Ashleigh Barty and Kristina Kucova will square off in the 2nd round of the Miami Open for the 1st time in their career. They are scheduled to compete on Thursday at 1:30 pm on Grandstand. In this post, we analyze their head to head performance and the prediction.
Prediction, odds and live streaming
The pick for Tennis Tonic is Ashleigh Barty who should win in 2 sets.
As per the initial odds, Ashleigh Barty is the pick to win this match.
Ashleigh Barty -> 1.06
Kristina Kucova -> 10.25
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Prediction and head to head Ashleigh Barty vs. Kristina Kucova
There is no head to head record between Ashleigh Barty and Kristina Kucova since this will be the first time that they will fight against each other in the main tour.
Ashleigh Barty
Currently world no. 1 Ashleigh will start her run in Miami after she played her last match in Adelaide where she lost 6-3 6-4 to Collins in the 2nd round on the 24th of February.
Barty has a 8-2 win-loss record in 2021, 8-2 on hard (See FULL STATS).
Her best result of the year was winning the title in in Melbourne where she defeated Garbine Muguruza in the final 7-6(3) 6-4.
Talking about her overall career, The Australian has an overall 271-97 record. She has a positive 147-51 record on hard.
Previously in Miami
Previously, she won this tournament once in 2019. See her history.
Kristina Kucova
Ranked no. 149, Kristina got to the 2nd round after beating Yafan Wang 7-5 6-2, Anna Schmiedlova 6-2 6-3 and Hailey Baptiste 6-4 2-6 7-5.
In the 1st round, The Slovakian defeated Baptiste (6-4 2-6 7-5). During the match Kucova scored 99 points vs Baptiste’s 98. Kucova was quite aggressive to blast 39 winners.
Talking about serving, Kucova was unable to score even 1 ace for the entire match and she was extremely consistent in conceding no double faults for the entire match. Kristina Kucova lost the serve 4 times and she saved 2 break points. Furthermore, Kucova put 72% of her first serves in, winning 60% (39/65) of the points behind her 1st serve and 56% (14/25) on the 2nd serve. Kucova broke Baptiste 4 times after converting 27% of her break points (4/15).
Kristina has a 6-5 win-loss record in 2021, 6-5 on hard (See FULL STATS).
Head 2 Head
Tennis Scores in Miami
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- Federico CoriaCoria – Alberto BrizziBrizzi (6-3 6-1) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Andrea BassoBasso – Tommaso GabrieliGabrieli (6-1 6-1) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Stefano TravagliaTravaglia – Enrico Dalla ValleDalla Valle (6-4 6-4) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Andrea PellegrinoPellegrino – Benjamin BonziBonzi (6-2 6-2) – Stats, scores, rankings
Upcoming matches in the draw
- Ashleigh BartyBarty – Kristina KucovaKucova (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Jelena OstapenkoOstapenko – Alison RiskeRiske (1-0) – H2H and prediction
- Angelique KerberKerber – Renata ZarazuaZarazua (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Belinda BencicBencic – Zarina DiyasDiyas (1-1) – H2H and prediction
- Qiang WangWang – Marketa VondrousovaVondrousova (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Veronika KudermetovaKudermetova – Danielle Rose CollinsRose Collins (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Tsvetana PironkovaPironkova – Aryna SabalenkaSabalenka (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Simona HalepHalep – Caroline GarciaGarcia (6-1) – H2H and prediction
- Anastasija SevastovaSevastova – Cori GauffGauff (1-0) – H2H and prediction
- Madison KeysKeys – Ana KonjuhKonjuh (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Barbora KrejcikovaKrejcikova – Iga SwiatekSwiatek (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Petra KvitovaKvitova – Alize CornetCornet (2-0) – H2H and prediction
- Magda LinetteLinette – Johanna KontaKonta (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Ekaterina AlexandrovaAlexandrova – Nadia PodoroskaPodoroska (1-0) – H2H and prediction
- Shelby RogersRogers – Elina SvitolinaSvitolina (0-3) – H2H and prediction
- Bianca Vanessa AndreescuVanessa Andreescu – Tereza MartincovaMartincova (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Sloane StephensStephens – Amanda AnisimovaAnisimova (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Petra MarticMartic – Anna KalinskayaKalinskaya (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Xin Yu WangYu Wang – Garbine MuguruzaMuguruza (0-1) – H2H and prediction
- Jennifer BradyBrady – Sara Sorribes TormoSorribes Tormo (1-1) – H2H and prediction
- Kaia KanepiKanepi – Elena RybakinaRybakina (2-0) – H2H and prediction
- Ons JabeurJabeur – Paula Badosa GibertBadosa Gibert (0-1) – H2H and prediction
- Andrea PetkovicPetkovic – Sofia KeninKenin (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Karolina PliskovaPliskova – Saisai ZhengZheng (2-0) – H2H and prediction
- Storm SandersSanders – Jessica PegulaPegula (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Maria SakkariSakkari – Arantxa RusRus (1-0) – H2H and prediction
- Ludmilla SamsonovaSamsonova – Kiki BertensBertens (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Elise MertensMertens – Katie BoulterBoulter (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Sorana CirsteaCirstea – Anett KontaveitKontaveit (0-3) – H2H and prediction
- Yulia PutintsevaPutintseva – Nina StojanovicStojanovic (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Ajla TomljanovicTomljanovic – Naomi OsakaOsaka (0-0) – H2H and prediction