Tereza Martincova and Arantxa Rus will square off in the 2nd round of the Qatar TotalEnergies Open for the 2nd time in their career. They are scheduled to compete on Wednesday at 6:00 pm on Grandstand 3. In the following paragraphs, you can find the head to head analysis and prediction.
Prediction, odds and live streaming
The pick for Tennis Tonic is Arantxa Rus who should win in 3 sets.
Arantxa Rus -> 1.92
Tereza Martincova -> 1.92
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Prediction and head to head Tereza Martincova vs. Arantxa Rus
This will be the 2nd time that Tereza Martincova and Arantxa Rus clash against each other. The head to head is 1-0 for Martincova (see full H2H stats), but they have never competed against each other on hard.
The last time that they played each other, Martincova won 6-1 6-2 in the qualifications in Bastad back in 2014.
Tereza Martincova
| Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 20-13 | 8-4 | 7-4 | 1-3 | 4-2 | 0-0 |
| 2024 | 18-21 | 7-6 | 3-7 | 5-4 | 3-4 | 0-0 |
| 2023 | 26-27 | 12-13 | 10-7 | 0-2 | 4-5 | 0-0 |
| 2022 | 22-26 | 13-14 | 2-5 | 4-3 | 3-4 | 0-0 |
| 2021 | 40-26 | 20-11 | 2-6 | 10-6 | 8-3 | 0-0 |
Ranked no. 42, Martincova reached the 2nd round after beating Elina Svitolina 6-72 7-5 7-65.
In the 1st round against Svitolina, Tereza recovered from a 1-set down deficit before winning (6-72 7-5 7-65). During the match, Martincova scored 130 points vs Svitolina’s 121. Martincova was exceptionally aggressive to blast 42 winners.
Talking about the service games, Martincova bagged 7 aces and she committed only 4 double faults. Tereza Martincova lost the serve 9 times and she saved 1 break points. Furthermore, Martincova put 67% of her first serves in, winning 57% (42/74) of the points behind her 1st serve and 51% (19/37) on the 2nd serve. Tereza broke Svitolina 10 times after converting 45% of her break points (10/22).
Martincova has a winning record in the last 10 years having won 56% of her matches (303-240). 3-3 on hard in 2022. In connection with her performance on the same surface of this tournament, Martincova has a compiled 103-81 match record in the last years on hard.
Tereza has a compiled 4-4 win-loss record in 2022, 3-3 on hard (See FULL STATS).
Previously in Doha
Arantxa Rus
| Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 37-35 | 9-10 | 28-20 | 0-3 | 0-2 | 0-0 |
| 2024 | 37-33 | 14-14 | 19-13 | 2-1 | 2-5 | 0-0 |
| 2023 | 57-22 | 10-10 | 43-8 | 3-3 | 1-1 | 0-0 |
| 2022 | 46-33 | 9-10 | 29-17 | 7-4 | 1-2 | 0-0 |
| 2021 | 39-23 | 5-9 | 33-11 | 1-1 | 0-2 | 0-0 |
Ranked no. 66, Arantxa got to the 2nd round after beating Irina Maria Bara 6-3 6-0 and Veronika Kudermetova 7-65 6-4.
In the 1st round, The Dutch had a good straight sets win against Kudermetova (7-65 6-4). During the match Rus and Kudermetova scored the same amount of points (66). However, the world no. 42 was stronger during the important points and that was the most significant difference in the match. Rus was quite aggressive to blast 43 winners.
About the serving games, Rus recorded 2 aces and she committed only 4 double faults. Arantxa Rus lost the serve once and she saved 2 break points. Furthermore, Rus put 79% of her first serves in, winning 75% (43/57) of the points behind her 1st serve and 33% (5/15) on the 2nd serve. Rus broke Kudermetova twice after converting 67% of her break points (2/3).
Arantxa has an aggregate 4-4 win-loss record in 2022, 2-3 on hard (See FULL STATS).
H2H Performance in the tournament
Matches, sets, games and points
| Points | Martincova | Rus |
|---|---|---|
| Match played | 1 | 2 |
| Tot Set | 3 | 4 |
| Tot Games | 38 | 38 |
| Pts | 130-121 | 122-95 |
| Total Points | 251 | 217 |
| Winners | 42 | 71 |
| %Winners | 32% | 58% |
Martincova played 1 match while Rus competed in 2 matches. Rus started her run from the qualifications while Martincova had a direct access to the main draw. At the moment, Tereza Martincova dropped 1 set while Arantxa Rus hasn’t conceded a set so far. Martincova has played 1 set(s) less than Rus (3 vs 4). However, it is interesting to notice that they played the same amount of games (38). The Czech scored 42 winners (32% of the total points). On the other side, The Dutch struck 71 winners (58%).
