Anastasia Tikhonova and Kirsten Flipkens will square off in the 1st round of the Libema Open for the 1st time in their career. They are scheduled to compete on Tuesday at 8:00 pm on COURT 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 Kirsten Flipkens who should win in 3 sets.
As per the initial odds, Kirsten Flipkens is the pick to win this match.
Kirsten Flipkens -> 1.52
Anastasia Tikhonova -> 2.6
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Prediction and head to head Anastasia Tikhonova vs. Kirsten Flipkens
There is no head to head record between Anastasia Tikhonova and Kirsten Flipkens since this will be the first time that they will square off in the main tour.
Anastasia Tikhonova
| Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 15-14 | 3-6 | 1-3 | 10-4 | 1-1 | 0-0 |
| 2023 | 46-29 | 22-14 | 16-10 | 8-5 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2022 | 36-28 | 20-13 | 6-9 | 8-5 | 2-1 | 0-0 |
| 2021 | 48-19 | 27-10 | 4-4 | 17-5 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2020 | 14-10 | 11-6 | 1-2 | 2-2 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
Ranked no. 175 (career-high), the Russian got to the 1st round after defeating Nigina Abduraimova 6-2 6-3 and Jessika Ponchet 6-2 6-2.
In the qualifications, Tikhonova had a good straight sets win against Ponchet (6-2 6-2). During the match, Tikhonova scored 61 points vs Ponchet’s 36. Tikhonova was quite aggressive to blast 24 winners.
Talking about the service games, Tikhonova scored just 1 ace during the match and she committed only 5 double faults. Anastasia Tikhonova was exceptionally efficient on serve to win 89% (24/27) of her 1st serve and 58% (11/19) on the second serve. This was the main reason for not conceding a single break during the match. The Russian was clinical in her return game without wasting any break point and break Ponchet 4 times.
Overall Performance in this tournament
Anastasia started her run at this tournament from the qualifications. In the main draw, she hasn’t lost yet a set in this competition to win 59% of the points she played.
Tikhonova has a solid match record in the last 5 years having won 66% of her matches (109-56). 2-0 on grass in 2022. Regarding her performance on the same surface of this competition, Tikhonova has an overall2-0 win-loss record in the last 5 years on grass.
The Russian has a composed 21-13 win-loss record in 2022, 2-0 on grass (See FULL STATS).
Previously in ‘s-Hertogenbosch
The Russian has never competed in this tournament before.
Kirsten Flipkens
7 - 6win/loss
251
13
LWLWWWWLWW | Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2022 | 13-9 | 6-6 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 7-3 | 0-0 |
| 2021 | 7-8 | 7-7 | 0-0 | 0-1 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2020 | 9-10 | 8-8 | 0-2 | 1-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2019 | 30-26 | 17-13 | 0-5 | 10-4 | 3-4 | 0-0 |
| 2018 | 31-24 | 12-11 | 8-6 | 2-5 | 9-2 | 0-0 |
Ranked no. 308, the Belgian will start her run in Hertogenbosch after she played her last match in Miami where she lost 6-4 4-6 6-4 to Golubic in the 1st round on the 23rd of March.
Flipkens has an overall 6-6 win-loss record in 2022, 0-0 on grass (See FULL STATS).
This will be the first match of the year on grass.
In terms of her career, The Belgian has an overall 482-373 record. She has a positive 61-37 record on grass.
Head 2 Head
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Tennis Scores in ‘s Hertogenbosch
- Anna KalinskayaKalinskaya – Suzan LamensLamens (7-65 6-3) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Mischa ZverevZverev – Pierre-Hugues HerbertHerbert (6-73 6-3 6-2) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Henri LaaksonenLaaksonen – Paul-Henri MathieuMathieu (7-5 6-2) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Nicolas MahutMahut – Dustin BrownBrown (6-1 7-64) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Nikoloz BasilashviliBasilashvili – Vincent MillotMillot (2-6 7-65 6-4) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Benoit PairePaire – Stefanos TsitsipasTsitsipas (6-2 6-4) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Nicolas AlmagroAlmagro – Julien BenneteauBenneteau (7-63 7-5) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Yannick MadenMaden – Nicolas KickerKicker (6-4 3-6 6-3) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Denis IstominIstomin – Richard GasquetGasquet (1-6 6-4 6-4) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Peter GojowczykGojowczyk – Norbert GombosGombos (3-6 7-64 6-3) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Marius CopilCopil – Alessandro GiannessiGiannessi (6-3 6-2) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Gilles SimonSimon – Andreas SeppiSeppi (6-3 6-0) – Stats, scores, rankings
Upcoming matches in the draw
- Aryna SabalenkaSabalenka – Kateryna KozlovaKozlova (2-0) – H2H and prediction
- Arianne HartonoHartono – (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Alison Van UytvanckVan Uytvanck – Tamara KorpatschKorpatsch (1-0) – H2H and prediction
- Storm SandersSanders – Elise MertensMertens (1-1) – H2H and prediction
- Elena RybakinaRybakina – Jamie LoebLoeb (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Vitalia DiatchenkoDiatchenko – Shelby RogersRogers (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Kirsten FlipkensFlipkens – Anastasia TikhonovaTikhonova (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Ann LiLi – Ludmilla SamsonovaSamsonova (0-1) – H2H and prediction
- Ekaterina AlexandrovaAlexandrova – Dayana YastremskaYastremska (1-3) – H2H and prediction
- Anhelina KalininaKalinina – Olivia GadeckiGadecki (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Daria GavrilovaGavrilova – Caty McNallyMcNally (1-0) – H2H and prediction
- Harmony TanTan – Tamara ZidansekZidansek (0-1) – H2H and prediction
- Veronika KudermetovaKudermetova – Leolia JeanjeanJeanjean (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Anna BlinkovaBlinkova – Greetje MinnenMinnen (0-1) – H2H and prediction
- Madison BrengleBrengle – Belinda BencicBencic (0-2) – H2H and prediction
