Alize Cornet and Kaia Kanepi will face off in the 2nd round of the Livesport Prague Open for the 2nd time in their career. They are scheduled to play on Thursday at 11:00 am on Centre. Here the head to head stats and relative prediction.
Prediction, odds and live streaming
The pick for Tennis Tonic is Alize Cornet who should win in 3 sets.
As per the initial odds, Alize Cornet is the pick to win this match.
Alize Cornet -> 1.69
Kaia Kanepi -> 2.17
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Prediction and head to head Alize Cornet vs. Kaia Kanepi
This will be the 2nd time that Alize Cornet and Kaia Kanepi face off. The head to head is 1-0 for Kanepi (see full H2H stats), 1-0 on hard.
The last time that they played, Kanepi won 3-6 6-1 6-0 in the 1st round in at the U.S. Open back in 2010.
Alize Cornet
| Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 8-13 | 0-5 | 5-7 | 3-1 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2023 | 29-29 | 5-11 | 10-9 | 9-5 | 5-4 | 0-0 |
| 2022 | 27-25 | 16-15 | 4-4 | 1-3 | 6-3 | 0-0 |
| 2021 | 27-27 | 13-12 | 5-8 | 4-4 | 5-3 | 0-0 |
| 2020 | 15-9 | 9-5 | 2-2 | 4-2 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
Ranked no. 65, Cornet reached the 2nd round after defeating Lucie Havlickova 6-2 4-6 6-2.
In the 1st round, Alize defeated Havlickova (6-2 4-6 6-2). During the match, Cornet scored 89 points vs Havlickova’s 70. The French player was quite aggressive to blast 29 winners.
Regarding the service games, Cornet struck 2 aces and she committed only 7 double faults. Alize Cornet lost the serve 6 times and she saved 1 break points. Furthermore, Cornet put 69% of her first serves in, winning 56% (29/52) of the points behind her 1st serve and 43% (10/23) on the 2nd serve. Alize broke Havlickova 9 times after converting 82% of her break points (9/11).
Cornet has good match record in the last 10 years having won 53% of her matches (254-228). 2-5 on hard in 2023. Talking about her performance on the same surface of this tournament, Cornet has an overall 134-113 win-loss record in the last years on hard.
Cornet’s best result of the current year was getting to the semifinal in Nottingham.
Alize has an aggregate 15-18 win-loss record in 2023, 2-5 on hard (See FULL STATS).
Previously in Prague
Kaia Kanepi
| Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 0-3 | 0-1 | 0-2 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2023 | 17-22 | 6-10 | 11-9 | 0-2 | 0-1 | 0-0 |
| 2022 | 29-19 | 15-11 | 10-4 | 3-1 | 1-3 | 0-0 |
| 2021 | 23-14 | 16-8 | 6-4 | 1-1 | 0-1 | 0-0 |
| 2020 | 17-5 | 1-3 | 6-1 | 10-1 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
Ranked no. 92, the Estonian got to the 2nd round after beating Lucrezia Stefanini 6-2 6-3.
In the 1st round, Kanepi had a good straight sets win against Stefanini (6-2 6-3). During the match Kanepi scored 55 points vs Stefanini’s 37. Kanepi was quite aggressive to blast 20 winners.
About the serving games, Kanepi bagged 2 aces and she committed only 2 double faults. Kaia Kanepi lost the serve once. Furthermore, Kanepi put 54% of her first serves in, winning 95% (20/21) of the points behind her 1st serve and 50% (9/18) on the 2nd serve. The Estonian was clinical in her return game without wasting any break point and break Stefanini 5 times.
Her best result of the year was conquering the title the W60 Amstelveen where she beat Lola Radivojevic in the final 6-2 7-6(5).
Kanepi has a composed 15-17 win-loss record in 2023, 4-7 on hard (See FULL STATS).
Previously in Prague
Kanepi has never competed in this tournament before.
