Karolina Pliskova and Yulia Putintseva will face off in the 2nd round of the Western & Southern Open for the 6th time in their career. They are scheduled to compete on Wednesday at 8:30 pm on Grandstand. In this post, we analyze their head to head performance and prediction.
Prediction, odds and live streaming
The pick for Tennis Tonic is Karolina Pliskova who should win in 2 sets.
As per the initial odds, Karolina Pliskova is the pick to win this match.
Karolina Pliskova -> 1.42
Yulia Putintseva -> 2.96
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Prediction and head to head Karolina Pliskova vs. Yulia Putintseva
This will be the 6th time that Karolina Pliskova and Yulia Putintseva face off. The head to head is 4-1 for Pliskova (see full H2H stats), 4-0 on hard.
The last time that they played each other, Pliskova won 2-6 6-3 7-5 in the 4th round in Miami back in 2019.
Karolina Pliskova
Ranked no. 6, Pliskova will start her run in Cincinnati after she played her last match in Montreal where she lost 6-3 7-5 to Giorgi in the final on the 15th of August.
The Czech has an overall 27-15 win-loss record in 2021, 13-8 on hard (See FULL STATS).
The Czech’s best result of the season was reaching the final in Rome,in Wimbledon and Montreal.
Talking about her overall career, Pliskova has an overall 550-288 record. She has a positive 277-140 record on hard.
Previously in Cincinnati
Previously, she won this tournament once in 2016. See her history.
Yulia Putintseva
Ranked no. 36, Putintseva reached the 2nd round after beating Shuai Zhang 6-2 6-0.
In the 1st round, Putintseva had a good straight sets win against Zhang (6-2 6-0). During the match Putintseva scored 53 points vs Zhang’s 20. Yulia was extremely aggressive to blast 22 winners.
Talking about serving, Putintseva made 2 aces and she was extremely steady in conceding no double faults for the entire match. Yulia Putintseva was exceptionally effective on serve to win 88% (22/25) of her 1st serve and 73% (8/11) on the second serve. This was the main reason for not conceding a single break during the match. The Kazakhstani broke Zhang 5 times after converting 83% of her break points (5/6).
Her best result of the current season was winning the title in in Budapest where she beat Anhelina Kalinina in the final 6-4 6-0.
The Kazakhstani has a compiled 22-18 win-loss record in 2021, 9-8 on hard (See FULL STATS).
Head 2 Head
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