Karolina Muchova and Daria Kasatkina will clash against each other in the 2nd round of the Abu Dhabi Tennis Open for the 1st time in their career. In this post, we analyze their head to head performance and the prediction.
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The pick for Tennis Tonic is Karolina Muchova who should win in 3 sets.
As per the initial odds, Karolina Muchova is the pick to win this match.
Karolina Muchova -> 1.6
Daria Kasatkina -> 2.4
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Prediction and head to head Karolina Muchova vs. Daria Kasatkina
There is no head to head record between Karolina Muchova and Daria Kasatkina since this will be the first time that they will square off in the main tour.
Karolina Muchova
Ranked no. 27, the Czech reached the 2nd round after beating Danka Kovinic 6-4 6-1.
In the 1st round, Karolina had a good straight sets win against Kovinic (6-4 6-1). During the match Muchova scored 64 points vs Kovinic’s 50. Karolina was very aggressive to blast 24 winners.
Talking about the service games, Muchova scored just 1 ace during the match and she committed only 5 double faults. Karolina Muchova lost the serve once and she saved 1 break points. Furthermore, Muchova put 68% of her first serves in, winning 71% (24/34) of the points behind her 1st serve and 50% (8/16) on the 2nd serve. Karolina broke Kovinic 5 times after converting 42% of her break points (5/12).
Muchova has a solid record in the last 6 years having won 67% of her matches (138-67). 1-0 on hard in 2021. Talking about her performance on the same surface of this competition, Muchova has a 57-26 record in the last 6 years on hard.
Muchova has a 1-0 win-loss record in 2021, 1-0 on hard (See FULL STATS).
Last year in Abu Dhabi
Karolina didn’t play in Abu Dhabi in 2020.
Daria Kasatkina
Ranked no. 72, Kasatkina reached the 2nd round after defeating Qiang Wang 6-2 3-6 6-2.
In the 1st round, Kasatkina defeated Wang (6-2 3-6 6-2). During the match Kasatkina scored 88 points vs Wang’s 65. Kasatkina was pretty aggressive to blast 38 winners.
Talking about serving, Kasatkina scored 2 aces and she committed only 1 double fault for the entire match. Overall, Daria Kasatkina was quite efficient on serve to win 72% (38/53) of her 1st serve and 57% (12/21) on the second serve. However, this didn’t prevent her to concede the serve twice. Kasatkina broke Wang 5 times after converting 63% of her break points (5/8).
Darya has a 1-0 win-loss record in 2021, 1-0 on hard (See FULL STATS).
H2H Performance in the tournament
Matches, sets, games and points
| Points | Muchova | Kasatkina |
|---|---|---|
| Match played | 1 | 1 |
| Tot Set | 2 | 3 |
| Tot Games | 17 | 25 |
| Pts | 64-50 | 88-65 |
| Total Points | 114 | 153 |
| Winners | 24 | 38 |
| %Winners | 38% | 43% |
Both Muchova and Kasatkina played 1 match. At the moment, Daria Kasatkina lost 1 set while Karolina Muchova hasn’t lost a set so far. Muchova has played 1 set(s) less than Kasatkina (2 vs 3). Therefore, Muchova played 8 games less than Kasatkina. Karolina scored 24 winners (38% of the total points). On the other side, Kasatkina fired 38 winners (43%).
Serve Performance
| Serve | Muchova | Kasatkina |
|---|---|---|
| Aces | 1 | 2 |
| Avg per match | 1 | 2 |
| 1st in | 34/50 | 53/74 |
| %1st in | 68% | 72% |
| 1st pts | 24/34 | 38/53 |
| %1st pts | 71% | 72% |
| 2nd pts | 8/16 | 12/21 |
| %2nd pts | 50% | 57% |
Muchova scored 1 ace . Kasatkina also struck 2 aces . Muchova won 71% points on her first serve. She had a solid display on her second serve to win 50% of the points. On the other side, Kasatkina won 72% 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 | Muchova | Kasatkina |
|---|---|---|
| Won | 5 | 5 |
| Converted | 5/12 | 5/8 |
| % Converted | 42% | 63% |
| Conceded | 2 | 5 |
| Saved | 1 | 3 |
| % Saved | 50% | 60% |
| Times Broken | 1 | 2 |
Muchova broke her opponent 5 times with a 42% conversion rate. Muchova dropped her serve once and she saved 50% of the break points that she conceded. The Russian broke her opponent 5 times with a 63% conversion rate. The Russian conceded her serve twice and she saved 60% of the break points that she conceded.
