Simona Halep and Veronika Kudermetova will fight against 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 7 pm 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 Simona Halep who should win in 2 sets.
As per the initial odds, Simona Halep is the pick to win this match.
Simona Halep -> 1.49
Veronika Kudermetova -> 2.78
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Prediction and head to head Simona Halep vs. Veronika Kudermetova
There is no head to head record between Simona Halep and Veronika Kudermetova since this will be the first time that they will play each other in the main tour.
Simona Halep
Ranked no. 2, Halep got to the 3rd round after defeating Lizette Cabrera 6-2 6-1 and Ajla Tomljanovic 4-6 6-4 7-5.
In the 2nd round against Tomljanovic, The Romanian recovered from a 1-set down deficit before winning (4-6 6-4 7-5). During the match Halep scored 115 points vs Tomljanovic’s 109. Halep was exceptionally aggressive to blast 51 winners.
Talking about the service games, Halep scored 5 aces and she committed only 5 double faults. Simona Halep lost the serve 7 times and she saved 10 break points. Furthermore, Halep put 66% of her first serves in, winning 64% (51/80) of the points behind her 1st serve and 29% (12/41) on the 2nd serve. Simona broke Tomljanovic 8 times after converting 57% of her break points (8/14).
Overall Performance in this tournament
Simona has dropped 1 set in this competition to win 55% of the points she played.
Halep has a a solid record in the last 10 years having won 73% of her matches (388-143). 4-1 on hard in 2021. Regarding her performance on the same surface of this event, Halep has a 202-79 match record in the last years on hard.
The Romanian has a 4-1 win-loss record in 2021, 4-1 on hard (See FULL STATS).
Last year at the Australian Open
The Romanian lost in the semifinal to Garbine Muguruza.
Veronika Kudermetova
Ranked no. 36 (career high), Veronika reached the 3rd round after beating Marta Kostyuk 6-2 7-65 and Varvara Gracheva 5-7 6-2 6-2.
In the 2nd round against Gracheva, The Russian recovered from a 1-set down deficit before winning (5-7 6-2 6-2). During the match Kudermetova scored 97 points vs Gracheva’s 84. The Russian was pretty aggressive to blast 45 winners.
Talking about serving, Kudermetova fired 7 aces and she committed only 3 double faults. Veronika Kudermetova lost the serve twice and she saved 9 break points. Furthermore, Kudermetova put 54% of her first serves in, winning 79% (45/57) of the points behind her 1st serve and 44% (21/48) on the 2nd serve. Kudermetova broke Gracheva 5 times after converting 83% of her break points (5/6).
Overall Performance in this tournament
Veronika has conceded 1 set in the tournament to win 53% of the points she played.
Veronika’s best result of the current year was getting to the final in Abu Dhabi.
Kudermetova has a 8-2 win-loss record in 2021, 8-2 on hard (See FULL STATS).
Last year at the Australian Open
Kudermetova lost in the 1st round to Sara Sorribes Tormo.
H2H Performance in the tournament
Matches, sets, games and points
| Points | Halep | Kudermetova |
|---|---|---|
| Match played | 2 | 2 |
| Tot Set | 5 | 5 |
| Tot Games | 47 | 49 |
| Pts | 178-144 | 169-148 |
| Total Points | 322 | 317 |
| Winners | 74 | 72 |
| %Winners | 42% | 43% |
Both Halep and Kudermetova played 2 matches. Both players lost a set in the event. Simona Halep lost 1 set, while Veronika Kudermetova conceded 1 set. Talking about their workload, Halep and Kudermetova have played the same amount of sets 5. However, Halep played 2 games less than Kudermetova. Halep scored 74 winners (42% of the total points). On the other side, Kudermetova managed to score 72 winners (43%).
