Karolina Pliskova and Donna Vekic will face off in the 2nd round of the Porsche Tennis Grand Prix for the 9th time in their career. They are scheduled to play on Thursday at 12:00 pm on Centre Court. Here the head to head stats and relative prediction.
Prediction, odds and live streaming
The pick for Tennis Tonic is Karolina Pliskova who should win in 3 sets.
As per the initial odds, Karolina Pliskova is the pick to win this match.
Karolina Pliskova -> 1.68
Donna Vekic -> 2.19
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Prediction and head to head Karolina Pliskova vs. Donna Vekic
This will be the 9th time that Karolina Pliskova and Donna Vekic clash against each other. The head to head is 6-2 for Pliskova (see full H2H stats), 1-0 on clay.
The last time that they locked horns, Vekic won 6-3 6-2 in the 2nd round in San Diego back in 2022.
Karolina Pliskova
| Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 17-12 | 7-6 | 1-3 | 5-0 | 4-3 | 0-0 |
| 2023 | 22-19 | 19-13 | 2-3 | 0-0 | 1-3 | 0-0 |
| 2022 | 21-21 | 12-9 | 6-6 | 0-3 | 3-3 | 0-0 |
| 2021 | 37-19 | 23-12 | 8-4 | 0-0 | 6-3 | 0-0 |
| 2020 | 14-8 | 9-5 | 5-2 | 0-1 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
Ranked no. 17, the Czech reached the 2nd round after beating Maria Sakkari 6-2 6-3.
In the 1st round, The Czech had a good straight sets win against Sakkari (6-2 6-3). During the match, Pliskova scored 62 points vs Sakkari’s 44. Karolina was extremely aggressive to blast 22 winners.
Regarding the service games, Pliskova managed to score 7 aces and she committed only 3 double faults. Karolina Pliskova was quite effective on serve to win 79% (22/28) of her 1st serve and 72% (13/18) on the second serve. This was the main reason for not conceding a single break during the match. Karolina broke Sakkari 4 times after converting 40% of her break points (4/10).
Pliskova has a solid match record in the last 10 years having won 67% of her matches (394-191). 1-0 on clay in 2023. Talking about her performance on the same surface of this event, Pliskova has a compiled 73-37 win-loss record in the last years on clay.
The Czech has an overall 17-7 win-loss record in 2023, 1-0 on clay (See FULL STATS).
Previously in Stuttgart
Donna Vekic
| Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 18-14 | 7-6 | 3-4 | 2-1 | 6-3 | 0-0 |
| 2023 | 29-20 | 16-9 | 4-5 | 2-3 | 7-3 | 0-0 |
| 2022 | 28-20 | 10-9 | 9-6 | 2-1 | 7-4 | 0-0 |
| 2021 | 19-16 | 10-12 | 0-1 | 5-0 | 4-3 | 0-0 |
| 2020 | 8-11 | 6-6 | 1-3 | 1-2 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
Ranked no. 23, Donna reached the 2nd round after beating Ekaterina Alexandrova 7-67 7-65.
In the 1st round, The Croatian had a good straight sets win against Alexandrova (7-67 7-65). During the match Vekic and Alexandrova scored the same amount of points (92). However, the world no. 17 was stronger during the important points and that was the most significant difference in the match. Donna was pretty aggressive to blast 40 winners.
Talking about serving, Vekic managed to score 10 aces and she committed only 6 double faults. Donna Vekic lost the serve twice and she saved 5 break points. Furthermore, Vekic put 60% of her first serves in, winning 73% (40/55) of the points behind her 1st serve and 44% (16/36) on the 2nd serve. The Croatian broke Alexandrova twice after converting 29% of her break points (2/7).
Her best result of the year was conquering the title in Monterrey where she overcame Caroline Garcia in the final 6-4 3-6 7-5.
Vekic has a compiled 16-4 win-loss record in 2023, 1-0 on clay (See FULL STATS).
Previously in Stuttgart
Previously, her best result was reaching the quarter in 2019. See her history.
