Garbine Muguruza and Victoria Azarenka will square off in the 3rd round of the U.S. Open for the 5th time in their career. They are scheduled to play on Friday at 12:00 pm on Arthur Ashe Stadium. In the following lines you can find the head to head analysis and prediction.
Prediction, odds and live streaming
The pick for Tennis Tonic is Garbine Muguruza who should win in 3 sets.
As per the initial odds, Garbine Muguruza is the pick to win this match.
Garbine Muguruza -> 1.909
Victoria Azarenka -> 1.97
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Prediction and head to head Garbine Muguruza vs. Victoria Azarenka
This will be the 5th time that Garbine Muguruza and Victoria Azarenka clash against each other. The head to head is 2-2 for Muguruza and Azarenka (see full H2H stats),but they are 1-1 on hard.
The last time that they played each other, Muguruza won 3-6 6-3 6-4 in the quarter in Rome back in 2020.
Highlights Garbine Muguruza vs Victoria Azarenka – Rome 19-September-2020
Garbine Muguruza
Ranked no. 10, Muguruza reached the 3rd round after defeating Donna Vekic 7-64 7-65 and Andrea Petkovic 6-4 6-2.
In the 2nd round, The Spaniard had a good straight sets win against Petkovic (6-4 6-2). During the match, Muguruza scored 65 points vs Petkovic’s 53. The Spaniard was very aggressive to blast 25 winners.
Talking about the service games, Muguruza scored just 1 ace during the match and she committed only 1 double fault. Garbine Muguruza lost the serve 3 times and she saved 7 break points. Furthermore, Muguruza put 75% of her first serves in, winning 57% (25/44) of the points behind her 1st serve and 47% (7/15) on the 2nd serve. Garbine broke Petkovic 6 times after converting 60% of her break points (6/10).
Overall Performance in this tournament
The Spaniard started her run at this tournament from the qualifications. In the main draw, she hasn’t lost yet a set in this competition to win 53% of the points she played.
Muguruza has a solid win-loss record in the last 10 years having won 66% of her matches (338-178). 26-8 on hard in 2021. Talking about her performance on the same surface of this event, Muguruza has a composed 200-99 match record in the last years on hard.
Her best result of the season was winning the title in in Dubai where she beat Barbora Krejcikova in the final 7-6(6) 6-3.
Muguruza has a composed 33-13 win-loss record in 2021, 26-8 on hard (See FULL STATS).
Previously at the U.S. Open
Previously, her best result was reaching the 4th round in 2017. See her history.
Victoria Azarenka
Ranked no. 19, Azarenka reached the 3rd round after defeating Tereza Martincova 6-4 6-0 and Jasmine Paolini 6-3 7-61.
In the 2nd round, The Belarussian had a good straight sets win against Paolini (6-3 7-61). During the match Azarenka scored 81 points vs Paolini’s 60. The Belarussian was extremely aggressive to blast 29 winners.
Talking about serving, Azarenka fired 2 aces and she committed only 1 double fault for the entire match. Overall, Victoria Azarenka was quite efficient on serve to win 71% (29/41) of her 1st serve and 56% (10/18) on the second serve. However, this didn’t prevent her to concede the serve twice. Azarenka broke Paolini 4 times after converting 50% of her break points (4/8).
Overall Performance in this tournament
Azarenka started her run at this tournament from the qualifications. In the main draw, she hasn’t dropped yet a set in this competition to conquer 58% of the points she played.
Azarenka’s best result of the current season was getting to the semifinal in Doha and Berlin.
Victoria has a compiled 21-7 win-loss record in 2021, 11-4 on hard (See FULL STATS).
Previously at the U.S. Open
Previously, her best result was reaching the final in 2012, 2013 and 2020. See her history.
H2H Performance in the tournament (main draw)
Matches, sets, games and points
| Points | Muguruza | Azarenka |
|---|---|---|
| Match played | 2 | 2 |
| Tot Set | 4 | 4 |
| Tot Games | 44 | 38 |
| Pts | 160-144 | 141-102 |
| Total Points | 304 | 243 |
| Winners | 68 | 53 |
| %Winners | 43% | 38% |
Both Muguruza and Azarenka played 2 matches. Both players have not lost a single set in this event so far. Talking about their workload, Muguruza and Azarenka have played the same amount of sets 4. However, Muguruza played 6 games more than Azarenka. Garbine scored 68 winners (43% of the total points). On the other side, Azarenka bagged 53 winners (38%).
Serve Performance
| Serve | Muguruza | Azarenka |
|---|---|---|
| Aces | 9 | 5 |
| Avg per match | 4.5 | 2.5 |
| 1st in | 100/149 | 77/112 |
| %1st in | 67% | 69% |
| 1st pts | 68/100 | 53/77 |
| %1st pts | 68% | 69% |
| 2nd pts | 24/49 | 19/35 |
| %2nd pts | 49% | 54% |
Muguruza recorded 9 aces (4.5 per match). Azarenka fired 5 aces (2.5 per match). Muguruza won 68% points on her first serve. She quite strong on her second serve to win 49% of the points. On the other side, Azarenka won 69% of the points behind her first serve. She had a solid display on her second serve to win 54% of the points.
