Anett Kontaveit and Kristina Kucova will fight against each other in the 2nd round of the BNP Paribas Open for the 1st time in their career. They are scheduled to play on Saturday at 1:30 pm on STADIUM 4. In this post, we analyze their head to head performance and prediction.
Prediction, odds and live streaming
The pick for Tennis Tonic is Anett Kontaveit who should win in 2 sets.
Anett Kontaveit -> 1.085
Kristina Kucova -> 8.3
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Prediction and head to head Anett Kontaveit vs. Kristina Kucova
There is no head to head record between Anett Kontaveit and Kristina Kucova since this will be the first time that they will fight against each other in the main tour.
Anett Kontaveit
| Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2023 | 4-8 | 2-4 | 1-3 | 0-0 | 1-1 | 0-0 |
| 2022 | 29-16 | 13-9 | 6-4 | 9-2 | 1-1 | 0-0 |
| 2021 | 48-17 | 24-12 | 5-3 | 15-0 | 4-2 | 0-0 |
| 2020 | 24-11 | 14-7 | 5-3 | 5-1 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2019 | 27-16 | 17-9 | 4-4 | 3-0 | 3-3 | 0-0 |
Ranked no. 5 (career-high), Kontaveit will start her run in Indian Wells after she played her last match in Doha where she lost 6-2 6-0 to Swiatek in the final on the 26th of February.
The Estonian has a compiled 13-3 win-loss record in 2022, 8-3 on hard (See FULL STATS).
Her best result of the current year was winning the title in in St. Petersburg where she overcame Maria Sakkari in the final 5-7 7-6(4) 7-5.
Talking about her overall career, Kontaveit has an overall 384-186 record. She has a positive 156-92 record on hard.
Previously in Indian Wells
Previously, her best result was reaching the quarter in 2021. See her history.
Kristina Kucova
| Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2023 | 6-11 | 2-6 | 1-4 | 3-1 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2022 | 8-15 | 4-7 | 3-5 | 0-2 | 1-1 | 0-0 |
| 2021 | 36-29 | 19-16 | 15-11 | 1-1 | 1-1 | 0-0 |
| 2020 | 16-11 | 7-8 | 7-2 | 2-1 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2019 | 25-20 | 6-7 | 14-10 | 5-2 | 0-1 | 0-0 |
Ranked no. 77, the Slovakian got to the 2nd round after defeating Elena Gabriela Ruse 4-6 6-4 6-1.
In the 1st round against Gabriela Ruse, Kristina recovered from a 1-set down deficit before winning (4-6 6-4 6-1). During the match Kucova scored 108 points vs Gabriela Ruse’s 93. The Slovakian was very aggressive to blast 43 winners.
Talking about serving, Kucova managed to score 2 aces and she committed only 4 double faults. Kristina Kucova lost the serve 5 times and she saved 7 break points. Furthermore, Kucova put 72% of her first serves in, winning 59% (43/73) of the points behind her 1st serve and 43% (12/28) on the 2nd serve. Kristina broke Gabriela Ruse 7 times after converting 39% of her break points (7/18).
Kristina has a composed 4-7 win-loss record in 2022, 4-5 on hard (See FULL STATS).
Previously in Indian Wells
Previously, her best result was reaching the 2nd round in 2021. See her history.
Tennis Scores in Indian Wells
- Liudmila SamsonovaSamsonova – Ann LiLi (4-6 6-4 6-3) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Iga SwiatekSwiatek – Anhelina KalininaKalinina (5-7 6-0 6-1) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Sorana CirsteaCirstea – Ajla TomljanovicTomljanovic (6-4 7-5) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Petra MarticMartic – Tamara ZidansekZidansek (7-5 7-66) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Danka KovinicKovinic – Karolina PliskovaPliskova (2-6 7-5 6-4) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Emma RaducanuRaducanu – Caroline GarciaGarcia (6-1 3-6 6-1) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Simona HalepHalep – Ekaterina AlexandrovaAlexandrova (6-2 4-6 6-2) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Karen KhachanovKhachanov – Ernests GulbisGulbis (4-6 7-65 6-3) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Fernando VerdascoVerdasco – Facundo BagnisBagnis (6-3 6-2) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Albert Ramos-VinolasRamos-Vinolas – Thiago Moura MonteiroMoura Monteiro (3-6 6-4 6-3) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Alexandr DolgopolovDolgopolov – Horacio ZeballosZeballos (6-4 6-4) – Stats, scores, rankings
- David FerrerFerrer – Dustin BrownBrown (6-2 6-3) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Andrey KuznetsovKuznetsov – Pablo Carreno-BustaCarreno-Busta (4-6 7-65 3-0 ret.) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Diego Sebastian SchwartzmanSebastian Schwartzman – Renzo OlivoOlivo (6-4 6-1) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Henri LaaksonenLaaksonen – Pablo CuevasCuevas (6-4 6-3) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Clara TausonClara – Beatriz Haddad MaiaBeatriz (6-4 6-3) – See score progression
Upcoming matches in the draw
- Alize CornetCornet – Anna KalinskayaKalinskaya (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Claire LiuLiu – Cori GauffGauff (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Darya KasatkinaKasatkina – Katie VolynetsVolynets (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Qinwen ZhengZheng – Angelique KerberKerber (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Elina SvitolinaSvitolina – Harriet DartDart (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Kaia KanepiKanepi – Belinda BencicBencic (0-1) – H2H and prediction
- Madison KeysKeys – Misaki DoiDoi (5-2) – H2H and prediction
- Alison RiskeRiske – Garbine MuguruzaMuguruza (2-2) – H2H and prediction
- Paula Badosa GibertBadosa Gibert – Tereza MartincovaMartincova (0-3) – H2H and prediction
- Kaja JuvanJuvan – Sara Sorribes TormoSorribes Tormo (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Leylah Annie FernandezAnnie Fernandez – Amanda AnisimovaAnisimova (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Shelby RogersRogers – Jelena OstapenkoOstapenko (0-3) – H2H and prediction
- Jessica PegulaPegula – Marie BouzkovaBouzkova (1-2) – H2H and prediction
- Naomi OsakaOsaka – Veronika KudermetovaKudermetova (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Marketa VondrousovaVondrousova – Magdalena FrechFrech (1-0) – H2H and prediction
- Kristina KucovaKucova – Anett KontaveitKontaveit (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Maria SakkariSakkari – Katerina SiniakovaSiniakova (2-2) – H2H and prediction
- Aliaksandra SasnovichSasnovich – Petra KvitovaKvitova (1-1) – H2H and prediction
- Elise MertensMertens – Marta KostyukKostyuk (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Daria GavrilovaGavrilova – Ons JabeurJabeur (1-1) – H2H and prediction
- Victoria AzarenkaAzarenka – Astra SharmaSharma (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Alison Van UytvanckVan Uytvanck – Elena RybakinaRybakina (0-2) – H2H and prediction
- Viktorija GolubicGolubic – Yulia PutintsevaPutintseva (1-0) – H2H and prediction
- Jasmine PaoliniPaolini – Aryna SabalenkaSabalenka (1-1) – H2H and prediction
- Emma RaducanuRaducanu – Petra MarticMartic (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Ludmilla SamsonovaSamsonova – Danka KovinicKovinic (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Iga SwiatekSwiatek – Clara TausonTauson (1-0) – H2H and prediction