Aryna Sabalenka and Anna-Lena Friedsam will clash against each other in the 2nd round of the Porsche Tennis Grand Prix for the 1st time in their career. They are scheduled to compete on Thursday at 2 pm on Centre Court. Here you can find the head to head analysis and the prediction.
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The pick for Tennis Tonic is Aryna Sabalenka who should win in 2 sets.
As per the initial odds, Aryna Sabalenka is the pick to win this match.
Aryna Sabalenka -> 1.159
Anna-Lena Friedsam -> 5.6
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Prediction and head to head Aryna Sabalenka vs. Anna-Lena Friedsam
There is no head to head record between Aryna Sabalenka and Anna-Lena Friedsam since this will be the first time that they will square off in the main tour.
Aryna Sabalenka
Ranked no. 7 (career high), Aryna reached the 2nd round after beating Shuai Zhang 6-2 6-2.
In the 1st round, Aryna had a good straight sets win against Zhang (6-2 6-2). During the match Sabalenka scored 64 points vs Zhang’s 42. Sabalenka was quite aggressive to blast 25 winners.
Regarding the service games, Sabalenka struck 3 aces and she committed only 1 double fault. Aryna Sabalenka was very effective on serve to win 86% (25/29) of her 1st serve and 57% (12/21) on the second serve. This was the main reason for not conceding a single break during the match. Sabalenka broke Zhang 4 times after converting 50% of her break points (4/8).
Sabalenka has a solid win-loss record in the last 6 years having won 66% of her matches (200-105). 1-0 on clay in 2021. Talking about her performance on the same surface of this competition, Sabalenka has a 27-24 record in the last 6 years on clay.
Her best result of the year was winning the title in in Abu Dhabi where she beat Veronika Kudermetova in the final 6-2 6-2.
Sabalenka has a 15-5 win-loss record in 2021, 1-0 on clay (See FULL STATS).
Previously in Stuttgart
The Belarussian has never competed in this tournament before.
Anna-Lena Friedsam
Ranked no. 125, Friedsam reached the 2nd round after defeating Stephanie Wagner 6-4 4-6 6-3, Ekaterine Gorgodze 6-3 6-1 and Ulrikke Eikeri 6-2 6-0.
In the 1st round, Friedsam had a good straight sets win against Eikeri (6-2 6-0). During the match Friedsam scored 68 points vs Eikeri’s 39. Anna-Lena was quite aggressive to blast 20 winners.
Talking about serving, Friedsam was unable to score even 1 ace for the entire match and she committed only 2 double faults. Anna-Lena Friedsam was extremely efficient on serve to win 77% (20/26) of her 1st serve and 71% (12/17) on the second serve. This was the main reason for not conceding a single break during the match. Anna-Lena broke Eikeri 5 times after converting 45% of her break points (5/11).
The German has a 6-7 win-loss record in 2021, 3-1 on clay (See FULL STATS).
H2H Performance in the tournament
Matches, sets, games and points
| Points | Sabalenka | Friedsam |
|---|---|---|
| Match played | 1 | 3 |
| Tot Set | 2 | 7 |
| Tot Games | 16 | 59 |
| Pts | 64-42 | 231-175 |
| Total Points | 106 | 406 |
| Winners | 25 | 93 |
| %Winners | 39% | 40% |
Sabalenka played 1 match while Friedsam competed in 3 matches. Friedsam started her run from the qualifications while Sabalenka had a direct access to the main draw. At the moment, Anna-Lena Friedsam surrendered 1 set while Aryna Sabalenka hasn’t lost a set so far. Sabalenka has played 5 set(s) less than Friedsam (2 vs 7). Therefore, Sabalenka played 43 games less than Friedsam. Sabalenka scored 25 winners (39% of the total points). On the other side, Friedsam struck 93 winners (40%).
