Viktoria Kuzmova and Lucrezia Stefanini will clash against each other in the qualifications of the Zavarovalnica Sava Portoroz for the 1st time in their career. They are scheduled to compete on Monday at 1:00 pm on Center Court. In this post, we analyze their head to head performance and prediction.
Prediction, odds and live streaming
The pick for Tennis Tonic is Lucrezia Stefanini who should win in 3 sets.
As per the initial odds, Lucrezia Stefanini is the pick to win this match.
Lucrezia Stefanini -> 1.80
Viktoria Kuzmova -> 1.90
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Prediction and head to head Viktoria Kuzmova vs. Lucrezia Stefanini
There is no head to head record between Viktoria Kuzmova and Lucrezia Stefanini since this will be the first time that they will square off in the main tour.
Viktoria Kuzmova
Ranked no. 158, Viktoria reached the qualifications after defeating Stefania Rubini 6-3 6-1.
In the qualifications, The Slovakian had a good straight sets win against Rubini (6-3 6-1). During the match, Kuzmova scored 65 points vs Rubini’s 39. Viktoria was quite aggressive to blast 25 winners.
Regarding the service games, Kuzmova managed to score 3 aces and she committed only 2 double faults. Overall, Viktoria Kuzmova was extremely effective on serve to win 76% (25/33) of her 1st serve and 55% (12/22) on the second serve. However, this didn’t prevent her to concede the serve once. Kuzmova broke Rubini 5 times after converting 71% of her break points (5/7).
Kuzmova has a solid record in the last 8 years having won 64% of her matches (255-142). 6-6 on hard in 2021. In connection with her performance on the same surface of this event, Kuzmova has an overall132-58 match record in the last 8 years on hard.
Viktoria has an aggregate 12-15 win-loss record in 2021, 6-6 on hard (See FULL STATS).
Previously in Portoroz
Kuzmova has never competed in this tournament before.
Lucrezia Stefanini
Ranked no. 213 (career-high), Lucrezia got to the qualifications after defeating Noka Juric 6-1 6-3.
In the qualifications, Stefanini had a good straight sets win against Juric (6-1 6-3). During the match Stefanini scored 60 points vs Juric’s 40. Stefanini was very aggressive to blast 20 winners.
Talking about serving, Stefanini was unable to score even 1 ace for the entire match and she committed only 2 double faults. Lucrezia Stefanini lost the serve twice. Furthermore, Stefanini put 68% of her first serves in, winning 67% (20/30) of the points behind her 1st serve and 57% (8/14) on the 2nd serve. Lucrezia broke Juric 6 times after converting 60% of her break points (6/10).
Her best result of the current year was winning the title in the W25 Salinas where she defeated Susan Bandecchi in the final 6-1 6-3 and in the W25 Radom where she defeated Miriam Kolodziejova in the final 4-6 6-2 6-3.
Stefanini has an overall 38-18 win-loss record in 2021, 24-11 on hard (See FULL STATS).
H2H Performance in the tournament (main draw)
Matches, sets, games and points
| Points | Kuzmova | Stefanini |
|---|---|---|
| Match played | 1 | 1 |
| Tot Set | 2 | 2 |
| Tot Games | 16 | 16 |
| Pts | 65-39 | 60-40 |
| Total Points | 104 | 100 |
| Winners | 25 | 20 |
| %Winners | 38% | 33% |
Both Kuzmova and Stefanini played 1 match. Also both players started their run from the qualifications.Both players have not lost a single set in this event so far. Talking about their workload, Kuzmova and Stefanini have played the same amount of sets 2. They also played the same amount of games (16). Viktoria scored 25 winners (38% of the total points). On the other side, Stefanini bagged 20 winners (33%).
Serve Performance
| Serve | Kuzmova | Stefanini |
|---|---|---|
| Aces | 3 | 0 |
| Avg per match | 3 | 0 |
| 1st in | 33/55 | 30/44 |
| %1st in | 60% | 68% |
| 1st pts | 25/33 | 20/30 |
| %1st pts | 76% | 67% |
| 2nd pts | 12/22 | 8/14 |
| %2nd pts | 55% | 57% |
Kuzmova managed to score 3 aces . Stefanini didn’t manage to fire a single ace to far. Kuzmova won 76% points behind her first serve. She pretty effective on her second serve to win 55% of the points. On the other side, Stefanini won 67% of the points on her first serve. She had a solid display on her second serve to win 57% of the points.
How they played the important points
| Breaks | Kuzmova | Stefanini |
|---|---|---|
| Won | 5 | 6 |
| Converted | 5/7 | 6/10 |
| % Converted | 71% | 60% |
| Conceded | 6 | 2 |
| Saved | 5 | 0 |
| % Saved | 83% | 0% |
| Times Broken | 1 | 2 |
Kuzmova broke her opponent 5 times with a 71% conversion rate. Viktoria surrendered her serve once and she saved 83% of the break points that she conceded. Lucrezia broke her opponent 6 times with a 60% conversion rate. Stefanini conceded her serve twice and she saved 0% of the break points that she conceded.
| Kuzmova | |||
| Q1 Rubini |
Total | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Score | 6-3 6-1 | ||
| Tot Set | 2 | 2 | |
| Tot Games | 16 | 16 | |
| pts | 65-39 | 65-39 | |
| Total points | 104 | 104 | |
| Winners | 25 | 25 | |
| %Winners | 38% | 38% | |
| SERVE | |||
| Aces | 3 | 3 | |
| Double Faults | 2 | 2 | |
| 1st in | 33/55 | 33/55 | |
| % 1st in | 60% | 60% | |
| 1st pts | 25/33 | 25/33 | |
| % 1st pts | 76% | 76% | |
| 2nd pts | 12/22 | 12/22 | |
| % 2nd pts | 55% | 55% | |
| Breaks | |||
| Won | 5 | 5 | |
| Converted | 5/7 | 5/7 | |
| Converted % | 71% | 71% | |
| Conceded | 6 | 6 | |
| Saved | 5/6 | 5 | |
| Saved % | 83% | 83% | |
| Times Broken | 1 | 1 | |
| Stefanini | |||
| Q1 Juric |
Total | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Score | 6-1 6-3 | ||
| Tot Set | 2 | 2 | |
| Tot Games | 16 | 16 | |
| pts | 60-40 | 60-40 | |
| Total points | 100 | 100 | |
| Winners | 20 | 20 | |
| %Winners | 33% | 33% | |
| SERVE | |||
| Aces | 0 | 0 | |
| Double Faults | 2 | 2 | |
| 1st in | 30/44 | 30/44 | |
| % 1st in | 68% | 68% | |
| 1st pts | 20/30 | 20/30 | |
| % 1st pts | 67% | 67% | |
| 2nd pts | 8/14 | 8/14 | |
| % 2nd pts | 57% | 57% | |
| Breaks | |||
| Won | 6 | 6 | |
| Converted | 6/10 | 6/10 | |
| Converted % | 60% | 60% | |
| Conceded | 2 | 2 | |
| Saved | 0/2 | 0 | |
| Saved % | 0% | 0% | |
| Times Broken | 2 | 2 | |
Head 2 Head
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