Karolina Pliskova and Jessica Pegula will clash against each other in the quarter of the Qatar Total Open for the 1st time in their career. They are scheduled to play on Thursday at 4:30 pm on Centre Court. In this post, we analyze their head to head performance and the prediction.
Prediction, odds and live streaming
The pick for Tennis Tonic is Karolina Pliskova who should win in 3 sets.
As per the initial odds, Karolina Pliskova is the pick to win this match.
Karolina Pliskova -> 1.84
Jessica Pegula -> 2.05
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Prediction and head to head Karolina Pliskova vs. Jessica Pegula
There is no head to head record between Karolina Pliskova and Jessica Pegula since this will be the first time that they will square off in the main tour.
Karolina Pliskova
Ranked no. 6, the Czech reached the quarter after defeating Ons Jabeur 6-4 4-6 7-5.
In the 2nd round, Karolina defeated Jabeur (6-4 4-6 7-5). During the match Pliskova scored 110 points vs Jabeur’s 98. Karolina was quite aggressive to blast 39 winners.
Regarding the service games, Pliskova fired 6 aces and she committed only 4 double faults. Overall, Karolina Pliskova was quite efficient on serve to win 75% (39/52) of her 1st serve and 51% (26/51) on the second serve. However, this didn’t prevent her to concede the serve 4 times. Pliskova broke Jabeur 5 times after converting 50% of her break points (5/10).
Pliskova has a solid match record in the last 10 years having won 67% of her matches (409-206). 5-3 on hard in 2021. Regarding her performance on the same surface of this competition, Pliskova has a 231-111 record in the last years on hard.
Pliskova has a 5-3 win-loss record in 2021, 5-3 on hard (See FULL STATS).
Previously in Doha
Previously, she won this tournament once in 2017. See her history.
Jessica Pegula
Ranked no. 44, Jessica got to the quarter after defeating Gabriela Dabrowski 6-0 6-1, Anastasia Potapova 6-2 6-73 7-66, Misaki Doi 6-2 6-2, Qiang Wang 6-3 6-1 and Jelena Ostapenko 6-2 7-5.
In the 2nd round, The American had a good straight sets win against Ostapenko (6-2 7-5). During the match Pegula scored 64 points vs Ostapenko’s 50. Jessica was exceptionally aggressive to blast 25 winners.
Talking about serving, Pegula scored 5 aces and she was pretty solid in conceding no double faults for the entire match. Jessica Pegula lost the serve twice and she saved 1 break points. Furthermore, Pegula put 63% of her first serves in, winning 69% (25/36) of the points behind her 1st serve and 57% (12/21) on the 2nd serve. Jessica broke Ostapenko 5 times after converting 71% of her break points (5/7).
Overall Performance in this tournament
The American has conceded 1 set in the tournament to win 58% of the points she played.
Jessica has a 11-3 win-loss record in 2021, 11-3 on hard (See FULL STATS).
Previously in Doha
Jessica has never competed in this tournament before.
H2H Performance in the tournament
Matches, sets, games and points
| Points | Pliskova | Pegula |
|---|---|---|
| Match played | 1 | 5 |
| Tot Set | 3 | 11 |
| Tot Games | 32 | 99 |
| Pts | 110-98 | 382-280 |
| Total Points | 208 | 662 |
| Winners | 39 | 151 |
| %Winners | 35% | 40% |
Pliskova played 1 match while Pegula competed in 5 matches. Pegula started her run from the qualifications while Pliskova had a direct access to the main draw. Both players lost a set in the event. Karolina Pliskova dropped 1 set, while Jessica Pegula lost 1 set. Pliskova has played 8 set(s) less than Pegula (3 vs 11). Therefore, Pliskova played 67 games less than Pegula. Karolina scored 39 winners (35% of the total points). On the other side, Jessica recorded 151 winners (40%).
Serve Performance
| Serve | Pliskova | Pegula |
|---|---|---|
| Aces | 6 | 15 |
| Avg per match | 6 | 3 |
| 1st in | 52/103 | 223/337 |
| %1st in | 50% | 66% |
| 1st pts | 39/52 | 151/223 |
| %1st pts | 75% | 68% |
| 2nd pts | 26/51 | 54/114 |
| %2nd pts | 51% | 47% |
Pliskova fired 6 aces . Pegula managed to score 15 aces (3 per match). Pliskova won 75% points on her first serve. She pretty effective on her second serve to win 51% of the points. On the other side, Pegula won 68% of the points behind her first serve. She had a solid display on her second serve to win 47% of the points.
