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.
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
- Bernarda PeraPera – Olivia GadeckiGadecki (6-72 6-3 6-3) – See score progression
- Andrea PetkovicPetkovic – Martina TrevisanTrevisan (6-1 3-6 7-5) – See score progression
- Danka KovinicKovinic – Tamara ZidansekZidansek (6-3 6-3) – 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
- Anastasia PotapovaPotapova – Whitney OsuigweOsuigwe (6-3 6-0) – See score progression
- Anna SchmiedlovaSchmiedlova – Valeria SavinykhSavinykh (6-1 6-3) – See score progression
- Jelena OstapenkoOstapenko – Sara ErraniErrani (4-6 6-3 6-1) – See score progression
- Daria KasatkinaKasatkina – Mihaela BuzarnescuBuzarnescu (6-1 6-1) – See score progression
- Aliaksandra SasnovichSasnovich – Lesya TsurenkoTsurenko (3-6 6-4 6-4) – See score progression
- Irina-Camelia BeguBegu – Saisai ZhengZheng (3-6 7-5 6-4) – 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
- 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