Ashleigh Barty and Sofia Kenin will fight against each other in the semifinal of the Australian Open for the 6th time of their career. They are scheduled to play on Thursday at 2 pm (NB) on the Rod Laver Arena. Here the head to head stats and the relative prediction.
Prediction, odds and live streaming
The pick for Tennis Tonic is Ashleigh Barty who should win in 2 sets.
As per the initial odds, Ashleigh Barty is the pick to win this match.
Ashleigh Barty -> 1.36
Sofia Kenin -> 3.20
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Prediction and head to head Ashleigh Barty vs. Sofia Kenin
This will be the 6th time that Ashleigh Barty and Sofia Kenin fight against each other. The head to head is 4-1 for Barty (see full H2H stats),but they are 1-1 on hard.
The last time that they fought against each other, Barty won 6-3 7-5 in the 3rd round in Wuhan back in 2019.
Highlights Ashleigh Barty vs Ashleigh Barty – Wuhan 25-September-2019
Ashleigh Barty
Currently world no. 1 Barty reached the 3rd round after defeating Lesya Tsurenko 5-7 6-1 6-1, Polona Hercog 6-1 6-4, Elena Rybakina 6-3 6-2, Alison Riske 6-3 1-6 6-4 and Petra Kvitova 7-66 6-2.
In the quarter, Ashleigh had a good straight sets win against Kvitova (7-66 6-2). During the match Barty scored 82 points vs Kvitova’s 73. The Australian was extremely aggressive to blast 39 winners.
Talking about serving, Barty blasted 5 aces and she committed only 3 double faults. Ashleigh Barty lost the serve twice and she saved 10 break points. Furthermore, Barty put 63% of her first serves in, winning 74% (39/53) of the points behind her 1st serve and 35% (11/31) on the 2nd serve. Barty broke Kvitova 4 times after converting 50% of her break points (4/8).
Overall Performance in this tournament
The Australian has lost 2 set in this tournament to win 56% of the points she played.
Barty has a negative win-loss record in the last 9 years having won 24% of her matches (840-272). 9-1 on hard in 2020. In connection with her performance on the same surface of this competition, Barty has a 192-77 record in the last 9 years on hard.
Her best result of the current season was managing to win the title in Adelaide where she overcame Dayana Yastremska in the final 6-2 7-5.
Barty has a 9-1 win-loss record in 2020, 9-1 on hard (See FULL STATS).
Last year at the Australian Open
Ashleigh had to bow in the quarter 6-1 6-4 to Petra Kvitova.
Sofia Kenin
Ranked no. 15, the American reached the 3rd round after defeating Martina Trevisan 6-2 6-4, Ann Li 6-1 6-3, Shuai Zhang 7-5 7-67, Cori Gauff 6-75 6-3 6-0 and Ons Jabeur 6-4 6-4.
In the quarter, Kenin had a good straight sets win against Jabeur (6-4 6-4). During the match Kenin scored 75 points vs Jabeur’s 66. Sofia was extremely aggressive to blast 36 winners.
Talking about serving, Kenin was unable to score even 1 ace for the entire match and she committed only 3 double faults. Sofia Kenin lost the serve once and she saved 6 break points. Furthermore, Kenin put 72% of her first serves in, winning 64% (36/56) of the points behind her 1st serve and 55% (12/22) on the 2nd serve. Sofia broke Jabeur 3 times after converting 33% of her break points (3/9).
Overall Performance in this tournament
Kenin has conceded 1 set in the tournament to win 55% of the points she played.
Kenin has a solid record in the last 7 years having won 67% of her matches (405-204). 7-2 on hard in 2020. Talking about her performance on the same surface of this tournament, Kenin has a 110-70 win-loss record in the last 7 years on hard.
Sofia has a 7-2 win-loss record in 2020, 7-2 on hard (See FULL STATS).
Last year at the Australian Open
Kenin lost in the 2nd round 6-3 6-75 6-4 to Simona Halep.
Live score
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H2H Performance in the tournament
Matches, sets, games and points
Points | Barty | Kenin |
---|---|---|
Match played | 5 | 5 |
Tot Set | 12 | 11 |
Tot Games | 107 | 107 |
Pts | 379-299 | 399-326 |
Total Points | 678 | 725 |
Winners | 167 | 178 |
%Winners | 44% | 45% |
Both Barty and Kenin played 5 matches. Both players lost a set in the event. Ashleigh Barty conceded 2 sets, while Sofia Kenin dropper 1 set. Barty has played 1 sets more than Kenin (12 vs 11). However, it is interesting to notice that they played the same amount of games (107). Ashleigh scored 167 winners (44% on total points). On the other side, The American blasted 178 winners (45%).
Serve Performance
Serve | Barty | Kenin |
---|---|---|
Aces | 29 | 6 |
Avg per match | 5.8 | 1.2 |
1st in | 219/353 | 264/363 |
%1st in | 62% | 73% |
1st pts | 167/219 | 178/264 |
%1st pts | 76% | 67% |
2nd pts | 55/134 | 56/99 |
%2nd pts | 41% | 57% |
Barty blasted 29 aces (5.8 per match). Kenin blasted 6 aces (1.2 per match). Barty won 76% points behind her first serve. She had a solid display on her second serve to win 41% of the points. On the other side, Kenin won 67% points behind her first serve. She had a solid display on her second serve to win 57% of the points.
