Petra Kvitova and Alison Van Uytvanck will face off in the 2nd round of the St. Petersburg Ladies Trophy for the 1st time in their career. They are scheduled to compete on Thursday at 3:30 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 Petra Kvitova who should win in 2 sets.
Petra Kvitova -> 1.20
Alison Van Uytvanck -> 4.33
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Petra Kvitova
Ranked no. 11, Kvitova will start her run in St. Petersburg after she played her last match at the Melbourne where she lost 7-6(6) 6-2 to Barty in the quarter the 28th of January.
The Czech 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 season on indoor hard courts.
Petra’s best result of the current year was getting to the semi-finals in Brisbane.
Talking about her overall career, The Czech has an overall 444-212 record. She has positive 66-34 record on indoor hard courts.
Last year in St. Petersburg
Petra lost in the quarter 6-4 6-1 to Donna Vekic.
Alison Van Uytvanck
Ranked no. 47, Van Uytvanck got to the 2nd round after defeating Kristina Mladenovic 6-4 6-1.
In the 1st round, Alison had a good straight sets win against Mladenovic (6-4 6-1). During the match Van Uytvanck scored 62 points vs Mladenovic’s 42. The Belgian was extremely aggressive to blast 20 winners.
Talking about serving, Van Uytvanck scored just 1 ace during the entire match and she was extremely consistent in conceding no double faults for the entire match. Alison Van Uytvanck lost the serve twice and she saved 2 break points. Furthermore, Van Uytvanck put 62% of her first serves in, winning 71% (20/28) of the points behind her 1st serve and 47% (8/17) on the 2nd serve. The Belgian was clinical in her return game without wasting any break point and break Mladenovic 6 times.
Van Uytvanck has a solid record in the last 10 years having won 68% of her matches (250-117). 1-0 on indoor hard courts in 2020. Talking about her performance on the same surface of this event, Van Uytvanck has a 147-138 win-loss record in the last 10 years on indoor hard courts.
Alison has a 1-2 win-loss record in 2020, 1-0 on indoor hard courts (See FULL STATS).
Last year in St. Petersburg
Alison surrendered in the 2nd round 6-1 6-4 to Aryna Sabalenka.
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