Ons Jabeur and Leylah Annie Fernandez will square off in the 2nd round of the Birmingham Classic for the 2nd time in their career. They are scheduled to play on Thursday at 11:30 am on Ann Jones Court. In the following paragraphs, you can find the head to head analysis and prediction.
Prediction, odds and live streaming
The pick for Tennis Tonic is Ons Jabeur who should win in 2 sets.
Ons Jabeur -> 1.45
Leylah Annie Fernandez -> 2.84
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Prediction and head to head Ons Jabeur vs. Leylah Annie Fernandez
This will be the 2nd time that Ons Jabeur and Leylah Annie Fernandez clash against each other. The head to head is 1-0 for Jabeur (see full H2H stats), but they have never competed against each other on grass.
The last time that they competed against each other, Jabeur won 0-6 6-4 6-3 in the 1st round in New York back in 2020.
Ons Jabeur
Ranked no. 24 (career-high), the Tunisian got to the 2nd round after beating Caty McNally 6-4 6-2.
In the 1st round, Jabeur had a good straight sets win against McNally (6-4 6-2). During the match, Jabeur scored 58 points vs McNally’s 44. Jabeur was exceptionally aggressive to blast 20 winners.
Regarding the service games, Jabeur managed to score 4 aces and she committed only 1 double fault. Ons Jabeur was very efficient on serve to win 87% (20/23) of her 1st serve and 62% (16/26) on the second serve. This was the main reason for not conceding a single break during the match. Jabeur broke McNally 3 times after converting 60% of her break points (3/5).
Jabeur has a solid record in the last 10 years having won 63% of her matches (301-179). 1-0 on grass in 2021. Regarding her performance on the same surface of this competition, Jabeur has a compiled 40-14 match record in the last years on grass.
The Tunisian’s best result of the season was getting to the final in Charleston.
The Tunisian has an overall 24-10 win-loss record in 2021, 1-0 on grass (See FULL STATS).
Previously in Birmingham
Jabeur has never competed in this tournament before.
Leylah Annie Fernandez
Ranked no. 66 (career-high), Annie got to the 2nd round after defeating Yafan Wang 7-5 6-3.
In the 1st round, Annie had a good straight sets win against Wang (7-5 6-3). During the match Annie scored 71 points vs Wang’s 53. Leylah was very aggressive to blast 35 winners.
About the serving games, Annie blasted 6 aces and she was quite consistent in conceding no double faults for the entire match. Overall, Leylah Annie Fernandez was exceptionally efficient on serve to win 76% (35/46) of her 1st serve and 63% (10/16) on the second serve. However, this didn’t prevent her to concede the serve once. Leylah broke Wang 3 times after converting 75% of her break points (3/4).
Her best result of the season was winning the title in in Monterrey where she overcame Viktorija Golubic in the final 6-1 6-4.
Leylah has an aggregate 14-10 win-loss record in 2021, 1-0 on grass (See FULL STATS).
H2H Performance in the tournament
Matches, sets, games and points
Points | Jabeur | Annie |
---|---|---|
Match played | 1 | 1 |
Tot Set | 2 | 2 |
Tot Games | 18 | 21 |
Pts | 58-44 | 71-53 |
Total Points | 102 | 124 |
Winners | 20 | 35 |
%Winners | 34% | 49% |
Both Jabeur and Annie played 1 match. Both players have not dropped a single set in this event so far. Talking about their workload, Jabeur and Annie have played the same amount of sets 2. However, Jabeur played 3 games less than Annie. Ons scored 20 winners (34% of the total points). On the other side, Leylah recorded 35 winners (49%).
Serve Performance
Serve | Jabeur | Annie |
---|---|---|
Aces | 4 | 6 |
Avg per match | 4 | 6 |
1st in | 23/49 | 46/62 |
%1st in | 47% | 74% |
1st pts | 20/23 | 35/46 |
%1st pts | 87% | 76% |
2nd pts | 16/26 | 10/16 |
%2nd pts | 62% | 63% |
Jabeur fired 4 aces . Annie recorded 6 aces . Jabeur won 87% points on her first serve. She very solid her second serve to win 62% of the points. On the other side, Annie won 76% of the points behind her first serve. She had a solid display on her second serve to win 63% of the points.
