Varvara Gracheva and Anna-Lena Friedsam will fight against each other in the qualifications of the Upper Austria Ladies Linz for the 2nd time in their career. They are scheduled to compete on Monday at 10:00 am on Center Court. In the following paragraphs, you can find the head to head analysis and prediction.
Prediction, odds and live streaming
The pick for Tennis Tonic is Anna-Lena Friedsam who should win in 3 sets.
As per the initial odds, Anna-Lena Friedsam is the pick to win this match.
Anna-Lena Friedsam -> 1.51
Varvara Gracheva -> 2.43
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Prediction and head to head Varvara Gracheva vs. Anna-Lena Friedsam
This will be the 2nd time that Varvara Gracheva and Anna-Lena Friedsam play each other. The head to head is 1-0 for Friedsam (see full H2H stats), but they have never played each other on indoor hard courts.
The last time that they played each other, Friedsam won 7-5 6-4 in the qualifications in Shenzhen back in 2020.
Varvara Gracheva
| Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 20-19 | 4-8 | 15-8 | 0-1 | 1-2 | 0-0 |
| 2023 | 36-30 | 23-18 | 7-6 | 3-3 | 3-3 | 0-0 |
| 2022 | 29-32 | 7-11 | 12-14 | 10-7 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2021 | 27-31 | 11-10 | 7-10 | 9-9 | 0-2 | 0-0 |
| 2020 | 10-14 | 5-7 | 4-4 | 1-3 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
Ranked no. 83, Varvara reached the qualifications after beating Sinja Kraus 6-2 6-4.
In the qualifications, Varvara had a good straight sets win against Kraus (6-2 6-4). During the match, Gracheva scored 62 points vs Kraus’s 45. The Russian was exceptionally aggressive to blast 25 winners.
Regarding the service games, Gracheva scored just 1 ace during the match and she committed only 2 double faults. Overall, Varvara Gracheva was very efficient on serve to win 74% (25/34) of her 1st serve and 61% (11/18) on the second serve. However, this didn’t prevent her to concede the serve once. Gracheva broke Kraus 4 times after converting 57% of her break points (4/7).
Gracheva has a solid record in the last 8 years having won 60% of her matches (203-137). 1-1 on indoor hard courts in 2023. Talking about her performance on the same surface of this tournament, Gracheva has a compiled40-30 win-loss record in the last 8 years on indoor hard courts.
Varvara has an aggregate 4-4 win-loss record in 2023, 1-1 on indoor hard courts (See FULL STATS).
Previously in Linz
Anna-Lena Friedsam
| Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 3-8 | 0-3 | 0-3 | 3-2 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2023 | 31-27 | 8-9 | 10-8 | 13-8 | 0-2 | 0-0 |
| 2022 | 30-27 | 7-9 | 10-9 | 12-6 | 1-2 | 0-1 |
| 2021 | 18-23 | 3-6 | 9-8 | 5-7 | 1-2 | 0-0 |
| 2020 | 11-14 | 3-5 | 1-4 | 7-5 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
Ranked no. 119, the German got to the qualifications after beating Ingrid Martins 6-1 6-2.
In the qualifications, The German had a good straight sets win against Gamarra Martins (6-1 6-2). During the match Friedsam scored 54 points vs Gamarra Martins’s 27. Friedsam was exceptionally aggressive to blast 27 winners.
About the serving games, Friedsam bagged 3 aces and she committed only 1 double fault for the entire match. Anna-Lena Friedsam was exceptionally efficient on serve to win 87% (27/31) of her 1st serve and 67% (6/9) on the second serve. This was the main reason for not conceding a single break during the match. Friedsam broke Gamarra Martins 4 times after converting 67% of her break points (4/6).
Anna-Lena has a composed 2-2 win-loss record in 2023, 1-1 on indoor hard courts (See FULL STATS).
