Sara Errani and Rebeka Masarova will square off in the qualifications of the ASB Classic for the 2nd time in their career. They are scheduled to play on Sunday at 2:00 pm on Grandstand. In this post, we analyze their head to head performance and prediction.
Prediction, odds and live streaming
The pick for Tennis Tonic is Rebeka Masarova who should win in 3 sets.
Rebeka Masarova -> 1.71
Sara Errani -> 2.05
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Prediction and head to head Sara Errani vs. Rebeka Masarova
This will be the 2nd time that Sara Errani and Rebeka Masarova face off. The head to head is 1-0 for Errani (see full H2H stats), but they have never competed against each other on hard.
The last time that they played each other, Errani won 6-3 1-6 6-4 in the quarter in the Bucharest back in September 2022.
Sara Errani
| Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 3-9 | 1-4 | 2-5 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2024 | 29-22 | 9-11 | 13-7 | 4-2 | 3-2 | 0-0 |
| 2023 | 36-31 | 11-9 | 21-17 | 3-2 | 1-3 | 0-0 |
| 2022 | 33-29 | 8-10 | 21-15 | 0-2 | 4-2 | 0-0 |
| 2021 | 16-21 | 6-10 | 9-9 | 0-0 | 1-2 | 0-0 |
Ranked no. 109, Sara got to the qualifications after beating Vivian Yang 6-1 6-4.
In the qualifications, Errani had a good straight sets win against Yang (6-1 6-4). During the match, Errani scored 61 points vs Yang’s 42. Errani was quite aggressive to blast 25 winners.
Talking about the service games, Errani couldn’t to score even 1 ace during the encounter and she committed only 2 double faults. Sara Errani lost the serve once and she saved 2 break points. Furthermore, Errani put 73% of her first serves in, winning 69% (25/36) of the points behind her 1st serve and 69% (9/13) on the 2nd serve. Sara broke Yang 4 times after converting 67% of her break points (4/6).
Errani has positive record in the last 10 years having won 57% of her matches (300-225). 8-10 on hard in 2022. Talking about her performance on the same surface of this event, Errani has a composed 124-101 win-loss record in the last years on hard.
Her best result of the year was conquering the title the Contrexeville where she beat Dalma Galfi in the final 6-4 1-6 7-6(4).
Errani has a compiled 33-29 win-loss record in 2022, 8-10 on hard (See FULL STATS).
Previously in Auckland
Rebeka Masarova
| Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 33-24 | 13-10 | 13-5 | 0-5 | 7-4 | 0-0 |
| 2024 | 25-29 | 11-14 | 12-11 | 0-1 | 2-3 | 0-0 |
| 2023 | 38-23 | 16-11 | 10-5 | 9-4 | 3-3 | 0-0 |
| 2022 | 34-26 | 8-8 | 21-15 | 5-1 | 0-2 | 0-0 |
| 2021 | 42-13 | 27-7 | 14-5 | 1-1 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
Ranked no. 130, Rebeka got to the qualifications after beating Katherine Sebov 7-64 7-65.
In the qualifications, Rebeka had a good straight sets win against Sebov (7-64 7-65). During the match Masarova scored 102 points vs Sebov’s 98. Masarova was extremely aggressive to blast 38 winners.
Talking about serving, Masarova bagged 3 aces and she was quite solid in conceding no double faults for the entire match. Rebeka Masarova lost the serve twice and she saved 3 break points. Furthermore, Masarova put 64% of her first serves in, winning 66% (38/58) of the points behind her 1st serve and 59% (19/32) on the 2nd serve. Rebeka broke Sebov twice after converting 20% of her break points (2/10).
Rebeka has a composed 34-26 win-loss record in 2022, 8-8 on hard (See FULL STATS).
H2H Performance in the tournament
Matches, sets, games and points
| Points | Errani | Masarova |
|---|---|---|
| Match played | 1 | 1 |
| Tot Set | 2 | 2 |
| Tot Games | 17 | 26 |
| Pts | 61-42 | 102-98 |
| Total Points | 103 | 200 |
| Winners | 25 | 38 |
| %Winners | 41% | 37% |
Both Errani and Masarova played 1 match. Also both players started their run from the qualifications.Both players have not conceded a single set in this event so far. Talking about their workload, Errani and Masarova have played the same amount of sets 2. However, Errani played 9 games less than Masarova. The Italian scored 25 winners (41% of the total points). On the other side, The Spaniard managed to score 38 winners (37%).
