Emina Bektas and Su Jeong Jang will play each other in the 2nd round of the Hana Bank Korea Open for the 1st time in their career. They are scheduled to compete on Thursday at 12:00 pm on Centre Court. In this post, we analyze their head to head performance and prediction.
Prediction, odds and live streaming
The pick for Tennis Tonic is Emina Bektas who should win in 3 sets.
As per the initial odds, Emina Bektas is the pick to win this match.
Emina Bektas -> 1.74
Su Jeong Jang -> 2.09
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Prediction and head to head Emina Bektas vs. Su Jeong Jang
There is no head to head record between Emina Bektas and Su Jeong Jang since this will be the first time that they will face off in the main tour.
Emina Bektas
| Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 22-26 | 10-19 | 0-1 | 1-1 | 2-4 | 9-1 |
| 2023 | 55-20 | 38-15 | 0-0 | 2-1 | 12-3 | 3-1 |
| 2022 | 27-23 | 17-9 | 1-5 | 6-6 | 3-3 | 0-0 |
| 2021 | 28-20 | 23-15 | 3-3 | 2-2 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2020 | 6-7 | 5-5 | 0-0 | 1-2 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
Ranked no. 116 (career-high), the American reached the 2nd round after beating Laura Pigossi 6-75 6-4 7-5.
In the 1st round against Pigossi, Emina recovered from a 1-set down deficit before winning (6-75 6-4 7-5). During the match, Bektas scored 123 points vs Pigossi’s 106. The American was quite aggressive to blast 52 winners.
Talking about the service games, Bektas made 6 aces and she committed only 4 double faults. Emina Bektas lost the serve 3 times and she saved 2 break points. Furthermore, Bektas put 66% of her first serves in, winning 75% (52/69) of the points behind her 1st serve and 49% (17/35) on the 2nd serve. Emina broke Pigossi 5 times after converting 33% of her break points (5/15).
Bektas has a winning win-loss record in the last 8 years having won 59% of her matches (220-153). 31-13 on hard in 2023. Talking about her performance on the same surface of this event, Bektas has a composed155-94 win-loss record in the last 8 years on hard.
Her best result of the current year was winning the title the W25 Pretoria where she beat Lina Glushko in the final 3-6 6-3 7-6(6) and the W60 Kurume where she overcame Yexin Ma in the final 7-5 5-7 6-1.
Emina has an overall 46-17 win-loss record in 2023, 31-13 on hard (See FULL STATS).
Previously in Seoul
The American has never competed in this tournament before.
Su Jeong Jang
| Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 27-19 | 12-14 | 9-2 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 6-3 |
| 2023 | 37-24 | 27-17 | 2-4 | 7-1 | 1-2 | 0-0 |
| 2022 | 32-20 | 5-8 | 20-8 | 5-2 | 2-2 | 0-0 |
| 2021 | 41-15 | 0-0 | 40-14 | 1-1 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2020 | 4-4 | 4-4 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
Ranked no. 162, Jeong Jang got to the 2nd round after defeating Sofia Kenin 6-1 6-4.
In the 1st round, The Korean had a good straight sets win against Kenin (6-1 6-4). During the match Jeong Jang scored 65 points vs Kenin’s 49. Su was very aggressive to blast 25 winners.
Talking about serving, Jeong Jang scored just 1 ace during the entire match and she committed only 5 double faults. Overall, Su Jeong Jang was extremely efficient on serve to win 71% (25/35) of her 1st serve and 54% (13/24) on the second serve. However, this didn’t prevent her to concede the serve once. Su broke Kenin 4 times after converting 80% of her break points (4/5).
Her best result of the current season was winning the title the W60 Astana where she defeated Moyuka Uchijima in the final 6-1 6-4 and the W25 Kofu where she overcame Na-Lae Han in the final 2-6 6-3 6-2.
The Korean has an aggregate 32-19 win-loss record in 2023, 22-12 on hard (See FULL STATS).
Previously in Seoul
Previously, her best result was reaching the 2nd round in 2021. See her history.
