Marie Bouzkova and Kaia Kanepi will fight against each other in the 2nd round of the Australian Open for the 3rd time in their career. They are scheduled to compete on Thursday at 3:30 pm on Court 7. Here the head to head stats and relative prediction.

Prediction, odds and live streaming

The pick for Tennis Tonic is Kaia Kanepi who should win in 3 sets.

As per the initial odds, Kaia Kanepi is the pick to win this match.
Kaia Kanepi -> 1.7
Marie Bouzkova -> 2.21

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Prediction and head to head Marie Bouzkova vs. Kaia Kanepi

This will be the 3rd time that Marie Bouzkova and Kaia Kanepi fight against each other. The head to head is 1-1 (see full H2H stats), 1-0 on hard.

The last time that they played, Kanepi won 4-6 6-4 6-2 in the 1st round in at the French Open back in 2020.

Marie Bouzkova

Marie Bouzkova

0 - 0win/loss

Rank
43
High
24
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Year Total Hard Clay I.hard Grass Carpet
2025 31-21 20-12 9-6 1-1 1-2 0-0
2024 27-22 17-16 7-3 1-0 2-3 0-0
2023 28-24 19-16 5-5 1-0 3-3 0-0
2022 42-14 33-10 5-2 0-0 4-2 0-0
2021 16-21 11-13 1-4 2-1 2-3 0-0

Ranked no. 86, Bouzkova got to the 2nd round after beating Rebecca Marino 6-1 6-3.

In the 1st round, The Czech had a good straight sets win against Marino (6-1 6-3). During the match, Bouzkova scored 65 points vs Marino’s 41. The Czech was very aggressive to blast 22 winners.

Regarding the service games, Bouzkova wasn’t able to score even 1 ace and she committed only 1 double fault. Marie Bouzkova was very efficient on serve to win 79% (22/28) of her 1st serve and 75% (12/16) on the second serve. This was the main reason for not conceding a single break during the match. The Czech broke Marino 4 times after converting 31% of her break points (4/13).

Bouzkova has a solid win-loss record in the last 9 years having won 64% of her matches (270-149). 4-1 on hard in 2022. In connection with her performance on the same surface of this event, Bouzkova has a compiled184-81 record in the last 9 years on hard.

Marie has a composed 4-1 win-loss record in 2022, 4-1 on hard (See FULL STATS).

Previously at the Australian Open

Australian Open
Bouzkova's Record

Kaia Kanepi

Kaia Kanepi

0 - 0win/loss

Rank
578
High
15
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. 115, Kaia reached the 2nd round after beating Angelique Kerber 6-4 6-3.

In the 1st round, The Estonian had a good straight sets win against Kerber (6-4 6-3). During the match Kanepi scored 73 points vs Kerber’s 59. Kanepi was pretty aggressive to blast 25 winners.

About the serving games, Kanepi struck 4 aces and she committed only 1 double fault for the entire match. Kaia Kanepi lost the serve twice and she saved 2 break points. Furthermore, Kanepi put 58% of her first serves in, winning 61% (25/41) of the points behind her 1st serve and 60% (18/30) on the 2nd serve. The Estonian broke Kerber 4 times after converting 44% of her break points (4/9).

The Estonian has a composed 2-1 win-loss record in 2022, 2-1 on hard (See FULL STATS).

Previously at the Australian Open

Previously, her best result was reaching the 3rd round in 2009, 2018 and 2021. See her history.

Australian Open
Kanepi's Record

H2H Performance in the tournament

M.Bouzkova
K.Kanepi
1h:15
1h:15
Time on court​
1h:20
1h:20
1h:15
1h:15
Last match​
1h:20
1h:20
1
1
Match played
1
1
16
16
Games Played​
19
19
2
2
Set played​​
2
2
65
65
Total points​
73
73
65
65
Avg point​
73
73
22
22
Winners
25
25
22
22
Avg Winners​
25
25
34%
34%
Ratio winners
34%
34%
-- Serve --
0
0
Aces
4
4
0
0
Avg Aces
4
4
1
1
Double Faults
1
1
1
1
Avg Double Faults
1
1
22/28
22/28
1st won total​
25/41
25/41
!
79%
79%
1st won %
61%
61%
12/16
12/16
2nd won total​
18/30
18/30
!
75%
75%
2nd won %
60%
60%
-- Break Points --
4/13
4/13
BP won
4/9
4/9
4/13
4/13
Avg BP won
4/9
4/9
31%
31%
Won
44%
44%
2
2
Conceded
4
4
2
2
Avg Conceded
4
4
0
0
Broken
2
2
!
0
0
Avg Broken
2
2
2
2
Saved
2
2

Matches, sets, games and points

Points Bouzkova Kanepi
Match played 1 1
Tot Set 2 2
Tot Games 16 19
Pts 65-41 73-59
Total Points 106 132
Winners 22 25
%Winners 34% 34%

Both Bouzkova and Kanepi played 1 match. Both players have not dropped a single set in this event so far. Talking about their workload, Bouzkova and Kanepi have played the same amount of sets 2. However, Bouzkova played 3 games less than Kanepi. The Czech scored 22 winners (34% of the total points). On the other side, Kaia fired 25 winners (34%).

Serve Performance

Serve Bouzkova Kanepi
Aces 0 4
Avg per match 0 4
1st in 28/44 41/71
%1st in 64% 58%
1st pts 22/28 25/41
%1st pts 79% 61%
2nd pts 12/16 18/30
%2nd pts 75% 60%

Bouzkova didn’t manage to fire a single ace to far. Kanepi scored 4 aces . Bouzkova won 79% points behind her first serve. She extremely effective on her second serve to win 75% of the points. On the other side, Kanepi won 61% of the points on her first serve. She had a solid display on her second serve to win 60% of the points.

How they played the important points

Breaks Bouzkova Kanepi
Won 4 4
Converted 4/13 4/9
% Converted 31% 44%
Conceded 2 4
Saved 2 2
% Saved 100% 50%
Times Broken 0 2

Bouzkova broke her opponent 4 times with a 31% conversion rate. Bouzkova pretty effective on her serve as she has never lost a single service game after saving 2 break points. The Estonian broke her opponent 4 times with a 44% conversion rate. Kaia conceded her serve twice and she saved 50% of the break points that she conceded.

Bouzkova
R1
Marino
Total
Score 6-1 6-3
Tot Set 2 2
Tot Games 16 16
pts 65-41 65-41
Total points 106 106
Winners 22 22
%Winners 34% 34%
SERVE
Aces 0 0
Double Faults 1 1
1st in 28/44 28/44
% 1st in 64% 64%
1st pts 22/28 22/28
% 1st pts 79% 79%
2nd pts 12/16 12/16
% 2nd pts 75% 75%
Breaks
Won 4 4
Converted 4/13 4/13
Converted % 31% 31%
Conceded 2 2
Saved 2/2 2
Saved % 100% 100%
Times Broken 0 0
Kanepi
R1
Kerber
Total
Score 6-4 6-3
Tot Set 2 2
Tot Games 19 19
pts 73-59 73-59
Total points 132 132
Winners 25 25
%Winners 34% 34%
SERVE
Aces 4 4
Double Faults 1 1
1st in 41/71 41/71
% 1st in 58% 58%
1st pts 25/41 25/41
% 1st pts 61% 61%
2nd pts 18/30 18/30
% 2nd pts 60% 60%
Breaks
Won 4 4
Converted 4/9 4/9
Converted % 44% 44%
Conceded 4 4
Saved 2/4 2
Saved % 50% 50%
Times Broken 2 2

Tennis Scores – Australian Open

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