Garbine Muguruza and Cori Gauff will clash against each other in the 2nd round of the Internazionali BNL d’Italia for the 1st time in their career. They are scheduled to play on Thursday at 1 pm on Campo Centrale. In this post, we analyze their head to head performance and the prediction.
Prediction, odds and live streaming
The pick for Tennis Tonic is Garbine Muguruza who should win in 2 sets.
As per the initial odds, Garbine Muguruza is the pick to win this match.
Garbine Muguruza -> 1.41
Cori Gauff -> 3
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Prediction and head to head Garbine Muguruza vs. Cori Gauff
There is no head to head record between Garbine Muguruza and Cori Gauff since this will be the first time that they will square off in the main tour.
Garbine Muguruza
Ranked no. 17, Muguruza got to the 2nd round after defeating Sloane Stephens 6-3 6-3.
In the 1st round, Muguruza had a good straight sets win against Stephens (6-3 6-3). During the match Muguruza scored 67 points vs Stephens’s 53. Muguruza was pretty aggressive to blast 35 winners.
Regarding the service games, Muguruza scored 3 aces and she committed only 3 double faults. Garbine Muguruza lost the serve once and she saved 7 break points. Furthermore, Muguruza put 72% of her first serves in, winning 73% (35/48) of the points behind her 1st serve and 42% (8/19) on the 2nd serve. Muguruza broke Stephens 4 times after converting 57% of her break points (4/7).
Muguruza has a solid win-loss record in the last 10 years having won 66% of her matches (349-179). 1-0 on clay in 2020. Talking about her performance on the same surface of this tournament, Muguruza has a 103-47 record in the last years on clay.
Garbine’s best result of the current season was getting to the final at the Australian Open .
The Spaniard has a 18-5 win-loss record in 2020, 1-0 on clay (See FULL STATS).
Last year in Rome
Garbine lost in the 3rd round to Victoria Azarenka.
Cori Gauff
Ranked no. 53, Cori reached the 2nd round after defeating Ons Jabeur 6-4 6-3.
In the 1st round, The American had a good straight sets win against Jabeur (6-4 6-3). During the match Gauff scored 71 points vs Jabeur’s 52. The American was very aggressive to blast 25 winners.
Talking about serving, Gauff scored just 1 ace during the entire match and she committed only 7 double faults. Cori Gauff lost the serve 4 times. Furthermore, Gauff put 65% of her first serves in, winning 68% (25/37) of the points behind her 1st serve and 40% (8/20) on the 2nd serve. Cori broke Jabeur 6 times after converting 46% of her break points (6/13).
Cori’s best result of the current season was getting to the semi-finals in Lexington.
Gauff has a 8-5 win-loss record in 2020, 1-0 on clay (See FULL STATS).
Last year in Rome
The American didn’t play in Rome in 2019.
H2H Performance in the tournament
Matches, sets, games and points
| Points | Muguruza | Gauff |
|---|---|---|
| Match played | 1 | 1 |
| Tot Set | 2 | 2 |
| Tot Games | 18 | 19 |
| Pts | 67-53 | 71-52 |
| Total Points | 120 | 123 |
| Winners | 35 | 25 |
| %Winners | 52% | 35% |
Both Muguruza and Gauff played 1 match. Both players have not lost a single set in this event so far. Talking about their workload, Muguruza and Gauff have played the same amount of sets 2. However, Muguruza played 1 game less than Gauff. Garbine scored 35 winners (52% of the total points). On the other side, Cori fired 25 winners (35%).
Serve Performance
| Serve | Muguruza | Gauff |
|---|---|---|
| Aces | 3 | 1 |
| Avg per match | 3 | 1 |
| 1st in | 48/67 | 37/57 |
| %1st in | 72% | 65% |
| 1st pts | 35/48 | 25/37 |
| %1st pts | 73% | 68% |
| 2nd pts | 8/19 | 8/20 |
| %2nd pts | 42% | 40% |
Muguruza managed to score 3 aces . Gauff blasted 1 ace . Muguruza won 73% points behind her first serve. She pretty solid on her second serve to win 42% of the points. On the other side, Gauff won 68% of the points on her first serve. She had a solid display on her second serve to win 40% of the points.
How they played the important points
| Breaks | Muguruza | Gauff |
|---|---|---|
| Won | 4 | 6 |
| Converted | 4/7 | 6/13 |
| % Converted | 57% | 46% |
| Conceded | 8 | 4 |
| Saved | 7 | 0 |
| % Saved | 88% | 0% |
| Times Broken | 1 | 4 |
Garbine broke her opponent 4 times with a 57% conversion rate. The Spaniard conceded her serve once and she saved 88% of the break points that she conceded. Cori broke her opponent 6 times with a 46% conversion rate. Cori conceded her serve 4 times and she saved 0% of the break points that she conceded.
| Muguruza | |||
| R1 Stephens |
Total | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Score | 6-3 6-3 | ||
| Tot Set | 2 | 2 | |
| Tot Games | 18 | 18 | |
| pts | 67-53 | 67-53 | |
| Total points | 120 | 120 | |
| Winners | 35 | 35 | |
| %Winners | 52% | 52% | |
| SERVE | |||
| Aces | 3 | 3 | |
| Double Faults | 3 | 3 | |
| 1st in | 48/67 | 48/67 | |
| % 1st in | 72% | 72% | |
| 1st pts | 35/48 | 35/48 | |
| % 1st pts | 73% | 73% | |
| 2nd pts | 8/19 | 8/19 | |
| % 2nd pts | 42% | 42% | |
| Breaks | |||
| Won | 4 | 4 | |
| Converted | 4/7 | 4/7 | |
| Converted % | 57% | 57% | |
| Conceded | 8 | 8 | |
| Saved | 7/8 | 7 | |
| Saved % | 88% | 88% | |
| Times Broken | 1 | 1 | |
| Gauff | |||
| R1 Jabeur |
Total | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Score | 6-4 6-3 | ||
| Tot Set | 2 | 2 | |
| Tot Games | 19 | 19 | |
| pts | 71-52 | 71-52 | |
| Total points | 123 | 123 | |
| Winners | 25 | 25 | |
| %Winners | 35% | 35% | |
| SERVE | |||
| Aces | 1 | 1 | |
| Double Faults | 7 | 7 | |
| 1st in | 37/57 | 37/57 | |
| % 1st in | 65% | 65% | |
| 1st pts | 25/37 | 25/37 | |
| % 1st pts | 68% | 68% | |
| 2nd pts | 8/20 | 8/20 | |
| % 2nd pts | 40% | 40% | |
| Breaks | |||
| Won | 6 | 6 | |
| Converted | 6/13 | 6/13 | |
| Converted % | 46% | 46% | |
| Conceded | 4 | 4 | |
| Saved | 0/4 | 0 | |
| Saved % | 0% | 0% | |
| Times Broken | 4 | 4 | |
Head 2 Head
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- Dayana YastremskaYastremska – Amanda AnisimovaAnisimova (4-6 7-63 6-4) – Stats, scores, rankings
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- Anna BlinkovaBlinkova – Aliona BolsovaBolsova (4-6 6-1 7-64) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Elise MertensMertens – Magda LinetteLinette (6-2 6-4) – Stats, scores, rankings
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- Darya KasatkinaKasatkina – Katerina SiniakovaSiniakova (3-0) – H2H and prediction
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- Simona HalepHalep – Dayana YastremskaYastremska (0-0) – H2H and prediction
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