Katharina Gerlach and Anna Zaja will face off in the qualifications of the European Open for the 4th time in their career. They are scheduled to play on Tuesday at 10:00 am on Centre Court. In this post, we analyze their head to head performance and prediction.
Prediction, odds and live streaming
The pick for Tennis Tonic is Anna Zaja who should win in 3 sets.
As per the initial odds, Anna Zaja is the pick to win this match.
Anna Zaja -> 1.9
Katharina Gerlach -> 1.9
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Prediction and head to head Katharina Gerlach vs. Anna Zaja
This will be the 4th time that Katharina Gerlach and Anna Zaja face off. The head to head is 3-0 for Zaja (see full H2H stats), 2-0 on clay.
The last time that they played each other, Zaja won 6-4 3-6 6-0 in the 1st round in the W60 Wiesbaden back in 2019.
Katharina Gerlach
Ranked no. 225, Gerlach reached the qualifications after defeating Katarzyna Piter 6-2 7-5.
In the qualifications, The German had a good straight sets win against Piter (6-2 7-5). During the match, Gerlach scored 73 points vs Piter’s 56. The German was pretty aggressive to blast 27 winners.
Regarding the service games, Gerlach managed to score 7 aces and she committed only 2 double faults. Katharina Gerlach lost the serve 3 times and she saved 6 break points. Furthermore, Gerlach put 66% of her first serves in, winning 61% (27/44) of the points behind her 1st serve and 57% (13/23) on the 2nd serve. The German broke Piter 6 times after converting 50% of her break points (6/12).
Gerlach has a winning win-loss record in the last 7 years having won 54% of her matches (168-142). 12-8 on clay in 2021. Talking about her performance on the same surface of this tournament, Gerlach has an aggregate147-108 record in the last 7 years on clay.
Katharina’s best result of the season was getting to the semifinal in the W25 Oeiras.
Katharina has an aggregate 16-14 win-loss record in 2021, 12-8 on clay (See FULL STATS).
Previously in Hamburg
Gerlach has never competed in this tournament before.
Anna Zaja
Ranked no. 372, Anna got to the qualifications after beating Jasmin Jebawy 6-2 6-3.
In the qualifications, Zaja had a good straight sets win against Jebawy (6-2 6-3). During the match Zaja scored 70 points vs Jebawy’s 55. The German was extremely aggressive to blast 27 winners.
Talking about serving, Zaja bagged 3 aces and she committed only 2 double faults. Anna Zaja lost the serve once and she saved 3 break points. Furthermore, Zaja put 64% of her first serves in, winning 69% (27/39) of the points behind her 1st serve and 45% (10/22) on the 2nd serve. Zaja broke Jebawy 5 times after converting 63% of her break points (5/8).
Zaja’s best result of the current year was reaching the semifinal in the W25 Liepaja.
The German has an aggregate 9-8 win-loss record in 2021, 7-6 on clay (See FULL STATS).
H2H Performance in the tournament (main draw)
Matches, sets, games and points
| Points | Gerlach | Zaja |
|---|---|---|
| Match played | 1 | 1 |
| Tot Set | 2 | 2 |
| Tot Games | 20 | 17 |
| Pts | 73-56 | 70-55 |
| Total Points | 129 | 125 |
| Winners | 27 | 27 |
| %Winners | 37% | 39% |
Both Gerlach and Zaja played 1 match. Also both players started their run from the qualifications.Both players have not surrendered a single set in this event so far. Talking about their workload, Gerlach and Zaja have played the same amount of sets 2. However, Gerlach played 3 games more than Zaja. Katharina scored 27 winners (37% of the total points). On the other side, Anna made 27 winners (39%).
Serve Performance
| Serve | Gerlach | Zaja |
|---|---|---|
| Aces | 7 | 3 |
| Avg per match | 7 | 3 |
| 1st in | 44/67 | 39/61 |
| %1st in | 66% | 64% |
| 1st pts | 27/44 | 27/39 |
| %1st pts | 61% | 69% |
| 2nd pts | 13/23 | 10/22 |
| %2nd pts | 57% | 45% |
Gerlach managed to score 7 aces . Zaja scored 3 aces . Gerlach won 61% points on her first serve. She very solid her second serve to win 57% of the points. On the other side, Zaja won 69% of the points behind her first serve. She had a solid display on her second serve to win 45% of the points.
How they played the important points
| Breaks | Gerlach | Zaja |
|---|---|---|
| Won | 6 | 5 |
| Converted | 6/12 | 5/8 |
| % Converted | 50% | 63% |
| Conceded | 9 | 4 |
| Saved | 6 | 3 |
| % Saved | 67% | 75% |
| Times Broken | 3 | 1 |
Katharina broke her opponent 6 times with a 50% conversion rate. The German lost her serve 3 times and she saved 67% of the break points that she conceded. Anna broke her opponent 5 times with a 63% conversion rate. The German conceded her serve once and she saved 75% of the break points that she conceded.
| Gerlach | |||
| Q1 Piter |
Total | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Score | 6-2 7-5 | ||
| Tot Set | 2 | 2 | |
| Tot Games | 20 | 20 | |
| pts | 73-56 | 73-56 | |
| Total points | 129 | 129 | |
| Winners | 27 | 27 | |
| %Winners | 37% | 37% | |
| SERVE | |||
| Aces | 7 | 7 | |
| Double Faults | 2 | 2 | |
| 1st in | 44/67 | 44/67 | |
| % 1st in | 66% | 66% | |
| 1st pts | 27/44 | 27/44 | |
| % 1st pts | 61% | 61% | |
| 2nd pts | 13/23 | 13/23 | |
| % 2nd pts | 57% | 57% | |
| Breaks | |||
| Won | 6 | 6 | |
| Converted | 6/12 | 6/12 | |
| Converted % | 50% | 50% | |
| Conceded | 9 | 9 | |
| Saved | 6/9 | 6 | |
| Saved % | 67% | 67% | |
| Times Broken | 3 | 3 | |
| Zaja | |||
| Q1 Jebawy |
Total | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Score | 6-2 6-3 | ||
| Tot Set | 2 | 2 | |
| Tot Games | 17 | 17 | |
| pts | 70-55 | 70-55 | |
| Total points | 125 | 125 | |
| Winners | 27 | 27 | |
| %Winners | 39% | 39% | |
| SERVE | |||
| Aces | 3 | 3 | |
| Double Faults | 2 | 2 | |
| 1st in | 39/61 | 39/61 | |
| % 1st in | 64% | 64% | |
| 1st pts | 27/39 | 27/39 | |
| % 1st pts | 69% | 69% | |
| 2nd pts | 10/22 | 10/22 | |
| % 2nd pts | 45% | 45% | |
| Breaks | |||
| Won | 5 | 5 | |
| Converted | 5/8 | 5/8 | |
| Converted % | 63% | 63% | |
| Conceded | 4 | 4 | |
| Saved | 3/4 | 3 | |
| Saved % | 75% | 75% | |
| Times Broken | 1 | 1 | |
Head 2 Head
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