How they played the important points
Breaks | Barty | Kenin |
---|---|---|
Won | 23 | 22 |
Converted | 23/40 | 22/52 |
% Converted | 58% | 42% |
Conceded | 40 | 23 |
Saved | 29 | 15 |
% Saved | 73% | 65% |
Times Broken | 11 | 8 |
Ashleigh broke her opponents 23 times with 58% conversion rate. Ashleigh conceded her serve 11 times and she saved 73% of the break points that she conceded. Kenin broke her opponents 22 times with 42% conversion rate. The American conceded her serve 8 times and she saved 65% of the break points that she conceded.
Barty | |||||||
R1 Tsurenko |
R2 Hercog |
R3 Rybakina |
R4 Riske |
1/4 Kvitova |
Total | ||
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Score | 5-7 6-1 6-1 | 6-1 6-4 | 6-3 6-2 | 6-3 1-6 6-4 | 7-66 6-2 | ||
Tot Set | 3 | 2 | 2 | 3 | 2 | 12 | |
Tot Games | 26 | 17 | 17 | 26 | 21 | 107 | |
pts | 88-56 | 63-46 | 74-54 | 72-70 | 82-73 | 379-299 | |
Total points | 144 | 109 | 128 | 142 | 155 | 678 | |
Winners | 32 | 27 | 32 | 37 | 39 | 167 | |
%Winners | 36% | 43% | 43% | 51% | 48% | 44% | |
SERVE | |||||||
Aces | 10 | 5 | 5 | 4 | 5 | 29 | |
Double Faults | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 3 | 6 | |
1st in | 41/72 | 34/57 | 45/69 | 46/71 | 53/84 | 219/353 | |
% 1st in | 57% | 60% | 65% | 65% | 63% | 62% | |
1st pts | 32/41 | 27/34 | 32/45 | 37/46 | 39/53 | 167/219 | |
% 1st pts | 78% | 79% | 71% | 80% | 74% | 76% | |
2nd pts | 15/31 | 12/23 | 10/24 | 7/25 | 11/31 | 55/134 | |
% 2nd pts | 48% | 52% | 42% | 28% | 35% | 41% | |
Breaks | |||||||
Won | 7 | 3 | 5 | 4 | 4 | 23 | |
Converted | 7/10 | 3/7 | 5/9 | 4/6 | 4/8 | 23/40 | |
Converted % | 70% | 43% | 56% | 67% | 50% | 58% | |
Conceded | 7 | 6 | 10 | 5 | 12 | 40 | |
Saved | 4/7 | 6/6 | 8/10 | 1/5 | 10/12 | 29 | |
Saved % | 57% | 100% | 80% | 20% | 83% | 68% | |
Times Broken | 3 | 0 | 2 | 4 | 2 | 120 |
Kenin | |||||||
R1 Trevisan |
R2 Li |
R3 Zhang |
R4 Gauff |
1/4 Jabeur |
Total | ||
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Score | 6-2 6-4 | 6-1 6-3 | 7-5 7-67 | 6-75 6-3 6-0 | 6-4 6-4 | ||
Tot Set | 2 | 2 | 2 | 3 | 2 | 11 | |
Tot Games | 18 | 16 | 25 | 28 | 20 | 107 | |
pts | 67-48 | 57-36 | 99-95 | 101-81 | 75-66 | 399-326 | |
Total points | 115 | 93 | 194 | 182 | 141 | 725 | |
Winners | 24 | 26 | 45 | 47 | 36 | 178 | |
%Winners | 36% | 46% | 45% | 47% | 48% | 45% | |
SERVE | |||||||
Aces | 2 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 6 | |
Double Faults | 0 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 3 | 9 | |
1st in | 35/47 | 33/49 | 75/100 | 65/89 | 56/78 | 264/363 | |
% 1st in | 74% | 67% | 75% | 73% | 72% | 73% | |
1st pts | 24/35 | 26/33 | 45/75 | 47/65 | 36/56 | 178/264 | |
% 1st pts | 69% | 79% | 60% | 72% | 64% | 67% | |
2nd pts | 8/12 | 7/16 | 16/25 | 13/24 | 12/22 | 56/99 | |
% 2nd pts | 67% | 44% | 64% | 54% | 55% | 57% | |
Breaks | |||||||
Won | 5 | 5 | 4 | 5 | 3 | 22 | |
Converted | 5/12 | 5/8 | 4/11 | 5/12 | 3/9 | 22/52 | |
Converted % | 42% | 63% | 36% | 42% | 33% | 42% | |
Conceded | 3 | 3 | 6 | 4 | 7 | 23 | |
Saved | 1/3 | 2/3 | 3/6 | 3/4 | 6/7 | 15 | |
Saved % | 33% | 67% | 50% | 75% | 86% | 62% | |
Times Broken | 2 | 1 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 60 |
Head 2 Head
Tennis Scores at the Australian Open
- Simona HalepHalep – Anett KontaveitKontaveit (6-1 6-1) – See score progression
- Garbine MuguruzaMuguruza – Anastasia PavlyuchenkovaPavlyuchenkova (7-5 6-3) – See score progression
- Sofia KeninKenin – Ons JabeurJabeur (6-4 6-4) – See score progression
- Ashleigh BartyBarty – Petra KvitovaKvitova (7-66 6-2) – See score progression
Upcoming matches
- Ashleigh BartyBarty – Sofia KeninKenin (4-1) – See H2H details
- Simona HalepHalep – Garbine MuguruzaMuguruza (2-3) – See H2H details