H2H Performance in the tournament
Matches, sets, games and points
| Points | Cornet | Kanepi |
|---|---|---|
| Match played | 1 | 1 |
| Tot Set | 3 | 2 |
| Tot Games | 26 | 17 |
| Pts | 89-70 | 55-37 |
| Total Points | 159 | 92 |
| Winners | 29 | 20 |
| %Winners | 33% | 36% |
Both Cornet and Kanepi played 1 match. At the moment, Alize Cornet surrendered 1 set while Kaia Kanepi hasn’t lost a set so far. Cornet has played 1 set more than Kanepi (3 vs 2). Therefore, Cornet played 9 games more than Kanepi. The French player scored 29 winners (33% of the total points). On the other side, Kanepi blasted 20 winners (36%).
Serve Performance
| Serve | Cornet | Kanepi |
|---|---|---|
| Aces | 2 | 2 |
| Avg per match | 2 | 2 |
| 1st in | 52/75 | 21/39 |
| %1st in | 69% | 54% |
| 1st pts | 29/52 | 20/21 |
| %1st pts | 56% | 95% |
| 2nd pts | 10/23 | 9/18 |
| %2nd pts | 43% | 50% |
Cornet struck 2 aces . Kanepi recorded 2 aces . Cornet won 56% points behind her first serve. She extremely effective on her second serve to win 43% of the points. On the other side, Kanepi won 95% of the points on her first serve. She had a solid display on her second serve to win 50% of the points.
How they played the important points
| Breaks | Cornet | Kanepi |
|---|---|---|
| Won | 9 | 5 |
| Converted | 9/11 | 5/5 |
| % Converted | 82% | 100% |
| Conceded | 7 | 1 |
| Saved | 1 | 0 |
| % Saved | 14% | 0% |
| Times Broken | 6 | 1 |
Cornet broke her opponent 9 times with a 82% conversion rate. Alize conceded her serve 6 times and she saved 14% of the break points that she conceded. Kanepi broke her opponent 5 times with a 100% conversion rate. Kanepi conceded her serve once and she saved 0% of the break points that she conceded.
| Cornet | |||
| R1 Havlickova |
Total | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Score | 6-2 4-6 6-2 | ||
| Tot Set | 3 | 3 | |
| Tot Games | 26 | 26 | |
| pts | 89-70 | 89-70 | |
| Total points | 159 | 159 | |
| Winners | 29 | 29 | |
| %Winners | 33% | 33% | |
| SERVE | |||
| Aces | 2 | 2 | |
| Double Faults | 7 | 7 | |
| 1st in | 52/75 | 52/75 | |
| % 1st in | 69% | 69% | |
| 1st pts | 29/52 | 29/52 | |
| % 1st pts | 56% | 56% | |
| 2nd pts | 10/23 | 10/23 | |
| % 2nd pts | 43% | 43% | |
| Breaks | |||
| Won | 9 | 9 | |
| Converted | 9/11 | 9/11 | |
| Converted % | 82% | 82% | |
| Conceded | 7 | 7 | |
| Saved | 1/7 | 1 | |
| Saved % | 14% | 14% | |
| Times Broken | 6 | 6 | |
| Kanepi | |||
| R1 Stefanini |
Total | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Score | 6-2 6-3 | ||
| Tot Set | 2 | 2 | |
| Tot Games | 17 | 17 | |
| pts | 55-37 | 55-37 | |
| Total points | 92 | 92 | |
| Winners | 20 | 20 | |
| %Winners | 36% | 36% | |
| SERVE | |||
| Aces | 2 | 2 | |
| Double Faults | 2 | 2 | |
| 1st in | 21/39 | 21/39 | |
| % 1st in | 54% | 54% | |
| 1st pts | 20/21 | 20/21 | |
| % 1st pts | 95% | 95% | |
| 2nd pts | 9/18 | 9/18 | |
| % 2nd pts | 50% | 50% | |
| Breaks | |||
| Won | 5 | 5 | |
| Converted | 5/5 | 5/5 | |
| Converted % | 100% | 100% | |
| Conceded | 1 | 1 | |
| Saved | 0/1 | 0 | |
| Saved % | 0% | 0% | |
| Times Broken | 1 | 1 | |
Head 2 Head
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