Kiki Bertens and Polona Hercog will face off in the 2nd round of the Internazionali BNL d’Italia for the 3rd time of their career. They are scheduled to play on Thursday at 5 pm on Campo Pietrangeli. Here you can find the head to head analysis and the prediction.
Prediction, odds and live streaming
The pick for Tennis Tonic is Kiki Bertens who should win in 3 sets.
As per the initial odds, Kiki Bertens is the pick to win this match.
Kiki Bertens -> 1.666
Polona Hercog -> 2.26
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Prediction and head to head Kiki Bertens vs. Polona Hercog
This will be the 3rd time that Kiki Bertens and Polona Hercog clash against each other. The head to head is 1-1 for Bertens and Hercog (see full H2H stats), but they have never competed against each other on clay.
The last time that they locked horns, Hercog won 6-4 ret. in the 1st round in Dallas back in 2012.
Kiki Bertens
Ranked no. 8, the Dutch will start her run in Rome after she played her last match in All Lower Level Tournaments where she lost 6-1 6-4 to Sevastova in the 1st round the 17th of July.
Kiki has a 12-3 win-loss record in 2020, 2-0 on clay (See FULL STATS).
Her best result of the current season was conquering the title in St. Petersburg where she overcame Elena Rybakina in the final 6-1 6-3.
Talking about her overall career, Kiki has an overall 361-213 record. She has positive 159-60 record on clay.
Last year in Rome
The Dutch surrendered in the semifinal to Johanna Konta.
Polona Hercog
Ranked no. 50, Hercog got to the 1st round after defeating Kaja Juvan 4-6 6-4 6-1.
In the 1st round against Juvan, Polona recovered from a 1-set down deficit before winning (4-6 6-4 6-1). During the match Hercog scored 97 points vs Juvan’s 83. Hercog was pretty aggressive to blast 31 winners.
Talking about serving, Hercog made 3 aces and she committed only 8 double faults. Polona Hercog lost the serve 4 times and she saved 11 break points. Furthermore, Hercog put 42% of her first serves in, winning 78% (31/40) of the points behind her 1st serve and 41% (23/56) on the 2nd serve. Hercog broke Juvan 7 times after converting 50% of her break points (7/14).
Polona has a 6-6 win-loss record in 2020, 3-3 on clay (See FULL STATS).
Last year in Rome
Hercog lost in the 1st round to Madison Keys.
Head 2 Head
LWLWWWWLWL Tennis Scores in Rome
- 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
