H2H, PREDICTION Ekaterina Alexandrova vs Astra Sharma | French Open odds, preview, pick

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Prediction and head to head Ekaterina Alexandrova vs. Astra Sharma

Ekaterina Alexandrova and Astra Sharma will clash against each other in the 2nd round of the French Open for the 1st time in their career. They are scheduled to play on Wednesday at 11 am on Court 13. Here you can find the head to head analysis and the prediction.

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The pick for Tennis Tonic is Ekaterina Alexandrova who should win in 2 sets.

See updated oddsAs per the initial odds, Ekaterina Alexandrova is the pick to win this match.
Ekaterina Alexandrova -> 1.363
Astra Sharma -> 3.24

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Prediction and head to head Ekaterina Alexandrova vs. Astra Sharma

There is no head to head record between Ekaterina Alexandrova and Astra Sharma since this will be the first time that they will square off in the main tour.

Ekaterina Alexandrova

Ranked no. 31, the Russian reached the 2nd round after defeating Maddison Inglis 6-3 6-3.

In the 1st round, Alexandrova had a good straight sets win against Inglis (6-3 6-3). During the match Alexandrova scored 70 points vs Inglis’s 54. Ekaterina was pretty aggressive to blast 23 winners.

Talking about the service games, Alexandrova was unable to score even 1 ace during the match and she committed only 4 double faults. Ekaterina Alexandrova lost the serve 3 times and she saved 7 break points. Furthermore, Alexandrova put 62% of her first serves in, winning 58% (23/40) of the points behind her 1st serve and 56% (14/25) on the 2nd serve. The Russian broke Inglis 6 times after converting 75% of her break points (6/8).

Alexandrova has a solid record in the last 6 years having won 62% of her matches (203-127). 3-4 on clay in 2020. Talking about her performance on the same surface of this event, Alexandrova has a 60-46 win-loss record in the last 6 years on clay.

Her best result of the season was managing to win the title in Shenzhen where she defeated Elena Rybakina in the final 6-2 6-4.

Ekaterina has a 16-9 win-loss record in 2020, 3-4 on clay (See FULL STATS).

Last year at the French Open

Alexandrova had to surrender in the 3rd round to Aliona Bolsova.

Astra Sharma

Ranked no. 134, Sharma got to the 2nd round after defeating Irina Ramialison 6-4 6-4, Yuki Naito 6-4 6-4 and Anna Blinkova 6-3 2-6 7-5.

In the 1st round, Sharma defeated Blinkova (6-3 2-6 7-5). During the match Sharma scored 103 points vs Blinkova’s 97. The Australian was pretty aggressive to blast 30 winners.

Talking about serving, Sharma wasn’t able to score even 1 ace for the entire match and she committed only 4 double faults. Astra Sharma lost the serve 6 times and she saved 6 break points. Furthermore, Sharma put 59% of her first serves in, winning 58% (30/52) of the points behind her 1st serve and 56% (20/36) on the 2nd serve. The Australian broke Blinkova 7 times after converting 39% of her break points (7/18).

Astra has a 9-9 win-loss record in 2020, 3-1 on clay (See FULL STATS).

Last year at the French Open

The Australian capitulated in the 1st round to Shelby Rogers.

H2H Performance in the tournament

Matches, sets, games and points

Points Alexandrova Sharma
Match played 1 4
Tot Set 2 9
Tot Games 18 83
Pts 70-54 243-213
Total Points 124 456
Winners 23 78
%Winners 33% 32%

Alexandrova played 1 match while Sharma competed in 4 matches. Sharma started her run from the qualifications while Alexandrova had a direct access to the main draw. At the moment, Astra Sharma lost 3 sets while Ekaterina Alexandrova hasn’t conceded a set so far. Alexandrova has played 7 set(s) less than Sharma (2 vs 9). Therefore, Alexandrova played 65 games less than Sharma. The Russian scored 23 winners (33% of the total points). On the other side, Sharma struck 78 winners (32%).

Serve Performance

Serve Alexandrova Sharma
Aces 0 5
Avg per match 0 1.3
1st in 40/65 121/193
%1st in 62% 63%
1st pts 23/40 78/121
%1st pts 58% 64%
2nd pts 14/25 41/72
%2nd pts 56% 57%

Alexandrova didn’t manage to fire a single ace to far. Sharma scored 5 aces (1.3 per match). Alexandrova won 58% points behind her first serve. She extremely effective on her second serve to win 56% of the points. On the other side, Sharma won 64% of the points on her first serve. She had a solid display on her second serve to win 57% of the points.

How they played the important points

Breaks Alexandrova Sharma
Won 6 16
Converted 6/8 16/41
% Converted 75% 39%
Conceded 10 20
Saved 7 9
% Saved 70% 45%
Times Broken 3 11

Alexandrova broke her opponent 6 times with a 75% conversion rate. Alexandrova lost her serve 3 times and she saved 70% of the break points that she conceded. The Australian broke her opponents 16 times with a 39% conversion rate. Sharma conceded her serve 11 times and she saved 45% of the break points that she conceded.

Alexandrova
R1
Inglis
Total
Score 6-3 6-3
Tot Set 2 2
Tot Games 18 18
pts 70-54 70-54
Total points 124 124
Winners 23 23
%Winners 33% 33%
SERVE
Aces 0 0
Double Faults 4 4
1st in 40/65 40/65
% 1st in 62% 62%
1st pts 23/40 23/40
% 1st pts 58% 58%
2nd pts 14/25 14/25
% 2nd pts 56% 56%
Breaks
Won 6 6
Converted 6/8 6/8
Converted % 75% 75%
Conceded 10 10
Saved 7/10 7
Saved % 70% 70%
Times Broken 3 3
Sharma
Q1
Ramialison
Q2
Naito
Q3
Trevisan
R1
Blinkova
Total
Score 6-4 6-4 6-4 6-4 6-1 6-1 6-3 2-6 7-5
Tot Set 2 2 2 3 9
Tot Games 20 20 14 29 83
pts 69-63 71-53 103-97 243-213
Total points 132 124 0 200 456
Winners 22 26 30 78
%Winners 32% 37% NAN% 29% 32%
SERVE
Aces 3 2 0 0 5
Double Faults 2 1 4 7
1st in 37/59 32/46 / 52/88 121/193
% 1st in 63% 70% NAN% 59% 63%
1st pts 22/37 26/32 / 30/52 78/121
% 1st pts 59% 81% NAN% 58% 64%
2nd pts 12/22 9/14 / 20/36 41/72
% 2nd pts 55% 64% NAN% 56% 57%
Breaks
Won 5 4 7 16
Converted 5/14 4/9 / 7/18 16/41
Converted % 36% 44% NAN% 39% 39%
Conceded 5 3 12 20
Saved 2/5 1/3 0/ 6/12 9
Saved % 40% 33% 50% 123%
Times Broken 3 2 6 11

Head 2 Head

Win Loss
Alexandrova
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Sharma
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2024 2023 2022
18 - 17
7 - 13
9-7
Hard
1-2
3-1
I Hard
0-0
1-6
Clay
6-10
5-3
Grass
0-1

Tennis Scores at the French Open

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