Margarita Gasparyan and Tsvetana Pironkova will face off in the qualifications of the Australian Open Qualifying for the 2nd time of their career. They are scheduled to play on Wednesday at 10 am on Court 5. 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 Tsvetana Pironkova who should win in 2 sets.

As per the initial odds, Tsvetana Pironkova is the pick to win this match.
Tsvetana Pironkova -> 1.24
Margarita Gasparyan -> 4.05

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Prediction and head to head Margarita Gasparyan vs. Tsvetana Pironkova

This will be the 2nd time that Margarita Gasparyan and Tsvetana Pironkova fight against each other. The head to head is 1-0 for Pironkova (see full H2H stats), 1-0 on hard.

Margarita Gasparyan

Ranked no. 125, Gasparyan reached the qualifications after beating Martina Di Giuseppe 6-3 4-6 6-2 and Mariam Bolkvadze 6-3 7-63.

In the qualifications, Margarita had a good straight sets win against Bolkvadze (6-3 7-63). During the match Gasparyan scored 85 points vs Bolkvadze’s 75. Gasparyan was very aggressive to blast 39 winners.

Regarding the service games, Gasparyan scored just 1 ace throughout the encounter and she committed only 4 double faults. Margarita Gasparyan lost the serve 3 times and she saved 5 break points. Furthermore, Gasparyan put 63% of her first serves in, winning 76% (39/51) of the points behind her 1st serve and 37% (11/30) on the 2nd serve. The Russian broke Bolkvadze 4 times after converting 44% of her break points (4/9).

Overall Performance in this tournament

Margarita has dropped 1 set in this event to conquer 54% of the points she played.

Gasparyan has a solid record in the last 10 years having won 62% of her matches (200-122). 2-0 on hard in 2021. In connection with her performance on the same surface of this competition, Gasparyan has a 76-53 match record in the last years on hard.

Gasparyan has a 2-0 win-loss record in 2021, 2-0 on hard (See FULL STATS).

Last year at the Australian Open Qualifying

The Russian didn’t play at the Australian Open Qualifying in 2020.

Tsvetana Pironkova

Ranked no. 136, Tsvetana got to the qualifications after defeating Kyoka Okamura 6-0 6-1 and Na-Lae Han 6-0 3-6 6-1.

In the qualifications, The Bulgarian defeated Han (6-0 3-6 6-1). During the match Pironkova scored 110 points vs Han’s 91. Tsvetana was quite aggressive to blast 32 winners.

Talking about serving, Pironkova managed to score 8 aces and she committed only 4 double faults. Tsvetana Pironkova lost the serve 3 times and she saved 3 break points. Furthermore, Pironkova put 59% of her first serves in, winning 68% (32/47) of the points behind her 1st serve and 42% (14/33) on the 2nd serve. Tsvetana broke Han 7 times after converting 30% of her break points (7/23).

Overall Performance in this tournament

Pironkova has conceded 1 set in the tournament to win 58% of the points she played.

Pironkova has a 2-0 win-loss record in 2021, 2-0 on hard (See FULL STATS).

H2H Performance in the tournament

Matches, sets, games and points

Points Gasparyan Pironkova
Match played 2 2
Tot Set 5 5
Tot Games 49 35
Pts 178-151 168-124
Total Points 329 292
Winners 69 45
%Winners 39% 27%

Both Gasparyan and Pironkova played 2 matches. Also both players started their run from the qualifications.Both players lost a set in the event. Margarita Gasparyan conceded 1 set, while Tsvetana Pironkova dropper 1 set. Talking about their workload, Gasparyan and Pironkova have played the same amount of sets 5. However, Gasparyan played 14 games more than Pironkova. The Russian scored 69 winners (39% of the total points). On the other side, Pironkova blasted 45 winners (27%).

Serve Performance

Serve Gasparyan Pironkova
Aces 7 10
Avg per match 3.5 5
1st in 99/160 63/123
%1st in 62% 51%
1st pts 69/99 45/63
%1st pts 70% 71%
2nd pts 28/61 32/60
%2nd pts 46% 53%

Gasparyan blasted 7 aces (3.5 per match). Pironkova fired 10 aces (5 per match). Gasparyan won 70% points behind her first serve. She pretty solid on her second serve to win 46% of the points. On the other side, Pironkova won 71% of the points on her first serve. She had a solid display on her second serve to win 53% of the points.

How they played the important points

Breaks Gasparyan Pironkova
Won 11 12
Converted 11/21 12/33
% Converted 52% 36%
Conceded 16 8
Saved 9 5
% Saved 56% 63%
Times Broken 7 3

Margarita broke her opponents 11 times with a 52% conversion rate. Gasparyan lost her serve 7 times and she saved 56% of the break points that she conceded. Pironkova broke her opponents 12 times with a 36% conversion rate. Pironkova conceded her serve 3 times and she saved 63% of the break points that she conceded.

Gasparyan
Q1
Di Giuseppe
Q2
Bolkvadze
Total
Score 6-3 4-6 6-2 6-3 7-63
Tot Set 3 2 5
Tot Games 27 22 49
pts 93-76 85-75 178-151
Total points 169 160 329
Winners 30 39 69
%Winners 32% 46% 39%
SERVE
Aces 6 1 7
Double Faults 2 4 6
1st in 48/79 51/81 99/160
% 1st in 61% 63% 62%
1st pts 30/48 39/51 69/99
% 1st pts 63% 76% 70%
2nd pts 17/31 11/30 28/61
% 2nd pts 55% 37% 46%
Breaks
Won 7 4 11
Converted 7/12 4/9 11/21
Converted % 58% 44% 52%
Conceded 8 8 16
Saved 4/8 5/8 9
Saved % 50% 63% 57%
Times Broken 4 3 7
Pironkova
Q1
Okamura
Q2
Han
Total
Score 6-0 6-1 6-0 3-6 6-1
Tot Set 2 3 5
Tot Games 13 22 35
pts 58-33 110-91 168-124
Total points 91 201 292
Winners 13 32 45
%Winners 22% 29% 27%
SERVE
Aces 2 8 10
Double Faults 0 4 4
1st in 16/43 47/80 63/123
% 1st in 37% 59% 51%
1st pts 13/16 32/47 45/63
% 1st pts 81% 68% 71%
2nd pts 18/27 14/33 32/60
% 2nd pts 67% 42% 53%
Breaks
Won 5 7 12
Converted 5/10 7/23 12/33
Converted % 50% 30% 36%
Conceded 2 6 8
Saved 2/2 3/6 5
Saved % 100% 50% 75%
Times Broken 0 3 3

Tennis Scores at the Australian Open Qualifying

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