Serve Performance
| Serve | Sabalenka | Friedsam |
|---|---|---|
| Aces | 3 | 5 |
| Avg per match | 3 | 1.7 |
| 1st in | 29/50 | 126/184 |
| %1st in | 58% | 68% |
| 1st pts | 25/29 | 93/126 |
| %1st pts | 86% | 74% |
| 2nd pts | 12/21 | 30/58 |
| %2nd pts | 57% | 52% |
Sabalenka bagged 3 aces . Friedsam scored 5 aces (1.7 per match). Sabalenka won 86% points behind her first serve. She very solid her second serve to win 57% of the points. On the other side, Friedsam won 74% 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 | Sabalenka | Friedsam |
|---|---|---|
| Won | 4 | 14 |
| Converted | 4/8 | 14/34 |
| % Converted | 50% | 41% |
| Conceded | 1 | 16 |
| Saved | 1 | 12 |
| % Saved | 100% | 75% |
| Times Broken | 0 | 4 |
The Belarussian broke her opponent 4 times with a 50% conversion rate. The Belarussian had a solid display on her serve as she has never dropped a single service game after saving 1 break points. Friedsam broke her opponents 14 times with a 41% conversion rate. The German conceded her serve 4 times and she saved 75% of the break points that she conceded.
| Sabalenka | |||
| R1 Zhang |
Total | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Score | 6-2 6-2 | ||
| Tot Set | 2 | 2 | |
| Tot Games | 16 | 16 | |
| pts | 64-42 | 64-42 | |
| Total points | 106 | 106 | |
| Winners | 25 | 25 | |
| %Winners | 39% | 39% | |
| SERVE | |||
| Aces | 3 | 3 | |
| Double Faults | 1 | 1 | |
| 1st in | 29/50 | 29/50 | |
| % 1st in | 58% | 58% | |
| 1st pts | 25/29 | 25/29 | |
| % 1st pts | 86% | 86% | |
| 2nd pts | 12/21 | 12/21 | |
| % 2nd pts | 57% | 57% | |
| Breaks | |||
| Won | 4 | 4 | |
| Converted | 4/8 | 4/8 | |
| Converted % | 50% | 50% | |
| Conceded | 1 | 1 | |
| Saved | 1/1 | 1 | |
| Saved % | 100% | 100% | |
| Times Broken | 0 | 0 | |
| Friedsam | |||||
| Q1 Wagner |
Q3 Gorgodze |
R1 Eikeri |
Total | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Score | 6-4 4-6 6-3 | 6-3 6-1 | 6-2 6-0 | ||
| Tot Set | 3 | 2 | 2 | 7 | |
| Tot Games | 29 | 16 | 14 | 59 | |
| pts | 90-91 | 73-45 | 68-39 | 231-175 | |
| Total points | 181 | 118 | 107 | 406 | |
| Winners | 46 | 27 | 20 | 93 | |
| %Winners | 51% | 37% | 29% | 40% | |
| SERVE | |||||
| Aces | 1 | 4 | 0 | 5 | |
| Double Faults | 3 | 1 | 2 | 6 | |
| 1st in | 66/96 | 34/45 | 26/43 | 126/184 | |
| % 1st in | 69% | 76% | 60% | 68% | |
| 1st pts | 46/66 | 27/34 | 20/26 | 93/126 | |
| % 1st pts | 70% | 79% | 77% | 74% | |
| 2nd pts | 12/30 | 6/11 | 12/17 | 30/58 | |
| % 2nd pts | 40% | 55% | 71% | 52% | |
| Breaks | |||||
| Won | 4 | 5 | 5 | 14 | |
| Converted | 4/7 | 5/16 | 5/11 | 14/34 | |
| Converted % | 57% | 31% | 45% | 41% | |
| Conceded | 7 | 5 | 4 | 16 | |
| Saved | 4/7 | 4/5 | 4/4 | 12 | |
| Saved % | 57% | 80% | 100% | 237% | |
| Times Broken | 3 | 1 | 0 | 4 | |
Head 2 Head
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