Marina Bassols Ribera and Simona Waltert will fight against each other in the qualifications of the Australian Open for the 1st time in their career. They are scheduled to compete on Wednesday at 4:00 pm on Court 5. In the following paragraphs, you can find the head to head analysis and prediction.
Prediction, odds and live streaming
The pick for Tennis Tonic is Marina Bassols Ribera who should win in 3 sets.
As per the initial odds, Marina Bassols Ribera is the pick to win this match.
Marina Bassols Ribera -> 1.44
Simona Waltert -> 2.71
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Prediction and head to head Marina Bassols Ribera vs. Simona Waltert
There is no head to head record between Marina Bassols Ribera and Simona Waltert since this will be the first time that they will clash against each other in the main tour.
Marina Bassols Ribera
| Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 13-11 | 4-4 | 1-1 | 6-5 | 0-0 | 2-1 |
| 2023 | 33-29 | 10-13 | 11-10 | 10-4 | 2-2 | 0-0 |
| 2022 | 46-25 | 25-12 | 17-9 | 2-3 | 0-0 | 2-1 |
| 2021 | 43-31 | 20-12 | 15-13 | 8-6 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2020 | 12-11 | 11-4 | 1-3 | 0-4 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
Ranked no. 113, Marina reached the qualifications after defeating Tara Wurth 6-0 6-2.
In the qualifications, Marina had a good straight sets win against Wurth (6-0 6-2). During the match, Bassols Ribera scored 58 points vs Wurth’s 33. The Spaniard was exceptionally aggressive to blast 16 winners.
Regarding the service games, Bassols Ribera scored just 1 ace throughout the encounter and she committed only 2 double faults. Marina Bassols Ribera conceded no breaks for the entire match to put 53% of her first serves in, win 70% (16/23) of the points behind her 1st serve and 70% (14/20) on the 2nd serve. Marina broke Wurth 5 times after converting 38% of her break points (5/13).
Bassols Ribera has a solid match record in the last 9 years having won 60% of her matches (274-179). 1-0 on hard in 2024. In connection with her performance on the same surface of this competition, Bassols Ribera has a composed86-60 match record in the last 9 years on hard.
The Spaniard has an overall 1-0 win-loss record in 2024, 1-0 on hard (See FULL STATS).
Previously at the Australian Open
Simona Waltert
| Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 15-12 | 3-2 | 8-4 | 4-6 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2023 | 30-28 | 4-10 | 12-8 | 11-7 | 3-3 | 0-0 |
| 2022 | 35-27 | 9-8 | 23-12 | 1-4 | 2-2 | 0-1 |
| 2021 | 44-24 | 13-5 | 19-14 | 5-3 | 1-1 | 6-1 |
| 2020 | 7-8 | 5-3 | 1-4 | 1-1 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
Ranked no. 166, the Swiss got to the qualifications after defeating Petra Marcinko 6-1 6-1.
In the qualifications, The Swiss had a good straight sets win against Marcinko (6-1 6-1). During the match Waltert scored 55 points vs Marcinko’s 27. The Swiss was extremely aggressive to blast 20 winners.
About the serving games, Waltert scored just 1 ace during the entire match and she was pretty steady in conceding no double faults for the entire match. Simona Waltert was pretty efficient on serve to win 91% (20/22) of her 1st serve and 67% (8/12) on the second serve. This was the main reason for not conceding a single break during the match. Simona broke Marcinko 5 times after converting 50% of her break points (5/10).
Waltert has an aggregate 2-1 win-loss record in 2024, 2-1 on hard (See FULL STATS).
Previously at the Australian Open
Previously, her best result was reaching the qualifications in 2023. See her history.
