Petra Kvitova and Venus Williams will fight against each other in the 2nd round of the Yarra Valley Classic for the 8th time of their career. They are scheduled to play on Tuesday at 8.30 pm on Margaret Court Arena. 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 Petra Kvitova who should win in 2 sets.
As per the initial odds, Petra Kvitova is the pick to win this match.
Petra Kvitova -> 1.33
Venus Williams -> 3.44
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Prediction and head to head Petra Kvitova vs. Venus Williams
This will be the 8th time that Petra Kvitova and Venus Williams square off. The head to head is 4-3 for Kvitova (see full H2H stats), but Williams leads 3-2 on hard.
The last time that they competed against each other, Williams won 6-3 3-6 7-62 in the quarter in at the U.S. Open back in 2017.
Petra Kvitova
Ranked no. 9, Petra will start her run in Melbourne after she played her last match at the Paris where she lost 6-4 7-5 to Kenin in the semifinal on the 8th of October.
This will be the first match of the year on hard.
Talking about her overall career, The Czech has an overall 536-236 record. She has a positive 247-123 record on hard.
Last year in Melbourne
Petra lost in the quarter to Ashleigh Barty.
Venus Williams
Ranked no. 80, Venus got to the quarter after defeating Arantxa Rus 6-1 6-3.
In the 1st round, Venus had a good straight sets win against Rus (6-1 6-3). During the match Williams scored 63 points vs Rus’s 41. Williams was very aggressive to blast 28 winners.
Talking about serving, Williams blasted 3 aces and she committed only 3 double faults. Venus Williams was extremely effective on serve to win 82% (28/34) of her 1st serve and 55% (12/22) on the second serve. This was the main reason for not conceding a single break during the match. Venus broke Rus 4 times after converting 57% of her break points (4/7).
The American has a 1-0 win-loss record in 2021, 1-0 on hard (See FULL STATS).
Last year in Melbourne
Williams surrendered in the 1st round to Cori Gauff.
Head 2 Head
LL Tennis Scores in Melbourne
- Karolina PliskovaPliskova – Elisabetta CocciarettoCocciaretto (6-3 6-2) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Tsvetana PironkovaPironkova – Donna VekicVekic (1-6 6-4 6-2) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Petra MarticMartic – Vera LapkoLapko (4-6 6-3 6-2) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Serena WilliamsWilliams – Daria GavrilovaGavrilova (6-1 6-4) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Danielle Rose CollinsRose Collins – Nina StojanovicStojanovic (6-2 6-1) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Marketa VondrousovaVondrousova – Varvara GrachevaGracheva (6-4 6-0) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Carlos TabernerTaberner – Mathieu PerchicotPerchicot (6-1 6-1) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Jaume Antoni Munar ClarAntoni Munar Clar – David Jorda SanchisJorda Sanchis (6-1 ret.) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Bernabe Zapata MirallesZapata Miralles – Ivan GakhovGakhov (6-2 6-3) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Pedro Martinez PorteroMartinez Portero – Jorge Lopez Perez FusterLopez Perez Fuster (6-4 6-3) – Stats, scores, rankings
Upcoming matches in the draw
- Ashleigh BartyBarty – Ana BogdanBogdan (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Aliona BolsovaBolsova – Marie BouzkovaBouzkova (0-1) – H2H and prediction
- Shelby RogersRogers – Rebecca PetersonPeterson (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Vera ZvonarevaZvonareva – Shuai ZhangZhang (1-0) – H2H and prediction
- Nadia PodoroskaPodoroska – Greetje MinnenMinnen (1-0) – H2H and prediction
- Venus WilliamsWilliams – Petra KvitovaKvitova (3-4) – H2H and prediction
- Garbine MuguruzaMuguruza – Alison Van UytvanckVan Uytvanck (2-1) – H2H and prediction
- Anastasija SevastovaSevastova – Anastasia PavlyuchenkovaPavlyuchenkova (0-7) – H2H and prediction
- Jessica PegulaPegula – Mona BarthelBarthel (1-1) – H2H and prediction
- Camila GiorgiGiorgi – Sofia KeninKenin (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Karolina PliskovaPliskova – Danielle Rose CollinsRose Collins (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Tsvetana PironkovaPironkova – Serena WilliamsWilliams (0-5) – H2H and prediction
