Heather Watson and Aleksandra Krunic will square off in the 1st round of Dubai (W100+H) for the 2nd time of their career. They are scheduled to compete on Tuesday at 1.:30 pm on Court 2. Here the head to head stats and the relative prediction.
Prediction, odds and live streaming
The pick for Tennis Tonic is Heather Watson who should win in 3 sets.
As per the initial odds, Heather Watson is the pick to win this match.
Heather Watson -> 1.69
Aleksandra Krunic -> 2.12
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Prediction and head to head Heather Watson vs. Aleksandra Krunic
This will be the 2nd time that Heather Watson and Aleksandra Krunic play each other. The head to head is 1-0 for Krunic (see full H2H stats), but they have never competed against each other on hard.
Heather Watson
Ranked no. 59, the Brit will start her run in the W100+H Dubai after she played her last match at the Paris where she lost 7-6(4) 6-4 to Ferro in the 1st round the 29th of September.
Watson has a 13-10 win-loss record in 2020, 12-7 on hard (See FULL STATS).
Her best result of the current year was winning the title in in Acapulco where she defeated Leylah Annie Fernandez in the final 6-4 6-7(8) 6-1.
Talking about her overall career, Watson has an overall 336-264 record. She has positive 176-141 record on hard.
Last year in the Dubai (W100+H)
Heather didn’t play in the Dubai (W100+H) in 2019.
Aleksandra Krunic
Ranked no. 236, the Serbian got to the 1st round after defeating Georgina Garcia-Perez 7-61 7-62 and Kamilla Rakhimova 6-0 6-2.
In the qualifications, Krunic had a good straight sets win against Rakhimova (6-0 6-2). During the match Krunic scored 60 points vs Rakhimova’s 36. Aleksandra was pretty aggressive to blast 21 winners.
Talking about serving, Krunic made 4 aces and she was very steady in conceding no double faults for the entire match. Aleksandra Krunic was very efficent on serve to win 81% (21/26) of her 1st serve and 58% (11/19) on the second serve. This was the main reason for not conceding a single break during the match. Krunic broke Rakhimova 5 times after converting 56% of her break points (5/9).
Overall Performance in this tournament
Aleksandra hasn’t dropped yet a set in the tournament to win 57% of the points she played.
The Serbian has a 4-3 win-loss record in 2020, 3-3 on hard (See FULL STATS).
Last year in the Dubai (W100+H)
The Serbian lost in the 1st round to Viktoria Kuzmova.
Head 2 Head
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- Katerina SiniakovaSiniakova – Ankita RainaRaina (1-6 6-2 6-2) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Arantxa RusRus – Ana KonjuhKonjuh (6-1 6-2) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Christian GarinGarin – Alberto BrizziBrizzi (6-4 3-6 6-3) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Andrea PellegrinoPellegrino – Luca NarcisiNarcisi (6-3 6-3) – Stats, scores, rankings
Upcoming matches in the draw
- Kristina MladenovicMladenovic – Magdalena FrechFrech (1-0) – H2H and prediction
- Kaja JuvanJuvan – Elena Gabriela RuseGabriela Ruse (1-0) – H2H and prediction
- Jodie Anna BurrageAnna Burrage – Lesley KerkhoveKerkhove (0-1) – H2H and prediction
- Danka KovinicKovinic – Jaqueline CristianCristian (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Heather WatsonWatson – Aleksandra KrunicKrunic (0-1) – H2H and prediction
- Kirsten FlipkensFlipkens – Stefanie VoegeleVoegele (2-2) – H2H and prediction
- Ekaterine GorgodzeGorgodze – Anna SchmiedlovaSchmiedlova (0-1) – H2H and prediction
- Barbora KrejcikovaKrejcikova – Viktorija GolubicGolubic (1-2) – H2H and prediction
- Dalma GalfiGalfi – Mika Dagan FruchtmanDagan Fruchtman (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Elisabetta CocciarettoCocciaretto – Jasmine PaoliniPaolini (0-1) – H2H and prediction
- Sorana CirsteaCirstea – Anna BlinkovaBlinkova (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Timea BabosBabos – Xiyu WangWang (1-0) – H2H and prediction
- Aliona BolsovaBolsova – Oceane DodinDodin (1-0) – H2H and prediction
- Viktoria KuzmovaKuzmova – Polona HercogHercog (0-2) – H2H and prediction
