H2H, PREDICTION Greetje Minnen vs Mai Hontama | U.S. Open odds, preview, pick

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Prediction and head to head Greetje Minnen vs. Mai Hontama

Greetje Minnen and Mai Hontama will face off in the qualifications of the U.S. Open for the 2nd time in their career. They are scheduled to compete on Thursday at 3:00 pm on Court 14. In the following paragraphs, you can find the head to head analysis and prediction.

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The pick for Tennis Tonic is Greetje Minnen who should win in 2 sets.

See updated oddsAs per the initial odds, Greetje Minnen is the pick to win this match.
Greetje Minnen -> 1.38
Mai Hontama -> 3.04

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Prediction and head to head Greetje Minnen vs. Mai Hontama

This will be the 2nd time that Greetje Minnen and Mai Hontama fight against each other. The head to head is 1-0 for Minnen (see full H2H stats), 1-0 on hard.

The last time that they locked horns, Minnen won 6-3 6-2 in the 2nd round in the W100 Landisville back in August 2021.

Greetje Minnen

Ranked no. 103 (career-high), the Belgian reached the qualifications after defeating Andrea Lazaro Garcia 6-3 6-2.

In the qualifications, Minnen had a good straight sets win against Lazaro Garcia (6-3 6-2). During the match, Minnen scored 72 points vs Lazaro Garcia’s 48. Minnen was very aggressive to blast 25 winners.

Regarding the service games, Minnen bagged 5 aces and she committed only 4 double faults. Greetje Minnen was quite efficient on serve to win 86% (25/29) of her 1st serve and 55% (12/22) on the second serve. This was the main reason for not conceding a single break during the match. The Belgian broke Lazaro Garcia 4 times after converting 31% of her break points (4/13).

Minnen has a solid match record in the last 9 years having won 66% of her matches (242-125). 15-9 on hard in 2021. Regarding her performance on the same surface of this event, Minnen has an aggregate101-50 win-loss record in the last 9 years on hard.

The Belgian’s best result of the current year was reaching the final in the W100 Landisville.

Greetje has a compiled 29-18 win-loss record in 2021, 15-9 on hard (See FULL STATS).

Previously at the U.S. Open

Previously, her best result was reaching the 1st round in 2020. See her history.

Minnen
U.S. Open
Minnen's Record

Mai Hontama

Ranked no. 214 (career-high), Hontama reached the qualifications after defeating Mona Barthel 6-70 7-5 6-2.

In the qualifications against Barthel, Hontama recovered from a 1-set down deficit before winning (6-70 7-5 6-2). During the match Hontama scored 116 points vs Barthel’s 110. Hontama was pretty aggressive to blast 46 winners.

Talking about serving, Hontama was unable to score even 1 ace for the entire match and she committed only 5 double faults. Mai Hontama lost the serve twice and she saved 4 break points. Furthermore, Hontama put 67% of her first serves in, winning 62% (46/74) of the points behind her 1st serve and 56% (20/36) on the 2nd serve. The Japanese broke Barthel 5 times after converting 38% of her break points (5/13).

Her best result of the current year was conquering the title in the W25 Salinas where she overcame Carol Zhao in the final 7-5 6-1 and in the W25 Porto where she beat Anastasia Tikhonova in the final 6-4 6-3.

Hontama has an overall 34-10 win-loss record in 2021, 26-8 on hard (See FULL STATS).

Previously at the U.S. Open

Hontama has never competed in this tournament before.

