Anna Blinkova and Anastasia Zakharova will face off in the 1st round of the Transylvania Open for the 2nd time in their career. They are scheduled to compete on Monday at 2:00 pm on Court 2. Here the head to head stats and relative prediction.
Prediction, odds and live streaming
The pick for Tennis Tonic is Anna Blinkova who should win in 2 sets.
As per the initial odds, Anna Blinkova is the pick to win this match.
Anna Blinkova -> 1.4
Anastasia Zakharova -> 2.95
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Prediction and head to head Anna Blinkova vs. Anastasia Zakharova
This will be the 2nd time that Anna Blinkova and Anastasia Zakharova fight against each other. The head to head is 1-0 for Blinkova (see full H2H stats), 1-0 on indoor hard courts.
The last time that they played, Blinkova won 6-2 6-3 in the 1st round in the Angers back in 2021.
Anna Blinkova
| Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 14-27 | 9-13 | 2-8 | 1-2 | 2-4 | 0-0 |
| 2023 | 33-28 | 15-15 | 10-7 | 3-3 | 5-3 | 0-0 |
| 2022 | 46-29 | 7-8 | 16-10 | 21-7 | 1-3 | 1-1 |
| 2021 | 15-24 | 5-11 | 6-6 | 2-4 | 2-3 | 0-0 |
| 2020 | 9-14 | 4-10 | 4-3 | 1-1 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
Ranked no. 137, Blinkova reached the 1st round after defeating Lesya Tsurenko 6-2 7-5 and Mirjam Bjorklund 6-2 6-2.
In the qualifications, Blinkova had a good straight sets win against Bjorklund (6-2 6-2). During the match, Blinkova scored 59 points vs Bjorklund’s 35. The Russian was very aggressive to blast 23 winners.
Talking about the service games, Blinkova bagged 2 aces and she committed only 1 double fault. Anna Blinkova lost the serve twice and she saved 5 break points. Furthermore, Blinkova put 67% of her first serves in, winning 74% (23/31) of the points behind her 1st serve and 47% (7/15) on the 2nd serve. Blinkova was clinical in her return game without wasting any break point and break Bjorklund 6 times.
Overall Performance in this tournament
Anna started her run at this tournament from the qualifications. In the main draw, she hasn’t dropped yet a set in this competition to conquer 59% of the points she played.
Blinkova has a winning win-loss record in the last 9 years having won 59% of her matches (233-163). 12-4 on indoor hard courts in 2022. In connection with her performance on the same surface of this competition, Blinkova has an overall72-36 win-loss record in the last 9 years on indoor hard courts.
Anna’s best result of the season was reaching the final in the Boutheon,the W60 Grenoble,the W25 Le Havre and the Malo.
Blinkova has a compiled 37-26 win-loss record in 2022, 12-4 on indoor hard courts (See FULL STATS).
Previously in Cluj-Napoca
The Russian has never competed in this tournament before.
Anastasia Zakharova
| Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 24-18 | 19-9 | 3-6 | 1-1 | 1-2 | 0-0 |
| 2023 | 49-24 | 41-17 | 2-2 | 6-3 | 0-2 | 0-0 |
| 2022 | 39-22 | 26-8 | 3-10 | 10-4 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2021 | 31-25 | 13-10 | 9-8 | 9-7 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2020 | 12-4 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 12-4 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
Ranked no. 179, the Russian got to the 1st round after beating Gabriela Lee 6-1 6-3 and Alexandra Cadantu 6-4 6-1.
In the qualifications, The Russian had a good straight sets win against Cadantu (6-4 6-1). During the match Zakharova scored 67 points vs Cadantu’s 47. Anastasia was quite aggressive to blast 26 winners.
Talking about serving, Zakharova managed to score 2 aces and she committed only 3 double faults. Anastasia Zakharova lost the serve twice and she saved 1 break points. Furthermore, Zakharova put 61% of her first serves in, winning 74% (26/35) of the points behind her 1st serve and 41% (9/22) on the 2nd serve. Anastasia broke Cadantu 5 times after converting 45% of her break points (5/11).
Overall Performance in this tournament
Zakharova started her run at this tournament from the qualifications. In the main draw, she hasn’t dropped yet a set in this event to win 60% of the points she played.
The Russian has a composed 37-19 win-loss record in 2022, 10-2 on indoor hard courts (See FULL STATS).
Previously in Cluj
Previously, her best result was reaching the qualifications in 2021. See her history.
