Anastasia Potapova and Timea Babos will square off in the 2^nd round of the Australian Open for the 1^st time in their career. They are scheduled to play on Wednesday at 11 am on Court 3. In this post, we analyze their head to head performance and the prediction.

Prediction, odds and live streaming

The pick for Tennis Tonic is Anastasia Potapova who should win in 3 sets.

As per the initial odds, Anastasia Potapova is the pick to win this match.
Anastasia Potapova -> 1.55
Timea Babos -> 2.52

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Prediction and head to head Anastasia Potapova vs. Timea Babos

There is no head to head record between Anastasia Potapova and Timea Babos since this will be the first time that they will face off in the main tour.

Anastasia Potapova

Ranked no. 101, the Russian reached the 2^nd round after beating Alison Riske 6-2 6-1.

In the 1^st round, Anastasia had a good straight sets win against Riske (6-2 6-1). During the match Potapova scored 53 points vs Riske’s 34. The Russian was very aggressive to blast 18 winners.

Regarding the service games, Potapova scored 3 aces and she committed only 2 double faults. Anastasia Potapova lost the serve twice. Furthermore, Potapova put 52% of her first serves in, winning 72% (18/25) of the points behind her 1st serve and 43% (10/23) on the 2nd serve. Anastasia broke Riske 6 times after converting 75% of her break points (6/8).

Potapova has a solid win-loss record in the last 7 years having won 61% of her matches (106-67). 2-2 on hard in 2021. Regarding her performance on the same surface of this tournament, Potapova has a 49-35 match record in the last 7 years on hard.

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

Last year at the Australian Open

The Russian had to surrender in the 1^st round to Serena Williams.

Timea Babos

Ranked no. 114, Timea got to the 2^nd round after defeating Ysaline Bonaventure 7-6⁰ 6-4.

In the 1^st round, The Hungarian had a good straight sets win against Bonaventure (7-6⁰ 6-4). During the match Babos scored 78 points vs Bonaventure’s 67. Timea was quite aggressive to blast 35 winners.

Talking about serving, Babos recorded 9 aces and she committed only 3 double faults. Timea Babos lost the serve twice and she saved 2 break points. Furthermore, Babos put 63% of her first serves in, winning 78% (35/45) of the points behind her 1st serve and 44% (12/27) on the 2nd serve. Timea broke Bonaventure 3 times after converting 60% of her break points (3/5).

Babos has a 5-1 win-loss record in 2021, 5-1 on hard (See FULL STATS).

Last year at the Australian Open

Timea surrendered in the 1^st round to Iga Swiatek.

H2H Performance in the tournament

Matches, sets, games and points

Both Potapova and Babos played 1 match. Both players have not conceded a single set in this event so far. Talking about their workload, Potapova and Babos have played the same amount of sets 2. However, Potapova played 8 games less than Babos. Anastasia scored 18 winners (34% of the total points). On the other side, Timea fired 35 winners (45%).

Serve Performance

Potapova bagged 3 aces . Babos bagged 9 aces . Potapova won 72% points behind her first serve. She very solid her second serve to win 43% of the points. On the other side, Babos won 78% of the points on her first serve. She had a solid display on her second serve to win 44% of the points.

How they played the important points

Potapova broke her opponent 6 times with a 75% conversion rate. The Russian dropped her serve twice and she saved 0% of the break points that she conceded. Timea broke her opponent 3 times with a 60% conversion rate. The Hungarian conceded her serve twice and she saved 50% of the break points that she conceded.

Head 2 Head

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Anastasia
Potapova

1:0

Timea
Babos

Rank

35

High

21

1Hard0

Rank

337

High

25

Win Loss

Potapova

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Babos

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26 - 22

14 - 16

15-13

Hard

4-7

2-1

I Hard

3-1

6-5

Clay

7-8

3-3

Grass

0-0

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