Iga Swiatek and Arantxa Rus will face off in the 1st round of the Internazionali BNL d’Italia for the 1st time in their career. They are scheduled to play on Tuesday 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 Iga Swiatek who should win in 3 sets.

As per the initial odds, Iga Swiatek is the pick to win this match.
Iga Swiatek -> 1.61
Arantxa Rus -> 2.375

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Prediction and head to head Iga Swiatek vs. Arantxa Rus

There is no head to head record between Iga Swiatek and Arantxa Rus since this will be the first time that they will face off in the main tour.

Iga Swiatek

Ranked no. 52, Swiatek will start her run in Rome after she played her last match at the New York where she lost 6-4 6-2 to Azarenka in the 3rd round the 5th of September.

Swiatek has a 9-4 win-loss record in 2020, 0-0 on clay (See FULL STATS).

This will be the first match of the year on clay.

Talking about her overall career, Iga has an overall 124-37 record. She has positive 65-13 record on clay.

Last year in Rome

Swiatek didn’t play in Rome in 2019.

Arantxa Rus

Ranked no. 71, Rus reached the 1st round after beating Liudmila Samsonova 6-1 6-3 and Timea Babos 6-0 6-1.

In the qualifications, Arantxa had a good straight sets win against Babos (6-0 6-1). During the match Rus scored 54 points vs Babos’s 27. The Dutch was very aggressive to blast 24 winners.

Talking about serving, Rus struck 2 aces and she was quite steady in conceding no double faults for the entire match. Arantxa Rus was quite efficent on serve to win 77% (24/31) of her 1st serve and 55% (6/11) on the second serve. This was the main reason for not conceding a single break during the match. Arantxa broke Babos 5 times after converting 56% of her break points (5/9).

Overall Performance in this tournament

The Dutch hasn’t dropped yet a set in the tournament to win 63% of the points she played.

The Dutch’s best result of the season was reaching the final in the Boutheon.

Arantxa has a 18-12 win-loss record in 2020, 3-4 on clay (See FULL STATS).

Last year in Rome

Rus didn’t play in Rome in 2019.

Tennis Scores in Rome

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