H2H Performance in the tournament
Matches, sets, games and points
| Points | Blinkova | Zakharova |
|---|---|---|
| Match played | 2 | 2 |
| Tot Set | 4 | 4 |
| Tot Games | 36 | 33 |
| Pts | 131-90 | 132-87 |
| Total Points | 221 | 219 |
| Winners | 46 | 41 |
| %Winners | 35% | 31% |
Both Blinkova and Zakharova played 2 matches. Also both players started their run from the qualifications.Both players have not lost a single set in this event so far. Talking about their workload, Blinkova and Zakharova have played the same amount of sets 4. However, Blinkova played 3 games more than Zakharova. Blinkova scored 46 winners (35% of the total points). On the other side, The Russian bagged 41 winners (31%).
Serve Performance
| Serve | Blinkova | Zakharova |
|---|---|---|
| Aces | 4 | 5 |
| Avg per match | 2 | 2.5 |
| 1st in | 65/104 | 55/102 |
| %1st in | 63% | 54% |
| 1st pts | 46/65 | 41/55 |
| %1st pts | 71% | 75% |
| 2nd pts | 20/39 | 26/47 |
| %2nd pts | 51% | 55% |
Blinkova managed to score 4 aces (2 per match). Zakharova scored 5 aces (2.5 per match). Blinkova won 71% points behind her first serve. She quite strong on her second serve to win 51% of the points. On the other side, Zakharova won 75% of the points on her first serve. She had a solid display on her second serve to win 55% of the points.
How they played the important points
| Breaks | Blinkova | Zakharova |
|---|---|---|
| Won | 11 | 10 |
| Converted | 11/17 | 10/24 |
| % Converted | 65% | 42% |
| Conceded | 12 | 4 |
| Saved | 8 | 1 |
| % Saved | 67% | 25% |
| Times Broken | 4 | 3 |
Blinkova broke her opponents 11 times with a 65% conversion rate. Anna lost her serve 4 times and she saved 67% of the break points that she conceded. The Russian broke her opponents 10 times with a 42% conversion rate. Zakharova conceded her serve 3 times and she saved 25% of the break points that she conceded.
| Blinkova | ||||
| Q1 Tsurenko |
Q3 Bjorklund |
Total | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Score | 6-2 7-5 | 6-2 6-2 | ||
| Tot Set | 2 | 2 | 4 | |
| Tot Games | 20 | 16 | 36 | |
| pts | 72-55 | 59-35 | 131-90 | |
| Total points | 127 | 94 | 221 | |
| Winners | 23 | 23 | 46 | |
| %Winners | 32% | 39% | 35% | |
| SERVE | ||||
| Aces | 2 | 2 | 4 | |
| Double Faults | 4 | 1 | 5 | |
| 1st in | 34/58 | 31/46 | 65/104 | |
| % 1st in | 59% | 67% | 63% | |
| 1st pts | 23/34 | 23/31 | 46/65 | |
| % 1st pts | 68% | 74% | 71% | |
| 2nd pts | 13/24 | 7/15 | 20/39 | |
| % 2nd pts | 54% | 47% | 51% | |
| Breaks | ||||
| Won | 5 | 6 | 11 | |
| Converted | 5/11 | 6/6 | 11/17 | |
| Converted % | 45% | 100% | 65% | |
| Conceded | 5 | 7 | 12 | |
| Saved | 3/5 | 5/7 | 8 | |
| Saved % | 60% | 71% | 66% | |
| Times Broken | 2 | 2 | 4 | |
| Zakharova | ||||
| Q1 Talaba |
Q3 Cadantu |
Total | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Score | 6-1 6-3 | 6-4 6-1 | ||
| Tot Set | 2 | 2 | 4 | |
| Tot Games | 16 | 17 | 33 | |
| pts | 65-40 | 67-47 | 132-87 | |
| Total points | 105 | 114 | 219 | |
| Winners | 15 | 26 | 41 | |
| %Winners | 23% | 39% | 31% | |
| SERVE | ||||
| Aces | 3 | 2 | 5 | |
| Double Faults | 5 | 3 | 8 | |
| 1st in | 20/45 | 35/57 | 55/102 | |
| % 1st in | 44% | 61% | 54% | |
| 1st pts | 15/20 | 26/35 | 41/55 | |
| % 1st pts | 75% | 74% | 75% | |
| 2nd pts | 17/25 | 9/22 | 26/47 | |
| % 2nd pts | 68% | 41% | 55% | |
| Breaks | ||||
| Won | 5 | 5 | 10 | |
| Converted | 5/13 | 5/11 | 10/24 | |
| Converted % | 38% | 45% | 42% | |
| Conceded | 1 | 3 | 4 | |
| Saved | 0/1 | 1/3 | 1 | |
| Saved % | 0% | 33% | 17% | |
| Times Broken | 1 | 2 | 3 | |
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