Heather Watson and Ana Bogdan will face off in the 1st round of the WTA Chicago Women’s Open for the 1st time in their career. They are scheduled to play on Monday at 11:00 am on Court 2. 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 Ana Bogdan who should win in 3 sets.
As per the initial odds, Ana Bogdan is the pick to win this match.
Ana Bogdan -> 1.89
Heather Watson -> 1.95
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Prediction and head to head Heather Watson vs. Ana Bogdan
There is no head to head record between Heather Watson and Ana Bogdan since this will be the first time that they will square off in the main tour.
Heather Watson
Ranked no. 62, Watson will start her run in Chicago after she played her last match in Cincinnati where she lost 6-4 7-6(3) to Barty in the 2nd round on the 18th of August.
Watson has an aggregate 11-16 win-loss record in 2021, 6-8 on hard (See FULL STATS).
Heather’s best result of the year was reaching the semifinal in Birmingham.
Talking about her overall career, Watson has an overall 346-278 record. She has a positive 181-147 record on hard.
Previously in Chicago
Watson has never competed in this tournament before.
Ana Bogdan
Ranked no. 106, Ana got to the 1st round after defeating Emma Navarro 6-2 5-7 6-3 and Kimberley Zimmermann 6-1 6-2.
In the qualifications, Ana had a good straight sets win against Zimmermann (6-1 6-2). During the match Bogdan scored 57 points vs Zimmermann’s 33. The Romanian was extremely aggressive to blast 20 winners.
Talking about serving, Bogdan wasn’t able to score even 1 ace for the entire match and she committed only 4 double faults. Ana Bogdan was extremely effective on serve to win 77% (20/26) of her 1st serve and 74% (14/19) on the second serve. This was the main reason for not conceding a single break during the match. The Romanian broke Zimmermann 4 times after converting 57% of her break points (4/7).
Overall Performance in this tournament
Ana started her run at this tournament from the qualifications. In the main draw, she has conceded 1 set in the tournament to win 57% of the points she played.
Bogdan has a composed 13-12 win-loss record in 2021, 6-4 on hard (See FULL STATS).
Head 2 Head
Tennis Scores in Chicago
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- Kaia KanepiKanepi – Anhelina KalininaKalinina (3-6 6-2 7-5) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Marta KostyukKostyuk – Katherine SebovSebov (6-0 6-3) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Francoise AbandaAbanda – Danka KovinicKovinic (6-4 6-2) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Jasmine PaoliniPaolini – Misaki DoiDoi (6-4 6-2) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Christopher HeymanHeyman – Marko OsmakcicOsmakcic (6-3 4-6 6-4) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Tomas CharlosCharlos – Jurgen BriandBriand (6-4 6-4) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Marvin MoellerMoeller – Mick VeldheerVeldheer (6-1 6-4) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Gijs BrouwerBrouwer – Adam MajchrowiczMajchrowicz (6-4 6-3) – Stats, scores, rankings
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- Ana BogdanBogdan – Heather WatsonWatson (0-0) – H2H and prediction
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- Nao HibinoHibino – Alison Van UytvanckVan Uytvanck (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Ann LiLi – Alize CornetCornet (1-0) – H2H and prediction
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