Varvara Gracheva and Irina Maria Bara will square off in the qualifications of the St. Petersburg Ladies Trophy for the 3^rd time in their career. They are scheduled to compete on Sunday at 4:00 pm on SIBUR ARENA. Here the head to head stats and relative prediction.

Prediction, odds and live streaming

The pick for Tennis Tonic is Varvara Gracheva who should win in 2 sets.

As per the initial odds, Varvara Gracheva is the pick to win this match.
Varvara Gracheva -> 1.42
Irina Maria Bara -> 2.875

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Prediction and head to head Varvara Gracheva vs. Irina Maria Bara

This will be the 3^rd time that Varvara Gracheva and Irina Maria Bara face off. The head to head is 1-1 for Gracheva and Maria Bara (see full H2H stats), but they have never played each other on indoor hard courts.

The last time that they fought against each other, Maria Bara won 7-5 6-4 in the semifinal in the Mer back in 2020.

Varvara Gracheva

Ranked no. 81, Gracheva reached the qualifications after beating Amina Anshba 6-1 6-2.

In the qualifications, The Russian had a good straight sets win against Anshba (6-1 6-2). During the match, Gracheva scored 56 points vs Anshba’s 34. The Russian was extremely aggressive to blast 21 winners.

Talking about the service games, Gracheva managed to score 2 aces and she committed only 1 double fault. Varvara Gracheva lost the serve once and she saved 2 break points. Furthermore, Gracheva put 53% of her first serves in, winning 78% (21/27) of the points behind her 1st serve and 50% (12/24) on the 2nd serve. Gracheva broke Anshba 5 times after converting 71% of her break points (5/7).

Gracheva has a solid win-loss record in the last 7 years having won 62% of her matches (171-103). 1-0 on indoor hard courts in 2022. In connection with her performance on the same surface of this competition, Gracheva has an aggregate30-22 win-loss record in the last 7 years on indoor hard courts.

The Russian has an aggregate 1-2 win-loss record in 2022, 1-0 on indoor hard courts (See FULL STATS).

Previously in St. Petersburg

Irina Maria Bara

Ranked no. 123, Maria Bara reached the qualifications after defeating Diana Shnaider 6-4 6-2.

In the qualifications, Irina had a good straight sets win against Shnaider (6-4 6-2). During the match Maria Bara scored 71 points vs Shnaider’s 55. Maria Bara was exceptionally aggressive to blast 30 winners.

About the serving games, Maria Bara scored just 1 ace during the entire match and she was extremely steady in conceding no double faults for the entire match. Overall, Irina Maria Bara was very efficient on serve to win 71% (30/42) of her 1st serve and 57% (13/23) on the second serve. However, this didn’t prevent her to concede the serve once. Irina broke Shnaider 4 times after converting 57% of her break points (4/7).

The Romanian has an overall 4-3 win-loss record in 2022, 1-0 on indoor hard courts (See FULL STATS).

H2H Performance in the tournament

Matches, sets, games and points

Points	Gracheva	Maria Bara
Match played	1	1
Tot Set	2	2
Tot Games	15	18
Pts	56-34	71-55
Total Points	90	126
Winners	21	30
%Winners	38%	42%

Both Gracheva and Maria Bara played 1 match. Also both players started their run from the qualifications.Both players have not lost a single set in this event so far. Talking about their workload, Gracheva and Maria Bara have played the same amount of sets 2. However, Gracheva played 3 games less than Maria Bara. Gracheva scored 21 winners (38% of the total points). On the other side, Maria Bara bagged 30 winners (42%).

Serve Performance

Serve	Gracheva	Maria Bara
Aces	2	1
Avg per match	2	1
1st in	27/51	42/65
%1st in	53%	65%
1st pts	21/27	30/42
%1st pts	78%	71%
2nd pts	12/24	13/23
%2nd pts	50%	57%

Gracheva struck 2 aces . Maria Bara fired 1 ace . Gracheva won 78% points behind her first serve. She extremely effective on her second serve to win 50% of the points. On the other side, Maria Bara won 71% of the points on her first serve. She had a solid display on her second serve to win 57% of the points.

How they played the important points

Breaks	Gracheva	Maria Bara
Won	5	4
Converted	5/7	4/7
% Converted	71%	57%
Conceded	3	7
Saved	2	6
% Saved	67%	86%
Times Broken	1	1

Varvara broke her opponent 5 times with a 71% conversion rate. The Russian conceded her serve once and she saved 67% of the break points that she conceded. Irina broke her opponent 4 times with a 57% conversion rate. The Romanian conceded her serve once and she saved 86% of the break points that she conceded.

Gracheva
	Q1 Anshba	Total
Score	6-1 6-2
Tot Set	2	2
Tot Games	15	15
pts	56-34	56-34
Total points	90	90
Winners	21	21
%Winners	38%	38%
SERVE
Aces	2	2
Double Faults	1	1
1st in	27/51	27/51
% 1st in	53%	53%
1st pts	21/27	21/27
% 1st pts	78%	78%
2nd pts	12/24	12/24
% 2nd pts	50%	50%
Breaks
Won	5	5
Converted	5/7	5/7
Converted %	71%	71%
Conceded	3	3
Saved	2/3	2
Saved %	67%	67%
Times Broken	1	1

Maria Bara
	Q1 Shnaider	Total
Score	6-4 6-2
Tot Set	2	2
Tot Games	18	18
pts	71-55	71-55
Total points	126	126
Winners	30	30
%Winners	42%	42%
SERVE
Aces	1	1
Double Faults	0	0
1st in	42/65	42/65
% 1st in	65%	65%
1st pts	30/42	30/42
% 1st pts	71%	71%
2nd pts	13/23	13/23
% 2nd pts	57%	57%
Breaks
Won	4	4
Converted	4/7	4/7
Converted %	57%	57%
Conceded	7	7
Saved	6/7	6
Saved %	86%	86%
Times Broken	1	1

