Johanna Konta and Garbine Muguruza will play each other in the 3rd round of the Internazionali BNL d’Italia for the 5th time of their career. They are scheduled to play on Friday at 3 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 Garbine Muguruza who should win in 3 sets.
As per the initial odds, Garbine Muguruza is the pick to win this match.
Garbine Muguruza -> 1.61
Johanna Konta -> 2.44
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Prediction and head to head Johanna Konta vs. Garbine Muguruza
This will be the 5th time that Johanna Konta and Garbine Muguruza fight against each other. The head to head is 2-2 for Konta and Muguruza (see full H2H stats), but they have never played each other on clay.
The last time that they played, Konta won 7-64 6-74 6-2 in the 2nd round in at the U.S. Open back in 2015.
Johanna Konta
Ranked no. 13, Konta reached the 2nd round after beating Irina-Camelia Begu 6-0 6-4.
In the 2nd round, Johanna had a good straight sets win against Begu (6-0 6-4). During the match Konta scored 61 points vs Begu’s 40. The Brit was very aggressive to blast 20 winners.
Regarding the service games, Konta couldn’t to score even 1 ace and she committed only 1 double fault. Overall, Johanna Konta was very effective on serve to win 74% (20/27) of her 1st serve and 63% (12/19) on the second serve. However, this didn’t prevent her to concede the serve once. Johanna broke Begu 5 times after converting 56% of her break points (5/9).
Konta has a solid win-loss record in the last 10 years having won 63% of her matches (334-196). 1-0 on clay in 2020. Regarding her performance on the same surface of this competition, Konta has a 61-50 win-loss record in the last years on clay.
Johanna’s best result of the year was getting to the semi-finals in Monterrey and New York.
The Brit has a 8-7 win-loss record in 2020, 1-0 on clay (See FULL STATS).
Last year in Rome
The Brit capitulated in the final to Karolina Pliskova.
Garbine Muguruza
Ranked no. 17, the Spaniard reached the 2nd round after defeating Sloane Stephens 6-3 6-3 and Cori Gauff 7-63 3-6 6-3.
In the 2nd round, Muguruza defeated Gauff (7-63 3-6 6-3). During the match Muguruza scored 104 points vs Gauff’s 100. Muguruza was extremely aggressive to blast 43 winners.
Talking about serving, Muguruza recorded 6 aces and she committed only 9 double faults. Garbine Muguruza lost the serve 5 times and she saved 6 break points. Furthermore, Muguruza put 61% of her first serves in, winning 66% (43/65) of the points behind her 1st serve and 44% (18/41) on the 2nd serve. Garbine broke Gauff 5 times after converting 38% of her break points (5/13).
Overall Performance in this tournament
Garbine has conceded 1 set in the tournament to win 53% of the points she played.
Muguruza’s best result of the season was getting to the final at the Australian Open .
The Spaniard has a 19-5 win-loss record in 2020, 2-0 on clay (See FULL STATS).
Last year in Rome
Muguruza lost in the 3rd round to Victoria Azarenka.
H2H Performance in the tournament
Matches, sets, games and points
| Points | Konta | Muguruza |
|---|---|---|
| Match played | 1 | 2 |
| Tot Set | 2 | 5 |
| Tot Games | 16 | 49 |
| Pts | 61-40 | 171-153 |
| Total Points | 101 | 324 |
| Winners | 20 | 78 |
| %Winners | 33% | 46% |
Konta played 1 match while Muguruza competed in 2 matches. At the moment, Garbine Muguruza conceded 1 set while Johanna Konta hasn’t dropped a set so far. Konta has played 3 set(s) less than Muguruza (2 vs 5). Therefore, Konta played 33 games less than Muguruza. The Brit scored 20 winners (33% of the total points). On the other side, The Spaniard scored 78 winners (46%).
Serve Performance
| Serve | Konta | Muguruza |
|---|---|---|
| Aces | 0 | 9 |
| Avg per match | 0 | 4.5 |
| 1st in | 27/46 | 113/173 |
| %1st in | 59% | 65% |
| 1st pts | 20/27 | 78/113 |
| %1st pts | 74% | 69% |
| 2nd pts | 12/19 | 26/60 |
| %2nd pts | 63% | 43% |
Konta didn’t manage to fire a single ace to far. Muguruza scored 9 aces (4.5 per match). Konta won 74% points on her first serve. She very solid her second serve to win 63% of the points. On the other side, Muguruza won 69% of the points behind her first serve. She had a solid display on her second serve to win 43% of the points.
