Karolina Muchova and Ann Li will fight against each other in the 1^st round of the Western & Southern Open for the 1^st time in their career. They are scheduled to play on Saturday at 5 pm on Court 7. In the following lines you can find the head to head analysis and the prediction.

Karolina Muchova

Ranked no. 26,she will start her run in New York after she played her last match in All Lower Level Tournaments where she beat 6-3 6-2 to Kuzmova in the 1^st round the 20^th of July.

Karolina has a 2-4 win-loss record in 2020, 2-4 on hard (See FULL STATS).

Talking about her overall career, Karolina has an overall 132-63 record. She has positive 52-24 record on hard.

Last year in New York

Muchova had to surrender in the 3^rd round 6-3 6-2 to Serena Williams.

Ann Li

Ranked no. 133, Li got to the 1^st round after defeating Zarina Diyas 6-1 6-3 and Viktoria Kuzmova 6-3 7-6⁵.

In the qualifications, Ann had a good straight sets win against Kuzmova (6-3 7-6⁵). During the match Li scored 95 points vs Kuzmova’s 85. Ann was extremely aggressive to blast 37 winners.

Talking about serving, Li managed to score 6 aces and she committed only 5 double faults. Ann Li lost the serve twice and she saved 8 break points. Furthermore, Li put 59% of her first serves in, winning 70% (37/53) of the points behind her 1st serve and 51% (19/37) on the 2nd serve. Li broke Kuzmova 3 times after converting 23% of her break points (3/13).

Overall Performance in this tournament

The American hasn’t dropped yet a set in the tournament to win 56% of the points she played.

Li has a solid record in the last 5 years having won 63% of her matches (216-129). 9-4 on hard in 2020. In connection with her performance on the same surface of this competition, Li has a 106-63 record in the last 5 years on hard.

The American has a 9-4 win-loss record in 2020, 9-4 on hard (See FULL STATS).

Last year in New York

The American surrendered in the qualifications 6-4 7-6⁵ to Nina Stojanovic.

Head 2 Head

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Karolina
Muchova

1:0

Ann
Li

Rank

49

High

8

1Hard0

Rank

126

High

44

Win Loss

Muchova

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Li

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18 - 5

31 - 22

12-2

Hard

9-11

4-2

Clay

22-9

2-1

Grass

0-1

Tennis Scores in New York

• Laura SiegemundSiegemund – Caroline DolehideDolehide (6-3 6-3) – See score progression
• Vera ZvonarevaZvonareva – Astra SharmaSharma (6-4 6-2) – See score progression
• Jil TeichmannTeichmann – Shelby RogersRogers (6-3 6-4) – See score progression
• Leylah Annie FernandezAnnie Fernandez – Kristie AhnAhn (6-4 6-1) – See score progression
• Anna KalinskayaKalinskaya – Sorana CirsteaCirstea (7-5 6-4) – See score progression
• Ann LiLi – Viktoria KuzmovaKuzmova (6-3 7-6⁵) – See score progression
• Catherine Cartan BellisCartan Bellis – Ysaline BonaventureBonaventure (4-6 6-4 6-1) – See score progression
• Arantxa RusRus – Nina StojanovicStojanovic (6-4 6-3) – See score progression
• Jessica PegulaPegula – Liudmila SamsonovaSamsonova (6-3 3-6 6-2) – See score progression
• Kirsten FlipkensFlipkens – Katie VolynetsVolynets (6-1 2-0 ret.) – See score progression
• Christina MchaleMchale – Daria KasatkinaKasatkina (6-3 7-5) – See score progression
• Oceane DodinDodin – Paula Badosa GibertBadosa Gibert (6-4 6-1) – See score progression

Upcoming matches in the draw

• Veronika KudermetovaKudermetova – Ajla TomljanovicTomljanovic (1-0) – See H2H details
• Anastasija SevastovaSevastova – Kristina MladenovicMladenovic (2-1) – See H2H details
• Rebecca PetersonPeterson – Elise MertensMertens (0-1) – See H2H details
• Alison RiskeRiske – Amanda AnisimovaAnisimova (0-0) – See H2H details
• Jennifer BradyBrady – Jessica PegulaPegula (0-0) – See H2H details
• Catherine Cartan BellisCartan Bellis – Oceane DodinDodin (0-0) – See H2H details
• Karolina MuchovaMuchova – Ann LiLi (0-0) – See H2H details
• Heather WatsonWatson – Bernarda PeraPera (0-0) – See H2H details
• Venus WilliamsWilliams – Dayana YastremskaYastremska (0-0) – See H2H details
• Anett KontaveitKontaveit – Darya KasatkinaKasatkina (1-0) – See H2H details
• Danielle Rose CollinsRose Collins – Jil TeichmannTeichmann (0-0) – See H2H details
• Marie BouzkovaBouzkova – Anna KalinskayaKalinskaya (0-0) – See H2H details
• Katerina SiniakovaSiniakova – Kirsten FlipkensFlipkens (0-0) – See H2H details
• Magda LinetteLinette – Vera ZvonarevaZvonareva (0-0) – See H2H details
• Laura SiegemundSiegemund – Marketa VondrousovaVondrousova (0-1) – See H2H details
• Maria SakkariSakkari – Cori GauffGauff (0-0) – See H2H details
• Yulia PutintsevaPutintseva – Shuai ZhangZhang (0-2) – See H2H details
• Arantxa RusRus – Alison Van UytvanckVan Uytvanck (0-0) – See H2H details
• Leylah Annie FernandezAnnie Fernandez – Ons JabeurJabeur (0-0) – See H2H details
• Christina MchaleMchale – Iga SwiatekSwiatek (0-0) – See H2H details
• Ekaterina AlexandrovaAlexandrova – Elena RybakinaRybakina (1-0) – See H2H details
• Donna VekicVekic – Victoria AzarenkaAzarenka (2-0) – See H2H details
• Sloane StephensStephens – Caroline GarciaGarcia (1-2) – See H2H details
• Alize CornetCornet – Caty McNallyMcNally (0-0) – See H2H details

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