Ekaterina Alexandrova and Anna Schmiedlova will face off in the 2nd round of the Gippsland Trophy for the 2nd time of their career. They are scheduled to play on Monday at 4.30 pm 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 Ekaterina Alexandrova who should win in 2 sets.

As per the initial odds, Ekaterina Alexandrova is the pick to win this match.
Ekaterina Alexandrova -> 1.3
Anna Schmiedlova -> 3.66

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Prediction and head to head Ekaterina Alexandrova vs. Anna Schmiedlova

This will be the 2nd time that Ekaterina Alexandrova and Anna Schmiedlova face off. The head to head is 1-0 for Alexandrova (see full H2H stats), but they have never played each other on hard.

Ekaterina Alexandrova

Ranked no. 33, Ekaterina will start her run in Melbourne after she played her last match in Abu Dhabi where she lost 6-2 6-7(5) 7-6(8) to Svitolina in the 3rd round on the 10th of January.

The Russian has a 2-1 win-loss record in 2021, 2-1 on hard (See FULL STATS).

Talking about her overall career, The Russian has an overall 209-131 record. She has a positive 53-42 record on hard.

Last year in Melbourne

Ekaterina lost in the 3rd round to Petra Kvitova.

Anna Schmiedlova

Ranked no. 135, Karolina reached the 2nd round after beating Valeria Savinykh 6-1 6-3.

In the 1st round, Karolina had a good straight sets win against Savinykh (6-1 6-3). During the match Anna Schmiedlova scored 63 points vs Savinykh’s 43. Karolina was quite aggressive to blast 20 winners.

Talking about serving, Anna Schmiedlova couldn’t to score even 1 ace for the entire match and she was exceptionally steady in conceding no double faults for the entire match. Anna Schmiedlova lost the serve twice and she saved 4 break points. Furthermore, Anna Schmiedlova put 63% of her first serves in, winning 63% (20/32) of the points behind her 1st serve and 58% (11/19) on the 2nd serve. Karolina broke Savinykh 6 times after converting 67% of her break points (6/9).

Karolina has a 3-1 win-loss record in 2021, 3-1 on hard (See FULL STATS).

Last year in Melbourne

Anna Schmiedlova lost in the 1st round to Belinda Bencic.

Tennis Scores in Melbourne

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