekZidansek (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Jasmine PaoliniPaolini – Anna KalinskayaKalinskaya (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Tereza MartincovaMartincova – Sorana CirsteaCirstea (1-1) – H2H and prediction
- Alison RiskeRiske – Kristina MladenovicMladenovic (1-4) – H2H and prediction
- Lucia BronzettiBronzetti – Yulia PutintsevaPutintseva (0-0) – H2H and prediction