Serve Performance
| Serve | Halep | Kudermetova |
|---|---|---|
| Aces | 6 | 10 |
| Avg per match | 3 | 5 |
| 1st in | 113/169 | 91/171 |
| %1st in | 67% | 53% |
| 1st pts | 74/113 | 72/91 |
| %1st pts | 65% | 79% |
| 2nd pts | 21/56 | 37/80 |
| %2nd pts | 38% | 46% |
Halep managed to score 6 aces (3 per match). Kudermetova scored 10 aces (5 per match). Halep won 65% points behind her first serve. She very solid her second serve to win 38% of the points. On the other side, Kudermetova won 79% of the points behind her first serve. She had a solid display on her second serve to win 46% of the points.
How they played the important points
| Breaks | Halep | Kudermetova |
|---|---|---|
| Won | 14 | 9 |
| Converted | 14/22 | 9/16 |
| % Converted | 64% | 56% |
| Conceded | 23 | 16 |
| Saved | 15 | 12 |
| % Saved | 65% | 75% |
| Times Broken | 8 | 4 |
Simona broke her opponents 14 times with a 64% conversion rate. The Romanian surrendered her serve 8 times and she saved 65% of the break points that she conceded. Veronika broke her opponents 9 times with a 56% conversion rate. Veronika conceded her serve 4 times and she saved 75% of the break points that she conceded.
| Halep | ||||
| R1 Cabrera |
R2 Tomljanovic |
Total | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Score | 6-2 6-1 | 4-6 6-4 7-5 | ||
| Tot Set | 2 | 3 | 5 | |
| Tot Games | 15 | 32 | 47 | |
| pts | 63-35 | 115-109 | 178-144 | |
| Total points | 98 | 224 | 322 | |
| Winners | 23 | 51 | 74 | |
| %Winners | 37% | 44% | 42% | |
| SERVE | ||||
| Aces | 1 | 5 | 6 | |
| Double Faults | 0 | 5 | 5 | |
| 1st in | 33/48 | 80/121 | 113/169 | |
| % 1st in | 69% | 66% | 67% | |
| 1st pts | 23/33 | 51/80 | 74/113 | |
| % 1st pts | 70% | 64% | 65% | |
| 2nd pts | 9/15 | 12/41 | 21/56 | |
| % 2nd pts | 60% | 29% | 38% | |
| Breaks | ||||
| Won | 6 | 8 | 14 | |
| Converted | 6/8 | 8/14 | 14/22 | |
| Converted % | 75% | 57% | 64% | |
| Conceded | 6 | 17 | 23 | |
| Saved | 5/6 | 10/17 | 15 | |
| Saved % | 83% | 59% | 71% | |
| Times Broken | 1 | 7 | 8 | |
| Kudermetova | ||||
| R1 Kostyuk |
R2 Gracheva |
Total | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Score | 6-2 7-65 | 5-7 6-2 6-2 | ||
| Tot Set | 2 | 3 | 5 | |
| Tot Games | 21 | 28 | 49 | |
| pts | 72-64 | 97-84 | 169-148 | |
| Total points | 136 | 181 | 317 | |
| Winners | 27 | 45 | 72 | |
| %Winners | 38% | 46% | 43% | |
| SERVE | ||||
| Aces | 3 | 7 | 10 | |
| Double Faults | 6 | 3 | 9 | |
| 1st in | 34/66 | 57/105 | 91/171 | |
| % 1st in | 52% | 54% | 53% | |
| 1st pts | 27/34 | 45/57 | 72/91 | |
| % 1st pts | 79% | 79% | 79% | |
| 2nd pts | 16/32 | 21/48 | 37/80 | |
| % 2nd pts | 50% | 44% | 46% | |
| Breaks | ||||
| Won | 4 | 5 | 9 | |
| Converted | 4/10 | 5/6 | 9/16 | |
| Converted % | 40% | 83% | 56% | |
| Conceded | 5 | 11 | 16 | |
| Saved | 3/5 | 9/11 | 12 | |
| Saved % | 60% | 82% | 71% | |
| Times Broken | 2 | 2 | 4 | |
Head 2 Head
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LLLWLWLWWW Tennis Scores at the Australian Open
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- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
