Serena Williams and Arantxa Rus will fight against each other in the 2nd round of the Western & Southern Open for the 2nd time of their career. They are scheduled to play on Monday at 1 pm on Grandstand. In the following lines you can find the head to head analysis and the prediction.
Prediction, odds and live streaming
The pick for Tennis Tonic is Serena Williams who should win in 2 sets.
As per the initial odds, Serena Williams is the pick to win this match.
Serena Williams -> 1.106
Arantxa Rus -> 6.25
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Serena Williams
Ranked no. 9, the American will start her run in New York after she played her last match in Lexington where she lost 1-6 6-4 7-6(5) to Rogers in the quarter the 14th of August.
Serena has a 10-3 win-loss record in 2020, 9-2 on hard (See FULL STATS).
Her best result of the season was winning the title in Auckland where she overcame Jessica Pegula in the final 6-3 6-4.
Talking about her overall career, Williams has an overall 633-105 record. She has positive 367-57 record on hard.
Last year in New York
Williams lost in the final 6-3 7-5 to Bianca Vanessa Andreescu.
Arantxa Rus
Ranked no. 72, the Dutch got to the 2nd round after defeating Stefanie Voegele 7-5 4-6 6-1, Nina Stojanovic 6-4 6-3 and Alison Van Uytvanck 6-2 6-3.
In the 1st round, Rus had a good straight sets win against Van Uytvanck (6-2 6-3). During the match Rus scored 66 points vs Van Uytvanck’s 48. Rus was extremely aggressive to blast 31 winners.
Talking about serving, Rus was unable to score even 1 ace for the entire match and she committed only 3 double faults. Arantxa Rus lost the serve once and she saved 3 break points. Furthermore, Rus put 67% of her first serves in, winning 74% (31/42) of the points behind her 1st serve and 48% (10/21) on the 2nd serve. Arantxa broke Van Uytvanck 4 times after converting 57% of her break points (4/7).
Rus has a solid win-loss record in the last 10 years having won 60% of her matches (564-382). 11-5 on hard in 2020. Regarding her performance on the same surface of this event, Rus has a 392-245 record in the last 10 years on hard.
The Dutch’s best result of the year was getting to the final in the Boutheon.
Rus has a 16-10 win-loss record in 2020, 11-5 on hard (See FULL STATS).
Last year in New York
Arantxa capitulated in the qualifications 1-6 6-4 6-1 to Isabella Shinikova.
Head 2 Head
LWL Tennis Scores in New York
- Veronika KudermetovaKudermetova – Karolina PliskovaPliskova (7-5 6-4) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Alize CornetAlize – Sofia KeninSofia (6-1 7-6(7)) – See score progression
Upcoming matches in the draw
- Kristina MladenovicMladenovic – Elise MertensMertens (3-1) – See H2H details
- Amanda AnisimovaAnisimova – Jessica PegulaPegula (0-0) – See H2H details
- Catherine Cartan BellisCartan Bellis – Aryna SabalenkaSabalenka (0-0) – See H2H details
- Naomi OsakaOsaka – Karolina MuchovaMuchova (0-0) – See H2H details
- Bernarda PeraPera – Dayana YastremskaYastremska (1-1) – See H2H details
- Anett KontaveitKontaveit – Jil TeichmannTeichmann (0-0) – See H2H details
- Marie BouzkovaBouzkova – Petra KvitovaKvitova (0-0) – See H2H details
- Johanna KontaKonta – Kirsten FlipkensFlipkens (4-1) – See H2H details
- Vera ZvonarevaZvonareva – Laura SiegemundSiegemund (1-0) – See H2H details
- Maria SakkariSakkari – Yulia PutintsevaPutintseva (1-1) – See H2H details
- Arantxa RusRus – Serena WilliamsWilliams (0-1) – See H2H details
- Madison KeysKeys – Ons JabeurJabeur (0-0) – See H2H details
- Christina MchaleMchale – Ekaterina AlexandrovaAlexandrova (0-0) – See H2H details
- Victoria AzarenkaAzarenka – Caroline GarciaGarcia (0-3) – See H2H details