H2H Performance in the tournament
Matches, sets, games and points
| Points | Bassols Ribera | Waltert |
|---|---|---|
| Match played | 1 | 1 |
| Tot Set | 2 | 2 |
| Tot Games | 14 | 14 |
| Pts | 58-33 | 55-27 |
| Total Points | 91 | 82 |
| Winners | 16 | 20 |
| %Winners | 28% | 36% |
Both Bassols Ribera and Waltert 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, Bassols Ribera and Waltert have played the same amount of sets 2. They also played the same amount of games (14). The Spaniard scored 16 winners (28% of the total points). On the other side, Simona blasted 20 winners (36%).
Serve Performance
| Serve | Bassols Ribera | Waltert |
|---|---|---|
| Aces | 1 | 1 |
| Avg per match | 1 | 1 |
| 1st in | 23/43 | 22/34 |
| %1st in | 53% | 65% |
| 1st pts | 16/23 | 20/22 |
| %1st pts | 70% | 91% |
| 2nd pts | 14/20 | 8/12 |
| %2nd pts | 70% | 67% |
Bassols Ribera struck 1 ace . Waltert also recorded 1 ace . Bassols Ribera won 70% points on her first serve. She extremely effective on her second serve to win 70% of the points. On the other side, Waltert won 91% of the points on her first serve. She had a solid display on her second serve to win 67% of the points.
How they played the important points
| Breaks | Bassols Ribera | Waltert |
|---|---|---|
| Won | 5 | 5 |
| Converted | 5/13 | 5/10 |
| % Converted | 38% | 50% |
| Conceded | 0 | 0 |
| Saved | 0 | 0 |
| % Saved | 0% | 0% |
| Times Broken | 0 | 0 |
The Spaniard broke her opponent 5 times with a 38% conversion rate. The Spaniard quite strong on her serve as she has never lost a single service game after saving 0 break points. Simona broke her opponent 5 times with a 50% conversion rate. Simona was rock solid on her serve as she has never conceded a single service game after saving 0 break points.
| Bassols Ribera | |||
| Q1 Wurth |
Total | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Score | 6-0 6-2 | ||
| Tot Set | 2 | 2 | |
| Tot Games | 14 | 14 | |
| pts | 58-33 | 58-33 | |
| Total points | 91 | 91 | |
| Winners | 16 | 16 | |
| %Winners | 28% | 28% | |
| SERVE | |||
| Aces | 1 | 1 | |
| Double Faults | 2 | 2 | |
| 1st in | 23/43 | 23/43 | |
| % 1st in | 53% | 53% | |
| 1st pts | 16/23 | 16/23 | |
| % 1st pts | 70% | 70% | |
| 2nd pts | 14/20 | 14/20 | |
| % 2nd pts | 70% | 70% | |
| Breaks | |||
| Won | 5 | 5 | |
| Converted | 5/13 | 5/13 | |
| Converted % | 38% | 38% | |
| Conceded | 0 | 0 | |
| Saved | 0/0 | 0 | |
| Saved % | – | 0% | |
| Times Broken | 0 | 0 | |
| Waltert | |||
| Q1 Marcinko |
Total | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Score | 6-1 6-1 | ||
| Tot Set | 2 | 2 | |
| Tot Games | 14 | 14 | |
| pts | 55-27 | 55-27 | |
| Total points | 82 | 82 | |
| Winners | 20 | 20 | |
| %Winners | 36% | 36% | |
| SERVE | |||
| Aces | 1 | 1 | |
| Double Faults | 0 | 0 | |
| 1st in | 22/34 | 22/34 | |
| % 1st in | 65% | 65% | |
| 1st pts | 20/22 | 20/22 | |
| % 1st pts | 91% | 91% | |
| 2nd pts | 8/12 | 8/12 | |
| % 2nd pts | 67% | 67% | |
| Breaks | |||
| Won | 5 | 5 | |
| Converted | 5/10 | 5/10 | |
| Converted % | 50% | 50% | |
| Conceded | 0 | 0 | |
| Saved | 0/0 | 0 | |
| Saved % | – | 0% | |
| Times Broken | 0 | 0 | |
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