Yulia Putintseva and Aleksandra Krunic will fight against each other in the semifinal of the Hungarian Grand Prix for the 3rd time in their career. They are scheduled to play on Saturday at 1:30 pm on Centre Court. 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 Yulia Putintseva who should win in 3 sets.
As per the initial odds, Yulia Putintseva is the pick to win this match.
Yulia Putintseva -> 1.52
Aleksandra Krunic -> 2.68
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Prediction and head to head Yulia Putintseva vs. Aleksandra Krunic
This will be the 3rd time that Yulia Putintseva and Aleksandra Krunic play each other. The head to head is 2-0 for Putintseva (see full H2H stats), 2-0 on clay.
The last time that they played each other, Putintseva won 3-6 6-3 6-3 in the 1st round in Paris back in 2015.
Yulia Putintseva
| Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 25-27 | 17-17 | 5-5 | 2-1 | 1-4 | 0-0 |
| 2024 | 40-22 | 22-15 | 9-4 | 1-2 | 8-1 | 0-0 |
| 2023 | 34-27 | 19-17 | 13-8 | 2-0 | 0-2 | 0-0 |
| 2022 | 26-21 | 9-11 | 15-7 | 1-1 | 1-2 | 0-0 |
| 2021 | 32-24 | 14-12 | 12-8 | 5-2 | 1-2 | 0-0 |
Ranked no. 32, Yulia reached the semifinal after defeating Anna Schmiedlova 6-4 6-1, Laura Pigossi 4-6 6-1 6-2 and Lesya Tsurenko 6-0 2-0 ret..
In the quarter, Putintseva had a good straight sets win against Tsurenko (6-0 2-0 ret.). During the match, Putintseva scored 32 points vs Tsurenko’s 10. Yulia was very aggressive to blast 11 winners.
Talking about the service games, Putintseva couldn’t to score even 1 ace throughout the encounter and she was pretty solid in conceding no double faults. Yulia Putintseva conceded no breaks for the entire match to put 73% of her first serves in, win 69% (11/16) of the points behind her 1st serve and 83% (5/6) on the 2nd serve. The Kazakhstani broke Tsurenko 4 times after converting 80% of her break points (4/5).
Overall Performance in this tournament
Yulia has dropped 1 set in this event to conquer 57% of the points she played.
Putintseva has a good match record in the last 10 years having won 55% of her matches (290-241). 14-5 on clay in 2022. Regarding her performance on the same surface of this event, Putintseva has a compiled 113-66 record in the last years on clay.
Putintseva’s best result of the year was getting to the semifinal in Istanbul.
Putintseva has a compiled 20-12 win-loss record in 2022, 14-5 on clay (See FULL STATS).
Previously in Budapest
Aleksandra Krunic
| Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 13-13 | 5-7 | 6-5 | 2-1 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2024 | 20-18 | 11-12 | 6-3 | 1-1 | 2-2 | 0-0 |
| 2023 | 8-8 | 0-1 | 5-4 | 3-2 | 0-1 | 0-0 |
| 2022 | 21-23 | 4-10 | 13-8 | 0-1 | 4-4 | 0-0 |
| 2021 | 39-19 | 9-4 | 21-9 | 8-5 | 1-1 | 0-0 |
Ranked no. 105, Krunic got to the semifinal after beating Laura Siegemund 6-3 6-4, Shuai Zhang 6-1 6-0 and Xiyu Wang 6-0 6-1.
In the quarter, Aleksandra had a good straight sets win against Wang (6-0 6-1). During the match Krunic scored 57 points vs Wang’s 23. The Serbian was quite aggressive to blast 17 winners.
About the serving games, Krunic managed to score 2 aces and she committed only 1 double fault for the entire match. Aleksandra Krunic was very effective on serve to win 71% (17/24) of her 1st serve and 75% (12/16) on the second serve. This was the main reason for not conceding a single break during the match. The Serbian broke Wang 6 times after converting 86% of her break points (6/7).
Overall Performance in this tournament
The Serbian hasn’t dropped yet a set in the tournament to win 64% of the points she played.
Krunic has an aggregate 17-16 win-loss record in 2022, 11-6 on clay (See FULL STATS).
Previously in Budapest
Previously, her best result was reaching the 2nd round in 2018 and 2019. See her history.
H2H Performance in the tournament (main draw)
Matches, sets, games and points
| Points | Putintseva | Krunic |
|---|---|---|
| Match played | 3 | 3 |
| Tot Set | 8 | 6 |
| Tot Games | 50 | 45 |
| Pts | 197-137 | 176-100 |
| Total Points | 334 | 276 |
| Winners | 71 | 60 |
| %Winners | 36% | 34% |
Both Putintseva and Krunic played 3 matches. At the moment, Yulia Putintseva dropped 1 set while Aleksandra Krunic hasn’t surrendered a set so far. Putintseva has played 2 sets more than Krunic (8 vs 6). Therefore, Putintseva played 5 games more than Krunic. The Kazakhstani scored 71 winners (36% of the total points). On the other side, Aleksandra recorded 60 winners (34%).
