H2H, PREDICTION Aryna Sabalenka vs Daria Kasatkina | Australian Open odds, preview, pick

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Prediction and head to head Aryna Sabalenka vs. Daria Kasatkina

Aryna Sabalenka and Daria Kasatkina will fight against each other in the 2nd round of the Australian Open for the 3rd time of their career. They are scheduled to compete on Wednesday at 11 am on Margaret Court Arena. Here you can find the head to head analysis and the prediction.

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The pick for Tennis Tonic is Aryna Sabalenka who should win in 2 sets.

See updated oddsAs per the initial odds, Aryna Sabalenka is the pick to win this match.
Aryna Sabalenka -> 1.4
Daria Kasatkina -> 3.05

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Prediction and head to head Aryna Sabalenka vs. Daria Kasatkina

This will be the 3rd time that Aryna Sabalenka and Daria Kasatkina fight against each other. The head to head is 1-1 (see full H2H stats), 1-0 on hard.

The last time that they fought against each other, Sabalenka won 7-6(6) 6-0 in the 2nd round in at the French Open back in 2020.

Aryna Sabalenka

Ranked no. 7 (career high), Sabalenka got to the 2nd round after beating Viktoria Kuzmova 6-0 6-4.

In the 1st round, The Belarussian had a good straight sets win against Kuzmova (6-0 6-4). During the match Sabalenka scored 60 points vs Kuzmova’s 38. Sabalenka was quite aggressive to blast 16 winners.

Talking about the service games, Sabalenka fired 2 aces and she committed only 3 double faults. Overall, Aryna Sabalenka was very efficient on serve to win 76% (16/21) of her 1st serve and 55% (12/22) on the second serve. However, this didn’t prevent her to concede the serve twice. Sabalenka broke Kuzmova 6 times after converting 60% of her break points (6/10).

Sabalenka has a solid match record in the last 6 years having won 66% of her matches (192-101). 7-1 on hard in 2021. Talking about her performance on the same surface of this competition, Sabalenka has a 117-51 match record in the last 6 years on hard.

Her best result of the current season was winning the title in in Abu Dhabi where she defeated Veronika Kudermetova in the final 6-2 6-2.

The Belarussian has a 7-1 win-loss record in 2021, 7-1 on hard (See FULL STATS).

Last year at the Australian Open

Aryna lost in the 1st round to Carla Suarez Navarro.

Daria Kasatkina

Ranked no. 75, Kasatkina reached the 2nd round after defeating Katie Boulter 6-1 6-4.

In the 1st round, The Russian had a good straight sets win against Boulter (6-1 6-4). During the match Kasatkina scored 60 points vs Boulter’s 39. The Russian was quite aggressive to blast 19 winners.

Talking about serving, Kasatkina blasted 2 aces and she committed only 2 double faults. Daria Kasatkina lost the serve twice. Furthermore, Kasatkina put 74% of her first serves in, winning 66% (19/29) of the points behind her 1st serve and 70% (7/10) on the 2nd serve. Darya broke Boulter 6 times after converting 46% of her break points (6/13).

The Russian has a 4-2 win-loss record in 2021, 4-2 on hard (See FULL STATS).

Last year at the Australian Open

Darya lost in the 1st round to Madison Keys.

H2H Performance in the tournament

Matches, sets, games and points

Points Sabalenka Kasatkina
Match played 1 1
Tot Set 2 2
Tot Games 16 17
Pts 60-38 60-39
Total Points 98 99
Winners 16 19
%Winners 27% 32%

Both Sabalenka and Kasatkina played 1 match. Both players have not surrendered a single set in this event so far. Talking about their workload, Sabalenka and Kasatkina have played the same amount of sets 2. However, Sabalenka played 1 game less than Kasatkina. Sabalenka scored 16 winners (27% of the total points). On the other side, The Russian struck 19 winners (32%).

Serve Performance

Serve Sabalenka Kasatkina
Aces 2 2
Avg per match 2 2
1st in 21/43 29/39
%1st in 49% 74%
1st pts 16/21 19/29
%1st pts 76% 66%
2nd pts 12/22 7/10
%2nd pts 55% 70%

Sabalenka struck 2 aces . Kasatkina struck 2 aces . Sabalenka won 76% points behind her first serve. She pretty effective on her second serve to win 55% of the points. On the other side, Kasatkina won 66% of the points behind her first serve. She had a solid display on her second serve to win 70% of the points.

How they played the important points

Breaks Sabalenka Kasatkina
Won 6 6
Converted 6/10 6/13
% Converted 60% 46%
Conceded 4 2
Saved 2 0
% Saved 50% 0%
Times Broken 2 2

Sabalenka broke her opponent 6 times with a 60% conversion rate. Aryna conceded her serve twice and she saved 50% of the break points that she conceded. Kasatkina broke her opponent 6 times with a 46% conversion rate. Kasatkina conceded her serve twice and she saved 0% of the break points that she conceded.

Sabalenka
R1
Kuzmova
Total
Score 6-0 6-4
Tot Set 2 2
Tot Games 16 16
pts 60-38 60-38
Total points 98 98
Winners 16 16
%Winners 27% 27%
SERVE
Aces 2 2
Double Faults 3 3
1st in 21/43 21/43
% 1st in 49% 49%
1st pts 16/21 16/21
% 1st pts 76% 76%
2nd pts 12/22 12/22
% 2nd pts 55% 55%
Breaks
Won 6 6
Converted 6/10 6/10
Converted % 60% 60%
Conceded 4 4
Saved 2/4 2
Saved % 50% 50%
Times Broken 2 2
Kasatkina
R1
Boulter
Total
Score 6-1 6-4
Tot Set 2 2
Tot Games 17 17
pts 60-39 60-39
Total points 99 99
Winners 19 19
%Winners 32% 32%
SERVE
Aces 2 2
Double Faults 2 2
1st in 29/39 29/39
% 1st in 74% 74%
1st pts 19/29 19/29
% 1st pts 66% 66%
2nd pts 7/10 7/10
% 2nd pts 70% 70%
Breaks
Won 6 6
Converted 6/13 6/13
Converted % 46% 46%
Conceded 2 2
Saved 0/2 0
Saved % 0% 0%
Times Broken 2 2

Head 2 Head

Win Loss
Sabalenka
LLWWWWWWWL
Kasatkina
LLWWWWWLWL
2024 2023 2022
56 - 14
40 - 23
38-7
Hard
24-16
2-2
I Hard
0-1
15-4
Clay
8-4
1-1
Grass
8-2

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