Ekaterina Alexandrova and Marta Kostyuk will fight against each other in the 1st round of the Internazionali BNL d’Italia for the 1st time in their career. They are scheduled to play on Monday at 12:30 pm on Court 3. Here you can find the head to head analysis and the prediction.
Prediction, odds and live streaming
The pick for Tennis Tonic is Marta Kostyuk who should win in 3 sets.
As per the initial odds, Marta Kostyuk is the pick to win this match.
Marta Kostyuk -> 1.85
Ekaterina Alexandrova -> 2
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Prediction and head to head Ekaterina Alexandrova vs. Marta Kostyuk
There is no head to head record between Ekaterina Alexandrova and Marta Kostyuk since this will be the first time that they will square off in the main tour.
Ekaterina Alexandrova
Ranked no. 32, Alexandrova will start her run in Rome after she played her last match in Madrid where she lost 7-5 3-6 6-1 to Azarenka in the 1st round on the 30th of April.
The Russian has a 11-9 win-loss record in 2021, 2-2 on clay (See FULL STATS).
The Russian’s best result of the current season was getting to the semifinal in Melbourne.
Talking about her overall career, Ekaterina has an overall 218-139 record. She has a positive 63-49 record on clay.
Previously in Rome
Previously, her best result was reaching the 1st round in 2020. See her history.
Marta Kostyuk
Ranked no. 77 (career high), Marta reached the 1st round after beating Nuria Brancaccio 6-4 6-0 and Nao Hibino 7-5 6-3.
In the qualifications, The Ukrainian had a good straight sets win against Hibino (7-5 6-3). During the match Kostyuk scored 75 points vs Hibino’s 64. Marta was extremely aggressive to blast 33 winners.
Talking about serving, Kostyuk scored just 1 ace during the entire match and she committed only 7 double faults. Marta Kostyuk lost the serve 4 times and she saved 7 break points. Furthermore, Kostyuk put 67% of her first serves in, winning 63% (33/52) of the points behind her 1st serve and 38% (10/26) on the 2nd serve. Kostyuk broke Hibino 6 times after converting 75% of her break points (6/8).
Overall Performance in this tournament
Marta started her run at this tournament from the qualifications. In the main draw, she hasn’t conceded yet a set in this competition to conquer 56% of the points she played.
Marta’s best result of the current season was reaching the semifinal in Abu Dhabi and Istanbul.
The Ukrainian has a 12-6 win-loss record in 2021, 7-2 on clay (See FULL STATS).
Previously in Rome
Kostyuk has never competed in this tournament before.
Head 2 Head
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- Polona HercogHercog – Sara ErraniErrani (6-2 6-3) – See score progression
- Bernarda PeraPera – Anastasia PotapovaPotapova (6-4 6-1) – See score progression
- Christina MchaleMchale – Patricia Maria TigMaria Tig (6-3 2-6 6-2) – See score progression
- Marta KostyukKostyuk – Nao HibinoHibino (7-5 6-3) – See score progression
- Alize CornetCornet – Andrea PetkovicPetkovic (6-2 7-65) – See score progression
- Tamara ZidansekZidansek – Sloane StephensStephens (6-4 7-5) – See score progression
- Vera ZvonarevaZvonareva – Kristina MladenovicMladenovic (6-2 7-5) – See score progression
- Ajla TomljanovicTomljanovic – Laura SiegemundSiegemund (6-75 6-3 6-2) – See score progression
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- Ajla TomljanovicTomljanovic – Marketa VondrousovaVondrousova (1-1) – H2H and prediction
- Angelique KerberKerber – Alize CornetCornet (3-2) – H2H and prediction
- Laura SiegemundSiegemund – Nadia PodoroskaPodoroska (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Petra MarticMartic – Shelby RogersRogers (0-1) – H2H and prediction
- Kristina MladenovicMladenovic – Belinda BencicBencic (3-3) – H2H and prediction
- Jennifer BradyBrady – Shuai ZhangZhang (2-0) – H2H and prediction
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