Johanna Konta and Irina-Camelia Begu will play each other in the 2nd round of the Internazionali BNL d’Italia for the 1st time in their career. They are scheduled to compete on Thursday at 3 pm on Campo Pietrangeli. Here the head to head stats and the relative prediction.
Prediction, odds and live streaming
The pick for Tennis Tonic is Irina-Camelia Begu who should win in 3 sets.
As per the initial odds, Irina-Camelia Begu is the pick to win this match.
Irina-Camelia Begu -> 1.79
Johanna Konta -> 2.07
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Prediction and head to head Johanna Konta vs. Irina-Camelia Begu
There is no head to head record between Johanna Konta and Irina-Camelia Begu since this will be the first time that they will fight against each other in the main tour.
Johanna Konta
Ranked no. 13, the Brit will start her run in Rome after she played her last match at the New York where she lost 2-6 7-6(5) 6-4 to Cirstea in the 2nd round the 3rd of September.
Johanna has a 7-7 win-loss record in 2020, 0-0 on clay (See FULL STATS).
This will be the first match of the season on clay.
Johanna’s best result of the current season was getting to the semi-finals in Monterrey and New York.
Talking about her overall career, Johanna has an overall 382-227 record. She has positive 80-56 record on clay.
Last year in Rome
The Brit lost in the final to Karolina Pliskova.
Irina-Camelia Begu
Ranked no. 77, Irina-Camelia got to the 2nd round after beating Sara Errani 6-1 6-3, Anna-Lena Friedsam 6-1 6-1 and Elisabetta Cocciaretto 6-2 6-2.
In the 1st round, Begu had a good straight sets win against Cocciaretto (6-2 6-2). During the match Begu scored 67 points vs Cocciaretto’s 48. The Romanian was extremely aggressive to blast 21 winners.
Talking about serving, Begu scored just 1 ace during the entire match and she committed only 3 double faults. Irina-Camelia Begu lost the serve once and she saved 2 break points. Furthermore, Begu put 67% of her first serves in, winning 64% (21/33) of the points behind her 1st serve and 69% (11/16) on the 2nd serve. Begu broke Cocciaretto 5 times after converting 45% of her break points (5/11).
Irina-Camelia has a 21-7 win-loss record in 2020, 6-2 on clay (See FULL STATS).
Last year in Rome
Irina-Camelia lost in the 1st round to Daria Kasatkina.
Head 2 Head
WWLWWWLWWW Tennis Scores in Rome
- Anna BlinkovaBlinkova – Aliona BolsovaBolsova (4-6 6-1 7-64) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Simona HalepHalep – Jasmine PaoliniPaolini (6-3 6-4) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Elena RybakinaRybakina – Marie BouzkovaBouzkova (7-5 7-63) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Danka KovinicKovinic – Belinda BencicBencic (6-3 6-1) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Elina SvitolinaSvitolina – Anastasia PavlyuchenkovaPavlyuchenkova (6-3 7-64) – 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
- Elise MertensMertens – Magda LinetteLinette (6-2 6-4) – 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
