Celine Naef and Storm Hunter will square off in the qualifications of the Australian Open for the 1st time in their career. They are scheduled to play on Thursday at 2:00 pm on Court 3. 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 Celine Naef who should win in 3 sets.
As per the initial odds, Celine Naef is the pick to win this match.
Celine Naef -> 1.5
Storm Hunter -> 2.52
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Prediction and head to head Celine Naef vs. Storm Hunter
There is no head to head record between Celine Naef and Storm Hunter since this will be the first time that they will play each other in the main tour.
Celine Naef
| Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 18-18 | 3-2 | 3-4 | 10-7 | 1-4 | 1-1 |
| 2023 | 41-19 | 5-3 | 12-6 | 19-8 | 5-2 | 0-0 |
| 2022 | 23-6 | 7-1 | 2-3 | 14-2 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2021 | 6-4 | 0-0 | 6-4 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
Ranked no. 137, the Swiss got to the qualifications after beating Tatiana Prozorova 6-1 6-0.
In the qualifications, Naef had a good straight sets win against Prozorova (6-1 6-0). During the match, Naef scored 52 points vs Prozorova’s 24. Naef was quite aggressive to blast 22 winners.
Regarding the service games, Naef bagged 2 aces and she committed only 3 double faults. Celine Naef conceded no breaks for the entire match to put 56% of her first serves in, win 92% (22/24) of the points behind her 1st serve and 42% (8/19) on the 2nd serve. Celine was clinical in her return game without wasting any break point and break Prozorova 5 times.
Naef has a fantastic match record in the last 4 years having won 71% of her matches (73-30). 3-1 on hard in 2024. Talking about her performance on the same surface of this tournament, Naef has an aggregate15-5 record in the last 4 years on hard.
Celine has an aggregate 3-1 win-loss record in 2024, 3-1 on hard (See FULL STATS).
Previously at the Australian Open
The Swiss has never competed in this tournament before.
Storm Hunter
| Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 14-5 | 14-5 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2023 | 25-15 | 12-10 | 9-4 | 1-0 | 3-1 | 0-0 |
| 2022 | 26-19 | 17-12 | 2-3 | 3-1 | 4-3 | 0-0 |
| 2021 | 27-15 | 10-7 | 11-5 | 2-1 | 4-2 | 0-0 |
| 2020 | 8-7 | 6-3 | 2-4 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
Ranked no. 179, Sanders reached the qualifications after beating Kaia Kanepi 6-3 6-2.
In the qualifications, Storm had a good straight sets win against Kanepi (6-3 6-2). During the match Sanders scored 66 points vs Kanepi’s 48. Sanders was very aggressive to blast 20 winners.
Talking about serving, Sanders scored just 1 ace during the entire match and she committed only 2 double faults. Storm Hunter lost the serve twice and she saved 2 break points. Furthermore, Sanders put 64% of her first serves in, winning 71% (20/28) of the points behind her 1st serve and 44% (7/16) on the 2nd serve. Sanders broke Kanepi 6 times after converting 50% of her break points (6/12).
Storm has an overall 1-0 win-loss record in 2024, 1-0 on hard (See FULL STATS).
Previously at the Australian Open
Previously, her best result was reaching the 1st round in 2014, 2015, 2016, 2022 and 2023. See her history.
H2H Performance in the tournament
Matches, sets, games and points
| Points | Naef | Sanders |
|---|---|---|
| Match played | 1 | 1 |
| Tot Set | 2 | 2 |
| Tot Games | 13 | 17 |
| Pts | 52-24 | 66-48 |
| Total Points | 76 | 114 |
| Winners | 22 | 20 |
| %Winners | 42% | 30% |
Both Naef and Sanders played 1 match. Also both players started their run from the qualifications.Both players have not surrendered a single set in this event so far. Talking about their workload, Naef and Sanders have played the same amount of sets 2. However, Naef played 4 games less than Sanders. Naef scored 22 winners (42% of the total points). On the other side, Storm fired 20 winners (30%).
Serve Performance
| Serve | Naef | Sanders |
|---|---|---|
| Aces | 2 | 1 |
| Avg per match | 2 | 1 |
| 1st in | 24/43 | 28/44 |
| %1st in | 56% | 64% |
| 1st pts | 22/24 | 20/28 |
| %1st pts | 92% | 71% |
| 2nd pts | 8/19 | 7/16 |
| %2nd pts | 42% | 44% |
Naef bagged 2 aces . Sanders blasted 1 ace . Naef won 92% points behind her first serve. She extremely effective on her second serve to win 42% of the points. On the other side, Sanders won 71% of the points behind her first serve. She had a solid display on her second serve to win 44% of the points.
How they played the important points
| Breaks | Naef | Sanders |
|---|---|---|
| Won | 5 | 6 |
| Converted | 5/5 | 6/12 |
| % Converted | 100% | 50% |
| Conceded | 0 | 4 |
| Saved | 0 | 2 |
| % Saved | 0% | 50% |
| Times Broken | 0 | 2 |
The Swiss broke her opponent 5 times with a 100% conversion rate. Celine pretty effective on her serve as she has never lost a single service game after saving 0 break points. Sanders broke her opponent 6 times with a 50% conversion rate. The Australian conceded her serve twice and she saved 50% of the break points that she conceded.
| Naef | |||
| Q1 Prozorova |
Total | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Score | 6-1 6-0 | ||
| Tot Set | 2 | 2 | |
| Tot Games | 13 | 13 | |
| pts | 52-24 | 52-24 | |
| Total points | 76 | 76 | |
| Winners | 22 | 22 | |
| %Winners | 42% | 42% | |
| SERVE | |||
| Aces | 2 | 2 | |
| Double Faults | 3 | 3 | |
| 1st in | 24/43 | 24/43 | |
| % 1st in | 56% | 56% | |
| 1st pts | 22/24 | 22/24 | |
| % 1st pts | 92% | 92% | |
| 2nd pts | 8/19 | 8/19 | |
| % 2nd pts | 42% | 42% | |
| Breaks | |||
| Won | 5 | 5 | |
| Converted | 5/5 | 5/5 | |
| Converted % | 100% | 100% | |
| Conceded | 0 | 0 | |
| Saved | 0/0 | 0 | |
| Saved % | – | 0% | |
| Times Broken | 0 | 0 | |
| Sanders | |||
| Q1 Kanepi |
Total | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Score | 6-3 6-2 | ||
| Tot Set | 2 | 2 | |
| Tot Games | 17 | 17 | |
| pts | 66-48 | 66-48 | |
| Total points | 114 | 114 | |
| Winners | 20 | 20 | |
| %Winners | 30% | 30% | |
| SERVE | |||
| Aces | 1 | 1 | |
| Double Faults | 2 | 2 | |
| 1st in | 28/44 | 28/44 | |
| % 1st in | 64% | 64% | |
| 1st pts | 20/28 | 20/28 | |
| % 1st pts | 71% | 71% | |
| 2nd pts | 7/16 | 7/16 | |
| % 2nd pts | 44% | 44% | |
| Breaks | |||
| Won | 6 | 6 | |
| Converted | 6/12 | 6/12 | |
| Converted % | 50% | 50% | |
| Conceded | 4 | 4 | |
| Saved | 2/4 | 2 | |
| Saved % | 50% | 50% | |
| Times Broken | 2 | 2 | |
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