Elina Avanesyan and Carolina Meligeni Alves will square off in the qualifications of the Palermo Ladies Open for the 2nd time in their career. They are scheduled to play on Sunday at 8:00 pm on Court 6. In the following lines you can find the head to head analysis and prediction.
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The pick for Tennis Tonic is Elina Avanesyan who should win in 3 sets.
Elina Avanesyan -> 1.66
Carolina Meligeni Alves -> 2.10
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Prediction and head to head Elina Avanesyan vs. Carolina Meligeni Alves
This will be the 2nd time that Elina Avanesyan and Carolina Meligeni Alves square off. The head to head is 1-0 for M. Alves (see full H2H stats), 1-0 on clay.
The last time that they played, M. Alves won 6-0 7-5 in the final in W15 Cairo back in 2020.
Elina Avanesyan
| Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 29-24 | 12-13 | 11-7 | 1-1 | 5-3 | 0-0 |
| 2023 | 31-24 | 7-12 | 20-9 | 0-0 | 4-3 | 0-0 |
| 2022 | 38-26 | 11-7 | 25-17 | 2-1 | 0-1 | 0-0 |
| 2021 | 48-19 | 0-0 | 48-18 | 0-1 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2020 | 14-8 | 4-2 | 10-6 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
Ranked no. 133, Avanesyan got to the qualifications after beating Nuria Brancaccio 6-4 7-5.
In the qualifications, Elina had a good straight sets win against Brancaccio (6-4 7-5). During the match, Avanesyan scored 76 points vs Brancaccio’s 65. The Russian was pretty aggressive to blast 34 winners.
Regarding the service games, Avanesyan scored just 1 ace during the match and she committed only 2 double faults. Elina Avanesyan lost the serve 4 times and she saved 4 break points. Furthermore, Avanesyan put 79% of her first serves in, winning 64% (34/53) of the points behind her 1st serve and 29% (4/14) on the 2nd serve. The Russian broke Brancaccio 6 times after converting 55% of her break points (6/11).
Avanesyan has a solid record in the last 5 years having won 65% of her matches (106-56). 16-13 on clay in 2022. Talking about her performance on the same surface of this tournament, Avanesyan has an aggregate88-42 match record in the last 5 years on clay.
The Russian’s best result of the year was reaching the semifinal in the W25 Florianopolis.
Elina has a compiled 23-17 win-loss record in 2022, 16-13 on clay (See FULL STATS).
Previously in Palermo
Elina has never competed in this tournament before.
Carolina Meligeni Alves
| Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 45-30 | 4-4 | 41-26 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2023 | 25-23 | 0-3 | 25-19 | 0-0 | 0-1 | 0-0 |
| 2022 | 36-31 | 13-11 | 23-19 | 0-0 | 0-1 | 0-0 |
| 2021 | 50-32 | 11-10 | 38-21 | 1-1 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2020 | 27-13 | 9-10 | 18-3 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
Ranked no. 181 (career-high), M. Alves reached the qualifications after beating Francesca Di Lorenzo 7-5 2-6 6-4.
In the qualifications, Carolina defeated Di Lorenzo (7-5 2-6 6-4). During the match M. Alves scored 94 points vs Di Lorenzo’s 93. M. Alves was very aggressive to blast 43 winners.
Talking about serving, M. Alves struck 2 aces and she committed only 4 double faults. Carolina Meligeni Alves lost the serve 6 times and she saved 7 break points. Furthermore, M. Alves put 69% of her first serves in, winning 63% (43/68) of the points behind her 1st serve and 32% (10/31) on the 2nd serve. M. Alves broke Di Lorenzo 6 times after converting 55% of her break points (6/11).
The Brazilian’s best result of the year was getting to the final in the W25 Tucuman and the Gaudens.
