Garbine Muguruza and Victoria Azarenka will clash against each other in the 3rd round of the Chicago Fall Tennis Classic for the 6th time in their career. They are scheduled to play on Thursday at 1:00 pm on Stadium. In this post, we analyze their head to head performance 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 -> 1.80
Victoria Azarenka -> 2.00
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Prediction and head to head Garbine Muguruza vs. Victoria Azarenka
This will be the 6th time that Garbine Muguruza and Victoria Azarenka clash against each other. The head to head is 3-2 for Muguruza (see full H2H stats), 2-1 on hard.
The last time that they played each other, Muguruza won 6-4 3-6 6-2 in the 3rd round in at the U.S. Open back in September 2021.
Highlights Garbine Muguruza vs Victoria Azarenka – U.S. Open 03-September-2021
Garbine Muguruza
Ranked no. 9, the Spaniard reached the 3rd round after beating Ann Li 6-4 6-4.
In the 2nd round, The Spaniard had a good straight sets win against Li (6-4 6-4). During the match, Muguruza scored 69 points vs Li’s 59. Muguruza was pretty aggressive to blast 33 winners.
Talking about the service games, Muguruza made 2 aces and she committed only 5 double faults. Garbine Muguruza lost the serve twice and she saved 4 break points. Furthermore, Muguruza put 73% of her first serves in, winning 69% (33/48) of the points behind her 1st serve and 44% (8/18) on the 2nd serve. Muguruza broke Li 4 times after converting 57% of her break points (4/7).
Muguruza has a solid win-loss record in the last 10 years having won 66% of her matches (340-179). 28-9 on hard in 2021. Talking about her performance on the same surface of this event, Muguruza has a compiled 202-100 record in the last years on hard.
Her best result of the current year was conquering the title in in Dubai where she beat Barbora Krejcikova in the final 7-6(6) 6-3.
The Spaniard has an aggregate 35-14 win-loss record in 2021, 28-9 on hard (See FULL STATS).
Previously in Chicago
The Spaniard has never competed in this tournament before.
Victoria Azarenka
Ranked no. 34, Azarenka reached the 3rd round after defeating Shuai Zhang 6-2 6-1 and Hailey Baptiste 6-2 4-6 6-3.
In the 2nd round, Azarenka defeated Baptiste (6-2 4-6 6-3). During the match Azarenka scored 93 points vs Baptiste’s 77. Victoria was quite aggressive to blast 33 winners.
About the serving games, Azarenka scored just 1 ace during the entire match and she was not very steady on her 2nd serve to score 10 double faults. Victoria Azarenka lost the serve 3 times and she saved 2 break points. Furthermore, Azarenka put 55% of her first serves in, winning 75% (33/44) of the points behind her 1st serve and 50% (18/36) on the 2nd serve. Victoria broke Baptiste 6 times after converting 60% of her break points (6/10).
Overall Performance in this tournament
Victoria started her run at this tournament from the qualifications. In the main draw, she has conceded 1 set in the tournament to win 58% of the points she played.
Azarenka’s best result of the year was getting to the semifinal in Doha and Berlin.
Azarenka has a composed 23-8 win-loss record in 2021, 13-5 on hard (See FULL STATS).
H2H Performance in the tournament (main draw)
Matches, sets, games and points
Points | Muguruza | Azarenka |
---|---|---|
Match played | 1 | 2 |
Tot Set | 2 | 5 |
Tot Games | 20 | 42 |
Pts | 69-59 | 151-111 |
Total Points | 128 | 262 |
Winners | 33 | 51 |
%Winners | 48% | 34% |
Muguruza played 1 match while Azarenka competed in 2 matches. At the moment, Victoria Azarenka conceded 1 set while Garbine Muguruza hasn’t lost a set so far. Muguruza has played 3 set(s) less than Azarenka (2 vs 5). Therefore, Muguruza played 22 games less than Azarenka. Garbine scored 33 winners (48% of the total points). On the other side, Azarenka bagged 51 winners (34%).
Serve Performance
Serve | Muguruza | Azarenka |
---|---|---|
Aces | 2 | 4 |
Avg per match | 2 | 2 |
1st in | 48/66 | 71/126 |
%1st in | 73% | 56% |
1st pts | 33/48 | 51/71 |
%1st pts | 69% | 72% |
2nd pts | 8/18 | 27/55 |
%2nd pts | 44% | 49% |
Muguruza fired 2 aces . Azarenka scored 4 aces (2 per match). Muguruza won 69% points behind her first serve. She quite strong on her second serve to win 44% of the points. On the other side, Azarenka won 72% of the points on her first serve. She had a solid display on her second serve to win 49% of the points.
How they played the important points
Breaks | Muguruza | Azarenka |
---|---|---|
Won | 4 | 13 |
Converted | 4/7 | 13/20 |
% Converted | 57% | 65% |
Conceded | 6 | 11 |
Saved | 4 | 6 |
% Saved | 67% | 55% |
Times Broken | 2 | 5 |
Garbine broke her opponent 4 times with a 57% conversion rate. Garbine conceded her serve twice and she saved 67% of the break points that she conceded. Azarenka broke her opponents 13 times with a 65% conversion rate. Azarenka conceded her serve 5 times and she saved 55% of the break points that she conceded.
