Jessica Pegula and Tamara Zidansek will clash against each other in the 3rd round of the French Open for the 2nd time in their career. They are scheduled to play on Saturday at 2:00 pm on Court 14. In the following lines you can find the head to head analysis and prediction.
Prediction, odds and live streaming
The pick for Tennis Tonic is Jessica Pegula who should win in 2 sets.
Jessica Pegula -> 1.4
Tamara Zidansek -> 3.15
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Prediction and head to head Jessica Pegula vs. Tamara Zidansek
This will be the 2nd time that Jessica Pegula and Tamara Zidansek play each other. The head to head is 1-0 for Pegula (see full H2H stats), but they have never played each other on clay.
The last time that they fought against each other, Pegula won 6-2 6-3 in the 2nd round in Auckland back in 2020.
Jessica Pegula
| Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 53-23 | 35-12 | 11-5 | 3-4 | 4-2 | 0-0 |
| 2024 | 39-16 | 29-9 | 4-2 | 0-2 | 6-3 | 0-0 |
| 2023 | 59-18 | 45-12 | 8-4 | 0-0 | 6-2 | 0-0 |
| 2022 | 42-21 | 28-15 | 11-4 | 1-1 | 2-1 | 0-0 |
| 2021 | 39-19 | 29-12 | 6-4 | 0-0 | 4-3 | 0-0 |
Ranked no. 11 (career-high), the American reached the 3rd round after defeating Qiang Wang 6-2 6-4 and Anhelina Kalinina 6-1 5-7 6-4.
In the 2nd round, Pegula defeated Kalinina (6-1 5-7 6-4). During the match, Pegula scored 115 points vs Kalinina’s 101. The American was extremely aggressive to blast 46 winners.
Talking about the service games, Pegula recorded 5 aces and she committed only 4 double faults. Jessica Pegula lost the serve 5 times and she saved 9 break points. Furthermore, Pegula put 61% of her first serves in, winning 61% (46/76) of the points behind her 1st serve and 46% (22/48) on the 2nd serve. The American broke Kalinina 7 times after converting 50% of her break points (7/14).
Overall Performance in this tournament
The American has conceded 1 set in this competition to conquer 54% of the points she played.
Pegula has a solid match record in the last 10 years having won 61% of her matches (244-156). 9-3 on clay in 2022. In connection with her performance on the same surface of this competition, Pegula has an aggregate 73-52 win-loss record in the last years on clay.
Pegula’s best result of the current year was reaching the final in Madrid.
The American has an overall 21-11 win-loss record in 2022, 9-3 on clay (See FULL STATS).
Previously at the French Open
Tamara Zidansek
| Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 36-21 | 3-3 | 31-16 | 2-1 | 0-1 | 0-0 |
| 2024 | 20-25 | 6-10 | 12-11 | 1-3 | 1-1 | 0-0 |
| 2023 | 42-26 | 7-8 | 27-11 | 6-4 | 1-2 | 1-1 |
| 2022 | 21-24 | 12-9 | 7-11 | 0-0 | 2-4 | 0-0 |
| 2021 | 30-20 | 9-13 | 21-6 | 0-0 | 0-1 | 0-0 |
Ranked no. 25, Zidansek got to the 3rd round after beating Claire Liu 6-2 6-2 and Mayar Sherif w/o.
In the 2nd round, Zidansek defeated Sherif (w/o). During the match Zidansek and Sherif scored the same amount of points (). However, the world no. 11 was stronger during the important points and that was the most significant difference in the match. The Slovenian was not very aggressive do strike just winners.
About the serving games, Zidansek was unable to score even 1 ace for the entire match and she was quite solid in conceding no double faults for the entire match. Tamara Zidansek conceded no breaks for the entire match to put 0% of her first serves in, win 0% (/) of the points behind her 1st serve and 0% (/) on the 2nd serve.
The Slovenian’s best result of the current year was reaching the semifinal in Adelaide.
Zidansek has a compiled 9-8 win-loss record in 2022, 4-4 on clay (See FULL STATS).
Previously at the French Open
Previously, her best result was reaching the semifinal in 2021. See her history.
