Alize Cornet and Monica Niculescu will fight against each other in the 1^st round of the Australian Open for the 4^th time of their career. They are scheduled to play on Tuesday at 6.30 pm (est) on Court 12. In this post, we analyze their head to head performance and the prediction.

Prediction, odds and live streaming

The pick for Tennis Tonic is Alize Cornet who should win in 3 sets.

As per the initial odds, Alize Cornet is the pick to win this match.
Alize Cornet -> 1.66
Monica Niculescu -> 2.20

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Alize Cornet

Ranked no. 61, Alize will start her run at the Australian Open after she played her last match in Hobart where she lost 7-5 6-3 to Rybakina in the 2^nd round the 15^th of January.

Cornet has a 3-2 win-loss record in 2020, 3-2 on hard (See FULL STATS).

Talking about her overall career, Alize has an overall 378-314 record. She has positive 173-144 record on hard.

Last year at the Australian Open

Cornet lost in the 2^nd round 6-3 4-6 6-0 to Venus Williams.

Monica Niculescu

Ranked no. 129, the Romanian got to the 1^st round after defeating Anhelina Kalinina 7-6⁷ 6-2, Viktoriya Tomova 1-6 6-1 6-4 and Stefanie Voegele 6-2 3-6 6-4.

In the qualifications, Monica defeated Voegele (6-2 3-6 6-4). During the match Niculescu scored 83 points vs Voegele’s 76. Monica was extremely aggressive to blast 43 winners.

Talking about serving, Niculescu blasted 2 aces and she committed only 2 double faults. Monica Niculescu lost the serve 6 times and she saved 5 break points. Furthermore, Niculescu put 83% of her first serves in, winning 58% (43/74) of the points behind her 1st serve and 20% (3/15) on the 2nd serve. Monica broke Voegele 7 times after converting 64% of her break points (7/11).

Overall Performance in this tournament

Niculescu has conceded 2 set in the tournament to win 52% of the points she played.

Niculescu has a winning record in the last 10 years having won 56% of her matches (688-541). 3-1 on hard in 2020. Regarding her performance on the same surface of this competition, Niculescu has a 212-190 win-loss record in the last 10 years on hard.

Monica has a 3-1 win-loss record in 2020, 3-1 on hard (See FULL STATS).

Last year at the Australian Open

Niculescu capitulated in the 1^st round 7-6³ 6-4 to Amanda Anisimova.

Head 2 Head

• 0Slam
• 6Main
• 3ITF
• 0Minor

• 0Slam
• 3Main
• 11ITF
• 2Minor

Alize
Cornet

2:2

Monica
Niculescu

Rank

106

High

11

1Hard2

1Grass0

Rank

High

28

Win Loss

Cornet

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Niculescu

2024 2023 2022

3 - 9

0 - 0

3-1

I Hard

0-0

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• Ashleigh BartyBarty – Lesya TsurenkoTsurenko (5-7 6-1 6-1) – See score progression
• Cori GauffGauff – Venus WilliamsWilliams (7-6⁵ 6-3) – See score progression
• Julia GoergesGoerges – Viktoria KuzmovaKuzmova (6-1 6-2) – See score progression
• Tamara ZidansekZidansek – Na-Lae HanHan (6-3 6-3) – See score progression
• Barbora KrejcikovaKrejcikova – Kaia KanepiKanepi (7-6³ 2-6 6-3) – See score progression
• Paula Badosa GibertBadosa Gibert – Johanna LarssonLarsson (6-1 6-0) – See score progression
• Sorana CirsteaCirstea – Barbora StrycovaStrycova (6-2 7-6⁵) – See score progression
• Petra MarticMartic – Christina MchaleMchale (6-3 6-0) – See score progression
• Naomi OsakaOsaka – Marie BouzkovaBouzkova (6-2 6-4) – See score progression
• Caty McNallyMcNally – Samantha StosurStosur (6-1 6-4) – See score progression
• Lin ZhuZhu – Viktorija GolubicGolubic (4-6 6-1 7-6⁵) – See score progression
• Saisai ZhengZheng – Anna KalinskayaKalinskaya (6-3 6-2) – See score progression
• Shuai ZhangZhang – Sloane StephensStephens (2-6 7-5 6-2) – See score progression
• Petra KvitovaKvitova – Katerina SiniakovaSiniakova (6-0 6-1) – See score progression
• Ekaterina AlexandrovaAlexandrova – Jil TeichmannTeichmann (6-4 4-6 6-2) – See score progression
• Ann LiLi – Lizette CabreraCabrera (7-6⁴ 7-6¹⁰) – See score progression
• Caroline WozniackiWozniacki – Kristie AhnAhn (6-1 6-3) – See score progression

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