Serve Performance
| Serve | Putintseva | Krunic |
|---|---|---|
| Aces | 2 | 7 |
| Avg per match | 0.7 | 2.3 |
| 1st in | 107/181 | 82/136 |
| %1st in | 59% | 60% |
| 1st pts | 71/107 | 60/82 |
| %1st pts | 66% | 73% |
| 2nd pts | 38/74 | 33/54 |
| %2nd pts | 51% | 61% |
Putintseva fired 2 aces (0.7 per match). Krunic recorded 7 aces (2.3 per match). Putintseva won 66% points on her first serve. She pretty effective on her second serve to win 51% of the points. On the other side, Krunic won 73% of the points behind her first serve. She had a solid display on her second serve to win 61% of the points.
How they played the important points
| Breaks | Putintseva | Krunic |
|---|---|---|
| Won | 16 | 16 |
| Converted | 16/25 | 16/26 |
| % Converted | 64% | 62% |
| Conceded | 21 | 7 |
| Saved | 15 | 5 |
| % Saved | 71% | 71% |
| Times Broken | 6 | 2 |
Putintseva broke her opponents 16 times with a 64% conversion rate. Yulia surrendered her serve 6 times and she saved 71% of the break points that she conceded. Krunic broke her opponents 16 times with a 62% conversion rate. Aleksandra conceded her serve twice and she saved 71% of the break points that she conceded.
| Putintseva | |||||
| R1 Anna Schmiedlova |
R2 Pigossi |
1/4 Tsurenko |
Total | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Score | 6-4 6-1 | 4-6 6-1 6-2 | 6-0 2-0 ret. | ||
| Tot Set | 2 | 3 | 2 | 7 | |
| Tot Games | 17 | 25 | 8 | 50 | |
| pts | 73-52 | 92-75 | 32-10 | 197-137 | |
| Total points | 125 | 167 | 42 | 334 | |
| Winners | 32 | 28 | 11 | 71 | |
| %Winners | 44% | 30% | 34% | 36% | |
| SERVE | |||||
| Aces | 1 | 1 | 0 | 2 | |
| Double Faults | 3 | 2 | 0 | 5 | |
| 1st in | 51/78 | 40/81 | 16/22 | 107/181 | |
| % 1st in | 65% | 49% | 73% | 59% | |
| 1st pts | 32/51 | 28/40 | 11/16 | 71/107 | |
| % 1st pts | 63% | 70% | 69% | 66% | |
| 2nd pts | 11/27 | 22/41 | 5/6 | 38/74 | |
| % 2nd pts | 41% | 54% | 83% | 51% | |
| Breaks | |||||
| Won | 6 | 6 | 4 | 16 | |
| Converted | 6/8 | 6/12 | 4/5 | 16/25 | |
| Converted % | 75% | 50% | 80% | 64% | |
| Conceded | 14 | 7 | 0 | 21 | |
| Saved | 11/14 | 4/7 | 0/0 | 15 | |
| Saved % | 79% | 57% | – | 45% | |
| Times Broken | 3 | 3 | 0 | 6 | |
| Krunic | |||||
| R1 Siegemund |
R2 Zhang |
1/4 Wang |
Total | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Score | 6-3 6-4 | 6-1 6-0 | 6-0 6-1 | ||
| Tot Set | 2 | 2 | 2 | 6 | |
| Tot Games | 19 | 13 | 13 | 45 | |
| pts | 66-55 | 53-22 | 57-23 | 176-100 | |
| Total points | 121 | 75 | 80 | 276 | |
| Winners | 24 | 19 | 17 | 60 | |
| %Winners | 36% | 36% | 30% | 34% | |
| SERVE | |||||
| Aces | 1 | 4 | 2 | 7 | |
| Double Faults | 4 | 0 | 1 | 5 | |
| 1st in | 33/62 | 25/34 | 24/40 | 82/136 | |
| % 1st in | 53% | 74% | 60% | 60% | |
| 1st pts | 24/33 | 19/25 | 17/24 | 60/82 | |
| % 1st pts | 73% | 76% | 71% | 73% | |
| 2nd pts | 16/29 | 5/9 | 12/16 | 33/54 | |
| % 2nd pts | 55% | 56% | 75% | 61% | |
| Breaks | |||||
| Won | 3 | 7 | 6 | 16 | |
| Converted | 3/7 | 7/12 | 6/7 | 16/26 | |
| Converted % | 43% | 58% | 86% | 62% | |
| Conceded | 4 | 2 | 1 | 7 | |
| Saved | 3/4 | 1/2 | 1/1 | 5 | |
| Saved % | 75% | 50% | 100% | 75% | |
| Times Broken | 1 | 1 | 0 | 2 | |
Head 2 Head
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