Ons Jabeur and Petra Kvitova will square off in the 3rd round of the Western & Southern Open for the 5th time in their career. They are scheduled to play on Thursday at 11:00 am on GRAND STAND. Here the head to head stats and relative prediction.
Prediction, odds and live streaming
The pick for Tennis Tonic is Ons Jabeur who should win in 3 sets.
Ons Jabeur -> 1.85
Petra Kvitova -> 2
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Prediction and head to head Ons Jabeur vs. Petra Kvitova
This will be the 5th time that Ons Jabeur and Petra Kvitova fight against each other. The head to head is 3-1 for Kvitova (see full H2H stats), 2-1 on hard.
The last time that they played, Jabeur won 6-4 6-4 in the 2nd round in Sydney back in January 2022.
Highlights Ons Jabeur vs Petra Kvitova – Sydney 12-January-2022
Ons Jabeur
| Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 15-15 | 12-8 | 0-3 | 0-0 | 3-4 | 0-0 |
| 2024 | 16-14 | 2-6 | 8-5 | 0-0 | 6-3 | 0-0 |
| 2023 | 36-17 | 18-11 | 11-3 | 0-0 | 7-3 | 0-0 |
| 2022 | 47-17 | 19-12 | 17-4 | 0-0 | 11-1 | 0-0 |
| 2021 | 48-19 | 25-12 | 13-4 | 0-1 | 10-2 | 0-0 |
Ranked no. 5, Ons got to the 3rd round after defeating Caty McNally 6-3 4-6 7-67.
In the 2nd round, Jabeur defeated McNally (6-3 4-6 7-67). During the match, Jabeur and McNally scored the same amount of points (103). However, the world no. 5 was stronger during the important points and that was the most significant difference in the match. The Tunisian was extremely aggressive to blast 42 winners.
Talking about the service games, Jabeur recorded 9 aces and she committed only 6 double faults. Ons Jabeur lost the serve 4 times and she saved 4 break points. Furthermore, Jabeur put 53% of her first serves in, winning 75% (42/56) of the points behind her 1st serve and 41% (20/49) on the 2nd serve. Jabeur broke McNally 4 times after converting 36% of her break points (4/11).
Jabeur has a solid match record in the last 10 years having won 64% of her matches (329-184). 10-7 on hard in 2022. Talking about her performance on the same surface of this tournament, Jabeur has an overall 121-93 match record in the last years on hard.
Her best result of the year was winning the title in in Madrid where she defeated Jessica Pegula in the final 7-5 0-6 6-2 and in in Berlin where she beat Belinda Bencic in the final 6-3 2-1 ret..
Ons has an aggregate 38-12 win-loss record in 2022, 10-7 on hard (See FULL STATS).
Previously in Cincinnati
Petra Kvitova
| Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 1-8 | 0-4 | 1-2 | 0-0 | 0-2 | 0-0 |
| 2024 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2023 | 30-13 | 22-10 | 0-2 | 0-0 | 8-1 | 0-0 |
| 2022 | 27-19 | 16-11 | 1-4 | 3-2 | 7-2 | 0-0 |
| 2021 | 29-17 | 16-10 | 8-4 | 2-1 | 3-2 | 0-0 |
Ranked no. 28, Kvitova got to the 3rd round after beating Jil Teichmann 6-72 7-66 6-3 and Sorana Cirstea 6-2 6-3.
In the 2nd round, Petra had a good straight sets win against Cirstea (6-2 6-3). During the match Kvitova scored 56 points vs Cirstea’s 39. Kvitova was very aggressive to blast 27 winners.
Talking about serving, Kvitova scored 3 aces and she was pretty steady in conceding no double faults for the entire match. Petra Kvitova was pretty efficient on serve to win 79% (27/34) of her 1st serve and 67% (10/15) on the second serve. This was the main reason for not conceding a single break during the match. The Czech broke Cirstea 3 times after converting 60% of her break points (3/5).
Overall Performance in this tournament
The Czech has conceded 1 set in the tournament to win 53% of the points she played.
Her best result of the current season was winning the title in in Eastbourne where she beat Jelena Ostapenko in the final 6-3 6-2.
Petra has an overall 19-15 win-loss record in 2022, 10-8 on hard (See FULL STATS).
Previously in Cincinnati
Previously, her best result was reaching the semifinal in 2012 and 2018. See her history.
