Aryna Sabalenka and Monica Niculescu will square off in the 1st round of Wimbledon for the 2nd time in their career. They are scheduled to compete on Monday at 1:00 pm on Court 1. 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 Aryna Sabalenka who should win in 2 sets.
As per the initial odds, Aryna Sabalenka is the pick to win this match.
Aryna Sabalenka -> 1.108
Monica Niculescu -> 7.2
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Prediction and head to head Aryna Sabalenka vs. Monica Niculescu
This will be the 2nd time that Aryna Sabalenka and Monica Niculescu square off. The head to head is 1-0 for Sabalenka (see full H2H stats), but they have never played each other on grass.
The last time that they fought against each other, Sabalenka won 6-4 6-4 in the 1st round in Shenzhen back in 2017.
Aryna Sabalenka
Ranked no. 4 (career-high), the Belarussian will start her run in Wimbledon after she played her last match in Eastbourne where she lost 7-6(5) 0-6 6-4 to Giorgi in the quarter on the 24th of June.
Sabalenka has an overall 29-10 win-loss record in 2021, 2-2 on grass (See FULL STATS).
Her best result of the season was winning the title in in Abu Dhabi where she beat Veronika Kudermetova in the final 6-2 6-2 and in in Madrid where she overcame Ashleigh Barty in the final 6-0 3-6 6-4.
Talking about her overall career, The Belarussian has an overall 214-110 record. She has a positive 18-13 record on grass.
Previously in Wimbledon
Previously, her best result was reaching the 2nd round in 2017. See her history.
Monica Niculescu
Ranked no. 193, the Romanian reached the 1st round after beating Ulrikke Eikeri 6-3 6-3, Asia Muhammad 6-3 6-2 and Kristie Ahn 7-5 6-1.
In the qualifications, Monica had a good straight sets win against Ahn (7-5 6-1). During the match Niculescu scored 79 points vs Ahn’s 58. Niculescu was pretty aggressive to blast 31 winners.
About the serving games, Niculescu couldn’t to score even 1 ace for the entire match and she committed only 1 double fault for the entire match. Monica Niculescu lost the serve twice and she saved 2 break points. Furthermore, Niculescu put 82% of her first serves in, winning 63% (31/49) of the points behind her 1st serve and 64% (7/11) on the 2nd serve. Niculescu broke Ahn 5 times after converting 42% of her break points (5/12).
Overall Performance in this tournament
The Romanian started her run at this tournament from the qualifications. In the main draw, she hasn’t dropped yet a set in this tournament to conquer 57% of the points she played.
The Romanian has an aggregate 8-10 win-loss record in 2021, 6-1 on grass (See FULL STATS).
Head 2 Head
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