| Muchova | |||
| R1 Kovinic |
Total | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Score | 6-4 6-1 | ||
| Tot Set | 2 | 2 | |
| Tot Games | 17 | 17 | |
| pts | 64-50 | 64-50 | |
| Total points | 114 | 114 | |
| Winners | 24 | 24 | |
| %Winners | 38% | 38% | |
| SERVE | |||
| Aces | 1 | 1 | |
| Double Faults | 5 | 5 | |
| 1st in | 34/50 | 34/50 | |
| % 1st in | 68% | 68% | |
| 1st pts | 24/34 | 24/34 | |
| % 1st pts | 71% | 71% | |
| 2nd pts | 8/16 | 8/16 | |
| % 2nd pts | 50% | 50% | |
| Breaks | |||
| Won | 5 | 5 | |
| Converted | 5/12 | 5/12 | |
| Converted % | 42% | 42% | |
| Conceded | 2 | 2 | |
| Saved | 1/2 | 1 | |
| Saved % | 50% | 50% | |
| Times Broken | 1 | 1 | |
| Kasatkina | |||
| R1 Wang |
Total | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Score | 6-2 3-6 6-2 | ||
| Tot Set | 3 | 3 | |
| Tot Games | 25 | 25 | |
| pts | 88-65 | 88-65 | |
| Total points | 153 | 153 | |
| Winners | 38 | 38 | |
| %Winners | 43% | 43% | |
| SERVE | |||
| Aces | 2 | 2 | |
| Double Faults | 1 | 1 | |
| 1st in | 53/74 | 53/74 | |
| % 1st in | 72% | 72% | |
| 1st pts | 38/53 | 38/53 | |
| % 1st pts | 72% | 72% | |
| 2nd pts | 12/21 | 12/21 | |
| % 2nd pts | 57% | 57% | |
| Breaks | |||
| Won | 5 | 5 | |
| Converted | 5/8 | 5/8 | |
| Converted % | 63% | 63% | |
| Conceded | 5 | 5 | |
| Saved | 3/5 | 3 | |
| Saved % | 60% | 60% | |
| Times Broken | 2 | 2 | |
Head 2 Head
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LWLWLLLWWW Tennis Scores in Abu Dhabi
- Kateryna BondarenkoBondarenko – Yafan WangWang (6-3 3-6 7-5) – See score progression
- Sara Sorribes TormoSorribes Tormo – Nadia PodoroskaPodoroska (6-3 6-3) – See score progression
- Vera ZvonarevaZvonareva – Amandine HesseHesse (6-3 6-4) – See score progression
- Alize CornetCornet – Valentini GrammatikopoulouGrammatikopoulou (6-2 6-2) – See score progression
- Marta KostyukKostyuk – Lucie HradeckaHradecka (6-2 6-4) – See score progression
- Cori GauffGauff – Ulrikke EikeriEikeri (6-0 6-1) – See score progression
- Heather WatsonWatson – Jodie Anna BurrageAnna Burrage (4-6 6-2 7-5) – See score progression
- Su-Wei HsiehHsieh – Marketa VondrousovaVondrousova (3-6 6-3 7-63) – See score progression
- Karolina PliskovaPliskova – Despina PapamichailPapamichail (6-2 7-64) – See score progression
- Aryna SabalenkaSabalenka – Polona HercogHercog (7-65 6-2) – See score progression
- Sofia KeninKenin – Zhaoxuan YangYang (7-64 6-2) – See score progression
- Xiyu WangWang – Arantxa RusRus (6-3 3-6 6-4) – See score progression
- Karolina MuchovaMuchova – Danka KovinicKovinic (6-4 6-1) – See score progression
- Tamara ZidansekZidansek – Jennifer BradyBrady (0-6 6-3 6-4) – See score progression
- Aliaksandra SasnovichSasnovich – Anna BondarBondar (6-2 6-3) – See score progression
- Bianca TuratiTurati – Yaroslava ShvedovaShvedova (6-1 6-2) – See score progression
- Elina SvitolinaSvitolina – Jessica PegulaPegula (6-4 6-3) – See score progression
- Anastasia GasanovaGasanova – Mona BarthelBarthel (6-2 6-4) – See score progression
- Elena RybakinaRybakina – Lucrezia StefaniniStefanini (6-1 6-3) – See score progression