How they played the important points
| Breaks | Muguruza | Azarenka |
|---|---|---|
| Won | 8 | 9 |
| Converted | 8/14 | 9/15 |
| % Converted | 57% | 60% |
| Conceded | 17 | 7 |
| Saved | 12 | 4 |
| % Saved | 71% | 57% |
| Times Broken | 5 | 3 |
Garbine broke her opponents 8 times with a 57% conversion rate. Garbine dropped her serve 5 times and she saved 71% of the break points that she conceded. Azarenka broke her opponents 9 times with a 60% conversion rate. Victoria conceded her serve 3 times and she saved 57% of the break points that she conceded.
| Muguruza | ||||
| R1 Vekic |
R2 Petkovic |
Total | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Score | 7-64 7-65 | 6-4 6-2 | ||
| Tot Set | 2 | 2 | 4 | |
| Tot Games | 26 | 18 | 44 | |
| pts | 95-91 | 65-53 | 160-144 | |
| Total points | 186 | 118 | 304 | |
| Winners | 43 | 25 | 68 | |
| %Winners | 45% | 38% | 43% | |
| SERVE | ||||
| Aces | 8 | 1 | 9 | |
| Double Faults | 1 | 1 | 2 | |
| 1st in | 56/90 | 44/59 | 100/149 | |
| % 1st in | 62% | 75% | 67% | |
| 1st pts | 43/56 | 25/44 | 68/100 | |
| % 1st pts | 77% | 57% | 68% | |
| 2nd pts | 17/34 | 7/15 | 24/49 | |
| % 2nd pts | 50% | 47% | 49% | |
| Breaks | ||||
| Won | 2 | 6 | 8 | |
| Converted | 2/4 | 6/10 | 8/14 | |
| Converted % | 50% | 60% | 57% | |
| Conceded | 7 | 10 | 17 | |
| Saved | 5/7 | 7/10 | 12 | |
| Saved % | 71% | 70% | 71% | |
| Times Broken | 2 | 3 | 5 | |
| Azarenka | ||||
| R1 Martincova |
R2 Paolini |
Total | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Score | 6-4 6-0 | 6-3 7-61 | ||
| Tot Set | 2 | 2 | 4 | |
| Tot Games | 16 | 22 | 38 | |
| pts | 60-42 | 81-60 | 141-102 | |
| Total points | 102 | 141 | 243 | |
| Winners | 24 | 29 | 53 | |
| %Winners | 40% | 36% | 38% | |
| SERVE | ||||
| Aces | 3 | 2 | 5 | |
| Double Faults | 2 | 1 | 3 | |
| 1st in | 36/53 | 41/59 | 77/112 | |
| % 1st in | 68% | 69% | 69% | |
| 1st pts | 24/36 | 29/41 | 53/77 | |
| % 1st pts | 67% | 71% | 69% | |
| 2nd pts | 9/17 | 10/18 | 19/35 | |
| % 2nd pts | 53% | 56% | 54% | |
| Breaks | ||||
| Won | 5 | 4 | 9 | |
| Converted | 5/7 | 4/8 | 9/15 | |
| Converted % | 71% | 50% | 60% | |
| Conceded | 3 | 4 | 7 | |
| Saved | 2/3 | 2/4 | 4 | |
| Saved % | 67% | 50% | 59% | |
| Times Broken | 1 | 2 | 3 | |
Head 2 Head
LLWWLWWLWW Tennis Scores – U.S. Open
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- Greetje MinnenMinnen – Liudmila SamsonovaSamsonova (6-4 6-4) – See score progression
- Angelique KerberKerber – Anhelina KalininaKalinina (6-3 6-2) – See score progression
- Jessica PegulaPegula – Misaki DoiDoi (6-3 6-2) – See score progression
- Iga SwiatekSwiatek – Fiona FerroFerro (3-6 7-63 6-0) – See score progression
- Belinda BencicBencic – Martina TrevisanTrevisan (6-3 6-1) – See score progression
- Sara Sorribes TormoSorribes Tormo – Su-Wei HsiehHsieh (6-1 6-3) – See score progression
- Petra KvitovaKvitova – Kristyna PliskovaPliskova (7-64 6-2) – See score progression
- Ashleigh BartyBarty – Clara TausonTauson (6-1 7-5) – See score progression
- Anastasia PavlyuchenkovaPavlyuchenkova – Anna SchmiedlovaSchmiedlova (6-2 5-7 6-2) – See score progression
- Bianca Vanessa AndreescuVanessa Andreescu – Lauren DavisDavis (6-4 6-4) – See score progression
- Emma RaducanuRaducanu – Shuai ZhangZhang (6-2 6-4) – See score progression
- Maria SakkariSakkari – Katerina SiniakovaSiniakova (6-4 6-2) – See score progression
- Anett KontaveitKontaveit – Jil TeichmannTeichmann (6-4 6-1) – See score progression
- Barbora KrejcikovaKrejcikova – Christina MchaleMchale (6-3 6-1) – See score progression
- Simona HalepHalep – Kristina KucovaKucova (6-3 6-1) – See score progression
- Elena RybakinaRybakina – Caroline GarciaGarcia (6-1 6-4) – See score progression
- Victoria AzarenkaAzarenka – Jasmine PaoliniPaolini (6-3 7-61) – See score progression
- Aryna SabalenkaSabalenka – Tamara ZidansekZidansek (6-3 6-1) – See score progression