H2H Performance in the tournament
Matches, sets, games and points
| Points | Gracheva | Friedsam |
|---|---|---|
| Match played | 1 | 1 |
| Tot Set | 2 | 2 |
| Tot Games | 18 | 15 |
| Pts | 62-45 | 54-27 |
| Total Points | 107 | 81 |
| Winners | 25 | 27 |
| %Winners | 40% | 50% |
Both Gracheva and Friedsam played 1 match. Also both players started their run from the qualifications.Both players have not surrendered a single set in this event so far. Talking about their workload, Gracheva and Friedsam have played the same amount of sets 2. However, Gracheva played 3 games more than Friedsam. Varvara scored 25 winners (40% of the total points). On the other side, The German recorded 27 winners (50%).
Serve Performance
| Serve | Gracheva | Friedsam |
|---|---|---|
| Aces | 1 | 3 |
| Avg per match | 1 | 3 |
| 1st in | 34/52 | 31/40 |
| %1st in | 65% | 78% |
| 1st pts | 25/34 | 27/31 |
| %1st pts | 74% | 87% |
| 2nd pts | 11/18 | 6/9 |
| %2nd pts | 61% | 67% |
Gracheva struck 1 ace . Friedsam also managed to score 3 aces . Gracheva won 74% points on her first serve. She very solid her second serve to win 61% of the points. On the other side, Friedsam won 87% of the points on her first serve. She had a solid display on her second serve to win 67% of the points.
How they played the important points
| Breaks | Gracheva | Friedsam |
|---|---|---|
| Won | 4 | 4 |
| Converted | 4/7 | 4/6 |
| % Converted | 57% | 67% |
| Conceded | 4 | 0 |
| Saved | 3 | 0 |
| % Saved | 75% | 0% |
| Times Broken | 1 | 0 |
The Russian broke her opponent 4 times with a 57% conversion rate. The Russian lost her serve once and she saved 75% of the break points that she conceded. The German broke her opponent 4 times with a 67% conversion rate. Anna-Lena was rock solid on her serve as she has never conceded a single service game after saving 0 break points.
| Gracheva | |||
| Q1 Kraus |
Total | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Score | 6-2 6-4 | ||
| Tot Set | 2 | 2 | |
| Tot Games | 18 | 18 | |
| pts | 62-45 | 62-45 | |
| Total points | 107 | 107 | |
| Winners | 25 | 25 | |
| %Winners | 40% | 40% | |
| SERVE | |||
| Aces | 1 | 1 | |
| Double Faults | 2 | 2 | |
| 1st in | 34/52 | 34/52 | |
| % 1st in | 65% | 65% | |
| 1st pts | 25/34 | 25/34 | |
| % 1st pts | 74% | 74% | |
| 2nd pts | 11/18 | 11/18 | |
| % 2nd pts | 61% | 61% | |
| Breaks | |||
| Won | 4 | 4 | |
| Converted | 4/7 | 4/7 | |
| Converted % | 57% | 57% | |
| Conceded | 4 | 4 | |
| Saved | 3/4 | 3 | |
| Saved % | 75% | 75% | |
| Times Broken | 1 | 1 | |
| Friedsam | |||
| Q1 Gamarra Martins |
Total | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Score | 6-1 6-2 | ||
| Tot Set | 2 | 2 | |
| Tot Games | 15 | 15 | |
| pts | 54-27 | 54-27 | |
| Total points | 81 | 81 | |
| Winners | 27 | 27 | |
| %Winners | 50% | 50% | |
| SERVE | |||
| Aces | 3 | 3 | |
| Double Faults | 1 | 1 | |
| 1st in | 31/40 | 31/40 | |
| % 1st in | 78% | 78% | |
| 1st pts | 27/31 | 27/31 | |
| % 1st pts | 87% | 87% | |
| 2nd pts | 6/9 | 6/9 | |
| % 2nd pts | 67% | 67% | |
| Breaks | |||
| Won | 4 | 4 | |
| Converted | 4/6 | 4/6 | |
| Converted % | 67% | 67% | |
| Conceded | 0 | 0 | |
| Saved | 0/0 | 0 | |
| Saved % | – | 0% | |
| Times Broken | 0 | 0 | |
Head 2 Head
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