Jessica Pegula and Asia Muhammad will fight against each other in the 2nd round of the National Bank Open for the 2nd time in their career. They are scheduled to compete on Wednesday at 1:00 pm on Court 4. In this post, we analyze their head to head performance and prediction.
Prediction, odds and live streaming
The pick for Tennis Tonic is Jessica Pegula who should win in 2 sets.
Jessica Pegula -> 1.18
Asia Muhammad -> 4.85
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Prediction and head to head Jessica Pegula vs. Asia Muhammad
This will be the 2nd time that Jessica Pegula and Asia Muhammad fight against each other. The head to head is 1-0 for Pegula (see full H2H stats), 1-0 on hard.
The last time that they competed against each other, Pegula won 6-3 6-0 in the 2nd round in the Indian Wells back in 2019.
Jessica Pegula
| Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 14-6 | 11-5 | 3-1 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 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 |
| 2020 | 17-9 | 16-7 | 0-1 | 1-1 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
Ranked no. 7 (career-high), the American will start her run in Montreal after she played her last match in Washington where she lost 7-5 6-4 to Gavrilova in the 2nd round on the 3rd of August.
The American has an aggregate 26-14 win-loss record in 2022, 12-8 on hard (See FULL STATS).
The American’s best result of the year was reaching the final in Madrid.
Talking about her overall career, Pegula has an overall 319-205 record. She has a positive 161-98 record on hard.
Previously in Montreal
Previously, her best result was reaching the semifinal in 2021. See her history.
Asia Muhammad
| Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2023 | 16-14 | 10-5 | 6-8 | 0-0 | 0-1 | 0-0 |
| 2022 | 26-17 | 22-9 | 4-4 | 0-1 | 0-3 | 0-0 |
| 2021 | 10-15 | 4-7 | 3-4 | 0-2 | 3-2 | 0-0 |
| 2020 | 12-8 | 11-7 | 1-1 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2019 | 29-22 | 28-14 | 1-4 | 0-0 | 0-4 | 0-0 |
Ranked no. 187, Muhammad got to the 2nd round after beating Andrea Petkovic 6-3 6-2, Donna Vekic 7-5 6-72 6-1 and Madison Keys 7-65 6-4.
In the 1st round, The American had a good straight sets win against Keys (7-65 6-4). During the match Muhammad scored 84 points vs Keys’s 74. Asia was very aggressive to blast 34 winners.
Talking about serving, Muhammad made 4 aces and she committed only 8 double faults. Asia Muhammad lost the serve 3 times and she saved 8 break points. Furthermore, Muhammad put 61% of her first serves in, winning 68% (34/50) of the points behind her 1st serve and 50% (16/32) on the 2nd serve. Asia broke Keys 4 times after converting 36% of her break points (4/11).
Asia has a compiled 23-9 win-loss record in 2022, 19-2 on hard (See FULL STATS).
Previously in Montreal
Previously, her best result was reaching the qualifications in 2016. See her history.
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- Mats MoraingMoraing – Christophe NickelsNickels (6-1 6-4) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Lenny HampelHampel – Francesco FerrariFerrari (6-2 6-4) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Lucas MiedlerMiedler – Antoine BellierBellier (6-3 6-4) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Hubert HurkaczHurkacz – Kris KrawcewiczKrawcewicz (6-3 6-3) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Daniel AltmaierAltmaier – Gianluca BergomiBergomi (6-4 6-4) – Stats, scores, rankings
Upcoming matches in the draw
- Iga SwiatekSwiatek – Ajla TomljanovicTomljanovic (1-0) – H2H and prediction
- Beatriz Haddad MaiaHaddad Maia – Leylah Annie FernandezAnnie Fernandez (0-1) – H2H and prediction
- Belinda BencicBencic – Serena WilliamsWilliams (1-2) – H2H and prediction
- Kaia KanepiKanepi – Garbine MuguruzaMuguruza (1-1) – H2H and prediction
- Amanda AnisimovaAnisimova – Karolina PliskovaPliskova (1-4) – H2H and prediction
- Bianca Vanessa AndreescuVanessa Andreescu – Alize CornetCornet (0-2) – H2H and prediction
- Qinwen ZhengZheng – Ons JabeurJabeur (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Jessica PegulaPegula – Asia MuhammadMuhammad (1-0) – H2H and prediction
- Elise MertensMertens – Camila GiorgiGiorgi (2-1) – H2H and prediction
- Jelena OstapenkoOstapenko – Alison RiskeRiske (2-0) – H2H and prediction
- Yulia PutintsevaPutintseva – Paula Badosa GibertBadosa Gibert (0-2) – H2H and prediction
- Aryna SabalenkaSabalenka – Sara Sorribes TormoSorribes Tormo (2-0) – H2H and prediction
- Elena RybakinaRybakina – Cori GauffGauff (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Simona HalepHalep – Shuai ZhangZhang (3-2) – H2H and prediction
- Jil TeichmannTeichmann – Anett KontaveitKontaveit (0-3) – H2H and prediction