Simona Halep and Angelique Kerber will fight against each other in the 2nd round of the Internazionali BNL d’Italia for the 12th time of their career. They are scheduled to compete on Wednesday at 5:30 pm on Grand Stand Arena. In the following lines you can find the head to head analysis and prediction.
Prediction, odds and live streaming
The pick for Tennis Tonic is Simona Halep who should win in 2 sets.
As per the initial odds, Simona Halep is the pick to win this match.
Simona Halep -> 1.26
Angelique Kerber -> 4.05
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Prediction and head to head Simona Halep vs. Angelique Kerber
This will be the 12th time that Simona Halep and Angelique Kerber play each other. The head to head is 6-5 for Halep (see full H2H stats),but they are 1-1 on clay.
The last time that they played, Kerber won 6-4 6-3 in the quarter in Eastbourne back in 2019.
Simona Halep
Ranked no. 3, the Romanian will start her run in Rome after she played her last match in Madrid where she lost 4-6 7-5 7-5 to Mertens in the 3rd round on the 4th of May.
The Romanian has a 11-4 win-loss record in 2021, 4-2 on clay (See FULL STATS).
Simona’s best result of the current season was reaching the semifinal in Stuttgart.
Talking about her overall career, Halep has an overall 537-223 record. She has a positive 210-65 record on clay.
Previously in Rome
Previously, she won this tournament once in 2020. See her history.
Angelique Kerber
Ranked no. 26, the German reached the 2nd round after defeating Alize Cornet 6-2 7-5.
In the 1st round, The German had a good straight sets win against Cornet (6-2 7-5). During the match Kerber scored 75 points vs Cornet’s 66. Kerber was extremely aggressive to blast 31 winners.
Talking about serving, Kerber scored just 1 ace during the entire match and she committed only 4 double faults. Angelique Kerber lost the serve twice and she saved 13 break points. Furthermore, Kerber put 63% of her first serves in, winning 60% (31/52) of the points behind her 1st serve and 55% (17/31) on the 2nd serve. Kerber broke Cornet 5 times after converting 83% of her break points (5/6).
The German has a 7-7 win-loss record in 2021, 3-2 on clay (See FULL STATS).
Previously in Rome
Previously, her best result was reaching the semifinal in 2012. See her history.
Head 2 Head
LWLL
LWWWLLLLLW Tennis Scores in Rome
- Bernarda PeraPera – Tamara ZidansekZidansek (6-3 6-2) – See score progression
- Madison KeysKeys – Sloane StephensStephens (4-6 6-2 7-5) – See score progression
- Jelena OstapenkoOstapenko – Johanna KontaKonta (6-3 6-1) – See score progression
- Kristina MladenovicMladenovic – Belinda BencicBencic (6-3 6-4) – See score progression
- Nadia PodoroskaPodoroska – Laura SiegemundSiegemund (2-6 7-63 6-1) – See score progression
- Barbora KrejcikovaKrejcikova – Saisai ZhengZheng (6-2 6-0) – See score progression
- Garbine MuguruzaMuguruza – Patricia Maria TigMaria Tig (6-1 6-2) – 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
- 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
- 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
- Amanda AnisimovaAnisimova – Qiang WangWang (7-5 6-3) – See score progression
- Jennifer BradyBrady – Shuai ZhangZhang (6-1 6-4) – 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
- Anastasija SevastovaSevastova – Jil TeichmannTeichmann (3-6 6-1 6-3) – See score progression
- Sara Sorribes TormoSorribes Tormo – Camila GiorgiGiorgi (7-64 6-77 7-5) – See score progression
- Jessica PegulaPegula – Daria KasatkinaKasatkina (7-5 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
- 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