H2H Performance in the tournament (main draw)
Matches, sets, games and points
| Points | Jabeur | Kvitova |
|---|---|---|
| Match played | 1 | 2 |
| Tot Set | 3 | 5 |
| Tot Games | 32 | 52 |
| Pts | 103-103 | 179-158 |
| Total Points | 206 | 337 |
| Winners | 42 | 80 |
| %Winners | 41% | 45% |
Jabeur played 1 match while Kvitova competed in 2 matches. Both players lost a set in the event. Ons Jabeur conceded 1 set, while Petra Kvitova lost 1 set. Jabeur has played 2 set(s) less than Kvitova (3 vs 5). Therefore, Jabeur played 20 games less than Kvitova. Ons scored 42 winners (41% of the total points). On the other side, The Czech struck 80 winners (45%).
Serve Performance
| Serve | Jabeur | Kvitova |
|---|---|---|
| Aces | 9 | 11 |
| Avg per match | 9 | 5.5 |
| 1st in | 56/105 | 98/157 |
| %1st in | 53% | 62% |
| 1st pts | 42/56 | 80/98 |
| %1st pts | 75% | 82% |
| 2nd pts | 20/49 | 26/59 |
| %2nd pts | 41% | 44% |
Jabeur made 9 aces . Kvitova struck 11 aces (5.5 per match). Jabeur won 75% points on her first serve. She quite strong on her second serve to win 41% of the points. On the other side, Kvitova won 82% of the points on her first serve. She had a solid display on her second serve to win 44% of the points.
How they played the important points
| Breaks | Jabeur | Kvitova |
|---|---|---|
| Won | 4 | 8 |
| Converted | 4/11 | 8/20 |
| % Converted | 36% | 40% |
| Conceded | 8 | 9 |
| Saved | 4 | 6 |
| % Saved | 50% | 67% |
| Times Broken | 4 | 3 |
The Tunisian broke her opponent 4 times with a 36% conversion rate. The Tunisian surrendered her serve 4 times and she saved 50% of the break points that she conceded. The Czech broke her opponents 8 times with a 40% conversion rate. Petra conceded her serve 3 times and she saved 67% of the break points that she conceded.
| Jabeur | |||
| R2 McNally | Total | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Score | 6-3 4-6 7-67 | ||
| Tot Set | 3 | 3 | |
| Tot Games | 32 | 32 | |
| pts | 103-103 | 103-103 | |
| Total points | 206 | 206 | |
| Winners | 42 | 42 | |
| %Winners | 41% | 41% | |
| SERVE | |||
| Aces | 9 | 9 | |
| Double Faults | 6 | 6 | |
| 1st in | 56/105 | 56/105 | |
| % 1st in | 53% | 53% | |
| 1st pts | 42/56 | 42/56 | |
| % 1st pts | 75% | 75% | |
| 2nd pts | 20/49 | 20/49 | |
| % 2nd pts | 41% | 41% | |
| Breaks | |||
| Won | 4 | 4 | |
| Converted | 4/11 | 4/11 | |
| Converted % | 36% | 36% | |
| Conceded | 8 | 8 | |
| Saved | 4/8 | 4 | |
| Saved % | 50% | 50% | |
| Times Broken | 4 | 4 | |
| Kvitova | ||||
| R1 Belen Teichmann | R2 Cirstea | Total | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Score | 6-72 7-66 6-3 | 6-2 6-3 | ||
| Tot Set | 3 | 2 | 5 | |
| Tot Games | 35 | 17 | 52 | |
| pts | 123-119 | 56-39 | 179-158 | |
| Total points | 242 | 95 | 337 | |
| Winners | 53 | 27 | 80 | |
| %Winners | 43% | 48% | 45% | |
| SERVE | ||||
| Aces | 8 | 3 | 11 | |
| Double Faults | 11 | 0 | 11 | |
| 1st in | 64/108 | 34/49 | 98/157 | |
| % 1st in | 59% | 69% | 62% | |
| 1st pts | 53/64 | 27/34 | 80/98 | |
| % 1st pts | 83% | 79% | 82% | |
| 2nd pts | 16/44 | 10/15 | 26/59 | |
| % 2nd pts | 36% | 67% | 44% | |
| Breaks | ||||
| Won | 5 | 3 | 8 | |
| Converted | 5/15 | 3/5 | 8/20 | |
| Converted % | 33% | 60% | 40% | |
| Conceded | 7 | 2 | 9 | |
