Kaia Kanepi and Vera Zvonareva will play each other in the qualifications of the Dubai Duty Free Championships for the 4th time of their career. They are scheduled to compete on Sunday at 10:00 am on Court 1. Here you can find the head to head analysis and the prediction.
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The pick for Tennis Tonic is Kaia Kanepi who should win in 3 sets.
As per the initial odds, Kaia Kanepi is the pick to win this match.
Kaia Kanepi -> 1.48
Vera Zvonareva -> 2.65
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Prediction and head to head Kaia Kanepi vs. Vera Zvonareva
This will be the 4th time that Kaia Kanepi and Vera Zvonareva fight against each other. The head to head is 2-1 for Kanepi (see full H2H stats), but Zvonareva leads 1-0 on hard.
The last time that they played, Kanepi won 6-3 6-3 in the final in the W25 Istanbul back in 2020.
Kaia Kanepi
Ranked no. 62, Kaia got to the qualifications after beating Ena Shibahara 6-1 6-73 6-4.
In the qualifications, Kanepi defeated Shibahara (6-1 6-73 6-4). During the match Kanepi scored 106 points vs Shibahara’s 95. Kaia was pretty aggressive to blast 42 winners.
Regarding the service games, Kanepi managed to score 8 aces and she committed only 4 double faults. Kaia Kanepi lost the serve twice and she saved 5 break points. Furthermore, Kanepi put 54% of her first serves in, winning 81% (42/52) of the points behind her 1st serve and 41% (18/44) on the 2nd serve. The Estonian broke Shibahara 6 times after converting 46% of her break points (6/13).
Kanepi has a solid win-loss record in the last 10 years having won 67% of her matches (213-105). 7-2 on hard in 2021. Regarding her performance on the same surface of this tournament, Kanepi has a 83-48 record in the last years on hard.
The Estonian’s best result of the year was getting to the final in Melbourne.
The Estonian has a 7-2 win-loss record in 2021, 7-2 on hard (See FULL STATS).
Previously in Dubai
Previously, her best result was reaching the semifinal in 2009. See her history.
Vera Zvonareva
Ranked no. 145, Vera reached the qualifications after defeating Akgul Amanmuradova 6-1 6-1.
In the qualifications, Zvonareva had a good straight sets win against Amanmuradova (6-1 6-1). During the match Zvonareva scored 54 points vs Amanmuradova’s 19. The Russian was exceptionally aggressive to blast 22 winners.
Talking about serving, Zvonareva managed to score 3 aces and she committed only 1 double fault for the entire match. Vera Zvonareva was extremely effective on serve to win 81% (22/27) of her 1st serve and 73% (8/11) on the second serve. This was the main reason for not conceding a single break during the match. Zvonareva broke Amanmuradova 5 times after converting 83% of her break points (5/6).
Zvonareva has a 4-3 win-loss record in 2021, 4-3 on hard (See FULL STATS).
H2H Performance in the tournament
Matches, sets, games and points
Points | Kanepi | Zvonareva |
---|---|---|
Match played | 1 | 1 |
Tot Set | 3 | 2 |
Tot Games | 30 | 14 |
Pts | 106-95 | 54-19 |
Total Points | 201 | 73 |
Winners | 42 | 22 |
%Winners | 40% | 41% |
Both Kanepi and Zvonareva played 1 match. Also both players started their run from the qualifications.At the moment, Kaia Kanepi dropped 1 set while Vera Zvonareva hasn’t lost a set so far. Kanepi has played 1 set more than Zvonareva (3 vs 2). Therefore, Kanepi played 16 games more than Zvonareva. Kaia scored 42 winners (40% of the total points). On the other side, Zvonareva managed to score 22 winners (41%).
Serve Performance
Serve | Kanepi | Zvonareva |
---|---|---|
Aces | 8 | 3 |
Avg per match | 8 | 3 |
1st in | 52/96 | 27/38 |
%1st in | 54% | 71% |
1st pts | 42/52 | 22/27 |
%1st pts | 81% | 81% |
2nd pts | 18/44 | 8/11 |
%2nd pts | 41% | 73% |
Kanepi scored 8 aces . Zvonareva recorded 3 aces . Kanepi won 81% points on her first serve. She pretty solid on her second serve to win 41% of the points. On the other side, Zvonareva won 81% of the points behind her first serve. She had a solid display on her second serve to win 73% of the points.
How they played the important points
Breaks | Kanepi | Zvonareva |
---|---|---|
Won | 6 | 5 |
Converted | 6/13 | 5/6 |
% Converted | 46% | 83% |
Conceded | 7 | 1 |
Saved | 5 | 1 |
% Saved | 71% | 100% |
Times Broken | 2 | 0 |
Kaia broke her opponent 6 times with a 46% conversion rate. Kanepi lost her serve twice and she saved 71% of the break points that she conceded. The Russian broke her opponent 5 times with a 83% conversion rate. Zvonareva was rock solid on her serve as she has never conceded a single service game after saving 1 break points.
Kanepi | |||
Q1 Shibahara |
Total | ||
---|---|---|---|
Score | 6-1 6-73 6-4 | ||
Tot Set | 3 | 3 | |
Tot Games | 30 | 30 | |
pts | 106-95 | 106-95 | |
Total points | 201 | 201 | |
Winners | 42 | 42 | |
%Winners | 40% | 40% | |
SERVE | |||
Aces | 8 | 8 | |
Double Faults | 4 | 4 | |
1st in | 52/96 | 52/96 | |
% 1st in | 54% | 54% | |
1st pts | 42/52 | 42/52 | |
% 1st pts | 81% | 81% | |
2nd pts | 18/44 | 18/44 | |
% 2nd pts | 41% | 41% | |
Breaks | |||
Won | 6 | 6 | |
Converted | 6/13 | 6/13 | |
Converted % | 46% | 46% | |
Conceded | 7 | 7 | |
Saved | 5/7 | 5 | |
Saved % | 71% | 71% | |
Times Broken | 2 | 2 |
Zvonareva | |||
Q1 Amanmuradova |
Total | ||
---|---|---|---|
Score | 6-1 6-1 | ||
Tot Set | 2 | 2 | |
Tot Games | 14 | 14 | |
pts | 54-19 | 54-19 | |
Total points | 73 | 73 | |
Winners | 22 | 22 | |
%Winners | 41% | 41% | |
SERVE | |||
Aces | 3 | 3 | |
Double Faults | 1 | 1 | |
1st in | 27/38 | 27/38 | |
% 1st in | 71% | 71% | |
1st pts | 22/27 | 22/27 | |
% 1st pts | 81% | 81% | |
2nd pts | 8/11 | 8/11 | |
% 2nd pts | 73% | 73% | |
Breaks | |||
Won | 5 | 5 | |
Converted | 5/6 | 5/6 | |
Converted % | 83% | 83% | |
Conceded | 1 | 1 | |
Saved | 1/1 | 1 | |
Saved % | 100% | 100% | |
Times Broken | 0 | 0 |
Head 2 Head
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