Aryna Sabalenka and Anett Kontaveit will fight against each other in the quarter of the Porsche Tennis Grand Prix for the 4th time of their career. They are scheduled to play on Friday at 9:00 pm on Centre Court. Here you can find the head to head analysis and the prediction.
Prediction, odds and live streaming
The pick for Tennis Tonic is Aryna Sabalenka who should win in 3 sets.
As per the initial odds, Aryna Sabalenka is the pick to win this match.
Aryna Sabalenka -> 1.65
Anett Kontaveit -> 2.35
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Prediction and head to head Aryna Sabalenka vs. Anett Kontaveit
This will be the 4th time that Aryna Sabalenka and Anett Kontaveit fight against each other. The head to head is 3-0 for Sabalenka (see full H2H stats), but they have never played each other on clay.
The last time that they squared off, Sabalenka won 6-3 6-2 in the 3rd round in Dubai back in March 2021.
Highlights Aryna Sabalenka vs Anett Kontaveit – Dubai 10-March-2021
Aryna Sabalenka
Ranked no. 7 (career high), Sabalenka reached the quarter after defeating Shuai Zhang 6-2 6-2 and Anna-Lena Friedsam 6-4 6-2.
In the 2nd round, Sabalenka had a good straight sets win against Friedsam (6-4 6-2). During the match Sabalenka scored 64 points vs Friedsam’s 53. The Belarussian was pretty aggressive to blast 28 winners.
Regarding the service games, Sabalenka fired 5 aces and she committed only 3 double faults. Aryna Sabalenka lost the serve once and she saved 6 break points. Furthermore, Sabalenka put 64% of her first serves in, winning 76% (28/37) of the points behind her 1st serve and 48% (10/21) on the 2nd serve. Aryna was clinical in her return game without wasting any break point and break Friedsam 4 times.
Overall Performance in this tournament
Sabalenka started her run at this tournament from the qualifications. In the main draw, she hasn’t surrendered yet a set in this tournament to win 57% of the points she played.
Sabalenka has a solid record in the last 6 years having won 66% of her matches (201-105). 2-0 on clay in 2021. Talking about her performance on the same surface of this event, Sabalenka has a 28-24 record in the last 6 years on clay.
Her best result of the current year was winning the title in in Abu Dhabi where she defeated Veronika Kudermetova in the final 6-2 6-2.
The Belarussian has a 16-5 win-loss record in 2021, 2-0 on clay (See FULL STATS).
Previously in Stuttgart
Sabalenka has never competed in this tournament before.
Anett Kontaveit
Ranked no. 27, Anett got to the quarter after beating Julia Middendorf 6-2 6-3 and Sofia Kenin 7-5 6-4.
In the 2nd round, Kontaveit had a good straight sets win against Kenin (7-5 6-4). During the match Kontaveit scored 82 points vs Kenin’s 67. Kontaveit was very aggressive to blast 37 winners.
Talking about serving, Kontaveit fired 12 aces and she committed only 2 double faults. Anett Kontaveit lost the serve twice and she saved 3 break points. Furthermore, Kontaveit put 66% of her first serves in, winning 86% (37/43) of the points behind her 1st serve and 27% (6/22) on the 2nd serve. Anett broke Kenin 4 times after converting 25% of her break points (4/16).
Overall Performance in this tournament
Anett started her run at this tournament from the qualifications. In the main draw, she hasn’t lost yet a set in this competition to conquer 56% of the points she played.
The Estonian’s best result of the current season was getting to the semifinal in Melbourne.
Kontaveit has a 12-5 win-loss record in 2021, 2-0 on clay (See FULL STATS).
H2H Performance in the tournament (main draw)
Matches, sets, games and points
| Points | Sabalenka | Kontaveit |
|---|---|---|
| Match played | 2 | 2 |
| Tot Set | 4 | 4 |
| Tot Games | 34 | 39 |
| Pts | 128-95 | 149-119 |
| Total Points | 223 | 268 |
| Winners | 53 | 66 |
| %Winners | 41% | 44% |
Both Sabalenka and Kontaveit played 2 matches. Both players have not dropped a single set in this event so far. Talking about their workload, Sabalenka and Kontaveit have played the same amount of sets 4. However, Sabalenka played 5 games less than Kontaveit. Aryna scored 53 winners (41% of the total points). On the other side, Anett struck 66 winners (44%).