Tennis Scores in St. Petersburg

• Jule NiemeierNiemeier – Anna BondarBondar (6-4 6-3) – See score progression
• Ekaterina ShalimovaShalimova – Anastasia TikhonovaTikhonova (6-3 6-3) – See score progression
• Rebecca PetersonPeterson – Valeria SavinykhSavinykh (6-3 6-1) – See score progression
• Kaja JuvanJuvan – Vitalia DiatchenkoDiatchenko (6-1 6-4) – See score progression
• Ekaterina KazionovaKazionova – Anastasia GasanovaGasanova (6-4 7-6⁷) – See score progression
• Erika AndreevaAndreeva – Kristina MladenovicMladenovic (6-3 6-7⁸ 7-5) – See score progression
• Varvara GrachevaGracheva – Amina AnshbaAnshba (6-1 6-2) – See score progression
• Anna KalinskayaKalinskaya – Nigina AbduraimovaAbduraimova (7-5 6-2) – See score progression
• Bernarda PeraPera – Viktoriya TomovaTomova (3-6 6-2 6-1) – See score progression
• Caty McNallyMcNally – Kristina KucovaKucova (4-6 7-5 7-6⁵) – See score progression
• Ekaterine GorgodzeGorgodze – Yaroslava BartashevichBartashevich (6-2 0-6 6-3) – See score progression
• Ulrikke EikeriEikeri – Harriet DartDart (6-1 7-5) – See score progression
• Ana BogdanBogdan – Lin ZhuZhu (6-1 6-2) – See score progression
• Viktoria KuzmovaKuzmova – Cristina BucsaBucsa (6-4 6-2) – See score progression
• Irina Maria BaraMaria Bara – Diana ShnaiderShnaider (6-4 6-2) – See score progression
• Natalia VikhlyantsevaVikhlyantseva – Seone MendezMendez (7-5 7-6³) – See score progression
• Andreas SeppiSeppi – Daniel MasurMasur (6-3 6-3) – See score progression
• Alexander BublikBublik – Andrey KuznetsovKuznetsov (2-6 6-4 6-4) – See score progression
• Ernesto EscobedoEscobedo – Luca VanniVanni (6-3 7-6²) – See score progression
• Vasek PospisilPospisil – Daniel AltmaierAltmaier (6-2 6-1) – See score progression
• Lukas LackoLacko – Ruben BemelmansBemelmans (6-4 6-3) – See score progression
• Yuichi SugitaSugita – Yannick HanfmannHanfmann (7-5 6-1) – See score progression
• Maximilian MartererMarterer – Denis IstominIstomin (7-6⁵ 7-6³) – See score progression
• Rebecca PetersonPeterson – Valeria SavinykhSavinykh (6-3 6-1) – See score progression
• Ekaterine GorgodzeGorgodze – Yaroslava BartashevichBartashevich (6-2 0-6 6-3) – See score progression
• Ekaterina KazionovaKazionova – Anastasia GasanovaGasanova (6-4 7-6(7)) – See score progression
• Bernarda PeraPera – Viktoriya TomovaTomova (3-6 6-2 6-1) – See score progression
• Ulrikke EikeriEikeri – Harriet DartDart (6-1 7-5) – See score progression
• Ana BogdanBogdan – Lin ZhuZhu (6-1 6-2) – See score progression

Upcoming matches in the draw

• Rebecca PetersonPeterson – Ekaterine GorgodzeGorgodze (0-1) – H2H and prediction
• Ekaterina KazionovaKazionova – Bernarda PeraPera (1-0) – H2H and prediction
• Caty McNallyMcNally – Anna KalinskayaKalinskaya (0-0) – H2H and prediction
• Ekaterina ShalimovaShalimova – Kaja JuvanJuvan (0-0) – H2H and prediction
• Varvara GrachevaGracheva – Irina Maria BaraMaria Bara (1-1) – H2H and prediction
• Ulrikke EikeriEikeri – Ana BogdanBogdan (0-0) – H2H and prediction
• Jule NiemeierNiemeier – Natalia VikhlyantsevaVikhlyantseva (1-0) – H2H and prediction
• Viktoria KuzmovaKuzmova – (0-0) – H2H and prediction
• Maria SakkariSakkari – Anastasia PotapovaPotapova (1-1) – H2H and prediction
• Camila GiorgiGiorgi – Ekaterina AlexandrovaAlexandrova (2-0) – H2H and prediction
• Kamilla RakhimovaRakhimova – Petra MarticMartic (0-0) – H2H and prediction
• Alize CornetCornet – Elise MertensMertens (2-1) – H2H and prediction
• Tereza MartincovaMartincova – Vera ZvonarevaZvonareva (0-0) – H2H and prediction
• Shuai ZhangZhang – Irina-Camelia BeguBegu (0-2) – H2H and prediction
• Jelena OstapenkoOstapenko – Xin Yu WangYu Wang (0-0) – H2H and prediction
• Aliaksandra SasnovichSasnovich – Magda LinetteLinette (5-1) – H2H and prediction
• Jaqueline CristianCristian – Anastasia PavlyuchenkovaPavlyuchenkova (0-0) – H2H and prediction
• Belinda BencicBencic – Veronika KudermetovaKudermetova (3-3) – H2H and prediction
• Marketa VondrousovaVondrousova – Sorana CirsteaCirstea (1-0) – H2H and prediction
• Jil TeichmannTeichmann – Anett KontaveitKontaveit (0-2) – H2H and prediction