Simona Halep and Anastasia Potapova will square off in the 2nd round of the Gippsland Trophy for the 1st time in their career. They are scheduled to play on Monday at 5 pm on Margaret Court Arena. In this post, we analyze their head to head performance and the prediction.
Prediction, odds and live streaming
The pick for Tennis Tonic is Simona Halep who should win in 2 sets.
As per the initial odds, Simona Halep is the pick to win this match.
Simona Halep -> 1.168
Anastasia Potapova -> 5.4
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Prediction and head to head Simona Halep vs. Anastasia Potapova
There is no head to head record between Simona Halep and Anastasia Potapova since this will be the first time that they will face off in the main tour.
Simona Halep
Ranked no. 2,she will start her run in Melbourne after she played her last match in Adelaide where she overcame 3-6 6-1 10-8 to Barty in the semifinal on the 29th of January.
This will be the first match of the year on hard.
Talking about her overall career, The Romanian has an overall 526-219 record. She has a positive 230-104 record on hard.
Last year in Melbourne
Halep lost in the semifinal to Garbine Muguruza.
Anastasia Potapova
Ranked no. 101, the Russian got to the 2nd round after beating Whitney Osuigwe 6-3 6-0.
In the 1st round, Potapova had a good straight sets win against Osuigwe (6-3 6-0). During the match Potapova scored 54 points vs Osuigwe’s 27. The Russian was quite aggressive to blast 14 winners.
Talking about serving, Potapova wasn’t able to score even 1 ace for the entire match and she committed only 3 double faults. Anastasia Potapova lost the serve twice and she saved 1 break points. Furthermore, Potapova put 54% of her first serves in, winning 67% (14/21) of the points behind her 1st serve and 56% (10/18) on the 2nd serve. The Russian broke Osuigwe 7 times after converting 78% of her break points (7/9).
Potapova has a 1-1 win-loss record in 2021, 1-1 on hard (See FULL STATS).
Last year in Melbourne
Potapova lost in the 1st round to Serena Williams.
Head 2 Head
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LWLLWWLWWW Tennis Scores in Melbourne
- Irina-Camelia BeguBegu – Saisai ZhengZheng (3-6 7-5 6-4) – See score progression
- Jelena OstapenkoOstapenko – Sara ErraniErrani (4-6 6-3 6-1) – See score progression
- Polona HercogHercog – Margarita GasparyanGasparyan (2-6 6-3 6-3) – See score progression
- Timea BabosBabos – Patricia Maria TigMaria Tig (7-65 6-3) – See score progression
- Bernarda PeraPera – Olivia GadeckiGadecki (6-72 6-3 6-3) – See score progression
- Anna SchmiedlovaSchmiedlova – Valeria SavinykhSavinykh (6-1 6-3) – See score progression
- Danka KovinicKovinic – Tamara ZidansekZidansek (6-3 6-3) – See score progression
- Daria KasatkinaKasatkina – Mihaela BuzarnescuBuzarnescu (6-1 6-1) – See score progression
- Andrea PetkovicPetkovic – Martina TrevisanTrevisan (6-1 3-6 7-5) – See score progression
- Anastasia PotapovaPotapova – Whitney OsuigweOsuigwe (6-3 6-0) – See score progression
- Kaia KanepiKanepi – Astra SharmaSharma (1-6 7-5 6-2) – See score progression
- Jasmine PaoliniPaolini – Rebecca MarinoMarino (7-62 6-3) – See score progression
- Caroline GarciaGarcia – Arina RodionovaRodionova (6-3 6-4) – See score progression
- Aliaksandra SasnovichSasnovich – Lesya TsurenkoTsurenko (3-6 6-4 6-4) – See score progression
- Anna SchmiedlovaSchmiedlova – Valeria SavinykhSavinykh (6-1 6-3) – See score progression
- Kaja JuvanJuvan – Yafan WangWang (4-6 6-1 6-4) – See score progression
- Kaia KanepiKanepi – Astra SharmaSharma (1-6 7-5 6-2) – See score progression
- Polona HercogHercog – Margarita GasparyanGasparyan (2-6 6-3 6-3) – See score progression
- Timea BabosBabos – Patricia Maria TigMaria Tig (7-6(5) 6-3) – See score progression
- Jelena OstapenkoOstapenko – Sara ErraniErrani (4-6 6-3 6-1) – See score progression
- Danka KovinicKovinic – Tamara ZidansekZidansek (6-3 6-3) – See score progression
- Andrea PetkovicPetkovic – Martina TrevisanTrevisan (6-1 3-6 7-5) – See score progression
- Bernarda PeraPera – Olivia GadeckiGadecki (6-7(2) 6-3 6-3) – See score progression
- Irina-Camelia BeguBegu – Saisai ZhengZheng (3-6 7-5 6-4) – See score progression
Upcoming matches in the draw
- Destanee AiavaAiava – Chloe PaquetPaquet (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Zarina DiyasDiyas – Laura SiegemundSiegemund (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Nao HibinoHibino – Sara Sorribes TormoSorribes Tormo (1-0) – H2H and prediction
- Varvara LepchenkoLepchenko – Mayo HibiHibi (2-0) – H2H and prediction
- Cori GauffGauff – Jil TeichmannTeichmann (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Anna KalinskayaKalinskaya – Katie BoulterBoulter (0-1) – H2H and prediction
- Alize CornetCornet – Ajla TomljanovicTomljanovic (1-1) – H2H and prediction
- Simona HalepHalep – Anastasia PotapovaPotapova (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Ekaterina AlexandrovaAlexandrova – Anna SchmiedlovaSchmiedlova (1-0) – H2H and prediction
- Kaja JuvanJuvan – Iga SwiatekSwiatek (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Aryna SabalenkaSabalenka – Kaia KanepiKanepi (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Darya KasatkinaKasatkina – Polona HercogHercog (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Qiang WangWang – Jasmine PaoliniPaolini (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Timea BabosBabos – Caroline GarciaGarcia (1-2) – H2H and prediction
- Jelena OstapenkoOstapenko – Danka KovinicKovinic (2-1) – H2H and prediction
- Andrea PetkovicPetkovic – Elina SvitolinaSvitolina (0-3) – H2H and prediction
- Johanna KontaKonta – Bernarda PeraPera (1-2) – H2H and prediction
- Aliaksandra SasnovichSasnovich – Irina-Camelia BeguBegu (0-1) – H2H and prediction
