Anett Kontaveit and Clara Tauson will face off in the 2nd round of the Australian Open for the 1st time in their career. They are scheduled to play on Thursday at 11:00 am on Margaret Court Arena. In this post, we analyze their head to head performance and prediction.
Prediction, odds and live streaming
The pick for Tennis Tonic is Anett Kontaveit who should win in 2 sets.
As per the initial odds, Anett Kontaveit is the pick to win this match.
Anett Kontaveit -> 1.141
Clara Tauson -> 6.05
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Prediction and head to head Anett Kontaveit vs. Clara Tauson
There is no head to head record between Anett Kontaveit and Clara Tauson since this will be the first time that they will square off in the main tour.
Anett Kontaveit
| Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2023 | 4-8 | 2-4 | 1-3 | 0-0 | 1-1 | 0-0 |
| 2022 | 29-16 | 13-9 | 6-4 | 9-2 | 1-1 | 0-0 |
| 2021 | 48-17 | 24-12 | 5-3 | 15-0 | 4-2 | 0-0 |
| 2020 | 24-11 | 14-7 | 5-3 | 5-1 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2019 | 27-16 | 17-9 | 4-4 | 3-0 | 3-3 | 0-0 |
Ranked no. 7 (career-high), the Estonian got to the 2nd round after defeating Katerina Siniakova 6-2 6-3.
In the 1st round, Kontaveit had a good straight sets win against Siniakova (6-2 6-3). During the match, Kontaveit scored 77 points vs Siniakova’s 56. The Estonian was very aggressive to blast 32 winners.
Regarding the service games, Kontaveit recorded 3 aces and she committed only 4 double faults. Anett Kontaveit lost the serve twice and she saved 9 break points. Furthermore, Kontaveit put 59% of her first serves in, winning 78% (32/41) of the points behind her 1st serve and 38% (11/29) on the 2nd serve. Kontaveit broke Siniakova 5 times after converting 36% of her break points (5/14).
Kontaveit has a solid match record in the last 10 years having won 67% of her matches (330-164). 4-1 on hard in 2022. Regarding her performance on the same surface of this tournament, Kontaveit has a composed 146-87 match record in the last years on hard.
Anett’s best result of the current year was getting to the semifinal in Sydney.
Kontaveit has a composed 4-1 win-loss record in 2022, 4-1 on hard (See FULL STATS).
Previously at the Australian Open
Clara Tauson
| Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 37-27 | 19-16 | 14-5 | 4-2 | 0-3 | 0-1 |
| 2023 | 38-21 | 6-7 | 13-5 | 12-8 | 2-1 | 5-0 |
| 2022 | 26-18 | 10-12 | 0-1 | 16-4 | 0-1 | 0-0 |
| 2021 | 42-15 | 13-4 | 4-5 | 21-4 | 0-2 | 4-0 |
| 2020 | 30-7 | 8-3 | 12-2 | 10-2 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
Ranked no. 39 (career-high), the Dane got to the 2nd round after beating Astra Sharma 6-3 6-4.
In the 1st round, Tauson had a good straight sets win against Sharma (6-3 6-4). During the match Tauson scored 68 points vs Sharma’s 51. Clara was very aggressive to blast 24 winners.
About the serving games, Tauson scored just 1 ace during the entire match and she was pretty consistent in conceding no double faults for the entire match. Overall, Clara Tauson was very effective on serve to win 73% (24/33) of her 1st serve and 63% (15/24) on the second serve. However, this didn’t prevent her to concede the serve once. Clara broke Sharma 3 times after converting 50% of her break points (3/6).
Clara has an aggregate 3-1 win-loss record in 2022, 3-1 on hard (See FULL STATS).
Previously at the Australian Open
Clara has never competed in this tournament before.
