Tereza Martincova and Samantha Stosur will face off in the 1st round of the Birmingham Classic for the 2nd time in their career. They are scheduled to compete on Monday at 4:30 pm on Ann Jones Court. In this post, we analyze their head to head performance and prediction.
Prediction, odds and live streaming
The pick for Tennis Tonic is Tereza Martincova who should win in 2 sets.
As per the initial odds, Tereza Martincova is the pick to win this match.
Tereza Martincova -> 1.22
Samantha Stosur -> 4.5
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Prediction and head to head Tereza Martincova vs. Samantha Stosur
This will be the 2nd time that Tereza Martincova and Samantha Stosur clash against each other. The head to head is 1-0 for Stosur (see full H2H stats), but they have never played each other on grass.
The last time that they competed against each other, Stosur won 6-2 6-4 in the 1st round in Guangzhou back in 2019.
Tereza Martincova
Ranked no. 94, Tereza got to the 1st round after beating Dalila Jakupovic 4-2 ret. and Georgina Garcia-Perez 6-3 6-2.
In the qualifications, The Czech had a good straight sets win against Garcia-Perez (6-3 6-2). During the match, Martincova scored 67 points vs Garcia-Perez’s 47. Martincova was quite aggressive to blast 25 winners.
Talking about the service games, Martincova couldn’t to score even 1 ace and she was pretty consistent in conceding no double faults. Tereza Martincova was quite effective on serve to win 78% (25/32) of her 1st serve and 75% (12/16) on the second serve. This was the main reason for not conceding a single break during the match. The Czech broke Garcia-Perez 3 times after converting 30% of her break points (3/10).
Martincova has a winning win-loss record in the last 9 years having won 56% of her matches (280-224). 4-1 on grass in 2021. In connection with her performance on the same surface of this event, Martincova has a compiled15-16 record in the last 9 years on grass.
Martincova has an overall 21-14 win-loss record in 2021, 4-1 on grass (See FULL STATS).
Previously in Birmingham
Martincova has never competed in this tournament before.
Samantha Stosur
Ranked no. 133, Samantha will start her run in Birmingham after she played her last match in Adelaide where she lost 5-7 7-5 6-4 to Inglis in the 1st round on the 23rd of February.
Stosur has an aggregate 1-3 win-loss record in 2021, 0-0 on grass (See FULL STATS).
This will be the first match of the season on grass.
In terms of her career, Stosur has an overall 553-405 record. She has a positive 51-44 record on grass.
Head 2 Head
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Tennis Scores in Birmingham
- Tereza MartincovaMartincova – Georgina Garcia-PerezGarcia-Perez (6-3 6-2) – See score progression
- Giulia Gatto-MonticoneGatto-Monticone – Eden SilvaSilva (6-0 6-1) – See score progression
- Coco VandewegheVandeweghe – Kateryna KozlovaKozlova (6-4 6-71 6-4) – See score progression
- Vitalia DiatchenkoDiatchenko – Naiktha BainsBains (7-61 6-3) – See score progression
- Caty McNallyMcNally – Kurumi NaraNara (6-3 6-0) – See score progression
- Yafan WangWang – Marina MelnikovaMelnikova (6-3 7-5) – See score progression
Upcoming matches in the draw
- Elise MertensMertens – Ajla TomljanovicTomljanovic (1-0) – H2H and prediction
- Coco VandewegheVandeweghe – Kristyna PliskovaPliskova (0-2) – H2H and prediction
- Harriet DartDart – Caroline GarciaGarcia (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Su-Wei HsiehHsieh – Marie BouzkovaBouzkova (1-0) – H2H and prediction
- Darya KasatkinaKasatkina – Polona HercogHercog (1-0) – H2H and prediction
- Madison BrengleBrengle – Marta KostyukKostyuk (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Samantha StosurStosur – Tereza MartincovaMartincova (1-0) – H2H and prediction
- Lauren DavisDavis – Jelena OstapenkoOstapenko (1-1) – H2H and prediction
- Shuai ZhangZhang – Vitalia DiatchenkoDiatchenko (1-1) – H2H and prediction
- Viktorija GolubicGolubic – Heather WatsonWatson (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Camila GiorgiGiorgi – Giulia Gatto-MonticoneGatto-Monticone (1-0) – H2H and prediction
- Francesca JonesJones – Donna VekicVekic (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Fiona FerroFerro – Kristina MladenovicMladenovic (1-2) – H2H and prediction
- Nina StojanovicStojanovic – Anastasia PotapovaPotapova (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Leylah Annie FernandezAnnie Fernandez – Yafan WangWang (0-1) – H2H and prediction
- Caty McNallyMcNally – Ons JabeurJabeur (0-1) – H2H and prediction