H2H Performance in the tournament (main draw)
Matches, sets, games and points
| Points | Pegula | Zidansek |
|---|---|---|
| Match played | 2 | 1 |
| Tot Set | 5 | 2 |
| Tot Games | 47 | 16 |
| Pts | 195-164 | 64-42 |
| Total Points | 359 | 106 |
| Winners | 68 | 27 |
| %Winners | 35% | 42% |
Pegula played 2 matches while Zidansek competed in 1 match. At the moment, Jessica Pegula surrendered 1 set while Tamara Zidansek hasn’t dropped a set so far. Pegula has played 3 sets more than Zidansek (5 vs 2). Therefore, Pegula played 31 games more than Zidansek. Jessica scored 68 winners (35% of the total points). On the other side, Tamara struck 27 winners (42%).
Serve Performance
| Serve | Pegula | Zidansek |
|---|---|---|
| Aces | 6 | 0 |
| Avg per match | 3 | 0 |
| 1st in | 107/189 | 36/46 |
| %1st in | 57% | 78% |
| 1st pts | 68/107 | 27/36 |
| %1st pts | 64% | 75% |
| 2nd pts | 37/82 | 7/10 |
| %2nd pts | 45% | 70% |
Pegula made 6 aces (3 per match). Zidansek didn’t manage to fire a single ace to far. Pegula won 64% points on her first serve. She quite strong on her second serve to win 45% of the points. On the other side, Zidansek won 75% of the points behind her first serve. She had a solid display on her second serve to win 70% of the points.
How they played the important points
| Breaks | Pegula | Zidansek |
|---|---|---|
| Won | 13 | 4 |
| Converted | 13/30 | 4/11 |
| % Converted | 43% | 36% |
| Conceded | 23 | 1 |
| Saved | 15 | 1 |
| % Saved | 65% | 100% |
| Times Broken | 8 | 0 |
The American broke her opponents 13 times with a 43% conversion rate. Jessica conceded her serve 8 times and she saved 65% of the break points that she conceded. Zidansek broke her opponent 4 times with a 36% conversion rate. Tamara was rock solid on her serve as she has never conceded a single service game after saving 1 break points.
| Pegula | ||||
| R1 Wang | R2 Kalinina | Total | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Score | 6-2 6-4 | 6-1 5-7 6-4 | ||
| Tot Set | 2 | 3 | 5 | |
| Tot Games | 18 | 29 | 47 | |
| pts | 80-63 | 115-101 | 195-164 | |
| Total points | 143 | 216 | 359 | |
| Winners | 22 | 46 | 68 | |
| %Winners | 28% | 40% | 35% | |
| SERVE | ||||
| Aces | 1 | 5 | 6 | |
| Double Faults | 2 | 4 | 6 | |
| 1st in | 31/65 | 76/124 | 107/189 | |
| % 1st in | 48% | 61% | 57% | |
| 1st pts | 22/31 | 46/76 | 68/107 | |
| % 1st pts | 71% | 61% | 64% | |
| 2nd pts | 15/34 | 22/48 | 37/82 | |
| % 2nd pts | 44% | 46% | 45% | |
| Breaks | ||||
| Won | 6 | 7 | 13 | |
| Converted | 6/16 | 7/14 | 13/30 | |
| Converted % | 38% | 50% | 43% | |
| Conceded | 9 | 14 | 23 | |
| Saved | 6/9 | 9/14 | 15 | |
| Saved % | 67% | 64% | 66% | |
| Times Broken | 3 | 5 | 8 | |
| Zidansek | ||||
| R1 Liu | R2 Sherif | Total | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Score | 6-2 6-2 | w/o | ||
| Tot Set | 2 | – | 2 | |
| Tot Games | 16 | – | 16 | |
| pts | 64-42 | – | 64-42 | |
| Total points | 106 | – | 106 | |
| Winners | 27 | – | 27 | |
| %Winners | 42% | – | 42% | |
| SERVE | ||||
| Aces | 0 | – | 0 | |
| Double Faults | 1 | – | 1 | |
| 1st in | 36/46 | – | 36/46 | |
| % 1st in | 78% | – | 78% | |
| 1st pts | 27/36 | – | 27/36 | |
| % 1st pts | 75% | – | 75% | |
| 2nd pts | 7/10 | – | 7/10 | |
| % 2nd pts | 70% | – | 70% | |
| Breaks | ||||
| Won | 4 | – | 4 | |
| Converted | 4/11 | – | 4/11 | |
| Converted % | 36% | – | 36% | |
| Conceded | 1 | – | 1 | |
| Saved | 1/1 | – | 1 | |
| Saved % | 100% | – | 50% | |
| Times Broken | 0 | – | 0 | |
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