Veronika Kudermetova and Karolina Pliskova will clash against each other in the 3^rd round of the BNP Paribas Open for the 4^th time in their career. They are scheduled to play on Sunday at 1:30 pm on STADIUM 4. In this post, we analyze their head to head performance and prediction.

Prediction, odds and live streaming

The pick for Tennis Tonic is Veronika Kudermetova who should win in 3 sets.

As per the initial odds, Veronika Kudermetova is the pick to win this match.
Veronika Kudermetova -> 1.75
Karolina Pliskova -> 2.08

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Prediction and head to head Veronika Kudermetova vs. Karolina Pliskova

This will be the 4^th time that Veronika Kudermetova and Karolina Pliskova clash against each other. The head to head is 2-1 for Kudermetova (see full H2H stats), 1-0 on hard.

The last time that they played each other, Kudermetova won 4-6 6-4 6-3 in the 2^nd round in Ostrava back in 2020.

Highlights Veronika Kudermetova vs Karolina Pliskova – Ostrava 22-October-2020

Veronika Kudermetova

Ranked no. 11, Kudermetova got to the 3^rd round after beating Anna Blinkova 6-3 6-4.

In the 2^nd round, Veronika had a good straight sets win against Blinkova (6-3 6-4). During the match, Kudermetova scored 60 points vs Blinkova’s 50. Kudermetova was quite aggressive to blast 31 winners.

Talking about the service games, Kudermetova blasted 7 aces and she committed only 2 double faults. Veronika Kudermetova conceded no breaks for the entire match to save 4 break points. Furthermore, Kudermetova put 61% of her first serves in, winning 82% (31/38) of the points behind her 1st serve and 50% (12/24) on the 2nd serve. Veronika broke Blinkova twice after converting 67% of her break points (2/3).

Kudermetova has a solid win-loss record in the last 10 years having won 61% of her matches (305-197). 10-5 on hard in 2023. Regarding her performance on the same surface of this tournament, Kudermetova has an overall 152-98 match record in the last years on hard.

Veronika’s best result of the current year was getting to the semifinal in Adelaide and Doha.

Veronika has an overall 10-5 win-loss record in 2023, 10-5 on hard (See FULL STATS).

Previously in Indian Wells

Karolina Pliskova

Ranked no. 17, the Czech reached the 3^rd round after defeating Anna Kalinskaya 2-6 6-0 6-4.

In the 2^nd round against Kalinskaya, The Czech recovered from a 1-set down deficit before winning (2-6 6-0 6-4). During the match Pliskova scored 87 points vs Kalinskaya’s 74. The Czech was quite aggressive to blast 38 winners.

About the serving games, Pliskova blasted 9 aces and she committed only 5 double faults. Karolina Pliskova lost the serve 5 times and she saved 10 break points. Furthermore, Pliskova put 62% of her first serves in, winning 68% (38/56) of the points behind her 1st serve and 32% (11/34) on the 2nd serve. Pliskova broke Kalinskaya 7 times after converting 88% of her break points (7/8).

Karolina has an aggregate 14-5 win-loss record in 2023, 14-5 on hard (See FULL STATS).

Previously in Indian Wells

Previously, her best result was reaching the semifinal in 2016 and 2017. See her history.

H2H Performance in the tournament (main draw)

Matches, sets, games and points

Points	Kudermetova	Pliskova
Match played	1	1
Tot Set	2	3
Tot Games	19	24
Pts	60-50	87-74
Total Points	110	161
Winners	31	38
%Winners	52%	44%

Both Kudermetova and Pliskova played 1 match. At the moment, Karolina Pliskova conceded 1 set while Veronika Kudermetova hasn’t conceded a set so far. Kudermetova has played 1 set(s) less than Pliskova (2 vs 3). Therefore, Kudermetova played 5 games less than Pliskova. Veronika scored 31 winners (52% of the total points). On the other side, Karolina fired 38 winners (44%).

Serve Performance

Serve	Kudermetova	Pliskova
Aces	7	9
Avg per match	7	9
1st in	38/62	56/90
%1st in	61%	62%
1st pts	31/38	38/56
%1st pts	82%	68%
2nd pts	12/24	11/34
%2nd pts	50%	32%

Kudermetova blasted 7 aces . Pliskova scored 9 aces . Kudermetova won 82% points on her first serve. She pretty effective on her second serve to win 50% of the points. On the other side, Pliskova won 68% of the points on her first serve. She had a solid display on her second serve to win 32% of the points.

