Serena Williams and Anastasia Potapova will clash against each other in the 3rd round of the Australian Open for the 2nd time of their career. They are scheduled to compete on Friday at 1 pm on Rod Laver Arena. Here the head to head stats and the relative prediction.
Prediction, odds and live streaming
The pick for Tennis Tonic is Serena Williams who should win in 2 sets.
As per the initial odds, Serena Williams is the pick to win this match.
Serena Williams -> 1.099
Anastasia Potapova -> 8.2
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Prediction and head to head Serena Williams vs. Anastasia Potapova
This will be the 2nd time that Serena Williams and Anastasia Potapova fight against each other. The head to head is 1-0 for Williams (see full H2H stats), 1-0 on hard.
The last time that they played each other, Williams won 6-0 6-3 in the 1st round in at the Australian Open back in 2020.
Highlights Serena Williams vs Anastasia Potapova – Australian Open 20-January-2020
Serena Williams
Ranked no. 11, Serena reached the 1st round after beating Laura Siegemund 6-1 6-1 and Nina Stojanovic 6-3 6-0.
In the 2nd round, Serena had a good straight sets win against Stojanovic (6-3 6-0). During the match Williams scored 61 points vs Stojanovic’s 38. The American was very aggressive to blast 24 winners.
Regarding the service games, Williams made 6 aces and she committed only 1 double fault. Serena Williams was very effective on serve to win 86% (24/28) of her 1st serve and 52% (11/21) on the second serve. This was the main reason for not conceding a single break during the match. The American broke Stojanovic 4 times after converting 44% of her break points (4/9).
Overall Performance in this tournament
The American hasn’t dropped yet a set in this event to conquer 65% of the points she played.
Williams has a a great match record in the last 10 years having won 89% of her matches (352-43). 5-0 on hard in 2021. Talking about her performance on the same surface of this competition, Williams has a 203-31 record in the last years on hard.
Serena’s best result of the current year was getting to the semifinal in Melbourne.
Serena has a 5-0 win-loss record in 2021, 5-0 on hard (See FULL STATS).
Last year at the Australian Open
Williams lost in the 3rd round to Qiang Wang.
Anastasia Potapova
Ranked no. 101, the Russian reached the 1st round after beating Alison Riske 6-2 6-1 and Timea Babos 6-2 6-4.
In the 2nd round, Anastasia had a good straight sets win against Babos (6-2 6-4). During the match Potapova scored 66 points vs Babos’s 46. Potapova was exceptionally aggressive to blast 21 winners.
Talking about serving, Potapova blasted 2 aces and she committed only 5 double faults. Overall, Anastasia Potapova was pretty effective on serve to win 78% (21/27) of her 1st serve and 60% (15/25) on the second serve. However, this didn’t prevent her to concede the serve once. Anastasia broke Babos 4 times after converting 67% of her break points (4/6).
Overall Performance in this tournament
Anastasia hasn’t dropped yet a set in the tournament to win 60% of the points she played.
Anastasia has a 3-2 win-loss record in 2021, 3-2 on hard (See FULL STATS).
Last year at the Australian Open
Anastasia lost in the 1st round to Serena Williams.
H2H Performance in the tournament
Matches, sets, games and points
| Points | Williams | Potapova |
|---|---|---|
| Match played | 2 | 2 |
| Tot Set | 4 | 4 |
| Tot Games | 29 | 33 |
| Pts | 115-61 | 119-80 |
| Total Points | 176 | 199 |
| Winners | 40 | 39 |
| %Winners | 35% | 33% |
Both Williams and Potapova played 2 matches. Both players have not surrendered a single set in this event so far. Talking about their workload, Williams and Potapova have played the same amount of sets 4. However, Williams played 4 games less than Potapova. Serena scored 40 winners (35% of the total points). On the other side, Anastasia made 39 winners (33%).
Serve Performance
| Serve | Williams | Potapova |
|---|---|---|
| Aces | 10 | 5 |
| Avg per match | 5 | 2.5 |
| 1st in | 48/83 | 52/100 |
| %1st in | 58% | 52% |
| 1st pts | 40/48 | 39/52 |
| %1st pts | 83% | 75% |
| 2nd pts | 20/35 | 25/48 |
| %2nd pts | 57% | 52% |
Williams scored 10 aces (5 per match). Potapova scored 5 aces (2.5 per match). Williams won 83% points on her first serve. She very solid her second serve to win 57% of the points. On the other side, Potapova won 75% of the points behind her first serve. She had a solid display on her second serve to win 52% of the points.
