Veronika Kudermetova and Viktoria Kuzmova will face off in the 1st round of the Melbourne Summer Set 1 for the 2nd time in their career. They are scheduled to compete on Wednesday at 11:00 am on Rod Laver Arena. Here the head to head stats and relative prediction.
Prediction, odds and live streaming
The pick for Tennis Tonic is Veronika Kudermetova who should win in 2 sets.
As per the initial odds, Veronika Kudermetova is the pick to win this match.
Veronika Kudermetova -> 1.35
Viktoria Kuzmova -> 3.32
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Prediction and head to head Veronika Kudermetova vs. Viktoria Kuzmova
This will be the 2nd time that Veronika Kudermetova and Viktoria Kuzmova square off. The head to head is 1-0 for Kudermetova (see full H2H stats), but they have never played each other on hard.
The last time that they locked horns, Kudermetova won 7-6(4) 7-6(5) in the 2nd round in Gstaad back in 2018.
Veronika Kudermetova
| Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 18-25 | 10-16 | 3-5 | 0-0 | 5-4 | 0-0 |
| 2023 | 34-22 | 18-14 | 8-5 | 1-1 | 7-2 | 0-0 |
| 2022 | 39-20 | 27-13 | 7-4 | 0-1 | 5-2 | 0-0 |
| 2021 | 33-24 | 15-13 | 14-4 | 3-4 | 1-3 | 0-0 |
| 2020 | 19-15 | 11-7 | 1-3 | 7-5 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
Ranked no. 31, the Russian will start her run in Melbourne after she played her last match in Linz where she lost 6-3 7-6(5) to Cristian in the quarter on the 10th of November.
This will be the first match of the year on hard.
Talking about her overall career, Kudermetova has an overall 262-178 record. She has a positive 118-82 record on hard.
Previously in Melbourne
The Russian has never competed in this tournament before.
Viktoria Kuzmova
| Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 36-27 | 10-13 | 0-3 | 15-6 | 0-4 | 11-1 |
| 2023 | 36-30 | 16-16 | 2-3 | 11-7 | 6-3 | 1-1 |
| 2022 | 41-24 | 22-11 | 7-6 | 11-6 | 1-1 | 0-0 |
| 2021 | 24-21 | 13-10 | 6-7 | 2-2 | 0-1 | 3-1 |
| 2020 | 5-11 | 2-6 | 1-2 | 2-3 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
Ranked no. 162, Kuzmova reached the 1st round after beating Magdalena Frech 7-67 6-3 and Olga Govortsova 6-1 ret..
In the qualifications, Viktoria had a good straight sets win against Govortsova (6-1 ret.). During the match Kuzmova scored 29 points vs Govortsova’s 17. Viktoria was extremely aggressive to blast 14 winners.
About the serving games, Kuzmova fired 3 aces and she was exceptionally solid in conceding no double faults for the entire match. Viktoria Kuzmova was very effective on serve to win 74% (14/19) of her 1st serve and 57% (4/7) on the second serve. This was the main reason for not conceding a single break during the match. Kuzmova broke Govortsova twice after converting 67% of her break points (2/3).
Viktoria has a compiled 2-0 win-loss record in 2022, 2-0 on hard (See FULL STATS).
Previously in Melbourne
Previously, her best result was reaching the 1st round in 2021. See her history.
Head 2 Head
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