Hontama
U.S. Open
Hontama's Record
Tennis

H2H Performance in the tournament (main draw)

G.Minnen
M.Hontama
1h:14
1h:14
Time on court​
!
2h:32
2h:32
1h:14
1h:14
Last match​
!
2h:32
2h:32
1
1
Match played
1
1
17
17
Games Played​
33
33
2
2
Set played​​
3
3
72
72
Total points​
116
116
72
72
Avg point​
116
116
25
25
Winners
46
46
25
25
Avg Winners​
46
46
35%
35%
Ratio winners
40%
40%
-- Serve --
5
5
Aces
0
0
5
5
Avg Aces
0
0
4
4
Double Faults
5
5
4
4
Avg Double Faults
5
5
25/29
25/29
1st won total​
46/74
46/74
!
86%
86%
1st won %
62%
62%
12/22
12/22
2nd won total​
20/36
20/36
55%
55%
2nd won %
56%
56%
-- Break Points --
4/13
4/13
BP won
5/13
5/13
4/13
4/13
Avg BP won
5/13
5/13
31%
31%
Won
38%
38%
2
2
Conceded
6
6
2
2
Avg Conceded
6
6
0
0
Broken
2
2
!
0
0
Avg Broken
2
2
2
2
Saved
4
4

Matches, sets, games and points

Points Minnen Hontama
Match played 1 1
Tot Set 2 3
Tot Games 17 33
Pts 72-48 116-110
Total Points 120 226
Winners 25 46
%Winners 35% 40%

Both Minnen and Hontama played 1 match. Also both players started their run from the qualifications.At the moment, Mai Hontama surrendered 1 set while Greetje Minnen hasn’t surrendered a set so far. Minnen has played 1 set(s) less than Hontama (2 vs 3). Therefore, Minnen played 16 games less than Hontama. The Belgian scored 25 winners (35% of the total points). On the other side, The Japanese made 46 winners (40%).

Serve Performance

Serve Minnen Hontama
Aces 5 0
Avg per match 5 0
1st in 29/51 74/110
%1st in 57% 67%
1st pts 25/29 46/74
%1st pts 86% 62%
2nd pts 12/22 20/36
%2nd pts 55% 56%

Minnen scored 5 aces . Hontama didn’t manage to fire a single ace to far. Minnen won 86% points behind her first serve. She very solid her second serve to win 55% of the points. On the other side, Hontama won 62% of the points on her first serve. She had a solid display on her second serve to win 56% of the points.

How they played the important points

Breaks Minnen Hontama
Won 4 5
Converted 4/13 5/13
% Converted 31% 38%
Conceded 2 6
Saved 2 4
% Saved 100% 67%
Times Broken 0 2

Greetje broke her opponent 4 times with a 31% conversion rate. Minnen very solid her serve as she has never surrendered a single service game after saving 2 break points. Hontama broke her opponent 5 times with a 38% conversion rate. Hontama conceded her serve twice and she saved 67% of the break points that she conceded.

Minnen
Q1
Lazaro Garcia
Total
Score 6-3 6-2
Tot Set 2 2
Tot Games 17 17
pts 72-48 72-48
Total points 120 120
Winners 25 25
%Winners 35% 35%
SERVE
Aces 5 5
Double Faults 4 4
1st in 29/51 29/51
% 1st in 57% 57%
1st pts 25/29 25/29
% 1st pts 86% 86%
2nd pts 12/22 12/22
% 2nd pts 55% 55%
Breaks
Won 4 4
Converted 4/13 4/13
Converted % 31% 31%
Conceded 2 2
Saved 2/2 2
Saved % 100% 100%
Times Broken 0 0
Hontama
Q1
Barthel
Total
Score 6-70 7-5 6-2
Tot Set 3 3
Tot Games 33 33
pts 116-110 116-110
Total points 226 226
Winners 46 46
%Winners 40% 40%
SERVE
Aces 0 0
Double Faults 5 5
1st in 74/110 74/110
% 1st in 67% 67%
1st pts 46/74 46/74
% 1st pts 62% 62%
2nd pts 20/36 20/36
% 2nd pts 56% 56%
Breaks
Won 5 5
Converted 5/13 5/13
Converted % 38% 38%
Conceded 6 6
Saved 4/6 4
Saved % 67% 67%
Times Broken 2 2

Head 2 Head

Win Loss
Minnen
WWLWLWLWLW
Hontama
LLWLWWLWLL
2024 2023 2022
25 - 28
27 - 30
17-15
Hard
24-23
2-7
Clay
3-5
6-4
Grass
0-2

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