Aryna Sabalenka and Ann Li will play each other in the 3rd round of the Australian Open for the 1st time in their career. They are scheduled to play on Friday at 11 am on Rod Laver Arena. In this post, we analyze their head to head performance and the prediction.
Prediction, odds and live streaming
The pick for Tennis Tonic is Aryna Sabalenka who should win in 2 sets.
As per the initial odds, Aryna Sabalenka is the pick to win this match.
Aryna Sabalenka -> 1.25
Ann Li -> 4.333
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Prediction and head to head Aryna Sabalenka vs. Ann Li
There is no head to head record between Aryna Sabalenka and Ann Li since this will be the first time that they will clash against each other in the main tour.
Aryna Sabalenka
Ranked no. 7 (career high), Aryna got to the 3rd round after defeating Viktoria Kuzmova 6-0 6-4 and Daria Kasatkina 7-65 6-3.
In the 2nd round, Aryna had a good straight sets win against Kasatkina (7-65 6-3). During the match Sabalenka scored 67 points vs Kasatkina’s 63. Aryna was extremely aggressive to blast 24 winners.
Regarding the service games, Sabalenka blasted 7 aces and she committed only 6 double faults. Aryna Sabalenka lost the serve 3 times and she saved 1 break points. Furthermore, Sabalenka put 57% of her first serves in, winning 65% (24/37) of the points behind her 1st serve and 46% (13/28) on the 2nd serve. The Belarussian broke Kasatkina 5 times after converting 71% of her break points (5/7).
Overall Performance in this tournament
The Belarussian hasn’t dropped yet a set in this competition to win 56% of the points she played.
Sabalenka has a solid match record in the last 6 years having won 66% of her matches (193-101). 8-1 on hard in 2021. Regarding her performance on the same surface of this competition, Sabalenka has a 118-51 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 beat Veronika Kudermetova in the final 6-2 6-2.
The Belarussian has a 8-1 win-loss record in 2021, 8-1 on hard (See FULL STATS).
Last year at the Australian Open
Aryna had to surrender in the 1st round to Carla Suarez Navarro.
Ann Li
Ranked no. 69 (career high), the American got to the 3rd round after defeating Shuai Zhang 6-2 6-0 and Alize Cornet 6-2 7-66.
In the 2nd round, The American had a good straight sets win against Cornet (6-2 7-66). During the match Li scored 84 points vs Cornet’s 71. The American was very aggressive to blast 31 winners.
Talking about serving, Li couldn’t to score even 1 ace for the entire match and she committed only 3 double faults. Ann Li lost the serve 3 times and she saved 5 break points. Furthermore, Li put 61% of her first serves in, winning 65% (31/48) of the points behind her 1st serve and 52% (16/31) on the 2nd serve. Li broke Cornet 5 times after converting 56% of her break points (5/9).
Overall Performance in this tournament
Li hasn’t dropped yet a set in the tournament to win 59% of the points she played.
Li’s best result of the current season was reaching the semifinal in Melbourne.
Li has a 6-0 win-loss record in 2021, 6-0 on hard (See FULL STATS).
Last year at the Australian Open
Ann had to surrender in the 2nd round to Sofia Kenin.
H2H Performance in the tournament
Matches, sets, games and points
| Points | Sabalenka | Li |
|---|---|---|
| Match played | 2 | 2 |
| Tot Set | 4 | 4 |
| Tot Games | 38 | 35 |
| Pts | 127-101 | 138-95 |
| Total Points | 228 | 233 |
| Winners | 40 | 46 |
| %Winners | 31% | 33% |
Both Sabalenka and Li played 2 matches. Both players have not conceded a single set in this event so far. Talking about their workload, Sabalenka and Li have played the same amount of sets 4. However, Sabalenka played 3 games more than Li. Aryna scored 40 winners (31% of the total points). On the other side, Li bagged 46 winners (33%).
Serve Performance
| Serve | Sabalenka | Li |
|---|---|---|
| Aces | 9 | 2 |
| Avg per match | 4.5 | 1 |
| 1st in | 58/108 | 70/119 |
| %1st in | 54% | 59% |
| 1st pts | 40/58 | 46/70 |
| %1st pts | 69% | 66% |
| 2nd pts | 25/50 | 26/49 |
| %2nd pts | 50% | 53% |
Sabalenka blasted 9 aces (4.5 per match). Li bagged 2 aces (1 per match). Sabalenka won 69% points on her first serve. She extremely effective on her second serve to win 50% of the points. On the other side, Li won 66% of the points behind her first serve. She had a solid display on her second serve to win 53% of the points.
