Sofia Kenin and Barbora Krejcikova will clash against each other in the 2nd round of the Internazionali BNL d’Italia for the 1st time in their career. They are scheduled to play on Wednesday at 5:30 pm on Grand Stand Arena. In this post, we analyze their head to head performance and the prediction.
Prediction, odds and live streaming
The pick for Tennis Tonic is Barbora Krejcikova who should win in 3 sets.
Barbora Krejcikova -> 1.64
Sofia Kenin -> 2.31
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Prediction and head to head Sofia Kenin vs. Barbora Krejcikova
There is no head to head record between Sofia Kenin and Barbora Krejcikova since this will be the first time that they will face off in the main tour.
Sofia Kenin
Ranked no. 5, Sofia will start her run in Rome after she played her last match in Stuttgart where she lost 7-5 6-4 to Kontaveit in the 2nd round on the 21st of April.
Kenin has a 7-7 win-loss record in 2021, 0-2 on clay (See FULL STATS).
Talking about her overall career, Kenin has an overall 216-124 record. She has a positive 59-40 record on clay.
Previously in Rome
Previously, her best result was reaching the 3rd round in 2019. See her history.
Barbora Krejcikova
Ranked no. 40, Barbora reached the 2nd round after defeating Saisai Zheng 6-2 6-0.
In the 1st round, Krejcikova had a good straight sets win against Zheng (6-2 6-0). During the match Krejcikova scored 51 points vs Zheng’s 24. The Czech was exceptionally aggressive to blast 12 winners.
Talking about serving, Krejcikova struck 3 aces and she committed only 1 double fault for the entire match. Barbora Krejcikova was very effective on serve to win 86% (12/14) of her 1st serve and 72% (18/25) on the second serve. This was the main reason for not conceding a single break during the match. Barbora broke Zheng 5 times after converting 56% of her break points (5/9).
The Czech’s best result of the season was getting to the final in Dubai.
Krejcikova has a 13-8 win-loss record in 2021, 2-2 on clay (See FULL STATS).
Previously in Rome
The Czech has never competed in this tournament before.
Tennis Scores in Rome
- Barbora KrejcikovaKrejcikova – Saisai ZhengZheng (6-2 6-0) – See score progression
- Garbine MuguruzaMuguruza – Patricia Maria TigMaria Tig (6-1 6-2) – See score progression
- Madison KeysKeys – Sloane StephensStephens (4-6 6-2 7-5) – See score progression
- Kristina MladenovicMladenovic – Belinda BencicBencic (6-3 6-4) – See score progression
- Yaroslava ShvedovaShvedova – Martina TrevisanTrevisan (0-6 7-64 7-66) – See score progression
- Caroline GarciaGarcia – Elisabetta CocciarettoCocciaretto (7-68 6-2) – See score progression
- Veronika KudermetovaKudermetova – Elise MertensMertens (4-6 6-2 6-3) – See score progression
- Angelique KerberKerber – Alize CornetCornet (6-2 7-5) – See score progression
- Bernarda PeraPera – Tamara ZidansekZidansek (6-3 6-2) – See score progression
- Jelena OstapenkoOstapenko – Johanna KontaKonta (6-3 6-1) – See score progression
- Ajla TomljanovicTomljanovic – Marketa VondrousovaVondrousova (6-4 6-2) – See score progression
- Nadia PodoroskaPodoroska – Laura SiegemundSiegemund (2-6 7-63 6-1) – See score progression
- Iga SwiatekSwiatek – Alison RiskeRiske (5-4 ret.) – See score progression
- Ekaterina AlexandrovaAlexandrova – Marta KostyukKostyuk (6-3 6-1) – See score progression
- Maria SakkariSakkari – Polona HercogHercog (7-66 3-6 6-2) – See score progression
- Sara Sorribes TormoSorribes Tormo – Camila GiorgiGiorgi (7-64 6-77 7-5) – See score progression
- Anastasija SevastovaSevastova – Jil TeichmannTeichmann (3-6 6-1 6-3) – See score progression
- Vera ZvonarevaZvonareva – Christina MchaleMchale (6-3 6-0) – See score progression
- Petra MarticMartic – Shelby RogersRogers (5-7 6-3 6-4) – See score progression
- Petra KvitovaKvitova – Magda LinetteLinette (1-6 6-0 6-2) – See score progression
- Cori GauffGauff – Yulia PutintsevaPutintseva (7-5 4-6 6-4) – See score progression
- Jessica PegulaPegula – Daria KasatkinaKasatkina (7-5 6-3) – See score progression
- Amanda AnisimovaAnisimova – Qiang WangWang (7-5 6-3) – See score progression
- Jennifer BradyBrady – Shuai ZhangZhang (6-1 6-4) – See score progression
- Garbine MuguruzaMuguruza – Patricia Maria TigMaria Tig (6-1 6-2) – See score progression
- Jelena OstapenkoOstapenko – Johanna KontaKonta (6-3 6-1) – See score progression
- Ajla TomljanovicTomljanovic – Marketa VondrousovaVondrousova (6-4 6-2) – See score progression
- Angelique KerberKerber – Alize CornetCornet (6-2 7-5) – See score progression
Upcoming matches in the draw
- Ashleigh BartyBarty – Yaroslava ShvedovaShvedova (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Caroline GarciaGarcia – Veronika KudermetovaKudermetova (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Maria SakkariSakkari – Cori GauffGauff (2-0) – H2H and prediction
- Sara Sorribes TormoSorribes Tormo – Aryna SabalenkaSabalenka (0-1) – H2H and prediction
- Sofia KeninKenin – Barbora KrejcikovaKrejcikova (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Madison KeysKeys – Iga SwiatekSwiatek (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Garbine MuguruzaMuguruza – Bernarda PeraPera (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Amanda AnisimovaAnisimova – Elina SvitolinaSvitolina (1-1) – H2H and prediction
- Karolina PliskovaPliskova – Anastasija SevastovaSevastova (2-2) – H2H and prediction
- Vera ZvonarevaZvonareva – Petra KvitovaKvitova (3-3) – H2H and prediction
- Jelena OstapenkoOstapenko – Ajla TomljanovicTomljanovic (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Angelique KerberKerber – Simona HalepHalep (5-6) – H2H and prediction
- Serena WilliamsWilliams – Nadia PodoroskaPodoroska (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Petra MarticMartic – Kristina MladenovicMladenovic (5-2) – H2H and prediction
- Jennifer BradyBrady – Ekaterina AlexandrovaAlexandrova (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Jessica PegulaPegula – Naomi OsakaOsaka (0-1) – H2H and prediction