Karolina Pliskova and Anna Blinkova will play each other in the 3rd round of the Internazionali BNL d’Italia for the 2nd time of their career. They are scheduled to play on Friday at 11 am on Campo Pietrangeli. Here the head to head stats and the relative prediction.
Prediction, odds and live streaming
The pick for Tennis Tonic is Karolina Pliskova who should win in 2 sets.
As per the initial odds, Karolina Pliskova is the pick to win this match.
Karolina Pliskova -> 1.25
Anna Blinkova -> 4.333
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Prediction and head to head Karolina Pliskova vs. Anna Blinkova
This will be the 2nd time that Karolina Pliskova and Anna Blinkova face off. The head to head is 1-0 for Pliskova (see full H2H stats), but they have never played each other on clay.
Karolina Pliskova
Ranked no. 4, Karolina reached the 3rd round after defeating Barbora Strycova 6-3 6-3.
In the 2nd round, Pliskova had a good straight sets win against Strycova (6-3 6-3). During the match Pliskova scored 60 points vs Strycova’s 41. Karolina was exceptionally aggressive to blast 22 winners.
Regarding the service games, Pliskova scored just 1 ace for the entire match and she committed only 3 double faults. Overall, Karolina Pliskova was quite efficent on serve to win 76% (22/29) of her 1st serve and 64% (14/22) on the second serve. However, this didn’t prevent her to concede the serve once. Karolina broke Strycova 4 times after converting 67% of her break points (4/6).
Pliskova has a solid record in the last 10 years having won 66% of her matches (446-229). 1-0 on clay in 2020. Regarding her performance on the same surface of this tournament, Pliskova has a 78-52 record in the last years on clay.
Her best result of the year was winning the title in Brisbane where she defeated Madison Keys in the final 6-4 4-6 7-5.
Karolina has a 10-5 win-loss record in 2020, 1-0 on clay (See FULL STATS).
Last year in Rome
Karolina conquered the title last year in Rome after defeating Johanna Konta .
Anna Blinkova
Ranked no. 65, Anna reached the 3rd round after beating Stefanie Voegele 7-5 6-3, Jil Teichmann 6-3 6-3 and Aliona Bolsova 4-6 6-1 7-64.
In the 2nd round against Bolsova, The Russian recovered from a 1-set down deficit before winning (4-6 6-1 7-64). During the match Blinkova scored 108 points vs Bolsova’s 97. Anna was quite aggressive to blast 50 winners.
Talking about serving, Blinkova blasted 4 aces and she was not very solid on her 2nd serve to score 12 double faults. Anna Blinkova lost the serve 5 times and she saved 5 break points. Furthermore, Blinkova put 67% of her first serves in, winning 66% (50/76) of the points behind her 1st serve and 37% (14/38) on the 2nd serve. Blinkova broke Bolsova 6 times after converting 46% of her break points (6/13).
Overall Performance in this tournament
Blinkova has conceded 1 set in the tournament to win 53% of the points she played.
Blinkova has a 7-9 win-loss record in 2020, 3-0 on clay (See FULL STATS).
Last year in Rome
Blinkova didn’t compete in Rome in 2019.
H2H Performance in the tournament
Matches, sets, games and points
| Points | Pliskova | Blinkova |
|---|---|---|
| Match played | 1 | 3 |
| Tot Set | 2 | 7 |
| Tot Games | 18 | 69 |
| Pts | 60-41 | 243-215 |
| Total Points | 101 | 458 |
| Winners | 22 | 104 |
| %Winners | 37% | 43% |
Pliskova played 1 match while Blinkova competed in 3 matches. Blinkova started her run from the qualifications while Pliskova had a direct access to the main draw. At the moment, Anna Blinkova dropped 1 set while Karolina Pliskova hasn’t conceded a set so far. Pliskova has played 5 set(s) less than Blinkova (2 vs 7). Therefore, Pliskova played 51 games less than Blinkova. Pliskova scored 22 winners (37% of the total points). On the other side, Anna scored 104 winners (43%).
Serve Performance
| Serve | Pliskova | Blinkova |
|---|---|---|
| Aces | 1 | 11 |
| Avg per match | 1 | 3.7 |
| 1st in | 29/51 | 154/239 |
| %1st in | 57% | 64% |
| 1st pts | 22/29 | 104/154 |
| %1st pts | 76% | 68% |
| 2nd pts | 14/22 | 28/85 |
| %2nd pts | 64% | 33% |
Pliskova managed to score 1 ace . Blinkova also recorded 11 aces (3.7 per match). Pliskova won 76% points behind her first serve. She was rock solid on her second serve to win 64% of the points. On the other side, Blinkova won 68% of the points on her first serve. She had a solid display on her second serve to win 33% of the points.
