Ekaterina Alexandrova and Jule Niemeier will face off in the 2nd round of the Upper Austria Ladies Linz for the 1st time in their career. They are scheduled to play on Wednesday at 7:00 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 Ekaterina Alexandrova who should win in 2 sets.
Ekaterina Alexandrova -> 1.34
Jule Niemeier -> 3.28
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Prediction and head to head Ekaterina Alexandrova vs. Jule Niemeier
There is no head to head record between Ekaterina Alexandrova and Jule Niemeier since this will be the first time that they will clash against each other in the main tour.
Ekaterina Alexandrova
| Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 18-17 | 9-7 | 1-6 | 3-1 | 5-3 | 0-0 |
| 2023 | 33-21 | 17-13 | 6-5 | 0-1 | 10-2 | 0-0 |
| 2022 | 35-18 | 12-10 | 13-5 | 4-2 | 6-1 | 0-0 |
| 2021 | 26-23 | 10-9 | 6-5 | 7-7 | 3-2 | 0-0 |
| 2020 | 20-12 | 9-4 | 4-5 | 7-3 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
Ranked no. 21, Alexandrova will start her run in Linz after she played her last match at the Melbourne where she lost 6-2 3-6 7-6(9) to Siegemund in the 1st round on the 15th of January.
Alexandrova has a composed 3-3 win-loss record in 2024, 0-0 on indoor hard courts (See FULL STATS).
This will be the first match of the year on indoor hard courts.
Ekaterina’s best result of the current season was getting to the semifinal in Adelaide.
Talking about her overall career, The Russian has an overall 304-195 record. She has a positive 86-37 record on indoor hard courts.
Previously in Linz
Previously, her best result was reaching the final in 2018. See her history.
Jule Niemeier
| Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 31-21 | 13-7 | 12-8 | 3-1 | 3-5 | 0-0 |
| 2023 | 16-29 | 3-14 | 5-7 | 4-5 | 4-3 | 0-0 |
| 2022 | 40-22 | 7-7 | 22-8 | 6-3 | 5-3 | 0-1 |
| 2021 | 37-18 | 4-4 | 22-7 | 5-4 | 4-2 | 2-1 |
| 2020 | 14-11 | 2-2 | 5-6 | 6-2 | 0-0 | 1-1 |
Ranked no. 159, the German reached the 2nd round after defeating Harriet Dart 7-67 6-2, Nuria Parrizas-Diaz 6-3 6-1 and Anna Blinkova 6-3 6-4.
In the 1st round, Jule had a good straight sets win against Blinkova (6-3 6-4). During the match Niemeier scored 66 points vs Blinkova’s 50. Jule was quite aggressive to blast 31 winners.
About the serving games, Niemeier struck 5 aces and she committed only 5 double faults. Overall, Jule Niemeier was exceptionally effective on serve to win 74% (31/42) of her 1st serve and 57% (13/23) on the second serve. However, this didn’t prevent her to concede the serve once. Niemeier broke Blinkova 3 times after converting 60% of her break points (3/5).
Jule has a compiled 5-2 win-loss record in 2024, 3-0 on indoor hard courts (See FULL STATS)
.Previously in Linz
Previously, her best result was reaching the 2nd round in 2023. See her history.
Tennis Scores in Linz
- Maximilian NeuchristNeuchrist – Renta TokudaTokuda (1-1 ret.) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Ugo HumbertHumbert – Benjamin SigouinSigouin (6-4 6-4) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Go SoedaSoeda – Jacob GrillsGrills (2-6 6-1 6-4) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Peter PolanskyPolansky – Pavel KrainikKrainik (6-2 7-5) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Jason Murray KublerMurray Kubler – Laurynas GrigelisGrigelis (7-65 4-6 6-4) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Zhe LiLi – Darian KingKing (2-6 6-4 6-0) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Bradley KlahnKlahn – Yunseong ChungChung (7-5 6-4) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Ernesto EscobedoEscobedo – Joao MenezesMenezes (6-2 3-6 7-65) – Stats, scores, rankings
Upcoming matches in the draw
- Petra MarticMartic – Katerina SiniakovaSiniakova (0-2) – H2H and prediction
- Dayana YastremskaYastremska – (1-0) – H2H and prediction
- Anastasia PotapovaPotapova – Sara ErraniErrani (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Jelena OstapenkoOstapenko – Clara TausonTauson (0-1) – H2H and prediction
- Jaqueline CristianCristian – Jodie Anna BurrageAnna Burrage (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Elise MertensMertens – Lucia BronzettiBronzetti (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Anastasia PavlyuchenkovaPavlyuchenkova – Katie BoulterBoulter (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Jule NiemeierNiemeier – Ekaterina AlexandrovaAlexandrova (0-0) – H2H and prediction