Donna Vekic and Kristie Ahn will play each other in the 1st round of the St. Petersburg Ladies Trophy for the 2nd time of their career. They are scheduled to compete on Tuesday at 6:00 pm on SIBUR ARENA. Here you can find the head to head analysis and the prediction.
Prediction, odds and live streaming
The pick for Tennis Tonic is Donna Vekic who should win in 2 sets.
As per the initial odds, Donna Vekic is the pick to win this match.
Donna Vekic -> 1.16
Kristie Ahn -> 5.00
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Donna Vekic
Ranked no. 23, Vekic will start her run in St. Petersburg after she played her last match at the Melbourne where she lost 7-5 6-3 to in the 3rd round the 25th of January.
The Croatian has a 4-3 win-loss record in 2020, 0-0 on indoor hard courts (See FULL STATS).
This will be the first match of the year on indoor hard courts.
Talking about her overall career, Vekic has an overall 192-169 record. She has positive 23-22 record on indoor hard courts.
Last year in St. Petersburg
The Croatian lost in the final 7-62 6-4 to Kiki Bertens.
Kristie Ahn
Ranked no. 97, Kristie got to the 1st round after beating Valeriya Strakhova 6-2 4-6 6-3 and Tereza Martincova 7-61 6-4.
In the qualifications, Kristie had a good straight sets win against Martincova (7-61 6-4). During the match Ahn scored 81 points vs Martincova’s 65. The American was extremely aggressive to blast 33 winners.
Talking about serving, Ahn couldn’t to score even 1 ace for the entire match and she committed only 2 double faults. Overall, Kristie Ahn was extremely effective on serve to win 75% (33/44) of her 1st serve and 54% (14/26) on the second serve. However, this didn’t prevent her to concede the serve twice. Kristie broke Martincova 3 times after converting 60% of her break points (3/5).
Overall Performance in this tournament
Ahn has conceded 1 set in the tournament to win 56% of the points she played.
Ahn has a fantastic win-loss record in the last 9 years having won 71% of her matches (20-8). 2-0 on indoor hard courts in 2020. Talking about her performance on the same surface of this competition, Ahn has a 52-50 record in the last 9 years on indoor hard courts.
The American has a 3-3 win-loss record in 2020, 2-0 on indoor hard courts (See FULL STATS).
Last year in St. Petersburg
The American didn’t compete in St. Petersburg in 2019.
Head 2 Head
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Tennis Scores in St. Petersburg
- Anastasia PotapovaPotapova – Liudmila SamsonovaSamsonova (6-2 6-4) – See score progression
- Maria SakkariSakkari – Vitalia DiatchenkoDiatchenko (3-6 6-4 7-63) – See score progression
- Elena RybakinaRybakina – Katerina SiniakovaSiniakova (6-3 6-4) – See score progression
Upcoming matches
- Jennifer BradyBrady – Svetlana KuznetsovaKuznetsova (0-0) – See H2H details
- Alize CornetCornet – Jelena OstapenkoOstapenko (1-1) – See H2H details
- Viktoria KuzmovaKuzmova – Oceane DodinDodin (0-0) – See H2H details
- Anastasija SevastovaSevastova – Caroline GarciaGarcia (1-1) – See H2H details
- Donna VekicVekic – Kristie AhnAhn (1-0) – See H2H details
- Darya KasatkinaKasatkina – Ekaterina AlexandrovaAlexandrova (1-0) – See H2H details
- Alison Van UytvanckVan Uytvanck – Kristina MladenovicMladenovic (2-0) – See H2H details
- Marketa VondrousovaVondrousova – Ajla TomljanovicTomljanovic (1-0) – See H2H details
- Veronika KudermetovaKudermetova – Yulia PutintsevaPutintseva (0-0) – See H2H details
