Victoria Azarenka and Sloane Stephens will face off in the 2nd round of the Internazionali BNL d’Italia for the 9th time in their career. They are scheduled to compete on Thursday at 11:00 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 Victoria Azarenka who should win in 3 sets.
As per the initial odds, Victoria Azarenka is the pick to win this match.
Victoria Azarenka -> 1.71
Sloane Stephens -> 2.14
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Prediction and head to head Victoria Azarenka vs. Sloane Stephens
This will be the 9th time that Victoria Azarenka and Sloane Stephens face off. The head to head is 4-4 for Azarenka and Stephens (see full H2H stats),but they are 1-1 on clay.
The last time that they competed against each other, Azarenka won 3-6 6-3 6-2 in the 2nd round in Charleston back in April 2023.
Highlights Victoria Azarenka vs Sloane Stephens – Charleston 04-April-2023
Victoria Azarenka
| Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 11-12 | 6-7 | 2-3 | 0-0 | 3-2 | 0-0 |
| 2024 | 30-15 | 20-10 | 7-4 | 0-0 | 3-1 | 0-0 |
| 2023 | 23-19 | 17-13 | 2-3 | 0-0 | 4-3 | 0-0 |
| 2022 | 24-13 | 18-9 | 6-3 | 0-1 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2021 | 28-9 | 18-6 | 4-1 | 0-0 | 6-2 | 0-0 |
Ranked no. 17, Victoria will start her run in Rome after she played her last match in Madrid where she lost 6-2 7-6(5) to Parks in the 2nd round on the 28th of April.
Victoria has an overall 12-9 win-loss record in 2023, 1-2 on clay (See FULL STATS).
The Belarussian’s best result of the year was reaching the semifinal at the Australian Open .
Talking about her overall career, Azarenka has an overall 608-234 record. She has a positive 130-59 record on clay.
Previously in Rome
Previously, her best result was reaching the final in 2013. See her history.
Sloane Stephens
| Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 0-6 | 0-6 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2024 | 19-22 | 8-13 | 9-6 | 0-0 | 2-3 | 0-0 |
| 2023 | 25-20 | 11-14 | 13-5 | 0-0 | 1-1 | 0-0 |
| 2022 | 18-17 | 13-9 | 5-6 | 0-0 | 0-2 | 0-0 |
| 2021 | 20-19 | 6-11 | 11-6 | 1-1 | 2-1 | 0-0 |
Ranked no. 36, Sloane reached the 2nd round after beating Nadia Podoroska 6-4 6-1.
In the 1st round, The American had a good straight sets win against Podoroska (6-4 6-1). During the match Stephens scored 57 points vs Podoroska’s 36. The American was pretty aggressive to blast 25 winners.
Talking about serving, Stephens wasn’t able to score even 1 ace for the entire match and she committed only 1 double fault for the entire match. Sloane Stephens lost the serve once and she saved 1 break points. Furthermore, Stephens put 67% of her first serves in, winning 96% (25/26) of the points behind her 1st serve and 38% (5/13) on the 2nd serve. Sloane broke Podoroska 5 times after converting 50% of her break points (5/10).
Her best result of the season was winning the title the Malo where she beat Greetje Minnen in the final 6-3 6-4.
Stephens has a composed 11-9 win-loss record in 2023, 7-2 on clay (See FULL STATS).
Previously in Rome
Previously, her best result was reaching the 3rd round in 2013 and 2018. See her history.
Head 2 Head
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- Riccardo BalzeraniBalzerani – Andres Gabriel CiurlettiGabriel Ciurletti (6-4 6-4) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Roberto MarcoraMarcora – Wilson LeiteLeite (6-3 6-0) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Federico MaccariMaccari – Marco BortolottiBortolotti (7-62 6-1) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Adelchi VirgiliVirgili – Omar GiacaloneGiacalone (6-4 6-2) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Tobias SimonSimon – Luca GiacominiGiacomini (6-4 7-65) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Tomislav BrkicBrkic – Paul WoernerWoerner (6-0 6-1) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Jacopo StefaniniStefanini – Kirill KivattsevKivattsev (6-4 6-1) – Stats, scores, rankings
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