How they played the important points
| Breaks | Sabalenka | Li |
|---|---|---|
| Won | 11 | 12 |
| Converted | 11/17 | 12/19 |
| % Converted | 65% | 63% |
| Conceded | 8 | 13 |
| Saved | 3 | 8 |
| % Saved | 38% | 62% |
| Times Broken | 5 | 5 |
The Belarussian broke her opponents 11 times with a 65% conversion rate. Sabalenka dropped her serve 5 times and she saved 38% of the break points that she conceded. The American broke her opponents 12 times with a 63% conversion rate. Ann conceded her serve 5 times and she saved 62% of the break points that she conceded.
| Sabalenka | ||||
| R1 Kuzmova |
R2 Kasatkina |
Total | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Score | 6-0 6-4 | 7-65 6-3 | ||
| Tot Set | 2 | 2 | 4 | |
| Tot Games | 16 | 22 | 38 | |
| pts | 60-38 | 67-63 | 127-101 | |
| Total points | 98 | 130 | 228 | |
| Winners | 16 | 24 | 40 | |
| %Winners | 27% | 36% | 31% | |
| SERVE | ||||
| Aces | 2 | 7 | 9 | |
| Double Faults | 3 | 6 | 9 | |
| 1st in | 21/43 | 37/65 | 58/108 | |
| % 1st in | 49% | 57% | 54% | |
| 1st pts | 16/21 | 24/37 | 40/58 | |
| % 1st pts | 76% | 65% | 69% | |
| 2nd pts | 12/22 | 13/28 | 25/50 | |
| % 2nd pts | 55% | 46% | 50% | |
| Breaks | ||||
| Won | 6 | 5 | 11 | |
| Converted | 6/10 | 5/7 | 11/17 | |
| Converted % | 60% | 71% | 65% | |
| Conceded | 4 | 4 | 8 | |
| Saved | 2/4 | 1/4 | 3 | |
| Saved % | 50% | 25% | 38% | |
| Times Broken | 2 | 3 | 5 | |
| Li | ||||
| R1 Zhang |
R2 Cornet |
Total | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Score | 6-2 6-0 | 6-2 7-66 | ||
| Tot Set | 2 | 2 | 4 | |
| Tot Games | 14 | 21 | 35 | |
| pts | 54-24 | 84-71 | 138-95 | |
| Total points | 78 | 155 | 233 | |
| Winners | 15 | 31 | 46 | |
| %Winners | 28% | 37% | 33% | |
| SERVE | ||||
| Aces | 2 | 0 | 2 | |
| Double Faults | 3 | 3 | 6 | |
| 1st in | 22/40 | 48/79 | 70/119 | |
| % 1st in | 55% | 61% | 59% | |
| 1st pts | 15/22 | 31/48 | 46/70 | |
| % 1st pts | 68% | 65% | 66% | |
| 2nd pts | 10/18 | 16/31 | 26/49 | |
| % 2nd pts | 56% | 52% | 53% | |
| Breaks | ||||
| Won | 7 | 5 | 12 | |
| Converted | 7/10 | 5/9 | 12/19 | |
| Converted % | 70% | 56% | 63% | |
| Conceded | 5 | 8 | 13 | |
| Saved | 3/5 | 5/8 | 8 | |
| Saved % | 60% | 63% | 62% | |
| Times Broken | 2 | 3 | 5 | |
Head 2 Head
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LLWWLWWWLW Tennis Scores at the Australian Open
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- Karolina MuchovaMuchova – Mona BarthelBarthel (6-4 6-1) – See score progression
- Jennifer BradyBrady – Madison BrengleBrengle (6-1 6-2) – See score progression
- Shelby RogersRogers – Olga DanilovicDanilovic (6-2 6-3) – See score progression
- Ashleigh BartyBarty – Daria GavrilovaGavrilova (6-1 7-67) – See score progression
- Kaia KanepiKanepi – Sofia KeninKenin (6-3 6-2) – See score progression
- Ekaterina AlexandrovaAlexandrova – Barbora KrejcikovaKrejcikova (6-3 7-64) – See score progression
- Donna VekicVekic – Nadia PodoroskaPodoroska (6-2 6-2) – See score progression
- Karolina PliskovaPliskova – Danielle Rose CollinsRose Collins (7-5 6-2) – See score progression
- Anett KontaveitKontaveit – Heather WatsonWatson (6-75 6-4 6-2) – See score progression
- Elise MertensMertens – Lin ZhuZhu (7-68 6-1) – See score progression
- Naomi OsakaOsaka – Caroline GarciaGarcia (6-2 6-3) – See score progression
- Anastasia PotapovaPotapova – Timea BabosBabos (6-2 6-4) – See score progression
