Francesca Curmi and Tessah Andrianjafitrimo will square off in the qualifications of the Palermo Ladies Open for the 1^st time in their career. They are scheduled to compete on Sunday at 4:00 pm on Court 6. In the following lines you can find the head to head analysis and prediction.

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The pick for Tennis Tonic is Francesca Curmi who should win in 3 sets.

As per the initial odds, Francesca Curmi is the pick to win this match.
Francesca Curmi -> 1.68
Tessah Andrianjafitrimo -> 2.09

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Prediction and head to head Francesca Curmi vs. Tessah Andrianjafitrimo

There is no head to head record between Francesca Curmi and Tessah Andrianjafitrimo since this will be the first time that they will square off in the main tour.

Francesca Curmi

Ranked no. 341, Francesca reached the qualifications after beating Giada Di Paola 6-0 6-0.

In the qualifications, Curmi had a good straight sets win against Di Paola (6-0 6-0). During the match, Curmi scored 52 points vs Di Paola’s 17. Francesca was quite aggressive to blast 21 winners.

Talking about the service games, Curmi couldn’t to score even 1 ace during the match and she committed only 1 double fault. Francesca Curmi was extremely effective on serve to win 72% (21/29) of her 1st serve and 75% (6/8) on the second serve. This was the main reason for not conceding a single break during the match. The Maltese broke Di Paola 6 times after converting 67% of her break points (6/9).

Curmi has a solid win-loss record in the last 6 years having won 67% of her matches (116-57). 12-8 on clay in 2023. Talking about her performance on the same surface of this tournament, Curmi has an aggregate47-25 record in the last 6 years on clay.

Her best result of the season was winning the title the W25+H Tossa de Mar where she beat Georgina Garcia-Perez in the final 6-2 7-6(2).

The Maltese has a compiled 22-12 win-loss record in 2023, 12-8 on clay (See FULL STATS).

Previously in Palermo

The Maltese has never competed in this tournament before.

Tessah Andrianjafitrimo

Ranked no. 428, Tessah reached the qualifications after defeating Katarina Zavatska 6-4 6-1.

In the qualifications, Andrianjafitrimo had a good straight sets win against Zavatska (6-4 6-1). During the match Andrianjafitrimo scored 70 points vs Zavatska’s 50. Tessah was exceptionally aggressive to blast 32 winners.

Talking about serving, Andrianjafitrimo couldn’t to score even 1 ace for the entire match and she committed only 8 double faults. Tessah Andrianjafitrimo lost the serve 4 times and she saved 4 break points. Furthermore, Andrianjafitrimo put 72% of her first serves in, winning 58% (32/55) of the points behind her 1st serve and 33% (7/21) on the 2nd serve. Tessah broke Zavatska 7 times after converting 58% of her break points (7/12).

Tessah has a composed 18-16 win-loss record in 2023, 14-10 on clay (See FULL STATS)

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H2H Performance in the tournament

Matches, sets, games and points

Points	Curmi	Andrianjafitrimo
Match played	1	1
Tot Set	2	2
Tot Games	12	17
Pts	52-17	70-50
Total Points	69	120
Winners	21	32
%Winners	40%	46%

Both Curmi and Andrianjafitrimo played 1 match. Also both players started their run from the qualifications.Both players have not conceded a single set in this event so far. Talking about their workload, Curmi and Andrianjafitrimo have played the same amount of sets 2. However, Curmi played 5 games less than Andrianjafitrimo. Curmi scored 21 winners (40% of the total points). On the other side, Tessah made 32 winners (46%).

Serve Performance

Serve	Curmi	Andrianjafitrimo
Aces	0	0
Avg per match	0	0
1st in	29/37	55/76
%1st in	78%	72%
1st pts	21/29	32/55
%1st pts	72%	58%
2nd pts	6/8	7/21
%2nd pts	75%	33%

Curmi didn’t manage to fire a single ace to far. Andrianjafitrimo also didn’t manage to fire a single ace to far. Curmi won 72% points behind her first serve. She very solid her second serve to win 75% of the points. On the other side, Andrianjafitrimo won 58% of the points behind her first serve. She had a solid display on her second serve to win 33% of the points.

How they played the important points

Breaks	Curmi	Andrianjafitrimo
Won	6	7
Converted	6/9	7/12
% Converted	67%	58%
Conceded	1	8
Saved	1	4
% Saved	100%	50%
Times Broken	0	4

Curmi broke her opponent 6 times with a 67% conversion rate. The Maltese very solid her serve as she has never conceded a single service game after saving 1 break points. Andrianjafitrimo broke her opponent 7 times with a 58% conversion rate. Andrianjafitrimo conceded her serve 4 times and she saved 50% of the break points that she conceded.

Curmi
	Q1 Di	Total
Score	6-0 6-0
Tot Set	2	2
Tot Games	12	12
pts	52-17	52-17
Total points	69	69
Winners	21	21
%Winners	40%	40%
SERVE
Aces	0	0
Double Faults	1	1
1st in	29/37	29/37
% 1st in	78%	78%
1st pts	21/29	21/29
% 1st pts	72%	72%
2nd pts	6/8	6/8
% 2nd pts	75%	75%
Breaks
Won	6	6
Converted	6/9	6/9
Converted %	67%	67%
Conceded	1	1
Saved	1/1	1
Saved %	100%	100%
Times Broken	0	0

Andrianjafitrimo
	Q1 Zavatska	Total
Score	6-4 6-1
Tot Set	2	2
Tot Games	17	17
pts	70-50	70-50
Total points	120	120
Winners	32	32
%Winners	46%	46%
SERVE
Aces	0	0
Double Faults	8	8
1st in	55/76	55/76
% 1st in	72%	72%
1st pts	32/55	32/55
% 1st pts	58%	58%
2nd pts	7/21	7/21
% 2nd pts	33%	33%
Breaks
Won	7	7
Converted	7/12	7/12
Converted %	58%	58%
Conceded	8	8
Saved	4/8	4
Saved %	50%	50%
Times Broken	4	4

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