Vera Zvonareva and Natalia Vikhlyantseva will play each other in the 2nd round of the Open Angers Arena Loire for the 3rd time in their career. They are scheduled to compete on Thursday at 6:00 pm on Central P21. 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 Vera Zvonareva who should win in 2 sets.
As per the initial odds, Vera Zvonareva is the pick to win this match.
Vera Zvonareva -> 1.33
Natalia Vikhlyantseva -> 3.44
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Prediction and head to head Vera Zvonareva vs. Natalia Vikhlyantseva
This will be the 3rd time that Vera Zvonareva and Natalia Vikhlyantseva play each other. The head to head is 1-1 for Zvonareva and Vikhlyantseva (see full H2H stats), but they have never played each other on indoor hard courts.
The last time that they played each other, Zvonareva won 6-1 6-2 in the qualifications in at the French Open back in 2020.
Vera Zvonareva
Ranked no. 87, Zvonareva reached the 2nd round after defeating Stefanie Voegele 6-4 6-4.
In the 1st round, Vera had a good straight sets win against Voegele (6-4 6-4). During the match, Zvonareva scored 68 points vs Voegele’s 55. The Russian was quite aggressive to blast 31 winners.
Talking about the service games, Zvonareva blasted 2 aces and she committed only 1 double fault. Vera Zvonareva lost the serve once and she saved 1 break points. Furthermore, Zvonareva put 67% of her first serves in, winning 66% (31/47) of the points behind her 1st serve and 70% (16/23) on the 2nd serve. The Russian was clinical in her return game without wasting any break point and break Voegele 3 times.
Zvonareva has a favorable record in the last 10 years having won 59% of her matches (123-85). 4-1 on indoor hard courts in 2021. Talking about her performance on the same surface of this tournament, Zvonareva has a compiled 26-14 win-loss record in the last years on indoor hard courts.
Vera’s best result of the current year was reaching the semifinal in St. Petersburg and the Concord.
The Russian has an aggregate 24-14 win-loss record in 2021, 4-1 on indoor hard courts (See FULL STATS).
Previously in the Angers
Zvonareva has never competed in this tournament before.
Natalia Vikhlyantseva
Ranked no. 244, Vikhlyantseva reached the 2nd round after defeating Yu-Chieh Hsieh 6-3 7-5, Iryna Shymanovich 7-5 6-1 and Ana Bogdan 6-2 6-2.
In the 1st round, Vikhlyantseva had a good straight sets win against Bogdan (6-2 6-2). During the match Vikhlyantseva scored 54 points vs Bogdan’s 32. Vikhlyantseva was pretty aggressive to blast 22 winners.
Talking about serving, Vikhlyantseva wasn’t able to score even 1 ace for the entire match and she committed only 1 double fault for the entire match. Overall, Natalia Vikhlyantseva was extremely efficient on serve to win 85% (22/26) of her 1st serve and 57% (8/14) on the second serve. However, this didn’t prevent her to concede the serve once. Vikhlyantseva broke Bogdan 5 times after converting 63% of her break points (5/8).
Vikhlyantseva has a composed 11-18 win-loss record in 2021, 4-5 on indoor hard courts (See FULL STATS).
H2H Performance in the tournament
Matches, sets, games and points
Points | Zvonareva | Vikhlyantseva |
---|---|---|
Match played | 1 | 3 |
Tot Set | 2 | 6 |
Tot Games | 20 | 56 |
Pts | 68-55 | 203-152 |
Total Points | 123 | 355 |
Winners | 31 | 80 |
%Winners | 46% | 39% |
Zvonareva played 1 match while Vikhlyantseva competed in 3 matches. Vikhlyantseva started her run from the qualifications while Zvonareva had a direct access to the main draw. Both players have not lost a single set in this event so far. Zvonareva has played 4 set(s) less than Vikhlyantseva (2 vs 6). Therefore, Zvonareva played 36 games less than Vikhlyantseva. The Russian scored 31 winners (46% of the total points). On the other side, Vikhlyantseva scored 80 winners (39%).