- Sorana CirsteaCirstea – Petra KvitovaKvitova (6-4 1-6 6-1) – See score progression
- Su-Wei HsiehHsieh – Bianca Vanessa AndreescuVanessa Andreescu (6-3 6-2) – See score progression
- Veronika KudermetovaKudermetova – Varvara GrachevaGracheva (5-7 6-2 6-2) – See score progression
- Serena WilliamsWilliams – Nina StojanovicStojanovic (6-3 6-0) – See score progression
- Iga SwiatekSwiatek – Camila GiorgiGiorgi (6-2 6-4) – See score progression
- Aryna SabalenkaSabalenka – Daria KasatkinaKasatkina (7-65 6-3) – See score progression
- Marketa VondrousovaVondrousova – Rebecca MarinoMarino (6-1 7-5) – See score progression
- Zarina DiyasDiyas – Bernarda PeraPera (6-4 3-6 6-3) – See score progression
- Simona HalepHalep – Ajla TomljanovicTomljanovic (4-6 6-4 7-5) – See score progression
- Garbine MuguruzaMuguruza – Liudmila SamsonovaSamsonova (6-3 6-1) – See score progression
- Fiona FerroFerro – Elena RybakinaRybakina (6-4 6-4) – See score progression
- Sara ErraniErrani – Venus WilliamsWilliams (6-1 6-0) – See score progression
- Ons JabeurJabeur – Anna SchmiedlovaSchmiedlova (6-3 6-2) – See score progression
- Ann LiLi – Alize CornetCornet (6-2 7-66) – See score progression
- Hugo GrenierGrenier – Eero VasaVasa (6-1 6-1) – See score progression
- Ashleigh BartyBarty – Daria GavrilovaGavrilova (6-1 7-6(7)) – See score progression
- Ekaterina AlexandrovaAlexandrova – Barbora KrejcikovaKrejcikova (6-3 7-6(4)) – See score progression
- Anett KontaveitKontaveit – Heather WatsonWatson (6-7(5) 6-4 6-2) – See score progression
- Shelby RogersRogers – Olga DanilovicDanilovic (6-2 6-3) – See score progression
- Belinda BencicBencic – Svetlana KuznetsovaKuznetsova (7-5 2-6 6-4) – See score progression
- Elise MertensMertens – Lin ZhuZhu (7-6(8) 6-1) – See score progression
- Karolina MuchovaMuchova – Mona BarthelBarthel (6-4 6-1) – See score progression
- Karolina PliskovaPliskova – Danielle Rose CollinsRose Collins (7-5 6-2) – See score progression
- Kaia KanepiKanepi – Sofia KeninKenin (6-3 6-2) – See score progression
- Donna VekicVekic – Nadia PodoroskaPodoroska (6-2 6-2) – See score progression
- Jennifer BradyBrady – Madison BrengleBrengle (6-1 6-2) – See score progression
- Yulia PutintsevaPutintseva – Alison Van UytvanckVan Uytvanck (6-4 1-6 6-2) – See score progression
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- Cori GauffGauff – Elina SvitolinaSvitolina (0-0) – H2H and prediction
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- Anett KontaveitKontaveit – Shelby RogersRogers (2-0) – H2H and prediction
- Belinda BencicBencic – Elise MertensMertens (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Karolina MuchovaMuchova – Karolina PliskovaPliskova (1-1) – H2H and prediction
- Kaia KanepiKanepi – Donna VekicVekic (0-1) – H2H and prediction
- Su-Wei HsiehHsieh – Sara ErraniErrani (0-3) – H2H and prediction
- Marketa VondrousovaVondrousova – Sorana CirsteaCirstea (0-0) – H2H and prediction
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- Ons JabeurJabeur – Naomi OsakaOsaka (0-0) – H2H and prediction
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- Anastasia PotapovaPotapova – Serena WilliamsWilliams (0-1) – H2H and prediction
- Iga SwiatekSwiatek – Fiona FerroFerro (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Veronika KudermetovaKudermetova – Simona HalepHalep (0-0) – H2H and prediction