How they played the important points

Breaks	Kudermetova	Pliskova
Won	2	7
Converted	2/3	7/8
% Converted	67%	88%
Conceded	4	15
Saved	4	10
% Saved	100%	67%
Times Broken	0	5

The Russian broke her opponent twice with a 67% conversion rate. The Russian pretty solid on her serve as she has never conceded a single service game after saving 4 break points. Karolina broke her opponent 7 times with a 88% conversion rate. Pliskova conceded her serve 5 times and she saved 67% of the break points that she conceded.

Kudermetova
	R2 Blinkova	Total
Score	6-3 6-4
Tot Set	2	2
Tot Games	19	19
pts	60-50	60-50
Total points	110	110
Winners	31	31
%Winners	52%	52%
SERVE
Aces	7	7
Double Faults	2	2
1st in	38/62	38/62
% 1st in	61%	61%
1st pts	31/38	31/38
% 1st pts	82%	82%
2nd pts	12/24	12/24
% 2nd pts	50%	50%
Breaks
Won	2	2
Converted	2/3	2/3
Converted %	67%	67%
Conceded	4	4
Saved	4/4	4
Saved %	100%	100%
Times Broken	0	0

Pliskova
	R2 Kalinskaya	Total
Score	2-6 6-0 6-4
Tot Set	3	3
Tot Games	24	24
pts	87-74	87-74
Total points	161	161
Winners	38	38
%Winners	44%	44%
SERVE
Aces	9	9
Double Faults	5	5
1st in	56/90	56/90
% 1st in	62%	62%
1st pts	38/56	38/56
% 1st pts	68%	68%
2nd pts	11/34	11/34
% 2nd pts	32%	32%
Breaks
Won	7	7
Converted	7/8	7/8
Converted %	88%	88%
Conceded	15	15
Saved	10/15	10
Saved %	67%	67%
Times Broken	5	5

Tennis Scores in Indian Wells

• Varvara GrachevaGracheva – Petra MarticMartic (6-3 6-2) – See score progression
• Daria KasatkinaKasatkina – Tatjana MariaMaria (6-2 6-1) – See score progression
• Beatriz Haddad MaiaHaddad Maia – Katerina SiniakovaSiniakova (5-7 7-6⁴ 6-3) – See score progression
• Bianca Vanessa AndreescuVanessa Andreescu – Peyton StearnsStearns (4-6 6-4 6-3) – See score progression
• Marketa VondrousovaVondrousova – Marie BouzkovaBouzkova (6-1 6-1) – See score progression
• Karolina MuchovaMuchova – Victoria AzarenkaAzarenka (7-6¹ 6-3) – See score progression
• Bernarda PeraPera – Liudmila SamsonovaSamsonova (2-6 7-6⁸ 7-6⁶) – See score progression
• Emma RaducanuRaducanu – Magda LinetteLinette (7-6³ 6-2) – See score progression
• Elena RybakinaRybakina – Sofia KeninKenin (7-6⁶ 7-6⁵) – See score progression
• Martina TrevisanTrevisan – Madison BrengleBrengle (5-7 6-1 6-2) – See score progression
• Iga SwiatekSwiatek – Claire LiuLiu (6-0 6-1) – See score progression
• Leylah Annie FernandezAnnie Fernandez – Emma NavarroNavarro (6-2 6-4) – See score progression
• Ons JabeurJabeur – Magdalena FrechFrech (4-6 6-4 6-1) – See score progression
• Caroline GarciaGarcia – Dalma GalfiGalfi (6-1 6-7⁴ 6-4) – See score progression
• Jil TeichmannTeichmann – Belinda BencicBencic (3-6 6-3 6-3) – See score progression
• Lesya TsurenkoTsurenko – Donna VekicVekic (2-6 6-2 6-2) – See score progression
• Anhelina KalininaKalinina – Linda FruhvirtovaFruhvirtova (4-6 6-4 7-5) – See score progression
• Rebecca PetersonPeterson – Shuai ZhangZhang (3-0 ret.) – See score progression
• Karolina PliskovaPliskova – Anna KalinskayaKalinskaya (2-6 6-0 6-4) – See score progression
• Aryna SabalenkaSabalenka – Evgeniya RodinaRodina (6-2 6-0) – See score progression
• Anastasia PotapovaPotapova – Xiyu WangWang (4-6 7-6⁴ 6-2) – See score progression
• Cori GauffGauff – Cristina BucsaBucsa (6-2 6-4) – See score progression
• Xinyu WangWang – Ekaterina AlexandrovaAlexandrova (6-2 6-3) – See score progression
• Barbora KrejcikovaKrejcikova – Dayana YastremskaYastremska (6-1 6-2) – See score progression
• Jelena OstapenkoOstapenko – Aliaksandra SasnovichSasnovich (7-5 3-6 6-2) – See score progression
• Veronika KudermetovaKudermetova – Anna BlinkovaBlinkova (6-3 6-4) – See score progression
• Petra KvitovaKvitova – Elizabeth MandlikMandlik (6-1 7-5) – See score progression
• Linda NoskovaNoskova – Amanda AnisimovaAnisimova (7-6⁶ 6-3) – See score progression
• Maria SakkariSakkari – Shelby RogersRogers (2-6 6-4 6-0) – See score progression
• Jessica PegulaPegula – Camila GiorgiGiorgi (3-6 6-1 6-2) – See score progression
• Andres Artunedo MartinavarrArtunedo Martinavarr – Joao MonteiroMonteiro (3-6 6-3 6-4) – See score progression
• Evan FurnessFurness – Bernardo SaraivaSaraiva (6-2 7-5) – See score progression
• Frederico GilGil – Marcus WillisWillis (6-1 7-6⁶) – See score progression
• Pablo Vivero GonzalezVivero Gonzalez – Michael ZhuZhu (6-4 6-1) – See score progression
• David Perez SanzPerez Sanz – Lloyd HarrisHarris (6-2 5-4 ret.) – See score progression
• Iga SwiatekSwiatek – Claire LiuLiu (6-0 6-1) – See score progression
• Bianca Vanessa AndreescuVanessa Andreescu – Peyton StearnsStearns (4-6 6-4 6-3) – See score progression
• Emma RaducanuRaducanu – Magda LinetteLinette (7-6(3) 6-2) – See score progression
• Beatriz Haddad MaiaHaddad Maia – Katerina SiniakovaSiniakova (5-7 7-6(4) 6-3) – See score progression
• Bernarda PeraPera – Liudmila SamsonovaSamsonova (2-6 7-6(8) 7-6(6)) – See score progression
• Sorana CirsteaCirstea – Madison KeysKeys (6-1 ret.) – See score progression
• Leylah Annie FernandezAnnie Fernandez – Emma NavarroNavarro (6-2 6-4) – See score progression
• Caroline GarciaGarcia – Dalma GalfiGalfi (6-1 6-7(4) 6-4) – See score progression
• Ons JabeurJabeur – Magdalena FrechFrech (4-6 6-4 6-1) – See score progression
• Marketa VondrousovaVondrousova – Marie BouzkovaBouzkova (6-1 6-1) – See score progression
• Martina TrevisanTrevisan – Madison BrengleBrengle (5-7 6-1 6-2) – See score progression
• Karolina MuchovaMuchova – Victoria AzarenkaAzarenka (7-6(1) 6-3) – See score progression
• Elena RybakinaRybakina – Sofia KeninKenin (7-6(6) 7-6(5)) – See score progression
• Varvara GrachevaGracheva – Petra MarticMartic (6-3 6-2) – See score progression
• Daria KasatkinaKasatkina – Tatjana MariaMaria (6-2 6-1) – See score progression