| Saved | 4/7 | 2/2 | 6 | |
| Saved % | 57% | 100% | 157% | |
| Times Broken | 3 | 0 | 3 | |
Tennis Scores in Cincinnati
- Madison KeysKeys – Jelena OstapenkoOstapenko (6-4 7-5) – See score progression
- Aryna SabalenkaSabalenka – Anna KalinskayaKalinskaya (6-3 4-1 ret.) – See score progression
- Emma RaducanuRaducanu – Victoria AzarenkaAzarenka (6-0 6-2) – See score progression
- Victoria Azarenka/Ons JabeurAzarenka/Ons Jabeur – Yifan Xu/Zhaoxuan YangXu/Zhaoxuan Yang (7-5 6-2) – See score progression
- Ajla TomljanovicTomljanovic – Paula Badosa GibertBadosa Gibert (6-73 6-0 6-2) – See score progression
- Alison RiskeRiske – Marie BouzkovaBouzkova (w/o) – See score progression
- Veronika KudermetovaKudermetova – Simona HalepHalep (w/o) – See score progression
- Ons JabeurJabeur – Caty McNallyMcNally (6-3 4-6 7-67) – See score progression
- Jessica PegulaPegula – Marta KostyukKostyuk (6-75 6-1 6-2) – See score progression
- Petra KvitovaKvitova – Sorana CirsteaCirstea (6-2 6-3) – See score progression
- Shuai ZhangZhang – Ekaterina AlexandrovaAlexandrova (6-3 6-4) – See score progression
- Elena RybakinaRybakina – Garbine MuguruzaMuguruza (6-3 6-1) – See score progression
- Elise MertensMertens – Karolina PliskovaPliskova (7-63 6-3) – See score progression
- Iga SwiatekSwiatek – Sloane StephensStephens (6-4 7-5) – See score progression
- Caroline GarciaGarcia – Maria SakkariSakkari (7-62 6-76 6-1) – See score progression
- Anett KontaveitKontaveit – Tereza MartincovaMartincova (3-6 7-5 6-4) – See score progression
- Shelby RogersRogers – Amanda AnisimovaAnisimova (w/o) – See score progression
- Calvin HemeryHemery – Ty TrombettaTrombetta (6-4 6-3) – See score progression
- Evan KingKing – Ulises BlanchBlanch (6-1 3-6 6-1) – See score progression
- Kaichi UchidaUchida – Ruben GonzalesGonzales (7-5 6-2) – See score progression
- Santiago Fa Rodriguez TavernaFa Rodriguez Taverna – Eric QuigleyQuigley (5-7 6-3 6-0) – See score progression
- Genaro Alberto OlivieriAlberto Olivieri – Facundo MenaMena (5-7 6-4 6-2) – See score progression
- Thales TuriniTurini – Dominik KoepferKoepfer (6-0 7-67) – See score progression
- Iga SwiatekSwiatek – Sloane StephensStephens (6-4 7-5) – See score progression
- Madison KeysKeys – Jelena OstapenkoOstapenko (6-4 7-5) – See score progression
- Ajla TomljanovicTomljanovic – Paula Badosa GibertBadosa Gibert (6-7(3) 6-0 6-2) – See score progression
- Veronika KudermetovaKudermetova – Simona HalepHalep (w/o) – See score progression
- Aryna SabalenkaSabalenka – Anna KalinskayaKalinskaya (6-3 4-1 ret.) – See score progression
Upcoming matches in the draw
- Iga SwiatekSwiatek – Madison KeysKeys (2-0) – H2H and prediction
- Alison RiskeRiske – Elena RybakinaRybakina (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Ajla TomljanovicTomljanovic – Veronika KudermetovaKudermetova (1-2) – H2H and prediction
- Petra KvitovaKvitova – Ons JabeurJabeur (3-1) – H2H and prediction
- Jessica PegulaPegula – Emma RaducanuRaducanu (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Elise MertensMertens – Caroline GarciaGarcia (2-3) – H2H and prediction
- Aryna SabalenkaSabalenka – Shelby RogersRogers (1-0) – H2H and prediction
- Shuai ZhangZhang – Anett KontaveitKontaveit (1-3) – H2H and prediction