Kaja Juvan and Haruka Kaji will square off in the qualifications of the U.S. Open for the 1^st time in their career. They are scheduled to play on Friday at 10:00 am on Court 9. In this post, we analyze their head to head performance and prediction.

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The pick for Tennis Tonic is Kaja Juvan who should win in 2 sets.

As per the initial odds, Kaja Juvan is the pick to win this match.
Kaja Juvan -> 1.165
Haruka Kaji -> 4.8

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Prediction and head to head Kaja Juvan vs. Haruka Kaji

There is no head to head record between Kaja Juvan and Haruka Kaji since this will be the first time that they will face off in the main tour.

Kaja Juvan

Ranked no. 146, Kaja reached the qualifications after beating Laura Pigossi 7-6⁴ 6-2.

In the qualifications, The Slovenian had a good straight sets win against Pigossi (7-6⁴ 6-2). During the match, Juvan scored 75 points vs Pigossi’s 54. Kaja was pretty aggressive to blast 26 winners.

Regarding the service games, Juvan scored just 1 ace and she committed only 2 double faults. Kaja Juvan lost the serve 3 times and she saved 3 break points. Furthermore, Juvan put 63% of her first serves in, winning 67% (26/39) of the points behind her 1st serve and 57% (13/23) on the 2nd serve. Kaja broke Pigossi 5 times after converting 56% of her break points (5/9).

Juvan has a solid win-loss record in the last 8 years having won 66% of her matches (209-109). 5-5 on hard in 2023. Regarding her performance on the same surface of this tournament, Juvan has an overall57-40 win-loss record in the last 8 years on hard.

Kaja’s best result of the current year was reaching the semifinal in the San Luis Potosi.

Kaja has a composed 24-15 win-loss record in 2023, 5-5 on hard (See FULL STATS).

Previously at the U.S. Open

Haruka Kaji

Ranked no. 222 (career-high), the Japanese got to the qualifications after beating Valentini Grammatikopoulou 6-3 6-3.

In the qualifications, Kaji had a good straight sets win against Grammatikopoulou (6-3 6-3). During the match Kaji scored 74 points vs Grammatikopoulou’s 58. Haruka was quite aggressive to blast 31 winners.

Talking about serving, Kaji was unable to score even 1 ace for the entire match and she committed only 3 double faults. Haruka Kaji lost the serve 3 times and she saved 16 break points. Furthermore, Kaji put 67% of her first serves in, winning 60% (31/52) of the points behind her 1st serve and 46% (12/26) on the 2nd serve. Haruka broke Grammatikopoulou 6 times after converting 75% of her break points (6/8).

Kaji’s best result of the current year was getting to the final in the W25 Karuizawa.

Kaji has a compiled 29-18 win-loss record in 2023, 18-13 on hard (See FULL STATS).

Previously at the U.S. Open

Haruka has never competed in this tournament before.

H2H Performance in the tournament

Matches, sets, games and points

Points	Juvan	Kaji
Match played	1	1
Tot Set	2	2
Tot Games	21	18
Pts	75-54	74-58
Total Points	129	132
Winners	26	31
%Winners	35%	42%

Both Juvan and Kaji played 1 match. Also both players started their run from the qualifications.Both players have not dropped a single set in this event so far. Talking about their workload, Juvan and Kaji have played the same amount of sets 2. However, Juvan played 3 games more than Kaji. The Slovenian scored 26 winners (35% of the total points). On the other side, The Japanese fired 31 winners (42%).

Serve Performance

Serve	Juvan	Kaji
Aces	1	0
Avg per match	1	0
1st in	39/62	52/78
%1st in	63%	67%
1st pts	26/39	31/52
%1st pts	67%	60%
2nd pts	13/23	12/26
%2nd pts	57%	46%

Juvan bagged 1 ace . Kaji didn’t manage to fire a single ace to far. Juvan won 67% points behind her first serve. She had a solid display on her second serve to win 57% of the points. On the other side, Kaji won 60% of the points on her first serve. She had a solid display on her second serve to win 46% of the points.

How they played the important points

Breaks	Juvan	Kaji
Won	5	6
Converted	5/9	6/8
% Converted	56%	75%
Conceded	6	19
Saved	3	16
% Saved	50%	84%
Times Broken	3	3

Juvan broke her opponent 5 times with a 56% conversion rate. Kaja lost her serve 3 times and she saved 50% of the break points that she conceded. Haruka broke her opponent 6 times with a 75% conversion rate. The Japanese conceded her serve 3 times and she saved 84% of the break points that she conceded.

Juvan
	Q1 Pigossi	Total
Score	7-64 6-2
Tot Set	2	2
Tot Games	21	21
pts	75-54	75-54
Total points	129	129
Winners	26	26
%Winners	35%	35%
SERVE
Aces	1	1
Double Faults	2	2
1st in	39/62	39/62
% 1st in	63%	63%
1st pts	26/39	26/39
% 1st pts	67%	67%
2nd pts	13/23	13/23
% 2nd pts	57%	57%
Breaks
Won	5	5
Converted	5/9	5/9
Converted %	56%	56%
Conceded	6	6
Saved	3/6	3
Saved %	50%	50%
Times Broken	3	3

Kaji
	Q1 Grammatikopoulou	Total
Score	6-3 6-3
Tot Set	2	2
Tot Games	18	18
pts	74-58	74-58
Total points	132	132
Winners	31	31
%Winners	42%	42%
SERVE
Aces	0	0
Double Faults	3	3
1st in	52/78	52/78
% 1st in	67%	67%
1st pts	31/52	31/52
% 1st pts	60%	60%
2nd pts	12/26	12/26
% 2nd pts	46%	46%
Breaks
Won	6	6
Converted	6/8	6/8
Converted %	75%	75%
Conceded	19	19
Saved	16/19	16
Saved %	84%	84%
Times Broken	3	3

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