H2H Performance in the tournament
Matches, sets, games and points
| Points | Bektas | Jeong Jang |
|---|---|---|
| Match played | 1 | 1 |
| Tot Set | 3 | 2 |
| Tot Games | 35 | 17 |
| Pts | 123-106 | 65-49 |
| Total Points | 229 | 114 |
| Winners | 52 | 25 |
| %Winners | 42% | 38% |
Both Bektas and Jeong Jang played 1 match. At the moment, Emina Bektas lost 1 set while Su Jeong Jang hasn’t surrendered a set so far. Bektas has played 1 set more than Jeong Jang (3 vs 2). Therefore, Bektas played 18 games more than Jeong Jang. Bektas scored 52 winners (42% of the total points). On the other side, The Korean struck 25 winners (38%).
Serve Performance
| Serve | Bektas | Jeong Jang |
|---|---|---|
| Aces | 6 | 1 |
| Avg per match | 6 | 1 |
| 1st in | 69/104 | 35/59 |
| %1st in | 66% | 59% |
| 1st pts | 52/69 | 25/35 |
| %1st pts | 75% | 71% |
| 2nd pts | 17/35 | 13/24 |
| %2nd pts | 49% | 54% |
Bektas bagged 6 aces . Jeong Jang made 1 ace . Bektas won 75% points behind her first serve. She pretty effective on her second serve to win 49% of the points. On the other side, Jeong Jang won 71% of the points on her first serve. She had a solid display on her second serve to win 54% of the points.
How they played the important points
| Breaks | Bektas | Jeong Jang |
|---|---|---|
| Won | 5 | 4 |
| Converted | 5/15 | 4/5 |
| % Converted | 33% | 80% |
| Conceded | 5 | 2 |
| Saved | 2 | 1 |
| % Saved | 40% | 50% |
| Times Broken | 3 | 1 |
Emina broke her opponent 5 times with a 33% conversion rate. The American surrendered her serve 3 times and she saved 40% of the break points that she conceded. Su broke her opponent 4 times with a 80% conversion rate. Su conceded her serve once and she saved 50% of the break points that she conceded.
| Bektas | |||
| R1 Pigossi |
Total | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Score | 6-75 6-4 7-5 | ||
| Tot Set | 3 | 3 | |
| Tot Games | 35 | 35 | |
| pts | 123-106 | 123-106 | |
| Total points | 229 | 229 | |
| Winners | 52 | 52 | |
| %Winners | 42% | 42% | |
| SERVE | |||
| Aces | 6 | 6 | |
| Double Faults | 4 | 4 | |
| 1st in | 69/104 | 69/104 | |
| % 1st in | 66% | 66% | |
| 1st pts | 52/69 | 52/69 | |
| % 1st pts | 75% | 75% | |
| 2nd pts | 17/35 | 17/35 | |
| % 2nd pts | 49% | 49% | |
| Breaks | |||
| Won | 5 | 5 | |
| Converted | 5/15 | 5/15 | |
| Converted % | 33% | 33% | |
| Conceded | 5 | 5 | |
| Saved | 2/5 | 2 | |
| Saved % | 40% | 40% | |
| Times Broken | 3 | 3 | |
| Jeong Jang | |||
| R1 Kenin |
Total | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Score | 6-1 6-4 | ||
| Tot Set | 2 | 2 | |
| Tot Games | 17 | 17 | |
| pts | 65-49 | 65-49 | |
| Total points | 114 | 114 | |
| Winners | 25 | 25 | |
| %Winners | 38% | 38% | |
| SERVE | |||
| Aces | 1 | 1 | |
| Double Faults | 5 | 5 | |
| 1st in | 35/59 | 35/59 | |
| % 1st in | 59% | 59% | |
| 1st pts | 25/35 | 25/35 | |
| % 1st pts | 71% | 71% | |
| 2nd pts | 13/24 | 13/24 | |
| % 2nd pts | 54% | 54% | |
| Breaks | |||
| Won | 4 | 4 | |
| Converted | 4/5 | 4/5 | |
| Converted % | 80% | 80% | |
| Conceded | 2 | 2 | |
| Saved | 1/2 | 1 | |
| Saved % | 50% | 50% | |
| Times Broken | 1 | 1 | |
Head 2 Head
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