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.
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.
Tennis Scores at the French Open
- Martina TrevisanTrevisan – Astra SharmaSharma (6-1 6-1) – See score progression
- Renata ZarazuaZarazua – Daniela SeguelSeguel (6-3 6-3) – See score progression
- Kamilla RakhimovaRakhimova – Natalija KosticKostic (7-5 6-3) – See score progression
- Irina Maria BaraMaria Bara – Richel HogenkampHogenkamp (6-2 7-64) – See score progression
- Mayar SherifSherif – Giulia Gatto-MonticoneGatto-Monticone (6-1 6-3) – See score progression
- Sara ErraniErrani – Tereza MartincovaMartincova (6-3 7-5) – See score progression
- Clara TausonTauson – Ivana JorovicJorovic (7-65 6-4) – See score progression
- Varvara LepchenkoLepchenko – Dalma GalfiGalfi (6-3 6-4) – See score progression
- Marta KostyukKostyuk – Kurumi NaraNara (6-0 1-6 6-2) – See score progression
- Monica NiculescuNiculescu – Vera ZvonarevaZvonareva (6-0 3-6 6-3) – See score progression
- Barbara HaasHaas – Elena Gabriela RuseGabriela Ruse (6-4 7-5) – See score progression
- Nadia PodoroskaPodoroska – Xin Yu WangYu Wang (6-2 6-4) – See score progression
Upcoming matches in the draw
- Simona HalepHalep – Sara Sorribes TormoSorribes Tormo (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Irina-Camelia BeguBegu – Jil TeichmannTeichmann (0-1) – H2H and prediction
- Catherine Cartan BellisCartan Bellis – Bernarda PeraPera (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Tamara KorpatschKorpatsch – Amanda AnisimovaAnisimova (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Dayana YastremskaYastremska – Daria GavrilovaGavrilova (0-1) – H2H and prediction
- Anna KalinskayaKalinskaya – Eugenie BouchardBouchard (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Barbara HaasHaas – Su-Wei HsiehHsieh (1-1) – H2H and prediction
- Iga SwiatekSwiatek – Marketa VondrousovaVondrousova (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Johanna KontaKonta – Cori GauffGauff (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Camila GiorgiGiorgi – Martina TrevisanTrevisan (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Kamilla RakhimovaRakhimova – Shelby RogersRogers (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Ajla TomljanovicTomljanovic – Maria SakkariSakkari (0-1) – H2H and prediction
- Svetlana KuznetsovaKuznetsova – Anastasia PavlyuchenkovaPavlyuchenkova (6-3) – H2H and prediction
- Katerina SiniakovaSiniakova – Lauren DavisDavis (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Monica PuigPuig – Sara ErraniErrani (4-0) – H2H and prediction
- Katarina ZavatskaZavatska – Kiki BertensBertens (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Elina SvitolinaSvitolina – Varvara GrachevaGracheva (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Renata ZarazuaZarazua – Elsa JacquemotJacquemot (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Anna BlinkovaBlinkova – Astra SharmaSharma (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Maddison InglisInglis – Ekaterina AlexandrovaAlexandrova (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Anett KontaveitKontaveit – Caroline GarciaGarcia (2-1) – H2H and prediction
- Aliaksandra SasnovichSasnovich – Anna-Lena FriedsamFriedsam (1-2) – H2H and prediction
- Marie BouzkovaBouzkova – Kaia KanepiKanepi (1-0) – H2H and prediction
- Margarita GasparyanGasparyan – Elise MertensMertens (0-1) – H2H and prediction
- Victoria AzarenkaAzarenka – Danka KovinicKovinic (1-0) – H2H and prediction
- Anna SchmiedlovaSchmiedlova – Venus WilliamsWilliams (2-1) – H2H and prediction
- Greetje MinnenMinnen – Nadia PodoroskaPodoroska (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Kirsten FlipkensFlipkens – Yulia PutintsevaPutintseva (2-1) – H2H and prediction
- Barbora StrycovaStrycova – Varvara LepchenkoLepchenko (2-1) – H2H and prediction
- Nina StojanovicStojanovic – Barbora KrejcikovaKrejcikova (0-1) – H2H and prediction
- Tsvetana PironkovaPironkova – Andrea PetkovicPetkovic (1-1) – H2H and prediction
- Kristie AhnAhn – Serena WilliamsWilliams (0-1) – H2H and prediction
- Aryna SabalenkaSabalenka – Jessica PegulaPegula (0-1) – H2H and prediction
- Darya KasatkinaKasatkina – Harmony TanTan (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Nao HibinoHibino – Marta KostyukKostyuk (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Zarina DiyasDiyas – Ons JabeurJabeur (1-2) – H2H and prediction
- Jennifer BradyBrady – Clara TausonTauson (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Monica NiculescuNiculescu – Danielle Rose CollinsRose Collins (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Viktoria KuzmovaKuzmova – Kristyna PliskovaPliskova (0-1) – H2H and prediction
- Tamara ZidansekZidansek – Garbine MuguruzaMuguruza (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Elena RybakinaRybakina – Sorana CirsteaCirstea (1-0) – H2H and prediction
- Fiona FerroFerro – Heather WatsonWatson (0-2) – H2H and prediction
- Stefanie VoegeleVoegele – Patricia Maria TigMaria Tig (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Christina MchaleMchale – Karolina MuchovaMuchova (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Donna VekicVekic – Irina Maria BaraMaria Bara (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Alison Van UytvanckVan Uytvanck – Rebecca PetersonPeterson (1-1) – H2H and prediction
- Timea BabosBabos – Ana BogdanBogdan (1-0) – H2H and prediction
- Ludmilla SamsonovaSamsonova – Sofia KeninKenin (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Petra KvitovaKvitova – Oceane DodinDodin (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Aliona BolsovaBolsova – Jasmine PaoliniPaolini (0-1) – H2H and prediction
- Diane ParryParry – Polona HercogHercog (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Leylah Annie FernandezAnnie Fernandez – Magda LinetteLinette (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Angelique KerberKerber – Kaja JuvanJuvan (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Arantxa RusRus – Clara BurelBurel (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Chloe PaquetPaquet – Alize CornetCornet (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Shuai ZhangZhang – Madison KeysKeys (3-2) – H2H and prediction
- Petra MarticMartic – Misaki DoiDoi (0-1) – H2H and prediction
- Pauline ParmentierParmentier – Veronika KudermetovaKudermetova (1-0) – H2H and prediction
- Laura SiegemundSiegemund – Kristina MladenovicMladenovic (2-1) – H2H and prediction
- Julia GoergesGoerges – Alison RiskeRiske (2-2) – H2H and prediction
- Sloane StephensStephens – Vitalia DiatchenkoDiatchenko (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Kateryna KozlovaKozlova – Paula Badosa GibertBadosa Gibert (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Jelena OstapenkoOstapenko – Madison BrengleBrengle (2-1) – H2H and prediction
- Mayar SherifSherif – Karolina PliskovaPliskova (0-0) – H2H and prediction