Muguruza | |||
R2 Li |
Total | ||
---|---|---|---|
Score | 6-4 6-4 | ||
Tot Set | 2 | 2 | |
Tot Games | 20 | 20 | |
pts | 69-59 | 69-59 | |
Total points | 128 | 128 | |
Winners | 33 | 33 | |
%Winners | 48% | 48% | |
SERVE | |||
Aces | 2 | 2 | |
Double Faults | 5 | 5 | |
1st in | 48/66 | 48/66 | |
% 1st in | 73% | 73% | |
1st pts | 33/48 | 33/48 | |
% 1st pts | 69% | 69% | |
2nd pts | 8/18 | 8/18 | |
% 2nd pts | 44% | 44% | |
Breaks | |||
Won | 4 | 4 | |
Converted | 4/7 | 4/7 | |
Converted % | 57% | 57% | |
Conceded | 6 | 6 | |
Saved | 4/6 | 4 | |
Saved % | 67% | 67% | |
Times Broken | 2 | 2 |
Azarenka | ||||
R1 Zhang |
R2 Baptiste |
Total | ||
---|---|---|---|---|
Score | 6-2 6-1 | 6-2 4-6 6-3 | ||
Tot Set | 2 | 3 | 5 | |
Tot Games | 15 | 27 | 42 | |
pts | 58-34 | 93-77 | 151-111 | |
Total points | 92 | 170 | 262 | |
Winners | 18 | 33 | 51 | |
%Winners | 31% | 35% | 34% | |
SERVE | ||||
Aces | 3 | 1 | 4 | |
Double Faults | 4 | 10 | 14 | |
1st in | 27/46 | 44/80 | 71/126 | |
% 1st in | 59% | 55% | 56% | |
1st pts | 18/27 | 33/44 | 51/71 | |
% 1st pts | 67% | 75% | 72% | |
2nd pts | 9/19 | 18/36 | 27/55 | |
% 2nd pts | 47% | 50% | 49% | |
Breaks | ||||
Won | 7 | 6 | 13 | |
Converted | 7/10 | 6/10 | 13/20 | |
Converted % | 70% | 60% | 65% | |
Conceded | 6 | 5 | 11 | |
Saved | 4/6 | 2/5 | 6 | |
Saved % | 67% | 40% | 107% | |
Times Broken | 2 | 3 | 5 |
Head 2 Head
Tennis Scores in Chicago
- Jil TeichmannTeichmann – Magda LinetteLinette (6-2 6-4) – See score progression
- Tereza MartincovaMartincova – Tamara ZidansekZidansek (6-2 7-5) – See score progression
- Mai HontamaHontama – Anett KontaveitKontaveit (w/o) – See score progression
- Marketa VondrousovaVondrousova – Anastasia PavlyuchenkovaPavlyuchenkova (6-3 6-2) – See score progression
- Elena RybakinaRybakina – Aliaksandra SasnovichSasnovich (6-4 6-4) – See score progression
- Veronika KudermetovaKudermetova – Harriet DartDart (6-3 6-4) – See score progression
- Belinda BencicBencic – Maddison InglisInglis (5-7 6-1 6-0) – See score progression
- Victoria AzarenkaAzarenka – Hailey BaptisteBaptiste (6-2 4-6 6-3) – See score progression
- Jessica PegulaPegula – Andrea PetkovicPetkovic (6-2 7-5) – See score progression
- Shelby RogersRogers – Bianca Vanessa AndreescuVanessa Andreescu (6-4 7-5) – See score progression
- Elina SvitolinaSvitolina – Amanda AnisimovaAnisimova (6-4 6-3) – See score progression
- Elena Gabriela RuseGabriela Ruse – Kateryna KozlovaKozlova (7-5 6-2) – See score progression
- Danielle Rose CollinsRose Collins – Misaki DoiDoi (4-6 6-3 7-5) – See score progression
- Garbine MuguruzaMuguruza – Ann LiLi (6-4 6-4) – See score progression
- Elise MertensMertens – Dayana YastremskaYastremska (6-1 6-3) – See score progression
- Ons JabeurJabeur – Su-Wei HsiehHsieh (6-1 6-0) – See score progression
- Nam Hoang LyHoang Ly – Ken OnishiOnishi (6-1 6-3) – See score progression
- Elina SvitolinaSvitolina – Amanda AnisimovaAnisimova (6-4 6-3) – See score progression
- Jessica PegulaPegula – Andrea PetkovicPetkovic (6-2 7-5) – See score progression
- Tereza MartincovaMartincova – Tamara ZidansekZidansek (6-2 7-5) – See score progression
- Veronika KudermetovaKudermetova – Harriet DartDart (6-3 6-4) – See score progression
- Jil TeichmannTeichmann – Magda LinetteLinette (6-2 6-4) – See score progression
- Marketa VondrousovaVondrousova – Anastasia PavlyuchenkovaPavlyuchenkova (6-3 6-2) – See score progression
- Shelby RogersRogers – Bianca Vanessa AndreescuVanessa Andreescu (6-4 7-5) – See score progression
- Mai HontamaHontama – Anett KontaveitKontaveit (w/o) – See score progression
- Victoria AzarenkaAzarenka – Hailey BaptisteBaptiste (6-2 4-6 6-3) – See score progression
Upcoming matches in the draw
- Elina SvitolinaSvitolina – Elena Gabriela RuseGabriela Ruse (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Jessica PegulaPegula – Ons JabeurJabeur (2-0) – H2H and prediction
- Belinda BencicBencic – Tereza MartincovaMartincova (2-0) – H2H and prediction
- Veronika KudermetovaKudermetova – Elena RybakinaRybakina (0-2) – H2H and prediction
- Elise MertensMertens – Danielle Rose CollinsRose Collins (1-0) – H2H and prediction
- Jil TeichmannTeichmann – Marketa VondrousovaVondrousova (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Shelby RogersRogers – Mai HontamaHontama (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Victoria AzarenkaAzarenka – Garbine MuguruzaMuguruza (2-3) – H2H and prediction