H2H Performance in the tournament
Matches, sets, games and points
| Points | Kontaveit | Tauson |
|---|---|---|
| Match played | 1 | 1 |
| Tot Set | 2 | 2 |
| Tot Games | 17 | 19 |
| Pts | 77-56 | 68-51 |
| Total Points | 133 | 119 |
| Winners | 32 | 24 |
| %Winners | 42% | 35% |
Both Kontaveit and Tauson played 1 match. Both players have not conceded a single set in this event so far. Talking about their workload, Kontaveit and Tauson have played the same amount of sets 2. However, Kontaveit played 2 games less than Tauson. The Estonian scored 32 winners (42% of the total points). On the other side, Tauson struck 24 winners (35%).
Serve Performance
| Serve | Kontaveit | Tauson |
|---|---|---|
| Aces | 3 | 1 |
| Avg per match | 3 | 1 |
| 1st in | 41/70 | 33/57 |
| %1st in | 59% | 58% |
| 1st pts | 32/41 | 24/33 |
| %1st pts | 78% | 73% |
| 2nd pts | 11/29 | 15/24 |
| %2nd pts | 38% | 63% |
Kontaveit scored 3 aces . Tauson bagged 1 ace . Kontaveit won 78% points behind her first serve. She quite strong on her second serve to win 38% of the points. On the other side, Tauson won 73% of the points behind her first serve. She had a solid display on her second serve to win 63% of the points.
How they played the important points
| Breaks | Kontaveit | Tauson |
|---|---|---|
| Won | 5 | 3 |
| Converted | 5/14 | 3/6 |
| % Converted | 36% | 50% |
| Conceded | 11 | 4 |
| Saved | 9 | 3 |
| % Saved | 82% | 75% |
| Times Broken | 2 | 1 |
Anett broke her opponent 5 times with a 36% conversion rate. The Estonian dropped her serve twice and she saved 82% of the break points that she conceded. The Dane broke her opponent 3 times with a 50% conversion rate. Tauson conceded her serve once and she saved 75% of the break points that she conceded.
| Kontaveit | |||
| R1 Siniakova |
Total | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Score | 6-2 6-3 | ||
| Tot Set | 2 | 2 | |
| Tot Games | 17 | 17 | |
| pts | 77-56 | 77-56 | |
| Total points | 133 | 133 | |
| Winners | 32 | 32 | |
| %Winners | 42% | 42% | |
| SERVE | |||
| Aces | 3 | 3 | |
| Double Faults | 4 | 4 | |
| 1st in | 41/70 | 41/70 | |
| % 1st in | 59% | 59% | |
| 1st pts | 32/41 | 32/41 | |
| % 1st pts | 78% | 78% | |
| 2nd pts | 11/29 | 11/29 | |
| % 2nd pts | 38% | 38% | |
| Breaks | |||
| Won | 5 | 5 | |
| Converted | 5/14 | 5/14 | |
| Converted % | 36% | 36% | |
| Conceded | 11 | 11 | |
| Saved | 9/11 | 9 | |
| Saved % | 82% | 82% | |
| Times Broken | 2 | 2 | |
| Tauson | |||
| R1 Sharma |
Total | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Score | 6-3 6-4 | ||
| Tot Set | 2 | 2 | |
| Tot Games | 19 | 19 | |
| pts | 68-51 | 68-51 | |
| Total points | 119 | 119 | |
| Winners | 24 | 24 | |
| %Winners | 35% | 35% | |
| SERVE | |||
| Aces | 1 | 1 | |
| Double Faults | 0 | 0 | |
| 1st in | 33/57 | 33/57 | |
| % 1st in | 58% | 58% | |
| 1st pts | 24/33 | 24/33 | |
| % 1st pts | 73% | 73% | |
| 2nd pts | 15/24 | 15/24 | |
| % 2nd pts | 63% | 63% | |
| Breaks | |||
| Won | 3 | 3 | |
| Converted | 3/6 | 3/6 | |
| Converted % | 50% | 50% | |
| Conceded | 4 | 4 | |
| Saved | 3/4 | 3 | |
| Saved % | 75% | 75% | |
| Times Broken | 1 | 1 | |
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