Polona Hercog and Sara Errani will fight against each other in the qualifications of the Internazionali BNL d’Italia for the 4^th time of their career. They are scheduled to compete on Sunday at 11:00 am on PIETRANGELI. Here you can find the head to head analysis and the prediction.

Prediction, odds and live streaming

The pick for Tennis Tonic is Polona Hercog who should win in 3 sets.

As per the initial odds, Polona Hercog is the pick to win this match.
Polona Hercog -> 1.67
Sara Errani -> 2.2

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Prediction and head to head Polona Hercog vs. Sara Errani

This will be the 4^th time that Polona Hercog and Sara Errani square off. The head to head is 3-0 for Errani (see full H2H stats), 1-0 on clay.

The last time that they competed against each other, Errani won 6-4 5-7 6-4 in the 2^nd round in Cincinnati back in 2013.

Polona Hercog

Ranked no. 73, the Slovenian reached the qualifications after defeating Lucia Bronzetti 6-4 6-3.

In the qualifications, Polona had a good straight sets win against Bronzetti (6-4 6-3). During the match Hercog scored 62 points vs Bronzetti’s 43. Hercog was quite aggressive to blast 24 winners.

Regarding the service games, Hercog made 5 aces and she committed only 1 double fault. Overall, Polona Hercog was pretty effective on serve to win 80% (24/30) of her 1st serve and 57% (13/23) on the second serve. However, this didn’t prevent her to concede the serve twice. Polona was clinical in her return game without wasting any break point and break Bronzetti 4 times.

Hercog has a good record in the last 10 years having won 56% of her matches (237-188). 5-3 on clay in 2021. In connection with her performance on the same surface of this event, Hercog has a 131-67 record in the last years on clay.

Hercog has a 6-7 win-loss record in 2021, 5-3 on clay (See FULL STATS).

Previously in Rome

Previously, her best result was reaching the 3^rd round in 2011 and 2020. See her history.

Rome

Hercog's Record

Sara Errani

Ranked no. 113, Sara got to the qualifications after beating Heather Watson 6-3 6-2.

In the qualifications, The Italian had a good straight sets win against Watson (6-3 6-2). During the match Errani scored 63 points vs Watson’s 42. Sara was pretty aggressive to blast 26 winners.

Talking about serving, Errani was unable to score even 1 ace for the entire match and she committed only 1 double fault for the entire match. Sara Errani lost the serve 3 times and she saved 3 break points. Furthermore, Errani put 73% of her first serves in, winning 59% (26/44) of the points behind her 1st serve and 50% (8/16) on the 2nd serve. Errani broke Watson 6 times after converting 86% of her break points (6/7).

The Italian has a 8-9 win-loss record in 2021, 3-3 on clay (See FULL STATS).

Previously in Rome

Previously, her best result was reaching the final in 2014. See her history.

Rome

Errani's Record

H2H Performance in the tournament (main draw)

Matches, sets, games and points

Both Hercog and Errani played 1 match. Also both players started their run from the qualifications.Both players have not lost a single set in this event so far. Talking about their workload, Hercog and Errani have played the same amount of sets 2. However, Hercog played 2 games more than Errani. Polona scored 24 winners (39% of the total points). On the other side, Errani blasted 26 winners (41%).

Serve Performance

Hercog managed to score 5 aces . Errani didn’t manage to fire a single ace to far. Hercog won 80% points behind her first serve. She quite strong on her second serve to win 57% of the points. On the other side, Errani won 59% of the points behind her first serve. She had a solid display on her second serve to win 50% of the points.

How they played the important points

Polona broke her opponent 4 times with a 100% conversion rate. Polona dropped her serve twice and she saved 50% of the break points that she conceded. The Italian broke her opponent 6 times with a 86% conversion rate. The Italian conceded her serve 3 times and she saved 50% of the break points that she conceded.

Head 2 Head

• 0Slam
• 3Main
• 16ITF
• 3Minor

• 0Slam
• 9Main
• 6ITF
• 1Minor

Polona
Hercog

1:3

Sara
Errani

Rank

179

High

35

0Hard1

1Clay1

0I.hard1

Rank

86

High

5

Win Loss

Hercog

LWLWLLLWLW

Errani

LLWWWLWWWW

2024 2023 2022

22 - 15

24 - 15

0-0

Hard

4-6

2-4

I Hard

4-2

19-10

Clay

13-5

1-1

Grass

3-2

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