Serve Performance
| Serve | Errani | Masarova |
|---|---|---|
| Aces | 0 | 3 |
| Avg per match | 0 | 3 |
| 1st in | 36/49 | 58/90 |
| %1st in | 73% | 64% |
| 1st pts | 25/36 | 38/58 |
| %1st pts | 69% | 66% |
| 2nd pts | 9/13 | 19/32 |
| %2nd pts | 69% | 59% |
Errani didn’t manage to fire a single ace to far. Masarova made 3 aces . Errani won 69% points behind her first serve. She pretty effective on her second serve to win 69% of the points. On the other side, Masarova won 66% of the points behind her first serve. She had a solid display on her second serve to win 59% of the points.
How they played the important points
| Breaks | Errani | Masarova |
|---|---|---|
| Won | 4 | 2 |
| Converted | 4/6 | 2/10 |
| % Converted | 67% | 20% |
| Conceded | 3 | 5 |
| Saved | 2 | 3 |
| % Saved | 67% | 60% |
| Times Broken | 1 | 2 |
The Italian broke her opponent 4 times with a 67% conversion rate. Sara surrendered her serve once and she saved 67% of the break points that she conceded. Rebeka broke her opponent twice with a 20% conversion rate. The Spaniard conceded her serve twice and she saved 60% of the break points that she conceded.
| Errani | |||
| Q1 Yang | Total | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Score | 6-1 6-4 | ||
| Tot Set | 2 | 2 | |
| Tot Games | 17 | 17 | |
| pts | 61-42 | 61-42 | |
| Total points | 103 | 103 | |
| Winners | 25 | 25 | |
| %Winners | 41% | 41% | |
| SERVE | |||
| Aces | 0 | 0 | |
| Double Faults | 2 | 2 | |
| 1st in | 36/49 | 36/49 | |
| % 1st in | 73% | 73% | |
| 1st pts | 25/36 | 25/36 | |
| % 1st pts | 69% | 69% | |
| 2nd pts | 9/13 | 9/13 | |
| % 2nd pts | 69% | 69% | |
| Breaks | |||
| Won | 4 | 4 | |
| Converted | 4/6 | 4/6 | |
| Converted % | 67% | 67% | |
| Conceded | 3 | 3 | |
| Saved | 2/3 | 2 | |
| Saved % | 67% | 67% | |
| Times Broken | 1 | 1 | |
| Masarova | |||
| Q1 Sebov | Total | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Score | 7-64 7-65 | ||
| Tot Set | 2 | 2 | |
| Tot Games | 26 | 26 | |
| pts | 102-98 | 102-98 | |
| Total points | 200 | 200 | |
| Winners | 38 | 38 | |
| %Winners | 37% | 37% | |
| SERVE | |||
| Aces | 3 | 3 | |
| Double Faults | 0 | 0 | |
| 1st in | 58/90 | 58/90 | |
| % 1st in | 64% | 64% | |
| 1st pts | 38/58 | 38/58 | |
| % 1st pts | 66% | 66% | |
| 2nd pts | 19/32 | 19/32 | |
| % 2nd pts | 59% | 59% | |
| Breaks | |||
| Won | 2 | 2 | |
| Converted | 2/10 | 2/10 | |
| Converted % | 20% | 20% | |
| Conceded | 5 | 5 | |
| Saved | 3/5 | 3 | |
| Saved % | 60% | 60% | |
| Times Broken | 2 | 2 | |
Tennis Scores in Auckland
- Stefano BattaglinoBattaglino – Luca TomasettoTomasetto (7-5 6-1) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Stefano ReitanoReitano – Francesco MoncagattoMoncagatto (6-4 3-6 6-3) – Stats, scores, rankings
Upcoming matches in the draw
- Ysaline BonaventureBonaventure – Arantxa RusRus (3-3) – H2H and prediction
- Varvara GrachevaGracheva – Viktoria KuzmovaKuzmova (0-1) – H2H and prediction
- Moyuka UchijimaUchijima – Elena Gabriela RuseGabriela Ruse (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Sara ErraniErrani – Rebeka MasarovaMasarova (1-0) – H2H and prediction
- Jaqueline CristianCristian – Nao HibinoHibino (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Katie VolynetsVolynets – Eugenie BouchardBouchard (1-0) – H2H and prediction