Veronika Kudermetova and Sofia Kenin will play each other in the 2nd round of the Qatar TotalEnergies Open for the 2nd time in their career. They are scheduled to play on Wednesday at 3:30 pm on Grandstand 2. Here the head to head stats and relative prediction.
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The pick for Tennis Tonic is Veronika Kudermetova who should win in 2 sets.
Veronika Kudermetova -> 1.45
Sofia Kenin -> 2.76
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Prediction and head to head Veronika Kudermetova vs. Sofia Kenin
This will be the 2nd time that Veronika Kudermetova and Sofia Kenin fight against each other. The head to head is 1-0 for Kenin (see full H2H stats), 1-0 on hard.
The last time that they played, Kenin won 6-3 3-6 7-5 in the 1st round in Melbourne back in 2019.
Veronika Kudermetova
| Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 35-25 | 22-16 | 9-5 | 0-0 | 4-4 | 0-0 |
| 2024 | 18-25 | 10-16 | 3-5 | 0-0 | 5-4 | 0-0 |
| 2023 | 34-22 | 18-14 | 8-5 | 1-1 | 7-2 | 0-0 |
| 2022 | 39-20 | 27-13 | 7-4 | 0-1 | 5-2 | 0-0 |
| 2021 | 33-24 | 15-13 | 14-4 | 3-4 | 1-3 | 0-0 |
Ranked no. 11, Veronika got to the 2nd round after defeating Barbora Krejcikova 6-4 3-6 7-65.
In the 1st round, Veronika defeated Krejcikova (6-4 3-6 7-65). During the match, Kudermetova scored 113 points vs Krejcikova’s 111. Kudermetova was extremely aggressive to blast 56 winners.
Talking about the service games, Kudermetova struck 7 aces and she committed only 3 double faults. Veronika Kudermetova lost the serve twice and she saved 8 break points. Furthermore, Kudermetova put 64% of her first serves in, winning 74% (56/76) of the points behind her 1st serve and 45% (19/42) on the 2nd serve. The Russian broke Krejcikova twice after converting 18% of her break points (2/11).
Kudermetova has a solid match record in the last 10 years having won 61% of her matches (302-195). 7-3 on hard in 2023. In connection with her performance on the same surface of this tournament, Kudermetova has an overall 149-96 win-loss record in the last years on hard.
The Russian’s best result of the year was getting to the semifinal in Adelaide.
Veronika has an aggregate 7-3 win-loss record in 2023, 7-3 on hard (See FULL STATS).
Previously in Doha
Sofia Kenin
| Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 31-26 | 19-18 | 9-5 | 0-0 | 3-3 | 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. 210, the American got to the 2nd round after defeating Liudmila Samsonova 6-3 6-1.
In the 1st round, The American had a good straight sets win against Samsonova (6-3 6-1). During the match Kenin scored 74 points vs Samsonova’s 52. Sofia was exceptionally aggressive to blast 33 winners.
About the serving games, Kenin scored just 1 ace during the entire match and she was exceptionally consistent in conceding no double faults for the entire match. Sofia Kenin lost the serve twice and she saved 13 break points. Furthermore, Kenin put 80% of her first serves in, winning 55% (33/60) of the points behind her 1st serve and 67% (10/15) on the 2nd serve. Kenin broke Samsonova 6 times after converting 67% of her break points (6/9).
Kenin’s best result of the current season was getting to the semifinal in Hobart.
Kenin has a compiled 5-4 win-loss record in 2023, 5-3 on hard (See FULL STATS).
Previously in Doha
Previously, her best result was reaching the 2nd round in 2020. See her history.
H2H Performance in the tournament
Matches, sets, games and points
| Points | Kudermetova | Kenin |
|---|---|---|
| Match played | 1 | 1 |
| Tot Set | 3 | 2 |
| Tot Games | 32 | 16 |
| Pts | 113-111 | 74-52 |
| Total Points | 224 | 126 |
| Winners | 56 | 33 |
| %Winners | 50% | 45% |
Both Kudermetova and Kenin played 1 match. At the moment, Veronika Kudermetova conceded 1 set while Sofia Kenin hasn’t surrendered a set so far. Kudermetova has played 1 set more than Kenin (3 vs 2). Therefore, Kudermetova played 16 games more than Kenin. The Russian scored 56 winners (50% of the total points). On the other side, Kenin recorded 33 winners (45%).
