Jule Niemeier and Sofia Kenin will fight against each other in the 1st round of the Upper Austria Ladies Linz for the 2nd time in their career. They are scheduled to play on Monday at 8:00 pm on Center Court. In this post, we analyze their head to head performance and prediction.
Prediction, odds and live streaming
The pick for Tennis Tonic is Sofia Kenin who should win in 3 sets.
As per the initial odds, Sofia Kenin is the pick to win this match.
Sofia Kenin -> 1.71
Jule Niemeier -> 2.14
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Prediction and head to head Jule Niemeier vs. Sofia Kenin
This will be the 2nd time that Jule Niemeier and Sofia Kenin clash against each other. The head to head is 1-0 for Niemeier (see full H2H stats), but they have never competed against each other on indoor hard courts.
The last time that they played each other, Niemeier won 7-6(3) 6-4 in the 1st round in at the U.S. Open back in 2022.
Highlights Jule Niemeier vs Sofia Kenin – U.S. Open 30-August-2022
Jule Niemeier
| Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 1-2 | 1-2 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2024 | 34-28 | 15-12 | 12-8 | 3-2 | 4-6 | 0-0 |
| 2023 | 16-29 | 3-14 | 5-7 | 4-5 | 4-3 | 0-0 |
| 2022 | 40-22 | 7-7 | 22-8 | 6-3 | 5-3 | 0-1 |
| 2021 | 37-18 | 4-4 | 22-7 | 5-4 | 4-2 | 2-1 |
Ranked no. 71, Niemeier will start her run in Linz after she played her last match in Lyon where she lost 7-6(5) 7-5 to Camila Osorio Serrano in the 2nd round on the 1st of February.
The German has an overall 1-5 win-loss record in 2023, 1-1 on indoor hard courts (See FULL STATS).
Talking about her overall career, The German has an overall 157-90 record. She has a positive 21-14 record on indoor hard courts.
Previously in Linz
Jule has never competed in this tournament before.
Sofia Kenin
| Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 3-2 | 3-2 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2024 | 16-26 | 10-17 | 5-6 | 0-0 | 1-3 | 0-0 |
| 2023 | 27-21 | 17-12 | 3-4 | 1-2 | 6-3 | 0-0 |
| 2022 | 10-17 | 7-14 | 0-0 | 3-3 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2021 | 11-10 | 7-5 | 3-4 | 0-0 | 1-1 | 0-0 |
Ranked no. 207, the American will start her run in Linz after she played her last match at the Melbourne where she lost 6-4 7-6(3) to Azarenka in the 1st round on the 16th of January.
Kenin has a compiled 4-3 win-loss record in 2023, 0-0 on indoor hard courts (See FULL STATS).
This will be the first match of the season on indoor hard courts.
Sofia’s best result of the year was reaching the semifinal in Hobart.
In terms of her career, Sofia has an overall 234-147 record. She has a positive 15-12 record on indoor hard courts.
Head 2 Head
LWL
LWWLW Tennis Scores in Linz
- Nicolas Alberto ArrecheAlberto Arreche – Agustin Suarez GonzalezSuarez Gonzalez (6-1 6-2) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Tomas Lipovsek PuchesLipovsek Puches – Federico MorenoMoreno (6-1 6-2) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Gabriel Alejandro HidalgoAlejandro Hidalgo – Ignacio CarouCarou (7-5 3-6 6-4) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Mariano KestelboimKestelboim – Franco Emanuel EgeaEmanuel Egea (6-3 6-75 6-3) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Tomas Martin EtcheverryMartin Etcheverry – Geronimo Espin BusleimanEspin Busleiman (6-1 6-4) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Facundo ArguelloArguello – Oscar Jose GutierrezJose Gutierrez (6-4 6-1) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Bastian MallaMalla – Nicolas SantosSantos (6-3 6-1) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Santiago Fa Rodriguez TavernaFa Rodriguez Taverna – Daniel Dutra Da SilvaDutra Da Silva (6-3 6-2) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Nicolas BacellaBacella – Fermin TentiTenti (6-3 6-3) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Hernan CasanovaCasanova – Facundo JuarezJuarez (3-6 6-1 7-5) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Facundo Diaz AcostaDiaz Acosta – Juan Bautista OteguiBautista Otegui (6-2 6-2) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Genaro Alberto OlivieriAlberto Olivieri – Camilo Ugo CarabelliUgo Carabelli (6-3 ret.) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Francisco ComesanaComesana – Alejo VilaroVilaro (7-66 6-4) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Michel VernierVernier – Gaston-Arturo GrimolizziGrimolizzi (6-73 7-64 6-2) – Stats, scores, rankings
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- Varvara GrachevaGracheva – Anna-Lena FriedsamFriedsam (0-1) – H2H and prediction
- Andrea GamizGamiz – Sara ErraniErrani (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Dalma GalfiGalfi – Kamilla RakhimovaRakhimova (1-0) – H2H and prediction
- Viktoriya TomovaTomova – Anastasia PavlyuchenkovaPavlyuchenkova (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Rebeka MasarovaMasarova – Clara TausonTauson (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Maria SakkariSakkari – Nuria Parrizas-DiazParrizas-Diaz (2-1) – H2H and prediction
- Madison BrengleBrengle – Julia GrabherGrabher (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Tamara KorpatschKorpatsch – Donna VekicVekic (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Irina-Camelia BeguBegu – Katerina SiniakovaSiniakova (1-3) – H2H and prediction
- Camila GiorgiGiorgi – Jaqueline CristianCristian (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Anastasia PotapovaPotapova – Lucia BronzettiBronzetti (1-0) – H2H and prediction
- Jule NiemeierNiemeier – Sofia KeninKenin (1-0) – H2H and prediction
- Alycia ParksParks – Anhelina KalininaKalinina (0-1) – H2H and prediction
- Bernarda PeraPera – Patricia Maria TigMaria Tig (1-0) – H2H and prediction
- Danka KovinicKovinic – Eva LysLys (1-0) – H2H and prediction