M. Alves has a compiled 29-19 win-loss record in 2022, 19-12 on clay (See FULL STATS).
H2H Performance in the tournament
Matches, sets, games and points
| Points | Avanesyan | M. Alves |
|---|---|---|
| Match played | 1 | 1 |
| Tot Set | 2 | 3 |
| Tot Games | 22 | 30 |
| Pts | 76-65 | 94-93 |
| Total Points | 141 | 187 |
| Winners | 34 | 43 |
| %Winners | 45% | 46% |
Both Avanesyan and M. Alves played 1 match. Also both players started their run from the qualifications.At the moment, Carolina Meligeni Alves dropped 1 set while Elina Avanesyan hasn’t dropped a set so far. Avanesyan has played 1 set(s) less than M. Alves (2 vs 3). Therefore, Avanesyan played 8 games less than M. Alves. Avanesyan scored 34 winners (45% of the total points). On the other side, M. Alves made 43 winners (46%).
Serve Performance
| Serve | Avanesyan | M. Alves |
|---|---|---|
| Aces | 1 | 2 |
| Avg per match | 1 | 2 |
| 1st in | 53/67 | 68/99 |
| %1st in | 79% | 69% |
| 1st pts | 34/53 | 43/68 |
| %1st pts | 64% | 63% |
| 2nd pts | 4/14 | 10/31 |
| %2nd pts | 29% | 32% |
Avanesyan bagged 1 ace . M. Alves also made 2 aces . Avanesyan won 64% points on her first serve. She pretty effective on her second serve to win 29% of the points. On the other side, M. Alves won 63% of the points on her first serve. She had a solid display on her second serve to win 32% of the points.
How they played the important points
| Breaks | Avanesyan | M. Alves |
|---|---|---|
| Won | 6 | 6 |
| Converted | 6/11 | 6/11 |
| % Converted | 55% | 55% |
| Conceded | 8 | 13 |
| Saved | 4 | 7 |
| % Saved | 50% | 54% |
| Times Broken | 4 | 6 |
The Russian broke her opponent 6 times with a 55% conversion rate. The Russian dropped her serve 4 times and she saved 50% of the break points that she conceded. Carolina broke her opponent 6 times with a 55% conversion rate. Carolina conceded her serve 6 times and she saved 54% of the break points that she conceded.
| Avanesyan | |||
| Q1 Brancaccio | Total | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Score | 6-4 7-5 | ||
| Tot Set | 2 | 2 | |
| Tot Games | 22 | 22 | |
| pts | 76-65 | 76-65 | |
| Total points | 141 | 141 | |
| Winners | 34 | 34 | |
| %Winners | 45% | 45% | |
| SERVE | |||
| Aces | 1 | 1 | |
| Double Faults | 2 | 2 | |
| 1st in | 53/67 | 53/67 | |
| % 1st in | 79% | 79% | |
| 1st pts | 34/53 | 34/53 | |
| % 1st pts | 64% | 64% | |
| 2nd pts | 4/14 | 4/14 | |
| % 2nd pts | 29% | 29% | |
| Breaks | |||
| Won | 6 | 6 | |
| Converted | 6/11 | 6/11 | |
| Converted % | 55% | 55% | |
| Conceded | 8 | 8 | |
| Saved | 4/8 | 4 | |
| Saved % | 50% | 50% | |
| Times Broken | 4 | 4 | |
| M. Alves | |||
| Q1 Di Lorenzo | Total | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Score | 7-5 2-6 6-4 | ||
| Tot Set | 3 | 3 | |
| Tot Games | 30 | 30 | |
| pts | 94-93 | 94-93 | |
| Total points | 187 | 187 | |
| Winners | 43 | 43 | |
| %Winners | 46% | 46% | |
| SERVE | |||
| Aces | 2 | 2 | |
| Double Faults | 4 | 4 | |
| 1st in | 68/99 | 68/99 | |
| % 1st in | 69% | 69% | |
| 1st pts | 43/68 | 43/68 | |
| % 1st pts | 63% | 63% | |
| 2nd pts | 10/31 | 10/31 | |
| % 2nd pts | 32% | 32% | |
| Breaks | |||
| Won | 6 | 6 | |
| Converted | 6/11 | 6/11 | |
| Converted % | 55% | 55% | |
| Conceded | 13 | 13 | |
| Saved | 7/13 | 7 | |
| Saved % | 54% | 54% | |
| Times Broken | 6 | 6 | |
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