H2H, PREDICTION Barbora Strycova vs Varvara Lepchenko | French Open odds, preview, pick

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Prediction and head to head Barbora Strycova vs. Varvara Lepchenko

Barbora Strycova and Varvara Lepchenko will square off in the 1st round of the French Open for the 4th time of their career. They are scheduled to play on Saturday at 5 pm on Court 14. In the following lines you can find the head to head analysis and the prediction.

Prediction, odds and live streaming

The pick for Tennis Tonic is Barbora Strycova who should win in 3 sets.

See updated oddsAs per the initial odds, Barbora Strycova is the pick to win this match.
Barbora Strycova -> 1.65
Varvara Lepchenko -> 2.29

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Prediction and head to head Barbora Strycova vs. Varvara Lepchenko

This will be the 4th time that Barbora Strycova and Varvara Lepchenko play each other. The head to head is 2-1 for Strycova (see full H2H stats), 1-0 on clay.

The last time that they locked horns, Strycova won 6-2 6-4 in the 1st round in Toronto back in 2015.

Barbora Strycova

Ranked no. 37, Strycova will start her run at the French Open after she played her last match in Rome where she lost 6-3 6-3 to Pliskova in the 2nd round the 16th of September.

The Czech has a 4-7 win-loss record in 2020, 1-2 on clay (See FULL STATS).

Talking about her overall career, Strycova has an overall 510-392 record. She has positive 157-125 record on clay.

Last year at the French Open

Barbora lost in the 1st round to Samantha Stosur.

Varvara Lepchenko

Ranked no. 183, the American got to the 1st round after beating Xiaodi You 6-1 6-1, Anhelina Kalinina 6-2 7-5 and Dalma Galfi 6-3 6-4.

In the qualifications, Varvara had a good straight sets win against Galfi (6-3 6-4). During the match Lepchenko scored 75 points vs Galfi’s 58. Varvara was very aggressive to blast 31 winners.

Talking about serving, Lepchenko was unable to score even 1 ace for the entire match and she committed only 1 double fault for the entire match. Varvara Lepchenko lost the serve twice and she saved 10 break points. Furthermore, Lepchenko put 68% of her first serves in, winning 57% (31/54) of the points behind her 1st serve and 69% (18/26) on the 2nd serve. Lepchenko broke Galfi 4 times after converting 44% of her break points (4/9).

Overall Performance in this tournament

The American hasn’t dropped yet a set in the tournament to win 60% of the points she played.

Varvara has a 13-9 win-loss record in 2020, 8-3 on clay (See FULL STATS).

Last year at the French Open

Lepchenko lost in the 1st round to Shuai Zhang.

Head 2 Head

Win Loss
Strycova
Lepchenko
LLWWLWWWWL
2024 2023 2022
0 - 0
38 - 27
0-0
Hard
13-10
0-0
Clay
24-15
0-0
Grass
1-2

Tennis Scores at the French Open

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