Sofia Kenin and Victoria Azarenka will play each other in the 2nd round of the Internazionali BNL d’Italia for the 2nd time of their career. They are scheduled to compete on Thursday at 7 pm on Campo Centrale. Here you can find the head to head analysis and the prediction.
Prediction, odds and live streaming
The pick for Tennis Tonic is Victoria Azarenka who should win in 3 sets.
As per the initial odds, Victoria Azarenka is the pick to win this match.
Victoria Azarenka -> 1.61
Sofia Kenin -> 2.20
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Prediction and head to head Sofia Kenin vs. Victoria Azarenka
This will be the 2nd time that Sofia Kenin and Victoria Azarenka play each other. The head to head is 1-0 for Kenin (see full H2H stats), but they have never played each other on clay.
Sofia Kenin
Ranked no. 5, the American will start her run in Rome after she played her last match at the New York where she lost 6-3 6-3 to Mertens in the 4th round the 7th of September.
Kenin has a 18-7 win-loss record in 2020, 0-0 on clay (See FULL STATS).
This will be the first match of the season on clay.
Her best result of the current season was conquering the title in at the Australian Open where she overcame Garbine Muguruza in the final 4-6 6-2 6-2 and in Lyon where she beat Anna-Lena Friedsam in the final 6-2 4-6 6-4.
Talking about her overall career, Kenin has an overall 220-124 record. She has positive 55-39 record on clay.
Last year in Rome
The American surrendered in the 3rd round to Karolina Pliskova.
Victoria Azarenka
Ranked no. 14, Victoria reached the 2nd round after defeating Venus Williams 7-67 6-2.
In the 1st round, The Belarussian had a good straight sets win against Williams (7-67 6-2). During the match Azarenka scored 88 points vs Williams’s 73. The Belarussian was extremely aggressive to blast 32 winners.
Talking about serving, Azarenka struck 3 aces and she committed only 5 double faults. Victoria Azarenka lost the serve 4 times and she saved 3 break points. Furthermore, Azarenka put 63% of her first serves in, winning 74% (32/43) of the points behind her 1st serve and 36% (9/25) on the 2nd serve. The Belarussian broke Williams 6 times after converting 43% of her break points (6/14).
Her best result of the year was managing to win the title in New York where she defeated Naomi Osaka in the final w/o.
The Belarussian has a 12-3 win-loss record in 2020, 1-0 on clay (See FULL STATS).
Last year in Rome
Victoria had to surrender in the quarter to Karolina Pliskova.
Head 2 Head
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- Danka KovinicKovinic – Belinda BencicBencic (6-3 6-1) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Simona HalepHalep – Jasmine PaoliniPaolini (6-3 6-4) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Karolina PliskovaPliskova – Barbora StrycovaStrycova (6-3 6-3) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Dayana YastremskaYastremska – Amanda AnisimovaAnisimova (4-6 7-63 6-4) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Elina SvitolinaSvitolina – Anastasia PavlyuchenkovaPavlyuchenkova (6-3 7-64) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Anna BlinkovaBlinkova – Aliona BolsovaBolsova (4-6 6-1 7-64) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Elise MertensMertens – Magda LinetteLinette (6-2 6-4) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Elena RybakinaRybakina – Marie BouzkovaBouzkova (7-5 7-63) – Stats, scores, rankings
Upcoming matches in the draw
- Yulia PutintsevaPutintseva – Petra MarticMartic (1-0) – H2H and prediction
- Sofia KeninKenin – Victoria AzarenkaAzarenka (1-0) – H2H and prediction
- Darya KasatkinaKasatkina – Katerina SiniakovaSiniakova (3-0) – H2H and prediction
- Garbine MuguruzaMuguruza – Cori GauffGauff (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Irina-Camelia BeguBegu – Johanna KontaKonta (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Kiki BertensBertens – Polona HercogHercog (1-1) – H2H and prediction
- Arantxa RusRus – Marketa VondrousovaVondrousova (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Anett KontaveitKontaveit – Svetlana KuznetsovaKuznetsova (1-0) – H2H and prediction
- Simona HalepHalep – Dayana YastremskaYastremska (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Danka KovinicKovinic – Elise MertensMertens (0-1) – H2H and prediction
- Anna BlinkovaBlinkova – Karolina PliskovaPliskova (0-1) – H2H and prediction