How they played the important points
| Breaks | Williams | Potapova |
|---|---|---|
| Won | 10 | 10 |
| Converted | 10/18 | 10/14 |
| % Converted | 56% | 71% |
| Conceded | 4 | 4 |
| Saved | 3 | 1 |
| % Saved | 75% | 25% |
| Times Broken | 1 | 3 |
Serena broke her opponents 10 times with a 56% conversion rate. The American surrendered her serve once and she saved 75% of the break points that she conceded. Potapova broke her opponents 10 times with a 71% conversion rate. Potapova conceded her serve 3 times and she saved 25% of the break points that she conceded.
| Williams | ||||
| R1 Siegemund |
R2 Stojanovic |
Total | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Score | 6-1 6-1 | 6-3 6-0 | ||
| Tot Set | 2 | 2 | 4 | |
| Tot Games | 14 | 15 | 29 | |
| pts | 54-23 | 61-38 | 115-61 | |
| Total points | 77 | 99 | 176 | |
| Winners | 16 | 24 | 40 | |
| %Winners | 30% | 39% | 35% | |
| SERVE | ||||
| Aces | 4 | 6 | 10 | |
| Double Faults | 1 | 1 | 2 | |
| 1st in | 20/34 | 28/49 | 48/83 | |
| % 1st in | 59% | 57% | 58% | |
| 1st pts | 16/20 | 24/28 | 40/48 | |
| % 1st pts | 80% | 86% | 83% | |
| 2nd pts | 9/14 | 11/21 | 20/35 | |
| % 2nd pts | 64% | 52% | 57% | |
| Breaks | ||||
| Won | 6 | 4 | 10 | |
| Converted | 6/9 | 4/9 | 10/18 | |
| Converted % | 67% | 44% | 56% | |
| Conceded | 1 | 3 | 4 | |
| Saved | 0/1 | 3/3 | 3 | |
| Saved % | 0% | 100% | 50% | |
| Times Broken | 1 | 0 | 1 | |
| Potapova | ||||
| R1 Riske |
R2 Babos |
Total | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Score | 6-2 6-1 | 6-2 6-4 | ||
| Tot Set | 2 | 2 | 4 | |
| Tot Games | 15 | 18 | 33 | |
| pts | 53-34 | 66-46 | 119-80 | |
| Total points | 87 | 112 | 199 | |
| Winners | 18 | 21 | 39 | |
| %Winners | 34% | 32% | 33% | |
| SERVE | ||||
| Aces | 3 | 2 | 5 | |
| Double Faults | 2 | 5 | 7 | |
| 1st in | 25/48 | 27/52 | 52/100 | |
| % 1st in | 52% | 52% | 52% | |
| 1st pts | 18/25 | 21/27 | 39/52 | |
| % 1st pts | 72% | 78% | 75% | |
| 2nd pts | 10/23 | 15/25 | 25/48 | |
| % 2nd pts | 43% | 60% | 52% | |
| Breaks | ||||
| Won | 6 | 4 | 10 | |
| Converted | 6/8 | 4/6 | 10/14 | |
| Converted % | 75% | 67% | 71% | |
| Conceded | 2 | 2 | 4 | |
| Saved | 0/2 | 1/2 | 1 | |
| Saved % | 0% | 50% | 25% | |
| Times Broken | 2 | 1 | 3 | |
Head 2 Head
LWLLWWLWWW Tennis Scores at the Australian Open
- Anett KontaveitKontaveit – Heather WatsonWatson (6-75 6-4 6-2) – See score progression
- Elise MertensMertens – Lin ZhuZhu (7-68 6-1) – See score progression
- Belinda BencicBencic – Svetlana KuznetsovaKuznetsova (7-5 2-6 6-4) – See score progression
- 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
- Veronika KudermetovaKudermetova – Varvara GrachevaGracheva (5-7 6-2 6-2) – See score progression
- Fiona FerroFerro – Elena RybakinaRybakina (6-4 6-4) – See score progression
- Naomi OsakaOsaka – Caroline GarciaGarcia (6-2 6-3) – 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
- Serena WilliamsWilliams – Nina StojanovicStojanovic (6-3 6-0) – 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
Upcoming matches in the draw
- Mayar SherifSherif – Kaja JuvanJuvan (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Jessica PegulaPegula – Samantha StosurStosur (1-1) – H2H and prediction
- Nao HibinoHibino – Kristina MladenovicMladenovic (0-2) – H2H and prediction
- Cori GauffGauff – Elina SvitolinaSvitolina (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Ashleigh BartyBarty – Ekaterina AlexandrovaAlexandrova (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- 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
- Garbine MuguruzaMuguruza – Zarina DiyasDiyas (1-0) – H2H and prediction
- Ons JabeurJabeur – Naomi OsakaOsaka (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Aryna SabalenkaSabalenka – Ann LiLi (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- 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