Serve Performance
| Serve | Kudermetova | Kenin |
|---|---|---|
| Aces | 7 | 1 |
| Avg per match | 7 | 1 |
| 1st in | 76/118 | 60/75 |
| %1st in | 64% | 80% |
| 1st pts | 56/76 | 33/60 |
| %1st pts | 74% | 55% |
| 2nd pts | 19/42 | 10/15 |
| %2nd pts | 45% | 67% |
Kudermetova recorded 7 aces . Kenin struck 1 ace . Kudermetova won 74% points behind her first serve. She extremely effective on her second serve to win 45% of the points. On the other side, Kenin won 55% 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 | Kudermetova | Kenin |
|---|---|---|
| Won | 2 | 6 |
| Converted | 2/11 | 6/9 |
| % Converted | 18% | 67% |
| Conceded | 10 | 15 |
| Saved | 8 | 13 |
| % Saved | 80% | 87% |
| Times Broken | 2 | 2 |
Kudermetova broke her opponent twice with a 18% conversion rate. Veronika conceded her serve twice and she saved 80% of the break points that she conceded. Kenin broke her opponent 6 times with a 67% conversion rate. Kenin conceded her serve twice and she saved 87% of the break points that she conceded.
| Kudermetova | |||
| R1 Krejcikova | Total | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Score | 6-4 3-6 7-65 | ||
| Tot Set | 3 | 3 | |
| Tot Games | 32 | 32 | |
| pts | 113-111 | 113-111 | |
| Total points | 224 | 224 | |
| Winners | 56 | 56 | |
| %Winners | 50% | 50% | |
| SERVE | |||
| Aces | 7 | 7 | |
| Double Faults | 3 | 3 | |
| 1st in | 76/118 | 76/118 | |
| % 1st in | 64% | 64% | |
| 1st pts | 56/76 | 56/76 | |
| % 1st pts | 74% | 74% | |
| 2nd pts | 19/42 | 19/42 | |
| % 2nd pts | 45% | 45% | |
| Breaks | |||
| Won | 2 | 2 | |
| Converted | 2/11 | 2/11 | |
| Converted % | 18% | 18% | |
| Conceded | 10 | 10 | |
| Saved | 8/10 | 8 | |
| Saved % | 80% | 80% | |
| Times Broken | 2 | 2 | |
| Kenin | |||
| R1 Samsonova | Total | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Score | 6-3 6-1 | ||
| Tot Set | 2 | 2 | |
| Tot Games | 16 | 16 | |
| pts | 74-52 | 74-52 | |
| Total points | 126 | 126 | |
| Winners | 33 | 33 | |
| %Winners | 45% | 45% | |
| SERVE | |||
| Aces | 1 | 1 | |
| Double Faults | 0 | 0 | |
| 1st in | 60/75 | 60/75 | |
| % 1st in | 80% | 80% | |
| 1st pts | 33/60 | 33/60 | |
| % 1st pts | 55% | 55% | |
| 2nd pts | 10/15 | 10/15 | |
| % 2nd pts | 67% | 67% | |
| Breaks | |||
| Won | 6 | 6 | |
| Converted | 6/9 | 6/9 | |
| Converted % | 67% | 67% | |
| Conceded | 15 | 15 | |
| Saved | 13/15 | 13 | |
| Saved % | 87% | 87% | |
| Times Broken | 2 | 2 | |
Tennis Scores in Doha
- Louis WesselsWessels – Mateusz TerczynskiTerczynski (6-2 6-4) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Jonas MerckxMerckx – Manuel GuinardGuinard (6-4 6-0) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Valentin GuentherGuenther – Matteo MartineauMartineau (6-4 3-6 7-66) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Julien DubailDubail – Sidane PontjodikromoPontjodikromo (6-4 7-5) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Jeroen VannesteVanneste – Romain BarbosaBarbosa (6-3 3-6 7-5) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Rio NoguchiNoguchi – Yannick VandenbulckeVandenbulcke (6-4 6-4) – Stats, scores, rankings
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- Cori GauffGauff – Petra KvitovaKvitova (0-0) – H2H and prediction
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