- Garbine MuguruzaMuguruza – Kristina MladenovicMladenovic (6-2 6-4) – See score progression
- Ons JabeurJabeur – Anastasia PavlyuchenkovaPavlyuchenkova (7-63 6-3) – See score progression
- Bernarda PeraPera – Donna VekicVekic (7-610 2-6 6-4) – See score progression
- Paula Badosa GibertBadosa Gibert – Anastasija SevastovaSevastova (6-2 5-7 6-2) – See score progression
- Ajla TomljanovicTomljanovic – Lin ZhuZhu (6-2 7-61) – See score progression
- Yulia PutintsevaPutintseva – Martina TrevisanTrevisan (6-3 6-3) – See score progression
- Daria KasatkinaKasatkina – Qiang WangWang (6-2 3-6 6-2) – See score progression
- Maria SakkariSakkari – Anastasia PotapovaPotapova (6-4 6-2) – See score progression
- Kirsten FlipkensFlipkens – Laura SiegemundSiegemund (5-7 7-5 6-4) – See score progression
- Ekaterina AlexandrovaAlexandrova – Zarina DiyasDiyas (6-4 6-4) – See score progression
- Barbora KrejcikovaKrejcikova – Jamie LoebLoeb (6-1 6-3) – See score progression
- Veronika KudermetovaKudermetova – Anett KontaveitKontaveit (7-5 6-1) – See score progression
- Leylah Annie FernandezAnnie Fernandez – Jasmine PaoliniPaolini (6-4 6-2) – See score progression
- Julien DubailDubail – Benjamin HassanHassan (6-4 5-7 6-4) – See score progression
- Anastasia GasanovaGasanova – Mona BarthelBarthel (6-2 6-4) – See score progression
- Heather WatsonWatson – Jodie Anna BurrageAnna Burrage (4-6 6-2 7-5) – See score progression
- Vera ZvonarevaZvonareva – Amandine HesseHesse (6-3 6-4) – See score progression
- Elina SvitolinaSvitolina – Jessica PegulaPegula (6-4 6-3) – See score progression
Upcoming matches in the draw
- Sofia KeninKenin – Kirsten FlipkensFlipkens (2-0) – H2H and prediction
- Barbora KrejcikovaKrejcikova – Yulia PutintsevaPutintseva (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Maria SakkariSakkari – Cori GauffGauff (1-0) – H2H and prediction
- Aliaksandra SasnovichSasnovich – Garbine MuguruzaMuguruza (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Aryna SabalenkaSabalenka – Ajla TomljanovicTomljanovic (2-1) – H2H and prediction
- Kateryna BondarenkoBondarenko – Ons JabeurJabeur (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Karolina MuchovaMuchova – Darya KasatkinaKasatkina (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Xiyu WangWang – Elena RybakinaRybakina (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Su-Wei HsiehHsieh – Marta KostyukKostyuk (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Leylah Annie FernandezAnnie Fernandez – Tamara ZidansekZidansek (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Bernarda PeraPera – Sara Sorribes TormoSorribes Tormo (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Anastasia GasanovaGasanova – Karolina PliskovaPliskova (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Alize CornetCornet – Paula Badosa GibertBadosa Gibert (1-0) – H2H and prediction
- Bianca TuratiTurati – Veronika KudermetovaKudermetova (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Ekaterina AlexandrovaAlexandrova – Heather WatsonWatson (1-1) – H2H and prediction
- Vera ZvonarevaZvonareva – Elina SvitolinaSvitolina (0-0) – H2H and prediction
