Kiki Bertens and Veronika Kudermetova will clash against each other in the 2nd round of the St. Petersburg Ladies Trophy for the 1st time in their career. They are scheduled to play on Thursday at 6:30 pm on SIBUR ARENA. In this post, we analyze their head to head performance and the prediction.
Prediction, odds and live streaming
The pick for Tennis Tonic is Kiki Bertens who should win in 2 sets.
As per the initial odds, Kiki Bertens is the pick to win this match.
Kiki Bertens -> 1.28
Veronika Kudermetova -> 3.50
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Kiki Bertens
Ranked no. 8,she will start her run in St. Petersburg after she played her last match in 3 where she beat 6-4 6-4 to Sabalenka in the Rubber 3 the 8th of February.
The Dutch has a 7-2 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, Kiki has an overall 270-179 record. She has positive 31-28 record on indoor hard courts.
Last year in St. Petersburg
Kiki conquered the title last year in St. Petersburg after beating Donna Vekic 7-62 6-4.
Veronika Kudermetova
Ranked no. 38 (career high), Veronika got to the 2nd round after beating Yulia Putintseva 7-64 1-6 7-5.
In the 1st round, Kudermetova defeated Putintseva (7-64 1-6 7-5).-105) than Putintseva. In fact, the world no. 8 won 105 points vs Putintseva’s. That means that Kudermetova was more focused during the important points. Kudermetova was extremely aggressive to blast 40 winners.
Talking about serving, Kudermetova blasted 7 aces and she committed only 4 double faults. Veronika Kudermetova lost the serve 6 times and she saved 10 break points. Furthermore, Kudermetova put 50% of her first serves in, winning 71% (40/56) of the points behind her 1st serve and 36% (20/55) on the 2nd serve. Veronika broke Putintseva 5 times after converting 63% of her break points (5/8).
Kudermetova has a negative record in the last 7 years having won 41% of her matches (45-66). 1-2 on indoor hard courts in 2020. In connection with her performance on the same surface of this tournament, Kudermetova has a 82-65 record in the last 7 years on indoor hard courts.
The Russian’s best result of the current year was reaching the semi-finals in Hobart.
Kudermetova has a 5-5 win-loss record in 2020, 1-2 on indoor hard courts (See FULL STATS).
Last year in St. Petersburg
Veronika capitulated in the 2nd round 6-4 6-3 to Donna Vekic.
Head 2 Head
LWLWWLLWLW Tennis Scores in St. Petersburg
- Elena RybakinaRybakina – Fiona FerroFerro (6-3 6-4) – See score progression
- Oceane DodinDodin – Johanna KontaKonta (6-3 6-4) – See score progression
- Belinda BencicBencic – Svetlana KuznetsovaKuznetsova (7-64 6-4) – See score progression
- Anastasia PotapovaPotapova – Ajla TomljanovicTomljanovic (7-62 6-3) – See score progression
Upcoming matches
- Alize CornetCornet – Maria SakkariSakkari (0-2) – See H2H details
- Donna VekicVekic – Ekaterina AlexandrovaAlexandrova (1-0) – See H2H details
- Alison Van UytvanckVan Uytvanck – Petra KvitovaKvitova (0-0) – See H2H details
- Veronika KudermetovaKudermetova – Kiki BertensBertens (0-0) – See H2H details
- Oceane DodinDodin – Elena RybakinaRybakina (0-0) – See H2H details
