Aryna Sabalenka and Vera Zvonareva will fight against each other in the 1st round of the Mutua Madrid Open for the 2nd time of their career. They are scheduled to compete on Friday at 11:00 am on Manolo Santana Stadium. 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 2 sets.
As per the initial odds, Aryna Sabalenka is the pick to win this match.
Aryna Sabalenka -> 1.112
Vera Zvonareva -> 7
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Prediction and head to head Aryna Sabalenka vs. Vera Zvonareva
This will be the 2nd time that Aryna Sabalenka and Vera Zvonareva fight against each other. The head to head is 1-0 for Sabalenka (see full H2H stats), but they have never competed against each other on clay.
The last time that they played, Sabalenka won 6-3 7-6(7) in the 2nd round in New York back in 2018.
Aryna Sabalenka
Ranked no. 7 (career high), Sabalenka will start her run in Madrid after she played her last match in Stuttgart where she lost 3-6 6-0 6-3 to Barty in the final on the 25th of April.
Aryna has a 18-6 win-loss record in 2021, 4-1 on clay (See FULL STATS).
Her best result of the year was winning the title in in Abu Dhabi where she overcame Veronika Kudermetova in the final 6-2 6-2.
Talking about her overall career, Sabalenka has an overall 203-106 record. She has a positive 30-25 record on clay.
Previously in Madrid
Previously, her best result was reaching the 1st round in 2018 and 2019. See her history.
Vera Zvonareva
Ranked no. 114, the Russian reached the 1st round after defeating Arantxa Rus 6-3 6-2 and Anna Schmiedlova 6-2 6-1.
In the qualifications, Zvonareva had a good straight sets win against Anna Schmiedlova (6-2 6-1). During the match Zvonareva scored 55 points vs Anna Schmiedlova’s 29. Zvonareva was exceptionally aggressive to blast 23 winners.
Talking about serving, Zvonareva managed to score 2 aces and she was pretty steady in conceding no double faults for the entire match. Vera Zvonareva was quite efficient on serve to win 88% (23/26) of her 1st serve and 71% (5/7) on the second serve. This was the main reason for not conceding a single break during the match. Zvonareva broke Anna Schmiedlova 5 times after converting 71% of her break points (5/7).
Overall Performance in this tournament
The Russian started her run at this tournament from the qualifications. In the main draw, she hasn’t dropped yet a set in this competition to win 63% of the points she played.
The Russian’s best result of the year was getting to the semifinal in St. Petersburg.
Zvonareva has a 10-6 win-loss record in 2021, 3-1 on clay (See FULL STATS).
Head 2 Head
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- Belinda BencicBencic – Kristina MladenovicMladenovic (6-4 6-2) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Sloane StephensStephens – Danka KovinicKovinic (6-4 6-1) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Kiki BertensBertens – Victoria Jimenez KasintsevaJimenez Kasintseva (6-4 6-0) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Angelique KerberKerber – Marketa VondrousovaVondrousova (7-65 6-1) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Jil TeichmannTeichmann – Elina SvitolinaSvitolina (2-6 6-4 7-65) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Bernarda PeraPera – Petra MarticMartic (6-3 6-2) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Tamara ZidansekZidansek – Su-Wei HsiehHsieh (6-2 6-4) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Veronika KudermetovaKudermetova – Elena VesninaVesnina (6-1 6-4) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Petra KvitovaKvitova – Marie BouzkovaBouzkova (6-2 2-3 ret.) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Ons JabeurJabeur – Yaroslava ShvedovaShvedova (6-2 6-3) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Johanna KontaKonta – Yulia PutintsevaPutintseva (6-4 6-2) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Ashleigh BartyBarty – Shelby RogersRogers (6-2 6-1) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Laura SiegemundSiegemund – Kateryna KozlovaKozlova (6-4 6-2) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Anastasija SevastovaSevastova – Ana BogdanBogdan (6-0 6-3) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Yifan Xu/Shuai ZhangXu/Shuai Zhang – Cori Gauff/Nicole MelicharGauff/Nicole Melichar (7-5 7-5) – Stats, scores, rankings
Upcoming matches in the draw
- Aryna SabalenkaSabalenka – Vera ZvonarevaZvonareva (1-0) – H2H and prediction
- Irina-Camelia BeguBegu – Darya KasatkinaKasatkina (1-7) – H2H and prediction
- Jessica PegulaPegula – Sorana CirsteaCirstea (1-1) – H2H and prediction
- Ekaterina AlexandrovaAlexandrova – Victoria AzarenkaAzarenka (0-1) – H2H and prediction
- Elise MertensMertens – Shuai ZhangZhang (1-1) – H2H and prediction
- Ajla TomljanovicTomljanovic – Elena RybakinaRybakina (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Magda LinetteLinette – Saisai ZhengZheng (1-0) – H2H and prediction
- Sara Sorribes TormoSorribes Tormo – Simona HalepHalep (0-1) – H2H and prediction
- Karolina PliskovaPliskova – Cori GauffGauff (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Anastasia PavlyuchenkovaPavlyuchenkova – Madison KeysKeys (1-2) – H2H and prediction
- Polona HercogHercog – Jelena OstapenkoOstapenko (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Venus WilliamsWilliams – Jennifer BradyBrady (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Maria SakkariSakkari – Amanda AnisimovaAnisimova (1-0) – H2H and prediction
- Nina StojanovicStojanovic – Anett KontaveitKontaveit (0-1) – H2H and prediction
- Qiang WangWang – Karolina MuchovaMuchova (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Misaki DoiDoi – Naomi OsakaOsaka (0-2) – H2H and prediction
- Ashleigh BartyBarty – Tamara ZidansekZidansek (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Laura SiegemundSiegemund – Iga SwiatekSwiatek (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Petra KvitovaKvitova – Angelique KerberKerber (7-6) – H2H and prediction
- Veronika KudermetovaKudermetova – Kiki BertensBertens (0-1) – H2H and prediction
- Jil TeichmannTeichmann – Paula Badosa GibertBadosa Gibert (0-2) – H2H and prediction
- Anastasija SevastovaSevastova – Johanna KontaKonta (2-2) – H2H and prediction
- Sloane StephensStephens – Ons JabeurJabeur (1-1) – H2H and prediction
- Bernarda PeraPera – Belinda BencicBencic (0-0) – H2H and prediction