Marta Kostyuk and Claire Liu will play each other in the qualifications of the Qatar TotalEnergies Open for the 2^nd time in their career. They are scheduled to play on Saturday at 11:00 am on Grandstand 1. Here the head to head stats and relative prediction.

Prediction, odds and live streaming

The pick for Tennis Tonic is Marta Kostyuk who should win in 3 sets.

As per the initial odds, Marta Kostyuk is the pick to win this match.
Marta Kostyuk -> 1.48
Claire Liu -> 2.65

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Prediction and head to head Marta Kostyuk vs. Claire Liu

This will be the 2^nd time that Marta Kostyuk and Claire Liu clash against each other. The head to head is 1-0 for Liu (see full H2H stats), 1-0 on hard.

The last time that they fought against each other, Liu won 4-6 6-4 6-3 in the 1^st round in Melbourne back in January 2022.

Marta Kostyuk

Ranked no. 49 (career-high), Marta got to the qualifications after defeating Mubaraka Al-Naimi 6-1 6-2.

In the qualifications, The Ukrainian had a good straight sets win against Al-Naimi (6-1 6-2). During the match, Kostyuk scored 56 points vs Al-Naimi’s 27. Kostyuk was pretty aggressive to blast 20 winners.

Regarding the service games, Kostyuk recorded 5 aces and she committed only 2 double faults. Marta Kostyuk was very efficient on serve to win 91% (20/22) of her 1st serve and 63% (12/19) on the second serve. This was the main reason for not conceding a single break during the match. Kostyuk broke Al-Naimi 4 times after converting 67% of her break points (4/6).

Kostyuk has a solid record in the last 7 years having won 66% of her matches (137-70). 7-4 on hard in 2022. In connection with her performance on the same surface of this event, Kostyuk has a compiled58-31 win-loss record in the last 7 years on hard.

The Ukrainian has an aggregate 7-4 win-loss record in 2022, 7-4 on hard (See FULL STATS)

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Previously in Doha

Kostyuk has never competed in this tournament before.

Claire Liu

Ranked no. 94, Claire reached the qualifications after defeating Anastasia Gasanova 6-4 6-1.

In the qualifications, Claire had a good straight sets win against Gasanova (6-4 6-1). During the match Liu scored 62 points vs Gasanova’s 49. Claire was very aggressive to blast 24 winners.

About the serving games, Liu fired 5 aces and she committed only 2 double faults. Claire Liu lost the serve 3 times and she saved 1 break points. Furthermore, Liu put 62% of her first serves in, winning 73% (24/33) of the points behind her 1st serve and 30% (6/20) on the 2nd serve. The American broke Gasanova 6 times after converting 55% of her break points (6/11).

Liu has a composed 6-4 win-loss record in 2022, 6-4 on hard (See FULL STATS).

H2H Performance in the tournament

Matches, sets, games and points

Points	Kostyuk	Liu
Match played	1	1
Tot Set	2	2
Tot Games	15	17
Pts	56-27	62-49
Total Points	83	111
Winners	20	24
%Winners	36%	39%

Both Kostyuk and Liu played 1 match. Also both players started their run from the qualifications.Both players have not dropped a single set in this event so far. Talking about their workload, Kostyuk and Liu have played the same amount of sets 2. However, Kostyuk played 2 games less than Liu. The Ukrainian scored 20 winners (36% of the total points). On the other side, Claire fired 24 winners (39%).

Serve Performance

Serve	Kostyuk	Liu
Aces	5	5
Avg per match	5	5
1st in	22/41	33/53
%1st in	54%	62%
1st pts	20/22	24/33
%1st pts	91%	73%
2nd pts	12/19	6/20
%2nd pts	63%	30%

Kostyuk managed to score 5 aces . Liu managed to score 5 aces . Kostyuk won 91% points on her first serve. She pretty solid on her second serve to win 63% of the points. On the other side, Liu won 73% of the points on her first serve. She had a solid display on her second serve to win 30% of the points.

How they played the important points

Breaks	Kostyuk	Liu
Won	4	6
Converted	4/6	6/11
% Converted	67%	55%
Conceded	0	4
Saved	0	1
% Saved	0%	25%
Times Broken	0	3

The Ukrainian broke her opponent 4 times with a 67% conversion rate. Kostyuk quite strong on her serve as she has never conceded a single service game after saving 0 break points. Claire broke her opponent 6 times with a 55% conversion rate. Liu conceded her serve 3 times and she saved 25% of the break points that she conceded.

Kostyuk
	Q1 Al-Naimi	Total
Score	6-1 6-2
Tot Set	2	2
Tot Games	15	15
pts	56-27	56-27
Total points	83	83
Winners	20	20
%Winners	36%	36%
SERVE
Aces	5	5
Double Faults	2	2
1st in	22/41	22/41
% 1st in	54%	54%
1st pts	20/22	20/22
% 1st pts	91%	91%
2nd pts	12/19	12/19
% 2nd pts	63%	63%
Breaks
Won	4	4
Converted	4/6	4/6
Converted %	67%	67%
Conceded	0	0
Saved	0/0	0
Saved %	–	0%
Times Broken	0	0

Liu
	Q1 Gasanova	Total
Score	6-4 6-1
Tot Set	2	2
Tot Games	17	17
pts	62-49	62-49
Total points	111	111
Winners	24	24
%Winners	39%	39%
SERVE
Aces	5	5
Double Faults	2	2
1st in	33/53	33/53
% 1st in	62%	62%
1st pts	24/33	24/33
% 1st pts	73%	73%
2nd pts	6/20	6/20
% 2nd pts	30%	30%
Breaks
Won	6	6
Converted	6/11	6/11
Converted %	55%	55%
Conceded	4	4
Saved	1/4	1
Saved %	25%	25%
Times Broken	3	3

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• Ramkumar RamanathanRamanathan – Yannick MertensMertens (6-3 6-4) – Stats, scores, rankings
• Matthew EbdenEbden – Daniel AltmaierAltmaier (6-4 5-7 6-4) – Stats, scores, rankings
• Kamil MajchrzakMajchrzak – Lloyd HarrisHarris (7-6⁵ 6-1) – Stats, scores, rankings

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