Anastasia Potapova and Sara Errani will square off in the 1st round of the Upper Austria Ladies Linz for the 1st time in their career. They are scheduled to play on Wednesday at 1:00 pm on Center Court. In the following lines you can find the head to head analysis and prediction.

Prediction, odds and live streaming

The pick for Tennis Tonic is Anastasia Potapova who should win in 2 sets.

As per the initial odds, Anastasia Potapova is the pick to win this match.
Anastasia Potapova -> 1.161
Sara Errani -> 5.25

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Prediction and head to head Anastasia Potapova vs. Sara Errani

There is no head to head record between Anastasia Potapova and Sara Errani since this will be the first time that they will fight against each other in the main tour.

Anastasia Potapova

Anastasia Potapova

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Rank
51
High
21
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Year Total Hard Clay I.hard Grass Carpet
2025 24-16 10-11 6-3 7-1 1-1 0-0
2024 28-22 17-13 6-5 2-1 3-3 0-0
2023 30-21 11-14 7-4 7-1 5-2 0-0
2022 35-24 14-14 18-7 3-2 0-1 0-0
2021 21-23 11-11 3-5 5-5 2-2 0-0

Ranked no. 27, Anastasia will start her run in Linz after she played her last match at the Melbourne where she lost 6-1 6-4 to Juvan in the 1st round on the 15th of January.

The Russian has a compiled 2-2 win-loss record in 2024, 0-0 on indoor hard courts (See FULL STATS).

This will be the first match of the season on indoor hard courts.

Talking about her overall career, The Russian has an overall 192-135 record. She has a positive 32-18 record on indoor hard courts.

Previously in Linz

Previously, she won this tournament once in 2023. See her history.

Linz
Potapova's Record

Sara Errani

Sara Errani

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Rank
620
High
5
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Year Total Hard Clay I.hard Grass Carpet
2025 3-9 1-4 2-5 0-0 0-0 0-0
2024 29-22 9-11 13-7 4-2 3-2 0-0
2023 36-31 11-9 21-17 3-2 1-3 0-0
2022 33-29 8-10 21-15 0-2 4-2 0-0
2021 16-21 6-10 9-9 0-0 1-2 0-0

Ranked no. 99, the Italian reached the 1st round after beating Anna Bondar 1-6 6-2 6-2 and Ella Seidel 7-65 6-4.

In the qualifications, Errani had a good straight sets win against Seidel (7-65 6-4). During the match Errani scored 91 points vs Seidel’s 73. Sara was exceptionally aggressive to blast 35 winners.

About the serving games, Errani couldn’t to score even 1 ace for the entire match and she committed only 1 double fault for the entire match. Sara Errani lost the serve 4 times and she saved 6 break points. Furthermore, Errani put 77% of her first serves in, winning 60% (35/58) of the points behind her 1st serve and 65% (11/17) on the 2nd serve. The Italian broke Seidel 5 times after converting 71% of her break points (5/7).

Overall Performance in this tournament

Sara started her run at this tournament from the qualifications. In the main draw, she has conceded 1 set in the tournament to win 54% of the points she played.

The Italian has an aggregate 2-2 win-loss record in 2024, 2-0 on indoor hard courts (See FULL STATS).

Previously in Linz

Previously, her best result was reaching the quarter in 2009 and 2010. See her history.

Linz
Errani's Record

Tennis Scores in Linz

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