Kaia Kanepi and Vera Zvonareva will play each other in the final of Istanbul (W25) for the 3rd time of their career. Here you can find the head to head analysis and the prediction.

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The pick for Tennis Tonic is Kaia Kanepi who should win in 3 sets.

As per the initial odds, Kaia Kanepi is the pick to win this match.
Kaia Kanepi -> 1.61
Vera Zvonareva -> 2.32

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Prediction and head to head Kaia Kanepi vs. Vera Zvonareva

This will be the 3rd time that Kaia Kanepi and Vera Zvonareva fight against each other. The head to head is 1-1 for Kanepi and Zvonareva (see full H2H stats), but they have never competed against each other on indoor hard courts.

The last time that they fought against each other, Zvonareva won 6-3 7-5 in the quarter in at the U.S. Open back in 2010.

Kaia Kanepi

Ranked no. 105, Kaia reached the quarter after beating Eva Guerrero Alvarez 6-1 6-3, Lucie Havlickova 6-2 6-4, Andrea Lazaro Garcia 6-3 7-67 and Jaqueline Cristian 6-4 6-2.

In the semifinal, The Estonian had a good straight sets win against Cristian (6-4 6-2). During the match Kanepi scored 59 points vs Cristian’s 41. Kaia was extremely aggressive to blast 24 winners.

Regarding the service games, Kanepi scored 5 aces and she committed only 3 double faults. Overall, Kaia Kanepi was exceptionally effective on serve to win 83% (24/29) of her 1st serve and 52% (11/21) on the second serve. However, this didn’t prevent her to concede the serve once. Kanepi broke Cristian 4 times after converting 80% of her break points (4/5).

Overall Performance in this tournament

Kaia hasn’t conceded yet a set in this competition to win 58% of the points she played.

Kanepi has a solid win-loss record in the last 10 years having won 65% of her matches (227-122). 9-1 on indoor hard courts in 2020. In connection with her performance on the same surface of this tournament, Kanepi has a 44-14 record in the last years on indoor hard courts.

Kaia has a 11-5 win-loss record in 2020, 9-1 on indoor hard courts (See FULL STATS).

Last year in the Istanbul (W25)

The Estonian didn’t compete in the Istanbul (W25) in 2019.

Vera Zvonareva

Ranked no. 183, Zvonareva reached the quarter after defeating Anastasia Zakharova 6-2 6-2, Tena Lukas 6-1 6-2, Katarina Zavatska 6-4 6-1 and Francesca Jones 6-2 6-1.

In the semifinal, Zvonareva had a good straight sets win against Jones (6-2 6-1). During the match Zvonareva scored 59 points vs Jones’s 31. Zvonareva was pretty aggressive to blast 19 winners.

Talking about serving, Zvonareva fired 2 aces and she committed only 1 double fault for the entire match. Vera Zvonareva was very effective on serve to win 83% (19/23) of her 1st serve and 69% (11/16) on the second serve. This was the main reason for not conceding a single break during the match. Zvonareva broke Jones 5 times after converting 63% of her break points (5/8).

Overall Performance in this tournament

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

The Russian’s best result of the year was reaching the semi-finals in the Indian Wells and the W25 Istanbul.

Vera has a 17-8 win-loss record in 2020, 6-2 on indoor hard courts (See FULL STATS).

Last year in the Istanbul (W25)

Vera didn’t compete in the Istanbul (W25) in 2019.

H2H Performance in the tournament

Matches, sets, games and points

Points Kanepi Zvonareva
Match played 4 4
Tot Set 8 8
Tot Games 74 63
Pts 277-201 263-178
Total Points 478 441
Winners 97 93
%Winners 35% 35%

Both Kanepi and Zvonareva played 4 matches. Both players have not conceded a single set in this event so far. Talking about their workload, Kanepi and Zvonareva have played the same amount of sets 8. However, Kanepi played 11 games more than Zvonareva. Kanepi scored 97 winners (35% of the total points). On the other side, The Russian recorded 93 winners (35%).

Serve Performance

Serve Kanepi Zvonareva
Aces 18 9
Avg per match 4.5 2.3
1st in 138/231 135/214
%1st in 60% 63%
1st pts 97/138 93/135
%1st pts 70% 69%
2nd pts 51/93 45/79
%2nd pts 55% 57%

Kanepi managed to score 18 aces (4.5 per match). Zvonareva recorded 9 aces (2.3 per match). Kanepi won 70% points behind her first serve. She had a solid display on her second serve to win 55% of the points. On the other side, Zvonareva won 69% of the points behind 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 Kanepi Zvonareva
Won 20 21
Converted 20/35 21/38
% Converted 57% 55%
Conceded 21 17
Saved 13 13
% Saved 62% 76%
Times Broken 8 4

Kanepi broke her opponents 20 times with a 57% conversion rate. The Estonian dropped her serve 8 times and she saved 62% of the break points that she conceded. The Russian broke her opponents 21 times with a 55% conversion rate. Vera conceded her serve 4 times and she saved 76% of the break points that she conceded.

Kanepi
R1
Guerrero Alvarez		 R2
Havlickova		 1/4
Lazaro Garcia		 1/2
Cristian		 Total
Score 6-1 6-3 6-2 6-4 6-3 7-67 6-4 6-2
Tot Set 2 2 2 2 8
Tot Games 16 18 22 18 74
pts 58-35 64-47 96-78 59-41 277-201
Total points 93 111 174 100 478
Winners 18 22 33 24 97
%Winners 31% 34% 34% 41% 35%
SERVE
Aces 8 2 3 5 18
Double Faults 1 1 2 3 7
1st in 23/43 32/58 54/80 29/50 138/231
% 1st in 53% 55% 68% 58% 60%
1st pts 18/23 22/32 33/54 24/29 97/138
% 1st pts 78% 69% 61% 83% 70%
2nd pts 16/20 14/26 10/26 11/21 51/93
% 2nd pts 80% 54% 38% 52% 55%
Breaks
Won 4 5 7 4 20
Converted 4/5 5/10 7/15 4/5 20/35
Converted % 80% 50% 47% 80% 57%
Conceded 0 7 13 1 21
Saved 0/0 5/7 8/13 0/1 13
Saved % – 71% 62% 0% 33%
Times Broken 0 2 5 1 8
Zvonareva
R1
Zakharova		 R2
Lukas		 1/4
Zavatska		 1/2
Jones		 Total
Score 6-2 6-2 6-1 6-2 6-4 6-1 6-2 6-1
Tot Set 2 2 2 2 8
Tot Games 16 15 17 15 63
pts 68-51 67-43 69-53 59-31 263-178
Total points 119 110 122 90 441
Winners 29 22 23 19 93
%Winners 43% 33% 33% 32% 35%
SERVE
Aces 4 3 0 2 9
Double Faults 2 0 1 1 4
1st in 43/68 36/56 33/51 23/39 135/214
% 1st in 63% 64% 65% 59% 63%
1st pts 29/43 22/36 23/33 19/23 93/135
% 1st pts 67% 61% 70% 83% 69%
2nd pts 13/25 13/20 8/18 11/16 45/79
% 2nd pts 52% 65% 44% 69% 57%
Breaks
Won 5 5 6 5 21
Converted 5/8 5/11 6/11 5/8 21/38
Converted % 63% 45% 55% 63% 55%
Conceded 9 3 4 1 17
Saved 8/9 2/3 2/4 1/1 13
Saved % 89% 67% 50% 100% 77%
Times Broken 1 1 2 0 4

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