Serve Performance
| Serve | Sabalenka | Kontaveit |
|---|---|---|
| Aces | 8 | 14 |
| Avg per match | 4 | 7 |
| 1st in | 66/108 | 84/129 |
| %1st in | 61% | 65% |
| 1st pts | 53/66 | 66/84 |
| %1st pts | 80% | 79% |
| 2nd pts | 22/42 | 18/45 |
| %2nd pts | 52% | 40% |
Sabalenka managed to score 8 aces (4 per match). Kontaveit blasted 14 aces (7 per match). Sabalenka won 80% points behind her first serve. She extremely effective on her second serve to win 52% of the points. On the other side, Kontaveit won 79% of the points on her first serve. She had a solid display on her second serve to win 40% of the points.
How they played the important points
| Breaks | Sabalenka | Kontaveit |
|---|---|---|
| Won | 8 | 8 |
| Converted | 8/12 | 8/23 |
| % Converted | 67% | 35% |
| Conceded | 8 | 13 |
| Saved | 7 | 11 |
| % Saved | 88% | 85% |
| Times Broken | 1 | 2 |
Aryna broke her opponents 8 times with a 67% conversion rate. Sabalenka dropped her serve once and she saved 88% of the break points that she conceded. Anett broke her opponents 8 times with a 35% conversion rate. Kontaveit conceded her serve twice and she saved 85% of the break points that she conceded.
| Sabalenka | ||||
| R1 Zhang |
R2 Friedsam |
Total | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Score | 6-2 6-2 | 6-4 6-2 | ||
| Tot Set | 2 | 2 | 4 | |
| Tot Games | 16 | 18 | 34 | |
| pts | 64-42 | 64-53 | 128-95 | |
| Total points | 106 | 117 | 223 | |
| Winners | 25 | 28 | 53 | |
| %Winners | 39% | 44% | 41% | |
| SERVE | ||||
| Aces | 3 | 5 | 8 | |
| Double Faults | 1 | 3 | 4 | |
| 1st in | 29/50 | 37/58 | 66/108 | |
| % 1st in | 58% | 64% | 61% | |
| 1st pts | 25/29 | 28/37 | 53/66 | |
| % 1st pts | 86% | 76% | 80% | |
| 2nd pts | 12/21 | 10/21 | 22/42 | |
| % 2nd pts | 57% | 48% | 52% | |
| Breaks | ||||
| Won | 4 | 4 | 8 | |
| Converted | 4/8 | 4/4 | 8/12 | |
| Converted % | 50% | 100% | 67% | |
| Conceded | 1 | 7 | 8 | |
| Saved | 1/1 | 6/7 | 7 | |
| Saved % | 100% | 86% | 93% | |
| Times Broken | 0 | 1 | 1 | |
| Kontaveit | ||||
| R1 Middendorf |
R2 Kenin |
Total | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Score | 6-2 6-3 | 7-5 6-4 | ||
| Tot Set | 2 | 2 | 4 | |
| Tot Games | 17 | 22 | 39 | |
| pts | 67-52 | 82-67 | 149-119 | |
| Total points | 119 | 149 | 268 | |
| Winners | 29 | 37 | 66 | |
| %Winners | 43% | 45% | 44% | |
| SERVE | ||||
| Aces | 2 | 12 | 14 | |
| Double Faults | 1 | 2 | 3 | |
| 1st in | 41/64 | 43/65 | 84/129 | |
| % 1st in | 64% | 66% | 65% | |
| 1st pts | 29/41 | 37/43 | 66/84 | |
| % 1st pts | 71% | 86% | 79% | |
| 2nd pts | 12/23 | 6/22 | 18/45 | |
| % 2nd pts | 52% | 27% | 40% | |
| Breaks | ||||
| Won | 4 | 4 | 8 | |
| Converted | 4/7 | 4/16 | 8/23 | |
| Converted % | 57% | 25% | 35% | |
| Conceded | 8 | 5 | 13 | |
| Saved | 8/8 | 3/5 | 11 | |
| Saved % | 100% | 60% | 80% | |
| Times Broken | 0 | 2 | 2 | |
Head 2 Head
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