Anna Blinkova and Lulu Sun will fight against each other in the 2nd round of the Hana Bank Korea Open for the 1st time in their career. They are scheduled to compete on Friday at 12:00 pm on Court 2. Here the head to head stats and relative prediction.
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The pick for Tennis Tonic is Anna Blinkova who should win in 2 sets.
As per the initial odds, Anna Blinkova is the pick to win this match.
Anna Blinkova -> 1.33
Lulu Sun -> 3.32
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Prediction and head to head Anna Blinkova vs. Lulu Sun
There is no head to head record between Anna Blinkova and Lulu Sun since this will be the first time that they will clash against each other in the main tour.
Anna Blinkova
Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
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2024 | 11-18 | 6-6 | 2-6 | 1-2 | 2-4 | 0-0 |
2023 | 33-28 | 15-15 | 10-7 | 3-3 | 5-3 | 0-0 |
2022 | 46-29 | 7-8 | 16-10 | 21-7 | 1-3 | 1-1 |
2021 | 15-24 | 5-11 | 6-6 | 2-4 | 2-3 | 0-0 |
2020 | 9-14 | 4-10 | 4-3 | 1-1 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
Ranked no. 146, the Russian reached the 2nd round after beating Varvara Gracheva 6-4 7-61.
In the 1st round, Anna had a good straight sets win against Gracheva (6-4 7-61). During the match, Blinkova scored 86 points vs Gracheva’s 76. The Russian was quite aggressive to blast 31 winners.
Talking about the service games, Blinkova bagged 5 aces and she committed only 4 double faults. Overall, Anna Blinkova was exceptionally effective on serve to win 76% (31/41) of her 1st serve and 55% (22/40) on the second serve. However, this didn’t prevent her to concede the serve once. Anna broke Gracheva twice after converting 25% of her break points (2/8).
Blinkova has a winning win-loss record in the last 9 years having won 59% of her matches (229-161). 7-7 on hard in 2022. In connection with her performance on the same surface of this event, Blinkova has an overall83-65 win-loss record in the last 9 years on hard.
Anna’s best result of the current season was getting to the final in the Boutheon,the W60 Grenoble,the W25 Le Havre and the Malo.
Anna has an aggregate 33-24 win-loss record in 2022, 7-7 on hard (See FULL STATS).
Previously in Seoul
The Russian has never competed in this tournament before.
Lulu Sun
Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
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2024 | 32-15 | 10-6 | 10-4 | 6-3 | 6-2 | 0-0 |
2023 | 39-20 | 23-10 | 4-4 | 12-6 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
2022 | 32-24 | 16-12 | 7-6 | 1-1 | 6-4 | 2-1 |
2021 | 27-13 | 19-9 | 8-4 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
2020 | 25-11 | 24-9 | 1-2 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
Ranked no. 340, LuluAnke reached the 2nd round after beating Justina Mikulskyte 6-4 6-4, Victoria Jimenez Kasintseva 3-6 6-3 6-2 and Lizette Cabrera 7-66 6-2.
In the 1st round, The Swiss had a good straight sets win against Cabrera (7-66 6-2). During the match Sun scored 77 points vs Cabrera’s 66. LuluAnke was very aggressive to blast 25 winners.
Talking about serving, Sun was unable to score even 1 ace for the entire match and she committed only 6 double faults. Lulu Sun lost the serve 3 times and she saved 2 break points. Furthermore, Sun put 56% of her first serves in, winning 69% (25/36) of the points behind her 1st serve and 43% (12/28) on the 2nd serve. The Swiss broke Cabrera 5 times after converting 36% of her break points (5/14).
The Swiss has a compiled 28-19 win-loss record in 2022, 15-10 on hard (See FULL STATS).
H2H Performance in the tournament
Matches, sets, games and points
Points | Blinkova | Sun |
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Match played | 1 | 3 |
Tot Set | 2 | 7 |
Tot Games | 23 | 67 |
Pts | 86-76 | 241-207 |
Total Points | 162 | 448 |
Winners | 31 | 88 |
%Winners | 36% | 37% |
Blinkova played 1 match while Sun competed in 3 matches. Sun started her run from the qualifications while Blinkova had a direct access to the main draw. At the moment, Lulu Sun conceded 1 set while Anna Blinkova hasn’t dropped a set so far. Blinkova has played 5 set(s) less than Sun (2 vs 7). Therefore, Blinkova played 44 games less than Sun. The Russian scored 31 winners (36% of the total points). On the other side, LuluAnke fired 88 winners (37%).
