Simona Halep and Destanee Aiava will play each other in the 1st round of the Melbourne Summer Set 1 for the 2nd time in their career. They are scheduled to play on Wednesday at 1:00 pm on Rod Laver Arena. Here the head to head stats and relative prediction.
Prediction, odds and live streaming
The pick for Tennis Tonic is Simona Halep who should win in 2 sets.
As per the initial odds, Simona Halep is the pick to win this match.
Simona Halep -> 1.114
Destanee Aiava -> 6.9
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Prediction and head to head Simona Halep vs. Destanee Aiava
This will be the 2nd time that Simona Halep and Destanee Aiava face off. The head to head is 1-0 for Halep (see full H2H stats), 1-0 on hard.
The last time that they played, Halep won 7-6(5) 6-1 in the 1st round in Melbourne back in 2018.
Simona Halep
| Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 0-1 | 0-1 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2023 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2022 | 39-11 | 23-6 | 5-3 | 0-0 | 11-2 | 0-0 |
| 2021 | 24-10 | 12-5 | 4-3 | 8-2 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2020 | 23-3 | 10-2 | 13-1 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
Ranked no. 20, Simona will start her run in Melbourne after she played her last match in Linz where she lost w/o to Cristian in the semifinal on the 11th of November.
This will be the first match of the year on hard.
Talking about her overall career, Halep has an overall 550-229 record. She has a positive 242-109 record on hard.
Previously in Melbourne
The Romanian has never competed in this tournament before.
Destanee Aiava
| Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 14-9 | 14-9 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2023 | 47-24 | 41-19 | 4-3 | 0-0 | 2-2 | 0-0 |
| 2022 | 32-13 | 27-11 | 5-2 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2021 | 3-11 | 2-5 | 1-5 | 0-0 | 0-1 | 0-0 |
| 2020 | 13-6 | 13-6 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
Ranked no. 316, the Australian reached the 1st round after beating Qiang Wang 7-69 6-4 and Taylah Preston 6-4 6-4.
In the qualifications, Destanee had a good straight sets win against Preston (6-4 6-4). During the match Aiava scored 79 points vs Preston’s 69. The Australian was exceptionally aggressive to blast 29 winners.
Talking about serving, Aiava managed to score 5 aces and she committed only 2 double faults. Destanee Aiava lost the serve 5 times and she saved 9 break points. Furthermore, Aiava put 68% of her first serves in, winning 54% (29/54) of the points behind her 1st serve and 44% (11/25) on the 2nd serve. Destanee broke Preston 7 times after converting 88% of her break points (7/8).
Overall Performance in this tournament
Destanee started her run at this tournament from the qualifications. In the main draw, she hasn’t conceded yet a set in this tournament to win 54% of the points she played.
Aiava has an aggregate 2-0 win-loss record in 2022, 2-0 on hard (See FULL STATS).
Previously in Melbourne
Destanee has never competed in this tournament before.
Head 2 Head
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- Ana KonjuhKonjuh – Tereza MartincovaMartincova (6-4 6-4) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Vera ZvonarevaZvonareva – Alison RiskeRiske (7-5 6-3) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Andrea PetkovicPetkovic – Liudmila SamsonovaSamsonova (6-3 7-63) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Kaia KanepiKanepi – Jaqueline CristianCristian (6-72 7-67 6-2) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Maryna ZanevskaZanevska – Petra MarticMartic (6-3 6-4) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Steve JohnsonJohnson – Stephane RobertRobert (6-3 6-3) – Stats, scores, rankings
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- 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
- Rogerio Dutra Da SilvaDutra Da Silva – Joao SousaSousa (6-4 7-65) – 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
- Franko SkugorSkugor – Tommy RobredoRobredo (3-6 6-3 6-2) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Mikhail KukushkinKukushkin – Roberto MarcoraMarcora (6-2 6-2) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Andrey KuznetsovKuznetsov – Thomaz BellucciBellucci (3-6 6-4 6-1) – Stats, scores, rankings
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- Saisai ZhengZheng – Qinwen ZhengZheng (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Lesley KerkhoveKerkhove – Seone MendezMendez (1-0) – H2H and prediction
- Destanee AiavaAiava – Simona HalepHalep (0-1) – H2H and prediction
- Naomi OsakaOsaka – Maryna ZanevskaZanevska (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Ana KonjuhKonjuh – Kaia KanepiKanepi (1-0) – H2H and prediction