H2H Performance in the tournament
Matches, sets, games and points
| Points | Pliskova | Vekic |
|---|---|---|
| Match played | 1 | 1 |
| Tot Set | 2 | 2 |
| Tot Games | 17 | 26 |
| Pts | 62-44 | 92-92 |
| Total Points | 106 | 184 |
| Winners | 22 | 40 |
| %Winners | 35% | 43% |
Both Pliskova and Vekic played 1 match. Both players have not dropped a single set in this event so far. Talking about their workload, Pliskova and Vekic have played the same amount of sets 2. However, Pliskova played 9 games less than Vekic. Karolina scored 22 winners (35% of the total points). On the other side, Donna made 40 winners (43%).
Serve Performance
| Serve | Pliskova | Vekic |
|---|---|---|
| Aces | 7 | 10 |
| Avg per match | 7 | 10 |
| 1st in | 28/46 | 55/91 |
| %1st in | 61% | 60% |
| 1st pts | 22/28 | 40/55 |
| %1st pts | 79% | 73% |
| 2nd pts | 13/18 | 16/36 |
| %2nd pts | 72% | 44% |
Pliskova made 7 aces . Vekic scored 10 aces . Pliskova won 79% points on her first serve. She quite strong on her second serve to win 72% of the points. On the other side, Vekic won 73% of the points on her first serve. She had a solid display on her second serve to win 44% of the points.
How they played the important points
| Breaks | Pliskova | Vekic |
|---|---|---|
| Won | 4 | 2 |
| Converted | 4/10 | 2/7 |
| % Converted | 40% | 29% |
| Conceded | 1 | 7 |
| Saved | 1 | 5 |
| % Saved | 100% | 71% |
| Times Broken | 0 | 2 |
Karolina broke her opponent 4 times with a 40% conversion rate. Karolina was rock solid on her serve as she has never conceded a single service game after saving 1 break points. Vekic broke her opponent twice with a 29% conversion rate. The Croatian conceded her serve twice and she saved 71% of the break points that she conceded.
| Pliskova | |||
| R1 Sakkari |
Total | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Score | 6-2 6-3 | ||
| Tot Set | 2 | 2 | |
| Tot Games | 17 | 17 | |
| pts | 62-44 | 62-44 | |
| Total points | 106 | 106 | |
| Winners | 22 | 22 | |
| %Winners | 35% | 35% | |
| SERVE | |||
| Aces | 7 | 7 | |
| Double Faults | 3 | 3 | |
| 1st in | 28/46 | 28/46 | |
| % 1st in | 61% | 61% | |
| 1st pts | 22/28 | 22/28 | |
| % 1st pts | 79% | 79% | |
| 2nd pts | 13/18 | 13/18 | |
| % 2nd pts | 72% | 72% | |
| Breaks | |||
| Won | 4 | 4 | |
| Converted | 4/10 | 4/10 | |
| Converted % | 40% | 40% | |
| Conceded | 1 | 1 | |
| Saved | 1/1 | 1 | |
| Saved % | 100% | 100% | |
| Times Broken | 0 | 0 | |
| Vekic | |||
| R1 Alexandrova |
Total | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Score | 7-67 7-65 | ||
| Tot Set | 2 | 2 | |
| Tot Games | 26 | 26 | |
| pts | 92-92 | 92-92 | |
| Total points | 184 | 184 | |
| Winners | 40 | 40 | |
| %Winners | 43% | 43% | |
| SERVE | |||
| Aces | 10 | 10 | |
| Double Faults | 6 | 6 | |
| 1st in | 55/91 | 55/91 | |
| % 1st in | 60% | 60% | |
| 1st pts | 40/55 | 40/55 | |
| % 1st pts | 73% | 73% | |
| 2nd pts | 16/36 | 16/36 | |
| % 2nd pts | 44% | 44% | |
| Breaks | |||
| Won | 2 | 2 | |
| Converted | 2/7 | 2/7 | |
| Converted % | 29% | 29% | |
| Conceded | 7 | 7 | |
| Saved | 5/7 | 5 | |
| Saved % | 71% | 71% | |
| Times Broken | 2 | 2 | |
Head 2 Head
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