How they played the important points
| Breaks | Pliskova | Pegula |
|---|---|---|
| Won | 5 | 29 |
| Converted | 5/10 | 29/51 |
| % Converted | 50% | 57% |
| Conceded | 10 | 33 |
| Saved | 6 | 23 |
| % Saved | 60% | 70% |
| Times Broken | 4 | 10 |
The Czech broke her opponent 5 times with a 50% conversion rate. Pliskova lost her serve 4 times and she saved 60% of the break points that she conceded. The American broke her opponents 29 times with a 57% conversion rate. The American conceded her serve 10 times and she saved 70% of the break points that she conceded.
| Pliskova | |||
| R2 Jabeur |
Total | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Score | 6-4 4-6 7-5 | ||
| Tot Set | 3 | 3 | |
| Tot Games | 32 | 32 | |
| pts | 110-98 | 110-98 | |
| Total points | 208 | 208 | |
| Winners | 39 | 39 | |
| %Winners | 35% | 35% | |
| SERVE | |||
| Aces | 6 | 6 | |
| Double Faults | 4 | 4 | |
| 1st in | 52/103 | 52/103 | |
| % 1st in | 50% | 50% | |
| 1st pts | 39/52 | 39/52 | |
| % 1st pts | 75% | 75% | |
| 2nd pts | 26/51 | 26/51 | |
| % 2nd pts | 51% | 51% | |
| Breaks | |||
| Won | 5 | 5 | |
| Converted | 5/10 | 5/10 | |
| Converted % | 50% | 50% | |
| Conceded | 10 | 10 | |
| Saved | 6/10 | 6 | |
| Saved % | 60% | 60% | |
| Times Broken | 4 | 4 | |
| Pegula | |||||||
| Q1 Dabrowski |
Q2 Potapova |
Q3 Doi |
R1 Wang |
R2 Ostapenko |
Total | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Score | 6-0 6-1 | 6-2 6-73 7-66 | 6-2 6-2 | 6-3 6-1 | 6-2 7-5 | ||
| Tot Set | 2 | 3 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 11 | |
| Tot Games | 13 | 34 | 16 | 16 | 20 | 99 | |
| pts | 56-23 | 128-120 | 61-37 | 73-50 | 64-50 | 382-280 | |
| Total points | 79 | 248 | 98 | 123 | 114 | 662 | |
| Winners | 22 | 55 | 24 | 25 | 25 | 151 | |
| %Winners | 39% | 43% | 39% | 34% | 39% | 40% | |
| SERVE | |||||||
| Aces | 3 | 5 | 2 | 0 | 5 | 15 | |
| Double Faults | 2 | 2 | 2 | 3 | 0 | 9 | |
| 1st in | 27/39 | 89/128 | 28/44 | 43/69 | 36/57 | 223/337 | |
| % 1st in | 69% | 70% | 64% | 62% | 63% | 66% | |
| 1st pts | 22/27 | 55/89 | 24/28 | 25/43 | 25/36 | 151/223 | |
| % 1st pts | 81% | 62% | 86% | 58% | 69% | 68% | |
| 2nd pts | 6/12 | 13/39 | 9/16 | 14/26 | 12/21 | 54/114 | |
| % 2nd pts | 50% | 33% | 56% | 54% | 57% | 47% | |
| Breaks | |||||||
| Won | 6 | 8 | 4 | 6 | 5 | 29 | |
| Converted | 6/8 | 8/17 | 4/7 | 6/12 | 5/7 | 29/51 | |
| Converted % | 75% | 47% | 57% | 50% | 71% | 57% | |
| Conceded | 0 | 18 | 0 | 12 | 3 | 33 | |
| Saved | 0/0 | 12/18 | 0/0 | 10/12 | 1/3 | 23 | |
| Saved % | – | 67% | – | 83% | 33% | 183% | |
| Times Broken | 0 | 6 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 10 | |
Head 2 Head
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