Petra Kvitova and Irina-Camelia Begu will play each other in the 2nd round of the St. Petersburg Ladies Trophy for the 6th time in their career. They are scheduled to play on Thursday at 3:00 pm on Sibur Arena. Here the head to head stats and relative prediction.
Prediction, odds and live streaming
The pick for Tennis Tonic is Petra Kvitova who should win in 2 sets.
As per the initial odds, Petra Kvitova is the pick to win this match.
Petra Kvitova -> 1.47
Irina-Camelia Begu -> 2.76
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Prediction and head to head Petra Kvitova vs. Irina-Camelia Begu
This will be the 6th time that Petra Kvitova and Irina-Camelia Begu clash against each other. The head to head is 5-0 for Kvitova (see full H2H stats), 1-0 on indoor hard courts.
The last time that they competed against each other, Kvitova won 6-3 6-2 in the 1st round in at the U.S. Open back in 2020.
Highlights Petra Kvitova vs Irina-Camelia Begu – U.S. Open 31-August-2020
Petra Kvitova
| Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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 |
| 2020 | 20-6 | 14-5 | 5-1 | 1-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2019 | 37-16 | 25-9 | 8-2 | 1-4 | 3-1 | 0-0 |
Ranked no. 23, Petra got to the 2nd round after defeating Jule Niemeier 6-2 6-1.
In the 1st round, The Czech had a good straight sets win against Niemeier (6-2 6-1). During the match, Kvitova scored 66 points vs Niemeier’s 45. Kvitova was exceptionally aggressive to blast 21 winners.
Talking about the service games, Kvitova made 8 aces and she committed only 3 double faults. Petra Kvitova was very effective on serve to win 78% (21/27) of her 1st serve and 60% (9/15) on the second serve. This was the main reason for not conceding a single break during the match. Kvitova broke Niemeier 5 times after converting 45% of her break points (5/11).
Kvitova has a solid record in the last 10 years having won 69% of her matches (331-148). 1-0 on indoor hard courts in 2022. Regarding her performance on the same surface of this tournament, Kvitova has an aggregate 35-21 win-loss record in the last years on indoor hard courts.
Kvitova has an aggregate 2-3 win-loss record in 2022, 1-0 on indoor hard courts (See FULL STATS).
Previously in St. Petersburg
Irina-Camelia Begu
| Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 15-7 | 0-0 | 15-6 | 0-0 | 0-1 | 0-0 |
| 2023 | 17-14 | 5-7 | 11-5 | 0-1 | 1-1 | 0-0 |
| 2022 | 32-17 | 7-9 | 20-5 | 3-2 | 2-1 | 0-0 |
| 2021 | 21-17 | 16-10 | 3-5 | 0-1 | 2-1 | 0-0 |
| 2020 | 23-11 | 15-5 | 7-4 | 1-2 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
Ranked no. 56, Begu reached the 2nd round after beating Shuai Zhang 6-3 6-1.
In the 1st round, Irina-Camelia had a good straight sets win against Zhang (6-3 6-1). During the match Begu scored 68 points vs Zhang’s 44. Irina-Camelia was extremely aggressive to blast 23 winners.
Talking about serving, Begu managed to score 5 aces and she committed only 4 double faults. Overall, Irina-Camelia Begu was extremely effective on serve to win 79% (23/29) of her 1st serve and 54% (14/26) on the second serve. However, this didn’t prevent her to concede the serve once. The Romanian broke Zhang 5 times after converting 38% of her break points (5/13).
Irina-Camelia has a composed 4-2 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 | Kvitova | Begu |
|---|---|---|
| Match played | 1 | 1 |
| Tot Set | 2 | 2 |
| Tot Games | 15 | 16 |
| Pts | 66-45 | 68-44 |
| Total Points | 111 | 112 |
| Winners | 21 | 23 |
| %Winners | 32% | 34% |
Both Kvitova and Begu played 1 match. Both players have not lost a single set in this event so far. Talking about their workload, Kvitova and Begu have played the same amount of sets 2. However, Kvitova played 1 game less than Begu. Kvitova scored 21 winners (32% of the total points). On the other side, Irina-Camelia fired 23 winners (34%).
Serve Performance
| Serve | Kvitova | Begu |
|---|---|---|
| Aces | 8 | 5 |
| Avg per match | 8 | 5 |
| 1st in | 27/42 | 29/55 |
| %1st in | 64% | 53% |
| 1st pts | 21/27 | 23/29 |
| %1st pts | 78% | 79% |
| 2nd pts | 9/15 | 14/26 |
| %2nd pts | 60% | 54% |
Kvitova struck 8 aces . Begu blasted 5 aces . Kvitova won 78% points on her first serve. She had a solid display on her second serve to win 60% of the points. On the other side, Begu won 79% of the points behind her first serve. She had a solid display on her second serve to win 54% of the points.
How they played the important points
| Breaks | Kvitova | Begu |
|---|---|---|
| Won | 5 | 5 |
| Converted | 5/11 | 5/13 |
| % Converted | 45% | 38% |
| Conceded | 2 | 5 |
| Saved | 2 | 4 |
| % Saved | 100% | 80% |
| Times Broken | 0 | 1 |
The Czech broke her opponent 5 times with a 45% conversion rate. Kvitova pretty effective on her serve as she has never conceded a single service game after saving 2 break points. Irina-Camelia broke her opponent 5 times with a 38% conversion rate. Irina-Camelia conceded her serve once and she saved 80% of the break points that she conceded.
| Kvitova | |||
| R1 Niemeier |
Total | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Score | 6-2 6-1 | ||
| Tot Set | 2 | 2 | |
| Tot Games | 15 | 15 | |
| pts | 66-45 | 66-45 | |
| Total points | 111 | 111 | |
| Winners | 21 | 21 | |
| %Winners | 32% | 32% | |
| SERVE | |||
| Aces | 8 | 8 | |
| Double Faults | 3 | 3 | |
| 1st in | 27/42 | 27/42 | |
| % 1st in | 64% | 64% | |
| 1st pts | 21/27 | 21/27 | |
| % 1st pts | 78% | 78% | |
| 2nd pts | 9/15 | 9/15 | |
| % 2nd pts | 60% | 60% | |
| Breaks | |||
| Won | 5 | 5 | |
| Converted | 5/11 | 5/11 | |
| Converted % | 45% | 45% | |
| Conceded | 2 | 2 | |
| Saved | 2/2 | 2 | |
| Saved % | 100% | 100% | |
| Times Broken | 0 | 0 | |
| Begu | |||
| R1 Zhang |
Total | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Score | 6-3 6-1 | ||
| Tot Set | 2 | 2 | |
| Tot Games | 16 | 16 | |
| pts | 68-44 | 68-44 | |
| Total points | 112 | 112 | |
| Winners | 23 | 23 | |
| %Winners | 34% | 34% | |
| SERVE | |||
| Aces | 5 | 5 | |
| Double Faults | 4 | 4 | |
| 1st in | 29/55 | 29/55 | |
| % 1st in | 53% | 53% | |
| 1st pts | 23/29 | 23/29 | |
| % 1st pts | 79% | 79% | |
| 2nd pts | 14/26 | 14/26 | |
| % 2nd pts | 54% | 54% | |
| Breaks | |||
| Won | 5 | 5 | |
| Converted | 5/13 | 5/13 | |
| Converted % | 38% | 38% | |
| Conceded | 5 | 5 | |
| Saved | 4/5 | 4 | |
| Saved % | 80% | 80% | |
| Times Broken | 1 | 1 | |
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