Arantxa Rus and Timea Babos will play each other in the qualifications of the Internazionali BNL d’Italia for the 2nd time of their career. They are scheduled to compete on Sunday at 12 pm on Court 2. In this post, we analyze their head to head performance and the prediction.
Prediction, odds and live streaming
The pick for Tennis Tonic is Arantxa Rus who should win in 2 sets.
As per the initial odds, Arantxa Rus is the pick to win this match.
Arantxa Rus -> 1.21
Timea Babos -> 4.4
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Prediction and head to head Arantxa Rus vs. Timea Babos
This will be the 2nd time that Arantxa Rus and Timea Babos clash against each other. The head to head is 1-0 for Rus (see full H2H stats), but they have never competed against each other on clay.
Arantxa Rus
Ranked no. 68, Rus reached the qualifications after defeating Liudmila Samsonova 6-1 6-3.
In the qualifications, Rus had a good straight sets win against Samsonova (6-1 6-3). During the match Rus scored 64 points vs Samsonova’s 41. Rus was extremely aggressive to blast 20 winners.
Talking about the service games, Rus scored just 1 ace throughout the encounter and she committed only 1 double fault. Overall, Arantxa Rus was very effective on serve to win 77% (20/26) of her 1st serve and 62% (13/21) on the second serve. However, this didn’t prevent her to concede the serve once. Rus broke Samsonova 5 times after converting 83% of her break points (5/6).
Rus has a solid win-loss record in the last 10 years having won 61% of her matches (393-247). 2-4 on clay in 2020. In connection with her performance on the same surface of this tournament, Rus has a 227-121 record in the last years on clay.
Rus’s best result of the current season was reaching the final in the Boutheon.
Arantxa has a 17-12 win-loss record in 2020, 2-4 on clay (See FULL STATS).
Last year in Rome
Arantxa didn’t play in Rome in 2019.
Timea Babos
Ranked no. 101, Timea got to the qualifications after beating Giulia Gatto-Monticone 6-3 1-6 6-2.
In the qualifications, Babos defeated Gatto-Monticone (6-3 1-6 6-2). During the match Babos scored 95 points vs Gatto-Monticone’s 89. The Hungarian was quite aggressive to blast 26 winners.
Talking about serving, Babos scored 3 aces and she committed only 6 double faults. Timea Babos lost the serve 7 times and she saved 4 break points. Furthermore, Babos put 52% of her first serves in, winning 59% (26/44) of the points behind her 1st serve and 39% (16/41) on the 2nd serve. Babos broke Gatto-Monticone 8 times after converting 35% of her break points (8/23).
Babos has a 5-9 win-loss record in 2020, 1-0 on clay (See FULL STATS).
Last year in Rome
Babos didn’t play in Rome in 2019.
H2H Performance in the tournament
Matches, sets, games and points
| Points | Rus | Babos |
|---|---|---|
| Match played | 1 | 1 |
| Tot Set | 2 | 3 |
| Tot Games | 16 | 24 |
| Pts | 64-41 | 95-89 |
| Total Points | 105 | 184 |
| Winners | 20 | 26 |
| %Winners | 31% | 27% |
Both Rus and Babos played 1 match. Also both players started their run from the qualifications.At the moment, Timea Babos lost 1 set while Arantxa Rus hasn’t dropped a set so far. Rus has played 1 set(s) less than Babos (2 vs 3). Therefore, Rus played 8 games less than Babos. Arantxa scored 20 winners (31% of the total points). On the other side, The Hungarian made 26 winners (27%).
Serve Performance
| Serve | Rus | Babos |
|---|---|---|
| Aces | 1 | 3 |
| Avg per match | 1 | 3 |
| 1st in | 26/47 | 44/85 |
| %1st in | 55% | 52% |
| 1st pts | 20/26 | 26/44 |
| %1st pts | 77% | 59% |
| 2nd pts | 13/21 | 16/41 |
| %2nd pts | 62% | 39% |
Rus made 1 ace . Babos also scored 3 aces . Rus won 77% points on her first serve. She was rock solid on her second serve to win 62% of the points. On the other side, Babos won 59% of the points on her first serve. She had a solid display on her second serve to win 39% of the points.
How they played the important points
| Breaks | Rus | Babos |
|---|---|---|
| Won | 5 | 8 |
| Converted | 5/6 | 8/23 |
| % Converted | 83% | 35% |
| Conceded | 6 | 11 |
| Saved | 5 | 4 |
| % Saved | 83% | 36% |
| Times Broken | 1 | 7 |
Arantxa broke her opponent 5 times with a 83% conversion rate. Arantxa surrendered her serve once and she saved 83% of the break points that she conceded. Timea broke her opponent 8 times with a 35% conversion rate. Timea conceded her serve 7 times and she saved 36% of the break points that she conceded.
| Rus | |||
| Q1 Samsonova |
Total | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Score | 6-1 6-3 | ||
| Tot Set | 2 | 2 | |
| Tot Games | 16 | 16 | |
| pts | 64-41 | 64-41 | |
| Total points | 105 | 105 | |
| Winners | 20 | 20 | |
| %Winners | 31% | 31% | |
| SERVE | |||
| Aces | 1 | 1 | |
| Double Faults | 1 | 1 | |
| 1st in | 26/47 | 26/47 | |
| % 1st in | 55% | 55% | |
| 1st pts | 20/26 | 20/26 | |
| % 1st pts | 77% | 77% | |
| 2nd pts | 13/21 | 13/21 | |
| % 2nd pts | 62% | 62% | |
| Breaks | |||
| Won | 5 | 5 | |
| Converted | 5/6 | 5/6 | |
| Converted % | 83% | 83% | |
| Conceded | 6 | 6 | |
| Saved | 5/6 | 5 | |
| Saved % | 83% | 83% | |
| Times Broken | 1 | 1 | |
| Babos | |||
| Q1 Gatto-Monticone |
Total | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Score | 6-3 1-6 6-2 | ||
| Tot Set | 3 | 3 | |
| Tot Games | 24 | 24 | |
| pts | 95-89 | 95-89 | |
| Total points | 184 | 184 | |
| Winners | 26 | 26 | |
| %Winners | 27% | 27% | |
| SERVE | |||
| Aces | 3 | 3 | |
| Double Faults | 6 | 6 | |
| 1st in | 44/85 | 44/85 | |
| % 1st in | 52% | 52% | |
| 1st pts | 26/44 | 26/44 | |
| % 1st pts | 59% | 59% | |
| 2nd pts | 16/41 | 16/41 | |
| % 2nd pts | 39% | 39% | |
| Breaks | |||
| Won | 8 | 8 | |
| Converted | 8/23 | 8/23 | |
| Converted % | 35% | 35% | |
| Conceded | 11 | 11 | |
| Saved | 4/11 | 4 | |
| Saved % | 36% | 36% | |
| Times Broken | 7 | 7 | |
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