Sijia Wei and Melisa Ercan 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 Thursday at 12:00 pm on Kia Arena. In the following paragraphs, you can find the head to head analysis and prediction.
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The pick for Tennis Tonic is Sijia Wei who should win in 2 sets.
As per the initial odds, Sijia Wei is the pick to win this match.
Sijia Wei -> 1.27
Melisa Ercan -> 3.62
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Prediction and head to head Sijia Wei vs. Melisa Ercan
There is no head to head record between Sijia Wei and Melisa Ercan since this will be the first time that they will play each other in the main tour.
Sijia Wei
| Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 44-22 | 41-18 | 1-1 | 1-1 | 1-2 | 0-0 |
| 2023 | 42-22 | 29-18 | 6-3 | 7-1 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2022 | 78-28 | 78-28 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2021 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2020 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
Ranked no. 236, Sijia reached the qualifications after beating Viktoria Hruncakova 6-3 6-2.
In the qualifications, The Chinese had a good straight sets win against Kuzmova (6-3 6-2). During the match, Wei scored 67 points vs Kuzmova’s 48. Wei was pretty aggressive to blast 31 winners.
Talking about the service games, Wei scored just 1 ace during the match and she committed only 3 double faults. Sijia Wei was very efficient on serve to win 82% (31/38) of her 1st serve and 56% (14/25) on the second serve. This was the main reason for not conceding a single break during the match. The Chinese broke Kuzmova 3 times after converting 30% of her break points (3/10).
Wei has a fantastic win-loss record in the last 5 years having won 70% of her matches (122-52). 1-0 on hard in 2024. In connection with her performance on the same surface of this competition, Wei has an overall109-48 record in the last 5 years on hard.
The Chinese has a compiled 1-0 win-loss record in 2024, 1-0 on hard (See FULL STATS).
Previously at the Australian Open
Sijia has never competed in this tournament before.
Melisa Ercan
| Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 32-23 | 27-18 | 5-5 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2023 | 42-13 | 37-11 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 5-2 | 0-0 |
| 2022 | 7-4 | 7-4 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
Ranked no. 511, Ercan reached the qualifications after beating Yuriko Miyazaki 6-4 7-65.
In the qualifications, The Turk had a good straight sets win against Miyazaki (6-4 7-65). During the match Ercan scored 75 points vs Miyazaki’s 68. The Turk was quite aggressive to blast 28 winners.
Talking about serving, Ercan bagged 3 aces and she committed only 4 double faults. Overall, Melisa Ercan was quite efficient on serve to win 78% (28/36) of her 1st serve and 51% (18/35) on the second serve. However, this didn’t prevent her to concede the serve twice. Ercan broke Miyazaki 3 times after converting 33% of her break points (3/9).
Melisa has an overall 1-1 win-loss record in 2024, 1-1 on hard (See FULL STATS).
H2H Performance in the tournament
Matches, sets, games and points
| Points | Wei | Ercan |
|---|---|---|
| Match played | 1 | 1 |
| Tot Set | 2 | 2 |
| Tot Games | 17 | 23 |
| Pts | 67-48 | 75-68 |
| Total Points | 115 | 143 |
| Winners | 31 | 28 |
| %Winners | 46% | 37% |
Both Wei and Ercan 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, Wei and Ercan have played the same amount of sets 2. However, Wei played 6 games less than Ercan. Sijia scored 31 winners (46% of the total points). On the other side, The Turk recorded 28 winners (37%).
Serve Performance
| Serve | Wei | Ercan |
|---|---|---|
| Aces | 1 | 3 |
| Avg per match | 1 | 3 |
| 1st in | 38/63 | 36/71 |
| %1st in | 60% | 51% |
| 1st pts | 31/38 | 28/36 |
| %1st pts | 82% | 78% |
| 2nd pts | 14/25 | 18/35 |
| %2nd pts | 56% | 51% |
Wei managed to score 1 ace . Ercan also fired 3 aces . Wei won 82% points behind her first serve. She quite strong on her second serve to win 56% of the points. On the other side, Ercan won 78% of the points on her first serve. She had a solid display on her second serve to win 51% of the points.
How they played the important points
| Breaks | Wei | Ercan |
|---|---|---|
| Won | 3 | 3 |
| Converted | 3/10 | 3/9 |
| % Converted | 30% | 33% |
| Conceded | 3 | 4 |
| Saved | 3 | 2 |
| % Saved | 100% | 50% |
| Times Broken | 0 | 2 |
The Chinese broke her opponent 3 times with a 30% conversion rate. The Chinese very solid her serve as she has never lost a single service game after saving 3 break points. Ercan broke her opponent 3 times with a 33% conversion rate. The Turk conceded her serve twice and she saved 50% of the break points that she conceded.
| Wei | |||
| Q1 Kuzmova |
Total | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Score | 6-3 6-2 | ||
| Tot Set | 2 | 2 | |
| Tot Games | 17 | 17 | |
| pts | 67-48 | 67-48 | |
| Total points | 115 | 115 | |
| Winners | 31 | 31 | |
| %Winners | 46% | 46% | |
| SERVE | |||
| Aces | 1 | 1 | |
| Double Faults | 3 | 3 | |
| 1st in | 38/63 | 38/63 | |
| % 1st in | 60% | 60% | |
| 1st pts | 31/38 | 31/38 | |
| % 1st pts | 82% | 82% | |
| 2nd pts | 14/25 | 14/25 | |
| % 2nd pts | 56% | 56% | |
| Breaks | |||
| Won | 3 | 3 | |
| Converted | 3/10 | 3/10 | |
| Converted % | 30% | 30% | |
| Conceded | 3 | 3 | |
| Saved | 3/3 | 3 | |
| Saved % | 100% | 100% | |
| Times Broken | 0 | 0 | |
| Ercan | |||
| Q1 Miyazaki |
Total | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Score | 6-4 7-65 | ||
| Tot Set | 2 | 2 | |
| Tot Games | 23 | 23 | |
| pts | 75-68 | 75-68 | |
| Total points | 143 | 143 | |
| Winners | 28 | 28 | |
| %Winners | 37% | 37% | |
| SERVE | |||
| Aces | 3 | 3 | |
| Double Faults | 4 | 4 | |
| 1st in | 36/71 | 36/71 | |
| % 1st in | 51% | 51% | |
| 1st pts | 28/36 | 28/36 | |
| % 1st pts | 78% | 78% | |
| 2nd pts | 18/35 | 18/35 | |
| % 2nd pts | 51% | 51% | |
| Breaks | |||
| Won | 3 | 3 | |
| Converted | 3/9 | 3/9 | |
| Converted % | 33% | 33% | |
| Conceded | 4 | 4 | |
| Saved | 2/4 | 2 | |
| Saved % | 50% | 50% | |
| Times Broken | 2 | 2 | |
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