Kristyna Pliskova and Katarzyna Kawa will play each other in the 2nd round of the Winners Open for the 3rd time in their career. They are scheduled to play on Thursday at 11:00 am on Court 2. In this post, we analyze their head to head performance and prediction.
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The pick for Tennis Tonic is Kristyna Pliskova who should win in 2 sets.
As per the initial odds, Kristyna Pliskova is the pick to win this match.
Kristyna Pliskova -> 1.363
Katarzyna Kawa -> 3.24
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Prediction and head to head Kristyna Pliskova vs. Katarzyna Kawa
This will be the 3rd time that Kristyna Pliskova and Katarzyna Kawa fight against each other. The head to head is 2-0 for Pliskova (see full H2H stats), 1-0 on clay.
The last time that they played each other, Pliskova won 7-5 3-6 6-4 in the 2nd round in Tashkent back in 2019.
Kristyna Pliskova
Ranked no. 123, the Czech reached the 2nd round after beating Martina Trevisan 6-4 6-4.
In the 1st round, Pliskova had a good straight sets win against Trevisan (6-4 6-4). During the match, Pliskova scored 76 points vs Trevisan’s 64. Pliskova was very aggressive to blast 29 winners.
Talking about the service games, Pliskova blasted 14 aces and she committed only 4 double faults. Kristyna Pliskova lost the serve twice and she saved 8 break points. Furthermore, Pliskova put 55% of her first serves in, winning 81% (29/36) of the points behind her 1st serve and 40% (12/30) on the 2nd serve. Kristyna broke Trevisan 4 times after converting 33% of her break points (4/12).
Pliskova has a positive win-loss record in the last 10 years having won 56% of her matches (292-234). 4-6 on clay in 2021. Regarding her performance on the same surface of this tournament, Pliskova has an aggregate 52-55 win-loss record in the last years on clay.
Kristyna has an overall 8-13 win-loss record in 2021, 4-6 on clay (See FULL STATS).
Previously in Cluj
Pliskova has never competed in this tournament before.
Katarzyna Kawa
Ranked no. 182, Kawa reached the 2nd round after beating Briana Szabo 6-2 6-1.
In the 1st round, Kawa had a good straight sets win against Szabo (6-2 6-1). During the match Kawa scored 66 points vs Szabo’s 41. Katarzyna was very aggressive to blast 23 winners.
Talking about serving, Kawa scored just 1 ace during the entire match and she committed only 1 double fault for the entire match. Katarzyna Kawa was pretty effective on serve to win 72% (23/32) of her 1st serve and 55% (11/20) on the second serve. This was the main reason for not conceding a single break during the match. Katarzyna broke Szabo 5 times after converting 56% of her break points (5/9).
The Pole has an overall 5-14 win-loss record in 2021, 3-6 on clay (See FULL STATS).
H2H Performance in the tournament
Matches, sets, games and points
| Points | Pliskova | Kawa |
|---|---|---|
| Match played | 1 | 1 |
| Tot Set | 2 | 2 |
| Tot Games | 20 | 15 |
| Pts | 76-64 | 66-41 |
| Total Points | 140 | 107 |
| Winners | 29 | 23 |
| %Winners | 38% | 35% |
Both Pliskova and Kawa played 1 match. Both players have not conceded a single set in this event so far. Talking about their workload, Pliskova and Kawa have played the same amount of sets 2. However, Pliskova played 5 games more than Kawa. Pliskova scored 29 winners (38% of the total points). On the other side, Katarzyna recorded 23 winners (35%).
Serve Performance
| Serve | Pliskova | Kawa |
|---|---|---|
| Aces | 14 | 1 |
| Avg per match | 14 | 1 |
| 1st in | 36/66 | 32/52 |
| %1st in | 55% | 62% |
| 1st pts | 29/36 | 23/32 |
| %1st pts | 81% | 72% |
| 2nd pts | 12/30 | 11/20 |
| %2nd pts | 40% | 55% |
Pliskova managed to score 14 aces . Kawa scored 1 ace . Pliskova won 81% points on her first serve. She pretty solid on her second serve to win 40% of the points. On the other side, Kawa won 72% of the points on her first serve. She had a solid display on her second serve to win 55% of the points.
How they played the important points
| Breaks | Pliskova | Kawa |
|---|---|---|
| Won | 4 | 5 |
| Converted | 4/12 | 5/9 |
| % Converted | 33% | 56% |
| Conceded | 10 | 2 |
| Saved | 8 | 2 |
| % Saved | 80% | 100% |
| Times Broken | 2 | 0 |
Kristyna broke her opponent 4 times with a 33% conversion rate. Kristyna lost her serve twice and she saved 80% of the break points that she conceded. Katarzyna broke her opponent 5 times with a 56% conversion rate. Katarzyna was rock solid on her serve as she has never conceded a single service game after saving 2 break points.
| Pliskova | |||
| R1 Trevisan |
Total | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Score | 6-4 6-4 | ||
| Tot Set | 2 | 2 | |
| Tot Games | 20 | 20 | |
| pts | 76-64 | 76-64 | |
| Total points | 140 | 140 | |
| Winners | 29 | 29 | |
| %Winners | 38% | 38% | |
| SERVE | |||
| Aces | 14 | 14 | |
| Double Faults | 4 | 4 | |
| 1st in | 36/66 | 36/66 | |
| % 1st in | 55% | 55% | |
| 1st pts | 29/36 | 29/36 | |
| % 1st pts | 81% | 81% | |
| 2nd pts | 12/30 | 12/30 | |
| % 2nd pts | 40% | 40% | |
| Breaks | |||
| Won | 4 | 4 | |
| Converted | 4/12 | 4/12 | |
| Converted % | 33% | 33% | |
| Conceded | 10 | 10 | |
| Saved | 8/10 | 8 | |
| Saved % | 80% | 80% | |
| Times Broken | 2 | 2 | |
| Kawa | |||
| R1 Szabo |
Total | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Score | 6-2 6-1 | ||
| Tot Set | 2 | 2 | |
| Tot Games | 15 | 15 | |
| pts | 66-41 | 66-41 | |
| Total points | 107 | 107 | |
| Winners | 23 | 23 | |
| %Winners | 35% | 35% | |
| SERVE | |||
| Aces | 1 | 1 | |
| Double Faults | 1 | 1 | |
| 1st in | 32/52 | 32/52 | |
| % 1st in | 62% | 62% | |
| 1st pts | 23/32 | 23/32 | |
| % 1st pts | 72% | 72% | |
| 2nd pts | 11/20 | 11/20 | |
| % 2nd pts | 55% | 55% | |
| Breaks | |||
| Won | 5 | 5 | |
| Converted | 5/9 | 5/9 | |
| Converted % | 56% | 56% | |
| Conceded | 2 | 2 | |
| Saved | 2/2 | 2 | |
| Saved % | 100% | 100% | |
| Times Broken | 0 | 0 | |
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