Simona Halep and Kristina Kucova will fight against each other in the 2nd round of the U.S. Open for the 1st time in their career. They are scheduled to compete on Wednesday at 12:00 pm on Court 17. Here the head to head stats and relative prediction.
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The pick for Tennis Tonic is Simona Halep who should win in 2 sets.
As per the initial odds, Simona Halep is the pick to win this match.
Simona Halep -> 1.131
Kristina Kucova -> 6.35
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Prediction and head to head Simona Halep vs. Kristina Kucova
There is no head to head record between Simona Halep and Kristina Kucova since this will be the first time that they will play each other in the main tour.
Simona Halep
Ranked no. 13, the Romanian reached the 2nd round after defeating Camila Giorgi 6-4 7-63.
In the 1st round, The Romanian had a good straight sets win against Giorgi (6-4 7-63). During the match, Halep scored 72 points vs Giorgi’s 62. Simona was very aggressive to blast 35 winners.
Regarding the service games, Halep scored 6 aces and she committed only 3 double faults. Simona Halep lost the serve twice and she saved 4 break points. Furthermore, Halep put 56% of her first serves in, winning 83% (35/42) of the points behind her 1st serve and 42% (14/33) on the 2nd serve. Halep was clinical in her return game without wasting any break point and break Giorgi 3 times.
Halep has a fantastic record in the last 10 years having won 73% of her matches (397-148). 9-3 on hard in 2021. Talking about her performance on the same surface of this event, Halep has an overall 207-81 win-loss record in the last years on hard.
Simona’s best result of the current season was getting to the semifinal in Stuttgart.
The Romanian has an aggregate 13-6 win-loss record in 2021, 9-3 on hard (See FULL STATS).
Previously at the U.S. Open
Previously, her best result was reaching the semifinal in 2015. See her history.
Kristina Kucova
Ranked no. 111, Kristina got to the 2nd round after defeating Daniela Seguel 6-3 6-2, Hanna Chang 7-5 7-65 and Ann Li 7-5 6-1.
In the 1st round, Kucova had a good straight sets win against Li (7-5 6-1). During the match Kucova scored 63 points vs Li’s 41. Kristina was extremely aggressive to blast 25 winners.
Talking about serving, Kucova scored just 1 ace during the entire match and she committed only 3 double faults. Kristina Kucova lost the serve twice and she saved 1 break points. Furthermore, Kucova put 74% of her first serves in, winning 68% (25/37) of the points behind her 1st serve and 54% (7/13) on the 2nd serve. The Slovakian broke Li 6 times after converting 75% of her break points (6/8).
Kristina’s best result of the current season was getting to the final in Gdynia.
The Slovakian has an aggregate 25-19 win-loss record in 2021, 9-8 on hard (See FULL STATS).
H2H Performance in the tournament
Matches, sets, games and points
| Points | Halep | Kucova |
|---|---|---|
| Match played | 1 | 3 |
| Tot Set | 2 | 6 |
| Tot Games | 23 | 61 |
| Pts | 72-62 | 219-167 |
| Total Points | 134 | 386 |
| Winners | 35 | 82 |
| %Winners | 49% | 37% |
Halep played 1 match while Kucova competed in 3 matches. Kucova started her run from the qualifications while Halep had a direct access to the main draw. Both players have not lost a single set in this event so far. Halep has played 4 set(s) less than Kucova (2 vs 6). Therefore, Halep played 38 games less than Kucova. Halep scored 35 winners (49% of the total points). On the other side, The Slovakian bagged 82 winners (37%).
Serve Performance
| Serve | Halep | Kucova |
|---|---|---|
| Aces | 6 | 4 |
| Avg per match | 6 | 1.3 |
| 1st in | 42/75 | 122/181 |
| %1st in | 56% | 67% |
| 1st pts | 35/42 | 82/122 |
| %1st pts | 83% | 67% |
| 2nd pts | 14/33 | 30/59 |
| %2nd pts | 42% | 51% |
Halep managed to score 6 aces . Kucova managed to score 4 aces (1.3 per match). Halep won 83% points on her first serve. She extremely effective on her second serve to win 42% of the points. On the other side, Kucova won 67% of the points on her first serve. She had a solid display on her second serve to win 51% of the points.
How they played the important points
| Breaks | Halep | Kucova |
|---|---|---|
| Won | 3 | 16 |
| Converted | 3/3 | 16/29 |
| % Converted | 100% | 55% |
| Conceded | 6 | 14 |
| Saved | 4 | 6 |
| % Saved | 67% | 43% |
| Times Broken | 2 | 8 |
The Romanian broke her opponent 3 times with a 100% conversion rate. Simona lost her serve twice and she saved 67% of the break points that she conceded. Kucova broke her opponents 16 times with a 55% conversion rate. Kucova conceded her serve 8 times and she saved 43% of the break points that she conceded.
| Halep | |||
| R1 Giorgi |
Total | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Score | 6-4 7-63 | ||
| Tot Set | 2 | 2 | |
| Tot Games | 23 | 23 | |
| pts | 72-62 | 72-62 | |
| Total points | 134 | 134 | |
| Winners | 35 | 35 | |
| %Winners | 49% | 49% | |
| SERVE | |||
| Aces | 6 | 6 | |
| Double Faults | 3 | 3 | |
| 1st in | 42/75 | 42/75 | |
| % 1st in | 56% | 56% | |
| 1st pts | 35/42 | 35/42 | |
| % 1st pts | 83% | 83% | |
| 2nd pts | 14/33 | 14/33 | |
| % 2nd pts | 42% | 42% | |
| Breaks | |||
| Won | 3 | 3 | |
| Converted | 3/3 | 3/3 | |
| Converted % | 100% | 100% | |
| Conceded | 6 | 6 | |
| Saved | 4/6 | 4 | |
| Saved % | 67% | 67% | |
| Times Broken | 2 | 2 | |
| Kucova | ||||||
| Q1 Seguel |
Q2 Chang |
Q3 Boulter |
R1 Li |
Total | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Score | 6-3 6-2 | 7-5 7-65 | 7-5 2-6 6-4 | 7-5 6-1 | ||
| Tot Set | 2 | 2 | 3 | 2 | 9 | |
| Tot Games | 17 | 25 | 30 | 19 | 91 | |
| pts | 67-48 | 89-78 | – | 63-41 | 219-167 | |
| Total points | 115 | 167 | 0 | 104 | 386 | |
| Winners | 26 | 31 | 25 | 82 | ||
| %Winners | 39% | 35% | NAN% | 40% | 37% | |
| SERVE | ||||||
| Aces | 1 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 4 | |
| Double Faults | 3 | 1 | 3 | 7 | ||
| 1st in | 38/58 | 47/73 | / | 37/50 | 122/181 | |
| % 1st in | 66% | 64% | – | 74% | 67% | |
| 1st pts | 26/38 | 31/47 | / | 25/37 | 82/122 | |
| % 1st pts | 68% | 66% | – | 68% | 67% | |
| 2nd pts | 10/20 | 13/26 | / | 7/13 | 30/59 | |
| % 2nd pts | 50% | 50% | – | 54% | 51% | |
| Breaks | ||||||
| Won | 5 | 5 | 6 | 16 | ||
| Converted | 5/11 | 5/10 | / | 6/8 | 16/29 | |
| Converted % | 45% | 50% | – | 75% | 55% | |
| Conceded | 5 | 6 | 3 | 14 | ||
| Saved | 3/5 | 2/6 | 0/ | 1/3 | 6 | |
| Saved % | 60% | 33% | – | 33% | 126% | |
| Times Broken | 2 | 4 | 2 | 8 | ||
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