How they played the important points
| Breaks | Konta | Muguruza |
|---|---|---|
| Won | 5 | 9 |
| Converted | 5/9 | 9/20 |
| % Converted | 56% | 45% |
| Conceded | 4 | 19 |
| Saved | 3 | 13 |
| % Saved | 75% | 68% |
| Times Broken | 1 | 6 |
The Brit broke her opponent 5 times with a 56% conversion rate. Johanna lost her serve once and she saved 75% of the break points that she conceded. Muguruza broke her opponents 9 times with a 45% conversion rate. Garbine conceded her serve 6 times and she saved 68% of the break points that she conceded.
| Konta | |||
| R2 Begu |
Total | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Score | 6-0 6-4 | ||
| Tot Set | 2 | 2 | |
| Tot Games | 16 | 16 | |
| pts | 61-40 | 61-40 | |
| Total points | 101 | 101 | |
| Winners | 20 | 20 | |
| %Winners | 33% | 33% | |
| SERVE | |||
| Aces | 0 | 0 | |
| Double Faults | 1 | 1 | |
| 1st in | 27/46 | 27/46 | |
| % 1st in | 59% | 59% | |
| 1st pts | 20/27 | 20/27 | |
| % 1st pts | 74% | 74% | |
| 2nd pts | 12/19 | 12/19 | |
| % 2nd pts | 63% | 63% | |
| Breaks | |||
| Won | 5 | 5 | |
| Converted | 5/9 | 5/9 | |
| Converted % | 56% | 56% | |
| Conceded | 4 | 4 | |
| Saved | 3/4 | 3 | |
| Saved % | 75% | 75% | |
| Times Broken | 1 | 1 | |
| Muguruza | ||||
| R1 Stephens |
R2 Gauff |
Total | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Score | 6-3 6-3 | 7-63 3-6 6-3 | ||
| Tot Set | 2 | 3 | 5 | |
| Tot Games | 18 | 31 | 49 | |
| pts | 67-53 | 104-100 | 171-153 | |
| Total points | 120 | 204 | 324 | |
| Winners | 35 | 43 | 78 | |
| %Winners | 52% | 41% | 46% | |
| SERVE | ||||
| Aces | 3 | 6 | 9 | |
| Double Faults | 3 | 9 | 12 | |
| 1st in | 48/67 | 65/106 | 113/173 | |
| % 1st in | 72% | 61% | 65% | |
| 1st pts | 35/48 | 43/65 | 78/113 | |
| % 1st pts | 73% | 66% | 69% | |
| 2nd pts | 8/19 | 18/41 | 26/60 | |
| % 2nd pts | 42% | 44% | 43% | |
| Breaks | ||||
| Won | 4 | 5 | 9 | |
| Converted | 4/7 | 5/13 | 9/20 | |
| Converted % | 57% | 38% | 45% | |
| Conceded | 8 | 11 | 19 | |
| Saved | 7/8 | 6/11 | 13 | |
| Saved % | 88% | 55% | 143% | |
| Times Broken | 1 | 5 | 6 | |
Head 2 Head
Tennis Scores in Rome
- Yulia PutintsevaPutintseva – Petra MarticMartic (6-3 6-72 6-4) – See score progression
- Johanna KontaKonta – Irina-Camelia BeguBegu (6-0 6-4) – See score progression
- Garbine MuguruzaMuguruza – Cori GauffGauff (7-63 3-6 6-3) – See score progression
- Daria KasatkinaKasatkina – Katerina SiniakovaSiniakova (6-2 6-3) – See score progression
- Polona HercogHercog – Kiki BertensBertens (6-4 6-4) – See score progression
- Marketa VondrousovaVondrousova – Arantxa RusRus (6-3 6-3) – See score progression
- Victoria AzarenkaAzarenka – Sofia KeninKenin (6-0 6-0) – See score progression
- Svetlana KuznetsovaKuznetsova – Anett KontaveitKontaveit (4-6 7-5 6-3) – See score progression
- Shuko Aoyama/Ena ShibaharaAoyama/Ena Shibahara – Simona Halep/Monica NiculescuHalep/Monica Niculescu (6-1 6-3) – See score progression
- Elise MertensMertens – Magda LinetteLinette (6-2 6-4) – See score progression
- Danka KovinicKovinic – Belinda BencicBencic (6-3 6-1) – See score progression
- Simona HalepHalep – Jasmine PaoliniPaolini (6-3 6-4) – See score progression
- Elina SvitolinaSvitolina – Anastasia PavlyuchenkovaPavlyuchenkova (6-3 7-64) – See score progression
- Elena RybakinaRybakina – Marie BouzkovaBouzkova (7-5 7-63) – See score progression
- Karolina PliskovaPliskova – Barbora StrycovaStrycova (6-3 6-3) – See score progression
- Anna BlinkovaBlinkova – Aliona BolsovaBolsova (4-6 6-1 7-64) – See score progression
- Dayana YastremskaYastremska – Amanda AnisimovaAnisimova (4-6 7-63 6-4) – See score progression
- Victoria AzarenkaAzarenka – Sofia KeninKenin (6-0 6-0) – See score progression
Upcoming matches in the draw
- Simona HalepHalep – Dayana YastremskaYastremska (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Elena RybakinaRybakina – Yulia PutintsevaPutintseva (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Victoria AzarenkaAzarenka – Darya KasatkinaKasatkina (2-0) – H2H and prediction
- Garbine MuguruzaMuguruza – Johanna KontaKonta (2-2) – H2H and prediction
- Polona HercogHercog – Marketa VondrousovaVondrousova (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Svetlana KuznetsovaKuznetsova – Elina SvitolinaSvitolina (1-3) – H2H and prediction
- Danka KovinicKovinic – Elise MertensMertens (0-1) – H2H and prediction
- Anna BlinkovaBlinkova – Karolina PliskovaPliskova (0-1) – H2H and prediction
