Varvara Gracheva and Valeria Savinykh will square off in the 1st round of the Ningbo Open for the 2nd time in their career. They are scheduled to compete on Tuesday at 3:00 pm on Court 8. In this post, we analyze their head to head performance and prediction.
Prediction, odds and live streaming
The pick for Tennis Tonic is Varvara Gracheva who should win in 3 sets.
As per the initial odds, Varvara Gracheva is the pick to win this match.
Varvara Gracheva -> 1.47
Valeria Savinykh -> 2.68
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Prediction and head to head Varvara Gracheva vs. Valeria Savinykh
This will be the 2nd time that Varvara Gracheva and Valeria Savinykh square off. The head to head is 1-0 for Savinykh (see full H2H stats), but they have never competed against each other on hard.
The last time that they squared off, Savinykh won 7-6(3) 6-3 in the quarter in the Oslo back in 2018.
Varvara Gracheva
| Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 19-17 | 4-8 | 15-7 | 0-1 | 0-1 | 0-0 |
| 2023 | 36-30 | 23-18 | 7-6 | 3-3 | 3-3 | 0-0 |
| 2022 | 29-32 | 7-11 | 12-14 | 10-7 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2021 | 27-31 | 11-10 | 7-10 | 9-9 | 0-2 | 0-0 |
| 2020 | 10-14 | 5-7 | 4-4 | 1-3 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
Ranked no. 48, Varvara will start her run in Ningbo after she played her last match at the New York where she lost 6-4 6-2 to Townsend in the 1st round on the 28th of August.
The French player has an aggregate 33-26 win-loss record in 2023, 21-14 on hard (See FULL STATS).
The French player best result of the year was getting to the final in Austin.
Talking about her overall career, Varvara has an overall 232-159 record. She has a positive 61-57 record on hard.
Previously in Ningbo
Varvara has never competed in this tournament before.
Valeria Savinykh
| Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 10-11 | 5-6 | 0-0 | 5-5 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2023 | 52-29 | 51-27 | 0-1 | 1-1 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2022 | 29-22 | 24-16 | 0-2 | 5-4 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2021 | 23-21 | 21-13 | 0-3 | 2-3 | 0-2 | 0-0 |
| 2020 | 3-12 | 1-4 | 0-2 | 2-6 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
Ranked no. 164, Savinykh reached the 1st round after beating Sijia Wei 2-6 6-3 6-2 and Rebecca Marino 3-6 7-5 7-5.
In the qualifications against Marino, The Russian recovered from a 1-set down deficit before winning (3-6 7-5 7-5). During the match Savinykh scored 102 points vs Marino’s 98. The Russian was pretty aggressive to blast 36 winners.
Talking about serving, Savinykh scored just 1 ace during the entire match and she committed only 5 double faults. Valeria Savinykh lost the serve 4 times and she saved 2 break points. Furthermore, Savinykh put 53% of her first serves in, winning 73% (36/49) of the points behind her 1st serve and 50% (22/44) on the 2nd serve. The Russian broke Marino 5 times after converting 56% of her break points (5/9).
Overall Performance in this tournament
Valeria started her run at this tournament from the qualifications. In the main draw, she has conceded 2 set in the tournament to win 52% of the points she played.
Her best result of the year was conquering the title the W40 Palma del Rio where she beat Harmony Tan in the final 7-5 6-3.
Savinykh has a compiled 48-24 win-loss record in 2023, 47-22 on hard (See FULL STATS).
Head 2 Head
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- Yulia PutintsevaPutintseva – Daria SavilleSaville (6-4 6-1) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Anna BlinkovaBlinkova – Viktoria HruncakovaHruncakova (6-3 7-5) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Lucia BronzettiBronzetti – Jil TeichmannTeichmann (7-66 6-4) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Kateryna BaindlBaindl – Yue YuanYuan (3-6 6-4 6-3) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Linda FruhvirtovaFruhvirtova – Rebeka MasarovaMasarova (1-6 6-2 1-0 ret.) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Clara TausonTauson – Elina AvanesyanAvanesyan (6-4 6-1) – Stats, scores, rankings
Upcoming matches in the draw
- Ons JabeurJabeur – Diane ParryParry (1-0) – H2H and prediction
- Tamara KorpatschKorpatsch – Jodie Anna BurrageAnna Burrage (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Sorana CirsteaCirstea – Claire LiuLiu (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Katerina SiniakovaSiniakova – Elizabeth MandlikMandlik (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Nadia PodoroskaPodoroska – Xiyu WangWang (0-1) – H2H and prediction
- Valeria SavinykhSavinykh – Varvara GrachevaGracheva (1-0) – H2H and prediction
- Arantxa RusRus – Kamilla RakhimovaRakhimova (0-1) – H2H and prediction
- Anna-Lena FriedsamFriedsam – Petra KvitovaKvitova (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Clara TausonTauson – Vera ZvonarevaZvonareva (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Lucia BronzettiBronzetti – Kateryna KozlovaKozlova (0-1) – H2H and prediction