Upcoming matches in the draw

• Nuria Parrizas-DiazParrizas-Diaz – Paula Badosa GibertBadosa Gibert (0-1) – H2H and prediction
• Iga SwiatekSwiatek – Bianca Vanessa AndreescuVanessa Andreescu (1-0) – H2H and prediction
• Emma RaducanuRaducanu – Beatriz Haddad MaiaHaddad Maia (0-0) – H2H and prediction
• Bernarda PeraPera – Sorana CirsteaCirstea (0-0) – H2H and prediction
• Leylah Annie FernandezAnnie Fernandez – Caroline GarciaGarcia (0-1) – H2H and prediction
• Ons JabeurJabeur – Marketa VondrousovaVondrousova (3-2) – H2H and prediction
• Martina TrevisanTrevisan – Karolina MuchovaMuchova (0-1) – H2H and prediction
• Varvara GrachevaGracheva – Darya KasatkinaKasatkina (1-1) – H2H and prediction
• Maria SakkariSakkari – Anhelina KalininaKalinina (0-1) – H2H and prediction
• Karolina PliskovaPliskova – Veronika KudermetovaKudermetova (1-2) – H2H and prediction
• Petra KvitovaKvitova – Jelena OstapenkoOstapenko (5-4) – H2H and prediction
• Anastasia PotapovaPotapova – Jessica PegulaPegula (0-2) – H2H and prediction
• Cori GauffGauff – (0-0) – H2H and prediction
• Rebecca PetersonPeterson – Jil TeichmannTeichmann (0-0) – H2H and prediction
• Barbora KrejcikovaKrejcikova – Xin Yu WangYu Wang (1-0) – H2H and prediction
• Lesya TsurenkoTsurenko – Aryna SabalenkaSabalenka (1-1) – H2H and prediction