- Elise MertensMertens – Valentini GrammatikopoulouGrammatikopoulou (6-2 6-2) – See score progression
- Ons JabeurJabeur – Maria Camila Osorio SerranoCamila Osorio Serrano (6-0 6-1) – See score progression
- Kamilla RakhimovaRakhimova – Ekaterina AlexandrovaAlexandrova (6-4 6-1) – See score progression
- Garbine MuguruzaMuguruza – Andrea PetkovicPetkovic (6-4 6-2) – See score progression
- Elina SvitolinaSvitolina – Rebeka MasarovaMasarova (6-2 7-5) – See score progression
- Danielle Rose CollinsRose Collins – Kaja JuvanJuvan (6-4 6-2) – See score progression
- Leylah Annie FernandezAnnie Fernandez – Kaia KanepiKanepi (7-5 7-5) – See score progression
- Naomi OsakaOsaka – Olga DanilovicDanilovic (w/o) – See score progression
- Sloane StephensStephens – Cori GauffGauff (6-4 6-2) – See score progression
- Daria KasatkinaKasatkina – Marketa VondrousovaVondrousova (3-6 6-4 6-4) – See score progression
- Dimitar KuzmanovKuzmanov – Pavel TsoyTsoy (6-1 6-3) – See score progression
- Ashleigh BartyBarty – Clara TausonTauson (6-1 7-5) – See score progression
- Shelby RogersRogers – Sorana CirsteaCirstea (7-5 6-2) – See score progression
- Sara Sorribes TormoSorribes Tormo – Su-Wei HsiehHsieh (6-1 6-3) – See score progression
- Emma RaducanuRaducanu – Shuai ZhangZhang (6-2 6-4) – See score progression
- Belinda BencicBencic – Martina TrevisanTrevisan (6-3 6-1) – See score progression
- Jessica PegulaPegula – Misaki DoiDoi (6-3 6-2) – See score progression
- Anett KontaveitKontaveit – Jil TeichmannTeichmann (6-4 6-1) – See score progression
- Iga SwiatekSwiatek – Fiona FerroFerro (3-6 7-6(3) 6-0) – See score progression
- Varvara GrachevaGracheva – Paula Badosa GibertBadosa Gibert (6-4 6-4) – See score progression
- Anastasia PavlyuchenkovaPavlyuchenkova – Anna SchmiedlovaSchmiedlova (6-2 5-7 6-2) – See score progression
- Petra KvitovaKvitova – Kristyna PliskovaPliskova (7-6(4) 6-2) – See score progression
- Maria SakkariSakkari – Katerina SiniakovaSiniakova (6-4 6-2) – See score progression
- Greetje MinnenMinnen – Liudmila SamsonovaSamsonova (6-4 6-4) – See score progression
- Bianca Vanessa AndreescuVanessa Andreescu – Lauren DavisDavis (6-4 6-4) – See score progression
- Angelique KerberKerber – Anhelina KalininaKalinina (6-3 6-2) – See score progression
Upcoming matches in the draw
- Karolina PliskovaPliskova – Amanda AnisimovaAnisimova (3-0) – H2H and prediction
- Ajla TomljanovicTomljanovic – Petra MarticMartic (0-2) – H2H and prediction
- Ashleigh BartyBarty – Shelby RogersRogers (5-0) – H2H and prediction
- Sara Sorribes TormoSorribes Tormo – Emma RaducanuRaducanu (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Belinda BencicBencic – Jessica PegulaPegula (2-0) – H2H and prediction
- Anett KontaveitKontaveit – Iga SwiatekSwiatek (2-1) – H2H and prediction
- Varvara GrachevaGracheva – Anastasia PavlyuchenkovaPavlyuchenkova (0-1) – H2H and prediction
- Petra KvitovaKvitova – Maria SakkariSakkari (3-2) – H2H and prediction
- Greetje MinnenMinnen – Bianca Vanessa AndreescuVanessa Andreescu (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Elina SvitolinaSvitolina – Darya KasatkinaKasatkina (5-0) – H2H and prediction
- Elena RybakinaRybakina – Simona HalepHalep (1-1) – H2H and prediction
- Angelique KerberKerber – Sloane StephensStephens (1-5) – H2H and prediction
- Leylah Annie FernandezAnnie Fernandez – Naomi OsakaOsaka (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Barbora KrejcikovaKrejcikova – Kamilla RakhimovaRakhimova (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Victoria AzarenkaAzarenka – Garbine MuguruzaMuguruza (2-2) – H2H and prediction
- Elise MertensMertens – Ons JabeurJabeur (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Danielle Rose CollinsRose Collins – Aryna SabalenkaSabalenka (0-2) – H2H and prediction