Serve Performance
Serve | Zvonareva | Vikhlyantseva |
---|---|---|
Aces | 2 | 11 |
Avg per match | 2 | 3.7 |
1st in | 47/70 | 110/177 |
%1st in | 67% | 62% |
1st pts | 31/47 | 80/110 |
%1st pts | 66% | 73% |
2nd pts | 16/23 | 34/67 |
%2nd pts | 70% | 51% |
Zvonareva scored 2 aces . Vikhlyantseva scored 11 aces (3.7 per match). Zvonareva won 66% points on her first serve. She was rock solid on her second serve to win 70% of the points. On the other side, Vikhlyantseva won 73% 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 | Zvonareva | Vikhlyantseva |
---|---|---|
Won | 3 | 14 |
Converted | 3/3 | 14/28 |
% Converted | 100% | 50% |
Conceded | 2 | 8 |
Saved | 1 | 3 |
% Saved | 50% | 38% |
Times Broken | 1 | 5 |
The Russian broke her opponent 3 times with a 100% conversion rate. Vera surrendered her serve once and she saved 50% of the break points that she conceded. Natalia broke her opponents 14 times with a 50% conversion rate. Natalia conceded her serve 5 times and she saved 38% of the break points that she conceded.
Zvonareva | |||
R1 Voegele |
Total | ||
---|---|---|---|
Score | 6-4 6-4 | ||
Tot Set | 2 | 2 | |
Tot Games | 20 | 20 | |
pts | 68-55 | 68-55 | |
Total points | 123 | 123 | |
Winners | 31 | 31 | |
%Winners | 46% | 46% | |
SERVE | |||
Aces | 2 | 2 | |
Double Faults | 1 | 1 | |
1st in | 47/70 | 47/70 | |
% 1st in | 67% | 67% | |
1st pts | 31/47 | 31/47 | |
% 1st pts | 66% | 66% | |
2nd pts | 16/23 | 16/23 | |
% 2nd pts | 70% | 70% | |
Breaks | |||
Won | 3 | 3 | |
Converted | 3/3 | 3/3 | |
Converted % | 100% | 100% | |
Conceded | 2 | 2 | |
Saved | 1/2 | 1 | |
Saved % | 50% | 50% | |
Times Broken | 1 | 1 |
Vikhlyantseva | |||||
Q1 Hsieh |
Q3 Shymanovich |
R1 Bogdan |
Total | ||
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Score | 6-3 7-5 | 7-5 6-1 | 6-2 6-2 | ||
Tot Set | 2 | 2 | 2 | 6 | |
Tot Games | 21 | 19 | 16 | 56 | |
pts | 72-59 | 77-61 | 54-32 | 203-152 | |
Total points | 131 | 138 | 86 | 355 | |
Winners | 29 | 29 | 22 | 80 | |
%Winners | 40% | 38% | 41% | 39% | |
SERVE | |||||
Aces | 4 | 7 | 0 | 11 | |
Double Faults | 4 | 6 | 1 | 11 | |
1st in | 44/70 | 40/67 | 26/40 | 110/177 | |
% 1st in | 63% | 60% | 65% | 62% | |
1st pts | 29/44 | 29/40 | 22/26 | 80/110 | |
% 1st pts | 66% | 73% | 85% | 73% | |
2nd pts | 14/26 | 12/27 | 8/14 | 34/67 | |
% 2nd pts | 54% | 44% | 57% | 51% | |
Breaks | |||||
Won | 4 | 5 | 5 | 14 | |
Converted | 4/10 | 5/10 | 5/8 | 14/28 | |
Converted % | 40% | 50% | 63% | 50% | |
Conceded | 3 | 3 | 2 | 8 | |
Saved | 1/3 | 1/3 | 1/2 | 3 | |
Saved % | 33% | 33% | 50% | 116% | |
Times Broken | 2 | 2 | 1 | 5 |
Head 2 Head
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