Serve Performance
| Serve | Martincova | Rus |
|---|---|---|
| Aces | 7 | 5 |
| Avg per match | 7 | 2.5 |
| 1st in | 74/111 | 92/115 |
| %1st in | 67% | 80% |
| 1st pts | 42/74 | 71/92 |
| %1st pts | 57% | 77% |
| 2nd pts | 19/37 | 8/23 |
| %2nd pts | 51% | 35% |
Martincova managed to score 7 aces . Rus scored 5 aces (2.5 per match). Martincova won 57% points behind her first serve. She very solid her second serve to win 51% of the points. On the other side, Rus won 77% of the points behind her first serve. She had a solid display on her second serve to win 35% of the points.
How they played the important points
| Breaks | Martincova | Rus |
|---|---|---|
| Won | 10 | 7 |
| Converted | 10/22 | 7/11 |
| % Converted | 45% | 64% |
| Conceded | 10 | 4 |
| Saved | 1 | 2 |
| % Saved | 10% | 50% |
| Times Broken | 9 | 2 |
The Czech broke her opponent 10 times with a 45% conversion rate. The Czech conceded her serve 9 times and she saved 10% of the break points that she conceded. Arantxa broke her opponents 7 times with a 64% conversion rate. Arantxa conceded her serve twice and she saved 50% of the break points that she conceded.
| Martincova | |||
| R1 Svitolina | Total | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Score | 6-72 7-5 7-65 | ||
| Tot Set | 3 | 3 | |
| Tot Games | 38 | 38 | |
| pts | 130-121 | 130-121 | |
| Total points | 251 | 251 | |
| Winners | 42 | 42 | |
| %Winners | 32% | 32% | |
| SERVE | |||
| Aces | 7 | 7 | |
| Double Faults | 4 | 4 | |
| 1st in | 74/111 | 74/111 | |
| % 1st in | 67% | 67% | |
| 1st pts | 42/74 | 42/74 | |
| % 1st pts | 57% | 57% | |
| 2nd pts | 19/37 | 19/37 | |
| % 2nd pts | 51% | 51% | |
| Breaks | |||
| Won | 10 | 10 | |
| Converted | 10/22 | 10/22 | |
| Converted % | 45% | 45% | |
| Conceded | 10 | 10 | |
| Saved | 1/10 | 1 | |
| Saved % | 10% | 10% | |
| Times Broken | 9 | 9 | |
| Rus | |||||
| Q1 Maria Bara | Q3 Voegele | R1 Kudermetova | Total | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Score | 6-3 6-0 | 6-2 2-6 6-1 | 7-65 6-4 | ||
| Tot Set | 2 | 3 | 2 | 7 | |
| Tot Games | 15 | 23 | 23 | 61 | |
| pts | 56-29 | – | 66-66 | 122-95 | |
| Total points | 85 | 0 | 132 | 217 | |
| Winners | 28 | 43 | 71 | ||
| %Winners | 50% | 0% | 65% | 58% | |
| SERVE | |||||
| Aces | 3 | 0 | 2 | 5 | |
| Double Faults | 1 | 4 | 5 | ||
| 1st in | 35/43 | / | 57/72 | 92/115 | |
| % 1st in | 81% | 0% | 79% | 80% | |
| 1st pts | 28/35 | / | 43/57 | 71/92 | |
| % 1st pts | 80% | 0% | 75% | 77% | |
| 2nd pts | 3/8 | / | 5/15 | 8/23 | |
| % 2nd pts | 38% | 0% | 33% | 35% | |
| Breaks | |||||
| Won | 5 | 2 | 7 | ||
| Converted | 5/8 | / | 2/3 | 7/11 | |
| Converted % | 63% | 0% | 67% | 64% | |
| Conceded | 1 | 3 | 4 | ||
| Saved | 0/1 | 0/ | 2/3 | 2 | |
| Saved % | 0% | – | 67% | 67% | |
| Times Broken | 1 | 1 | 2 | ||
Tennis Scores in Doha
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- Anett KontaveitKontaveit – Ana KonjuhKonjuh (6-2 6-3) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Daniel AltmaierAltmaier – Marsel IlhanIlhan (6-3 3-6 7-65) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Yuichi SugitaSugita – David FerrerFerrer (6-3 3-6 7-62) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Radu AlbotAlbot – Paolo LorenziLorenzi (6-3 6-4) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Andreas SeppiSeppi – Janko TipsarevicTipsarevic (3-6 6-4 6-4) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Adrian MannarinoMannarino – Mohamed SafwatSafwat (6-4 6-4) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Ramkumar RamanathanRamanathan – Dominic ThiemThiem (6-3 6-2) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Fernando VerdascoVerdasco – Steve DarcisDarcis (6-3 6-4) – Stats, scores, rankings
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- Jaqueline CristianCristian – Darya KasatkinaKasatkina (0-0) – H2H and prediction
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- Jessica PegulaPegula – Kaja JuvanJuvan (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Ann LiLi – Maria SakkariSakkari (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Ons JabeurJabeur – Aliaksandra SasnovichSasnovich (1-0) – H2H and prediction
- Arantxa RusRus – Tereza MartincovaMartincova (0-1) – H2H and prediction
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