Aleksandra Krunic and Ziva Falkner will clash against each other in the 1st round of the Zavarovalnica Sava Portoroz for the 1st time in their career. They are scheduled to play on Thursday at 1:00 pm on Center Court. 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 Aleksandra Krunic who should win in 2 sets.
As per the initial odds, Aleksandra Krunic is the pick to win this match.
Aleksandra Krunic -> 1.126
Ziva Falkner -> 6.5
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Prediction and head to head Aleksandra Krunic vs. Ziva Falkner
There is no head to head record between Aleksandra Krunic and Ziva Falkner since this will be the first time that they will fight against each other in the main tour.
Aleksandra Krunic
Ranked no. 176, the Serbian reached the 1st round after beating Tina Cvetkovic 6-1 6-1 and Susan Bandecchi 2-6 6-1 6-3.
In the qualifications against Bandecchi, Krunic recovered from a 1-set down deficit before winning (2-6 6-1 6-3). During the match, Krunic scored 86 points vs Bandecchi’s 73. Krunic was exceptionally aggressive to blast 34 winners.
Talking about the service games, Krunic fired 3 aces and she committed only 4 double faults. Aleksandra Krunic lost the serve 4 times and she saved 6 break points. Furthermore, Krunic put 57% of her first serves in, winning 68% (34/50) of the points behind her 1st serve and 45% (17/38) on the 2nd serve. The Serbian broke Bandecchi 6 times after converting 55% of her break points (6/11).
Overall Performance in this tournament
Aleksandra started her run at this tournament from the qualifications. In the main draw, she has dropped 1 set in this competition to conquer 57% of the points she played.
Krunic has a winning record in the last 10 years having won 57% of her matches (261-199). 5-2 on hard in 2021. Talking about her performance on the same surface of this tournament, Krunic has a composed 94-86 win-loss record in the last years on hard.
The Serbian’s best result of the season was reaching the final in the W60 Stare Splavy.
The Serbian has an aggregate 27-13 win-loss record in 2021, 5-2 on hard (See FULL STATS).
Previously in Portoroz
Aleksandra has never competed in this tournament before.
Ziva Falkner
Ranked no. 542 (career-high), Falkner will start her run in Portoroz after she played her last match in W15 Bad Waltersdorf where she lost 6-2 6-2 to Ruzic in the final on the 29th of August.
Falkner has an aggregate 29-17 win-loss record in 2021, 1-2 on hard (See FULL STATS).
The Slovenian’s best result of the current season was getting to the final in W15 Antalya and W15 Bad Waltersdorf.
In terms of her career, The Slovenian has an overall 46-25 record. She has a negative 1-2 record on hard.
Head 2 Head
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- Ana KonjuhKonjuh – Donna VekicVekic (0-6 6-3 6-2) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Bernarda PeraPera – Fiona FerroFerro (6-4 6-3) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Kristina MladenovicMladenovic – Nika RadisicRadisic (4-6 6-1 6-2) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Sorana CirsteaCirstea – Heather WatsonWatson (6-1 6-3) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Marc-Andrea HueslerHuesler – Mateusz TerczynskiTerczynski (7-62 3-6 6-1) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Lorenzo FrigerioFrigerio – Romain BauvyBauvy (6-4 6-4) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Elmar EjupovicEjupovic – Linus FrostFrost (6-4 6-2) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Viktor DurasovicDurasovic – Marcus Anker Aarthun SulenAnker Aarthun Sulen (6-1 6-1) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Lucas MiedlerMiedler – Jacob EskelandEskeland (6-3 6-3) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Quinton VegaVega – Valentin VacherotVacherot (6-2 7-5) – Stats, scores, rankings
Upcoming matches in the draw
- Petra MarticMartic – Kaja JuvanJuvan (1-0) – H2H and prediction
- Aleksandra KrunicKrunic – (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Sara ErraniErrani – Anhelina KalininaKalinina (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Cristiana FerrandoFerrando – Tamara ZidansekZidansek (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Alison RiskeRiske – (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Viktoria KuzmovaKuzmova – Tereza MrdezaMrdeza (1-1) – H2H and prediction
- Dayana YastremskaYastremska – Jasmine PaoliniPaolini (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Danka KovinicKovinic – Anna KalinskayaKalinskaya (1-0) – H2H and prediction
- Tereza MartincovaMartincova – Kristina KucovaKucova (1-1) – H2H and prediction
- Rebecca PetersonPeterson – Lucia BronzettiBronzetti (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Katarina ZavatskaZavatska – Katie BoulterBoulter (0-1) – H2H and prediction
- Jaqueline CristianCristian – Yulia PutintsevaPutintseva (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Kristina MladenovicMladenovic – Ana KonjuhKonjuh (1-2) – H2H and prediction