Serve Performance
Serve | Blinkova | Sun |
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Aces | 5 | 8 |
Avg per match | 5 | 2.7 |
1st in | 41/81 | 130/212 |
%1st in | 51% | 61% |
1st pts | 31/41 | 88/130 |
%1st pts | 76% | 68% |
2nd pts | 22/40 | 43/82 |
%2nd pts | 55% | 52% |
Blinkova fired 5 aces . Sun recorded 8 aces (2.7 per match). Blinkova won 76% points behind her first serve. She pretty solid on her second serve to win 55% of the points. On the other side, Sun won 68% of the points on 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 | Blinkova | Sun |
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Won | 2 | 13 |
Converted | 2/8 | 13/37 |
% Converted | 25% | 35% |
Conceded | 5 | 16 |
Saved | 4 | 9 |
% Saved | 80% | 56% |
Times Broken | 1 | 7 |
The Russian broke her opponent twice with a 25% conversion rate. The Russian lost her serve once and she saved 80% of the break points that she conceded. The Swiss broke her opponents 13 times with a 35% conversion rate. LuluAnke conceded her serve 7 times and she saved 56% of the break points that she conceded.
Blinkova | |||
R1 Gracheva |
Total | ||
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Score | 6-4 7-61 | ||
Tot Set | 2 | 2 | |
Tot Games | 23 | 23 | |
pts | 86-76 | 86-76 | |
Total points | 162 | 162 | |
Winners | 31 | 31 | |
%Winners | 36% | 36% | |
SERVE | |||
Aces | 5 | 5 | |
Double Faults | 4 | 4 | |
1st in | 41/81 | 41/81 | |
% 1st in | 51% | 51% | |
1st pts | 31/41 | 31/41 | |
% 1st pts | 76% | 76% | |
2nd pts | 22/40 | 22/40 | |
% 2nd pts | 55% | 55% | |
Breaks | |||
Won | 2 | 2 | |
Converted | 2/8 | 2/8 | |
Converted % | 25% | 25% | |
Conceded | 5 | 5 | |
Saved | 4/5 | 4 | |
Saved % | 80% | 80% | |
Times Broken | 1 | 1 |
Sun | |||||
Q1 Mikulskyte |
Q3 Jimenez |
R1 Cabrera |
Total | ||
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Score | 6-4 6-4 | 3-6 6-3 6-2 | 7-66 6-2 | ||
Tot Set | 2 | 3 | 2 | 7 | |
Tot Games | 20 | 26 | 21 | 67 | |
pts | 72-58 | 92-83 | 77-66 | 241-207 | |
Total points | 130 | 175 | 143 | 448 | |
Winners | 28 | 35 | 25 | 88 | |
%Winners | 39% | 38% | 32% | 37% | |
SERVE | |||||
Aces | 6 | 2 | 0 | 8 | |
Double Faults | 3 | 4 | 6 | 13 | |
1st in | 39/61 | 55/87 | 36/64 | 130/212 | |
% 1st in | 64% | 63% | 56% | 61% | |
1st pts | 28/39 | 35/55 | 25/36 | 88/130 | |
% 1st pts | 72% | 64% | 69% | 68% | |
2nd pts | 14/22 | 17/32 | 12/28 | 43/82 | |
% 2nd pts | 64% | 53% | 43% | 52% | |
Breaks | |||||
Won | 3 | 5 | 5 | 13 | |
Converted | 3/8 | 5/15 | 5/14 | 13/37 | |
Converted % | 38% | 33% | 36% | 35% | |
Conceded | 4 | 7 | 5 | 16 | |
Saved | 3/4 | 4/7 | 2/5 | 9 | |
Saved % | 75% | 57% | 40% | 172% | |
Times Broken | 1 | 3 | 3 | 7 |
Head 2 Head
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