How they played the important points
Breaks | Jabeur | Annie |
---|---|---|
Won | 3 | 3 |
Converted | 3/5 | 3/4 |
% Converted | 60% | 75% |
Conceded | 0 | 2 |
Saved | 0 | 1 |
% Saved | NAN% | 50% |
Times Broken | 0 | 1 |
Ons broke her opponent 3 times with a 60% conversion rate. The Tunisian very solid her serve as she has never dropped a single service game after saving 0 break points. Leylah broke her opponent 3 times with a 75% conversion rate. The Canadian conceded her serve once and she saved 50% of the break points that she conceded.
Jabeur | |||
R1 McNally | Total | ||
---|---|---|---|
Score | 6-4 6-2 | ||
Tot Set | 2 | 2 | |
Tot Games | 18 | 18 | |
pts | 58-44 | 58-44 | |
Total points | 102 | 102 | |
Winners | 20 | 20 | |
%Winners | 34% | 34% | |
SERVE | |||
Aces | 4 | 4 | |
Double Faults | 1 | 1 | |
1st in | 23/49 | 23/49 | |
% 1st in | 47% | 47% | |
1st pts | 20/23 | 20/23 | |
% 1st pts | 87% | 87% | |
2nd pts | 16/26 | 16/26 | |
% 2nd pts | 62% | 62% | |
Breaks | |||
Won | 3 | 3 | |
Converted | 3/5 | 3/5 | |
Converted % | 60% | 60% | |
Conceded | 0 | 0 | |
Saved | 0/0 | 0 | |
Saved % | – | 0% | |
Times Broken | 0 | 0 |
Annie | |||
R1 Wang | Total | ||
---|---|---|---|
Score | 7-5 6-3 | ||
Tot Set | 2 | 2 | |
Tot Games | 21 | 21 | |
pts | 71-53 | 71-53 | |
Total points | 124 | 124 | |
Winners | 35 | 35 | |
%Winners | 49% | 49% | |
SERVE | |||
Aces | 6 | 6 | |
Double Faults | 0 | 0 | |
1st in | 46/62 | 46/62 | |
% 1st in | 74% | 74% | |
1st pts | 35/46 | 35/46 | |
% 1st pts | 76% | 76% | |
2nd pts | 10/16 | 10/16 | |
% 2nd pts | 63% | 63% | |
Breaks | |||
Won | 3 | 3 | |
Converted | 3/4 | 3/4 | |
Converted % | 75% | 75% | |
Conceded | 2 | 2 | |
Saved | 1/2 | 1 | |
Saved % | 50% | 50% | |
Times Broken | 1 | 1 |
Tennis Scores in Birmingham
- Heather WatsonWatson – Shuai ZhangZhang (5-2 ret.) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Coco VandewegheVandeweghe – Ajla TomljanovicTomljanovic (4-6 6-4 6-3) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Marie BouzkovaBouzkova – Caroline GarciaGarcia (6-3 6-0) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Donna VekicVekic – Camila GiorgiGiorgi (2-6 6-3 6-4) – Stats, scores, rankings
Upcoming matches in the draw
- Darya KasatkinaKasatkina – Marta KostyukKostyuk (0-2) – H2H and prediction
- Tereza MartincovaMartincova – Jelena OstapenkoOstapenko (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Kristina MladenovicMladenovic – Anastasia PotapovaPotapova (1-0) – H2H and prediction
- Leylah Annie FernandezAnnie Fernandez – Ons JabeurJabeur (0-1) – H2H and prediction
- Coco VandewegheVandeweghe – Marie BouzkovaBouzkova (1-0) – H2H and prediction
- Heather WatsonWatson – Donna VekicVekic (2-1) – H2H and prediction