How they played the important points
| Breaks | Pliskova | Blinkova |
|---|---|---|
| Won | 4 | 18 |
| Converted | 4/6 | 18/34 |
| % Converted | 67% | 53% |
| Conceded | 1 | 23 |
| Saved | 0 | 11 |
| % Saved | 0% | 48% |
| Times Broken | 1 | 12 |
The Czech broke her opponent 4 times with a 67% conversion rate. The Czech conceded her serve once and she saved 0% of the break points that she conceded. Anna broke her opponents 18 times with a 53% conversion rate. Blinkova conceded her serve 12 times and she saved 48% of the break points that she conceded.
| Pliskova | |||
| R2 Strycova |
Total | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Score | 6-3 6-3 | ||
| Tot Set | 2 | 2 | |
| Tot Games | 18 | 18 | |
| pts | 60-41 | 60-41 | |
| Total points | 101 | 101 | |
| Winners | 22 | 22 | |
| %Winners | 37% | 37% | |
| SERVE | |||
| Aces | 1 | 1 | |
| Double Faults | 3 | 3 | |
| 1st in | 29/51 | 29/51 | |
| % 1st in | 57% | 57% | |
| 1st pts | 22/29 | 22/29 | |
| % 1st pts | 76% | 76% | |
| 2nd pts | 14/22 | 14/22 | |
| % 2nd pts | 64% | 64% | |
| Breaks | |||
| Won | 4 | 4 | |
| Converted | 4/6 | 4/6 | |
| Converted % | 67% | 67% | |
| Conceded | 1 | 1 | |
| Saved | 0/1 | 0 | |
| Saved % | 0% | 0% | |
| Times Broken | 1 | 1 | |
| Blinkova | |||||
| Q3 Voegele |
R1 Belen Teichmann |
R2 Bolsova |
Total | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Score | 7-5 6-3 | 6-3 6-3 | 4-6 6-1 7-64 | ||
| Tot Set | 2 | 2 | 3 | 7 | |
| Tot Games | 21 | 18 | 30 | 69 | |
| pts | 75-67 | 60-51 | 108-97 | 243-215 | |
| Total points | 142 | 111 | 205 | 458 | |
| Winners | 32 | 22 | 50 | 104 | |
| %Winners | 43% | 37% | 46% | 43% | |
| SERVE | |||||
| Aces | 4 | 3 | 4 | 11 | |
| Double Faults | 6 | 5 | 12 | 23 | |
| 1st in | 49/73 | 29/52 | 76/114 | 154/239 | |
| % 1st in | 67% | 56% | 67% | 64% | |
| 1st pts | 32/49 | 22/29 | 50/76 | 104/154 | |
| % 1st pts | 65% | 76% | 66% | 68% | |
| 2nd pts | 8/24 | 6/23 | 14/38 | 28/85 | |
| % 2nd pts | 33% | 26% | 37% | 33% | |
| Breaks | |||||
| Won | 6 | 6 | 6 | 18 | |
| Converted | 6/11 | 6/10 | 6/13 | 18/34 | |
| Converted % | 55% | 60% | 46% | 53% | |
| Conceded | 10 | 3 | 10 | 23 | |
| Saved | 6/10 | 0/3 | 5/10 | 11 | |
| Saved % | 60% | 0% | 50% | 110% | |
| Times Broken | 4 | 3 | 5 | 12 | |
Head 2 Head
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LLLLLLLLLW Tennis Scores in Rome
- Yulia PutintsevaPutintseva – Petra MarticMartic (6-3 6-72 6-4) – 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
- Marketa VondrousovaVondrousova – Arantxa RusRus (6-3 6-3) – See score progression
- Victoria AzarenkaAzarenka – Sofia KeninKenin (6-0 6-0) – 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
- Johanna KontaKonta – Irina-Camelia BeguBegu (6-0 6-4) – See score progression
- Polona HercogHercog – Kiki BertensBertens (6-4 6-4) – See score progression
- Elise MertensMertens – Magda LinetteLinette (6-2 6-4) – See score progression
- Elina SvitolinaSvitolina – Anastasia PavlyuchenkovaPavlyuchenkova (6-3 7-64) – See score progression
- Dayana YastremskaYastremska – Amanda AnisimovaAnisimova (4-6 7-63 6-4) – See score progression
- Simona HalepHalep – Jasmine PaoliniPaolini (6-3 6-4) – See score progression
- Danka KovinicKovinic – Belinda BencicBencic (6-3 6-1) – See score progression
- Anna BlinkovaBlinkova – Aliona BolsovaBolsova (4-6 6-1 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
- 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
