Jaqueline Cristian and Kaia Kanepi will fight against each other in the 1st round of the Melbourne Summer Set 1 for the 3rd time in their career. They are scheduled to compete on Tuesday at 5:00 pm on Court 8. 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 Kaia Kanepi who should win in 3 sets.
Kaia Kanepi -> 1.66
Jaqueline Cristian -> 2.28
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Prediction and head to head Jaqueline Cristian vs. Kaia Kanepi
This will be the 3rd time that Jaqueline Cristian and Kaia Kanepi face off. The head to head is 2-0 for Kanepi (see full H2H stats), but they have never played each other on hard.
The last time that they played, Kanepi won 6-4 6-2 in the semifinal in the W25 Istanbul back in 2020.
Jaqueline Cristian
| Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 32-25 | 20-15 | 12-6 | 0-1 | 0-3 | 0-0 |
| 2024 | 28-32 | 5-15 | 17-11 | 5-4 | 1-2 | 0-0 |
| 2023 | 51-28 | 4-7 | 28-11 | 15-6 | 1-3 | 3-1 |
| 2022 | 13-16 | 9-8 | 0-0 | 4-8 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2021 | 37-26 | 5-5 | 15-12 | 17-7 | 0-2 | 0-0 |
Ranked no. 71 (career-high), the Romanian will start her run in Melbourne after she played her last match in Linz where she lost 2-6 6-2 7-5 to Riske in the final on the 12th of November.
This will be the first match of the season on hard.
Talking about her overall career, The Romanian has an overall 223-144 record. She has a positive 68-40 record on hard.
Previously in Melbourne
The Romanian has never competed in this tournament before.
Kaia Kanepi
| Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 0-3 | 0-1 | 0-2 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2023 | 17-22 | 6-10 | 11-9 | 0-2 | 0-1 | 0-0 |
| 2022 | 29-19 | 15-11 | 10-4 | 3-1 | 1-3 | 0-0 |
| 2021 | 23-14 | 16-8 | 6-4 | 1-1 | 0-1 | 0-0 |
| 2020 | 17-5 | 1-3 | 6-1 | 10-1 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
Ranked no. 73, Kaia will start her run in Melbourne after she played her last match in the W25 Haabneeme where she lost 2-3 ret. to Swan in the 2nd round on the 4th of November.
This will be the first match of the season on hard.
In terms of her career, Kaia has an overall 453-265 record. She has a positive 165-121 record on hard.
Previously in Melbourne
Kanepi has never competed in this tournament before.
Tennis Scores in Melbourne
- Rogerio Dutra Da SilvaDutra Da Silva – Joao SousaSousa (6-4 7-65) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Steve JohnsonJohnson – Stephane RobertRobert (6-3 6-3) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Horacio ZeballosZeballos – Dusan LajovicLajovic (6-4 0-6 7-5) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Janko TipsarevicTipsarevic – Ryan HarrisonHarrison (6-4 7-65) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Cedrik-Marcel StebeStebe – Jan-Lennard StruffStruff (6-3 4-6 7-62) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Franko SkugorSkugor – Tommy RobredoRobredo (3-6 6-3 6-2) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Mikhail KukushkinKukushkin – Roberto MarcoraMarcora (6-2 6-2) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Jared DonaldsonDonaldson – Victor EstrellaEstrella (6-2 6-4) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Mischa ZverevZverev – Robin HaaseHaase (5-7 7-66 6-3) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Sam QuerreyQuerrey – Daniel AltmaierAltmaier (6-3 6-4) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Kevin AndersonAnderson – Paolo LorenziLorenzi (7-5 7-61) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Andrey KuznetsovKuznetsov – Thomaz BellucciBellucci (3-6 6-4 6-1) – Stats, scores, rankings
Upcoming matches in the draw
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- Anna BondarBondar – Mai HontamaHontama (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Bernarda PeraPera – Qinwen ZhengZheng (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Danka KovinicKovinic – Nao HibinoHibino (0-1) – H2H and prediction
- Lesley KerkhoveKerkhove – Kimberly BirrellBirrell (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Destanee AiavaAiava – (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Naomi OsakaOsaka – Alize CornetCornet (1-0) – H2H and prediction
- Petra MarticMartic – Maryna ZanevskaZanevska (1-1) – H2H and prediction
- Shuai ZhangZhang – Clara BurelBurel (2-0) – H2H and prediction
- Andrea PetkovicPetkovic – Ludmilla SamsonovaSamsonova (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Anastasia PotapovaPotapova – Lizette CabreraCabrera (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Tereza MartincovaMartincova – Ana KonjuhKonjuh (1-1) – H2H and prediction
- Jaqueline CristianCristian – Kaia KanepiKanepi (0-2) – H2H and prediction
- Vera ZvonarevaZvonareva – Alison RiskeRiske (2-1) – H2H and prediction
- Viktorija GolubicGolubic – Lauren DavisDavis (2-1) – H2H and prediction
- Elena Gabriela RuseGabriela Ruse – Arina RodionovaRodionova (1-0) – H2H and prediction