Petra Kvitova and Jule Niemeier will square off in the 1st round of the St. Petersburg Ladies Trophy for the 1st time in their career. They are scheduled to play on Tuesday at 11:00 am on SIBUR ARENA. In this post, we analyze their head to head performance and prediction.
Prediction, odds and live streaming
The pick for Tennis Tonic is Petra Kvitova who should win in 2 sets.
Petra Kvitova -> 1.45
Jule Niemeier -> 2.84
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Prediction and head to head Petra Kvitova vs. Jule Niemeier
There is no head to head record between Petra Kvitova and Jule Niemeier since this will be the first time that they will face off in the main tour.
Petra Kvitova
| Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 1-8 | 0-4 | 1-2 | 0-0 | 0-2 | 0-0 |
| 2024 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2023 | 30-13 | 22-10 | 0-2 | 0-0 | 8-1 | 0-0 |
| 2022 | 27-19 | 16-11 | 1-4 | 3-2 | 7-2 | 0-0 |
| 2021 | 29-17 | 16-10 | 8-4 | 2-1 | 3-2 | 0-0 |
Ranked no. 23, Kvitova will start her run in St. Petersburg after she played her last match at the Melbourne where she lost 6-2 6-2 to Cirstea in the 1st round on the 18th of January.
The Czech has a compiled 1-3 win-loss record in 2022, 0-0 on indoor hard courts (See FULL STATS).
This will be the first match of the year on indoor hard courts.
Talking about her overall career, Kvitova has an overall 559-256 record. She has a positive 114-45 record on indoor hard courts.
Previously in St. Petersburg
Previously, she won this tournament once in 2018. See her history.
Jule Niemeier
| Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 11-24 | 5-9 | 5-13 | 0-0 | 1-2 | 0-0 |
| 2024 | 34-28 | 15-12 | 12-8 | 3-2 | 4-6 | 0-0 |
| 2023 | 16-29 | 3-14 | 5-7 | 4-5 | 4-3 | 0-0 |
| 2022 | 40-22 | 7-7 | 22-8 | 6-3 | 5-3 | 0-1 |
| 2021 | 37-18 | 4-4 | 22-7 | 5-4 | 4-2 | 2-1 |
Ranked no. 118 (career-high), Niemeier got to the 1st round after defeating Anna Bondar 6-4 6-3, Natalia Vikhlyantseva 6-2 6-1 and Erika Andreeva 4-6 6-1 6-1.
In the qualifications against Andreeva, The German recovered from a 1-set down deficit before winning (4-6 6-1 6-1). During the match Niemeier scored 91 points vs Andreeva’s 72. Jule was quite aggressive to blast 32 winners.
About the serving games, Niemeier struck 5 aces and she was not very consistent on her 2nd serve to score 12 double faults. Jule Niemeier lost the serve twice and she saved 5 break points. Furthermore, Niemeier put 50% of her first serves in, winning 84% (32/38) of the points behind her 1st serve and 45% (17/38) on the 2nd serve. Niemeier broke Andreeva 6 times after converting 35% of her break points (6/17).
Overall Performance in this tournament
Niemeier started her run at this tournament from the qualifications. In the main draw, she has conceded 1 set in the tournament to win 57% of the points she played.
Jule has an aggregate 5-2 win-loss record in 2022, 3-0 on indoor hard courts (See FULL STATS)
.Tennis Scores in St. Petersburg
- Belinda BencicBencic – Veronika KudermetovaKudermetova (6-2 4-6 7-65) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Ekaterina AlexandrovaAlexandrova – Camila GiorgiGiorgi (6-2 1-6 6-2) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Anett KontaveitKontaveit – Jil TeichmannTeichmann (6-3 1-6 6-3) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Elise MertensMertens – Alize CornetCornet (3-6 6-2 6-4) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Mischa ZverevZverev – Lukas LackoLacko (6-4 6-4) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Lucas PouillePouille – Jan-Lennard StruffStruff (1-6 6-3 6-4) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Bernard TomicTomic – Tommy HaasHaas (6-4 6-4) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Alexander ZverevZverev – Paolo LorenziLorenzi (6-3 6-2) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Roger FedererFederer – Yuichi SugitaSugita (6-3 6-1) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Florian MayerMayer – Benoit PairePaire (6-0 6-4) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Mikhail YouzhnyYouzhny – Ivo KarlovicKarlovic (6-3 7-66) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Karen KhachanovKhachanov – Gilles SimonSimon (6-2 6-72 6-3) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Kei NishikoriNishikori – Fernando VerdascoVerdasco (6-77 6-3 6-4) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Robin HaaseHaase – David FerrerFerrer (3-6 7-5 6-3) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Roberto Bautista AgutBautista Agut – Carlos BerlocqBerlocq (6-0 4-6 6-2) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Dominic ThiemThiem – Maximilian MartererMarterer (7-5 6-3) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Richard GasquetGasquet – Gael MonfilsMonfils (3-6 6-4 6-3) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Philipp KohlschreiberKohlschreiber – Joao SousaSousa (3-6 6-4 6-4) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Andrey RublevRublev – Albert Ramos-VinolasRamos-Vinolas (6-71 7-5 6-4) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Dustin BrownBrown – Vasek PospisilPospisil (6-1 6-73 7-64) – Stats, scores, rankings
Upcoming matches in the draw
- Maria SakkariSakkari – Anastasia PotapovaPotapova (1-1) – H2H and prediction
- Kamilla RakhimovaRakhimova – Petra MarticMartic (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Elena RybakinaRybakina – Varvara GrachevaGracheva (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Tereza MartincovaMartincova – Vera ZvonarevaZvonareva (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Shuai ZhangZhang – Irina-Camelia BeguBegu (0-2) – H2H and prediction
- Jule NiemeierNiemeier – Petra KvitovaKvitova (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Jelena OstapenkoOstapenko – Xin Yu WangYu Wang (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Andrea PetkovicPetkovic – Rebecca PetersonPeterson (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Aliaksandra SasnovichSasnovich – Magda LinetteLinette (5-1) – H2H and prediction
- Jaqueline CristianCristian – Anastasia PavlyuchenkovaPavlyuchenkova (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Kaja JuvanJuvan – Alison Van UytvanckVan Uytvanck (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Marketa VondrousovaVondrousova – Sorana CirsteaCirstea (1-0) – H2H and prediction