Anna Bondar and Ivana Popovic 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 10:00 am on Court 6. In the following paragraphs, you can find the head to head analysis and prediction.
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The pick for Tennis Tonic is Anna Bondar who should win in 2 sets.
As per the initial odds, Anna Bondar is the pick to win this match.
Anna Bondar -> 1.175
Ivana Popovic -> 4.7
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Prediction and head to head Anna Bondar vs. Ivana Popovic
There is no head to head record between Anna Bondar and Ivana Popovic since this will be the first time that they will fight against each other in the main tour.
Anna Bondar
| Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 29-20 | 4-3 | 18-10 | 7-6 | 0-1 | 0-0 |
| 2023 | 30-29 | 3-8 | 25-15 | 2-5 | 0-1 | 0-0 |
| 2022 | 35-29 | 6-10 | 25-13 | 4-4 | 0-2 | 0-0 |
| 2021 | 62-27 | 13-8 | 45-16 | 4-2 | 0-1 | 0-0 |
| 2020 | 10-11 | 4-2 | 4-6 | 2-3 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
Ranked no. 118, the Hungarian reached the qualifications after beating Su-Wei Hsieh 7-63 6-4.
In the qualifications, The Hungarian had a good straight sets win against Hsieh (7-63 6-4). During the match, Bondar scored 80 points vs Hsieh’s 67. Bondar was very aggressive to blast 36 winners.
Regarding the service games, Bondar managed to score 9 aces and she committed only 1 double fault. Overall, Anna Bondar was quite effective on serve to win 78% (36/46) of her 1st serve and 55% (12/22) on the second serve. However, this didn’t prevent her to concede the serve once. Bondar broke Hsieh twice after converting 25% of her break points (2/8).
Bondar has a solid record in the last 10 years having won 64% of her matches (340-192). 3-1 on hard in 2024. In connection with her performance on the same surface of this tournament, Bondar has a compiled 54-41 win-loss record in the last years on hard.
Bondar has an overall 3-1 win-loss record in 2024, 3-1 on hard (See FULL STATS).
Previously at the Australian Open
Ivana Popovic
| Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 5-5 | 5-5 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2023 | 15-12 | 13-8 | 2-4 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2022 | 0-3 | 0-3 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2021 | 5-9 | 3-6 | 2-2 | 0-1 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2020 | 8-10 | 6-6 | 0-1 | 1-2 | 1-1 | 0-0 |
Ranked no. 545, Popovic got to the qualifications after defeating Tena Lukas 6-3 6-2.
In the qualifications, Ivana had a good straight sets win against Lukas (6-3 6-2). During the match Popovic scored 68 points vs Lukas’s 46. The Australian was quite aggressive to blast 29 winners.
About the serving games, Popovic fired 3 aces and she committed only 4 double faults. Ivana Popovic was quite efficient on serve to win 81% (29/36) of her 1st serve and 64% (9/14) on the second serve. This was the main reason for not conceding a single break during the match. Popovic broke Lukas 3 times after converting 50% of her break points (3/6).
Ivana has an aggregate 1-1 win-loss record in 2024, 1-1 on hard (See FULL STATS).
Previously at the Australian Open
Previously, her best result was reaching the qualifications in 2020. See her history.
H2H Performance in the tournament
Matches, sets, games and points
| Points | Bondar | Popovic |
|---|---|---|
| Match played | 1 | 1 |
| Tot Set | 2 | 2 |
| Tot Games | 23 | 17 |
| Pts | 80-67 | 68-46 |
| Total Points | 147 | 114 |
| Winners | 36 | 29 |
| %Winners | 45% | 43% |
Both Bondar and Popovic played 1 match. Also both players started their run from the qualifications.Both players have not conceded a single set in this event so far. Talking about their workload, Bondar and Popovic have played the same amount of sets 2. However, Bondar played 6 games more than Popovic. Anna scored 36 winners (45% of the total points). On the other side, The Australian managed to score 29 winners (43%).
Serve Performance
| Serve | Bondar | Popovic |
|---|---|---|
| Aces | 9 | 3 |
| Avg per match | 9 | 3 |
| 1st in | 46/68 | 36/50 |
| %1st in | 68% | 72% |
| 1st pts | 36/46 | 29/36 |
| %1st pts | 78% | 81% |
| 2nd pts | 12/22 | 9/14 |
| %2nd pts | 55% | 64% |
Bondar scored 9 aces . Popovic recorded 3 aces . Bondar won 78% points on her first serve. She had a solid display on her second serve to win 55% of the points. On the other side, Popovic won 81% of the points behind her first serve. She had a solid display on her second serve to win 64% of the points.
How they played the important points
| Breaks | Bondar | Popovic |
|---|---|---|
| Won | 2 | 3 |
| Converted | 2/8 | 3/6 |
| % Converted | 25% | 50% |
| Conceded | 5 | 1 |
| Saved | 4 | 1 |
| % Saved | 80% | 100% |
| Times Broken | 1 | 0 |
Anna broke her opponent twice with a 25% conversion rate. Bondar dropped her serve once and she saved 80% of the break points that she conceded. The Australian broke her opponent 3 times with a 50% conversion rate. Popovic was rock solid on her serve as she has never conceded a single service game after saving 1 break points.
| Bondar | |||
| Q1 Hsieh |
Total | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Score | 7-63 6-4 | ||
| Tot Set | 2 | 2 | |
| Tot Games | 23 | 23 | |
| pts | 80-67 | 80-67 | |
| Total points | 147 | 147 | |
| Winners | 36 | 36 | |
| %Winners | 45% | 45% | |
| SERVE | |||
| Aces | 9 | 9 | |
| Double Faults | 1 | 1 | |
| 1st in | 46/68 | 46/68 | |
| % 1st in | 68% | 68% | |
| 1st pts | 36/46 | 36/46 | |
| % 1st pts | 78% | 78% | |
| 2nd pts | 12/22 | 12/22 | |
| % 2nd pts | 55% | 55% | |
| Breaks | |||
| Won | 2 | 2 | |
| Converted | 2/8 | 2/8 | |
| Converted % | 25% | 25% | |
| Conceded | 5 | 5 | |
| Saved | 4/5 | 4 | |
| Saved % | 80% | 80% | |
| Times Broken | 1 | 1 | |
| Popovic | |||
| Q1 Lukas |
Total | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Score | 6-3 6-2 | ||
| Tot Set | 2 | 2 | |
| Tot Games | 17 | 17 | |
| pts | 68-46 | 68-46 | |
| Total points | 114 | 114 | |
| Winners | 29 | 29 | |
| %Winners | 43% | 43% | |
| SERVE | |||
| Aces | 3 | 3 | |
| Double Faults | 4 | 4 | |
| 1st in | 36/50 | 36/50 | |
| % 1st in | 72% | 72% | |
| 1st pts | 29/36 | 29/36 | |
| % 1st pts | 81% | 81% | |
| 2nd pts | 9/14 | 9/14 | |
| % 2nd pts | 64% | 64% | |
| Breaks | |||
| Won | 3 | 3 | |
| Converted | 3/6 | 3/6 | |
| Converted % | 50% | 50% | |
| Conceded | 1 | 1 | |
| Saved | 1/1 | 1 | |
| Saved % | 100% | 100% | |
| Times Broken | 0 | 0 | |
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