Ekaterina Alexandrova and Donna Vekic will square off in the semifinal of the Upper Austria Ladies Linz for the 4th time in their career. They are scheduled to play on Saturday at 2:00 pm on Center Court. In this post, we analyze their head to head performance and prediction.

Prediction, odds and live streaming

The pick for Tennis Tonic is Ekaterina Alexandrova who should win in 3 sets.

As per the initial odds, Ekaterina Alexandrova is the pick to win this match.
Ekaterina Alexandrova -> 1.71
Donna Vekic -> 2.14

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Prediction and head to head Ekaterina Alexandrova vs. Donna Vekic

This will be the 4th time that Ekaterina Alexandrova and Donna Vekic square off. The head to head is 2-1 for Vekic (see full H2H stats),but they are 1-1 on indoor hard courts.

The last time that they locked horns, Vekic won 7-6(7) 7-6(5) in the 1st round in Stuttgart back in 2023.

Highlights Donna Vekic vs Ekaterina Alexandrova – Stuttgart 17-April-2023

Ekaterina Alexandrova

Ekaterina Alexandrova

5 - 3win/loss

Hard
3-3
I Hard
2-0
Rank
28
High
15
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Year Total Hard Clay I.hard Grass Carpet
2024 26-24 17-13 1-7 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
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Ranked no. 21, Alexandrova got to the semifinal after beating Jule Niemeier 6-3 6-0 and Anastasia Potapova 6-2 7-68.

In the quarter, Alexandrova had a good straight sets win against Potapova (6-2 7-68). During the match, Alexandrova scored 79 points vs Potapova’s 65. Ekaterina was pretty aggressive to blast 33 winners.

Talking about the service games, Alexandrova scored 8 aces and she committed only 1 double fault. Ekaterina Alexandrova lost the serve once and she saved 3 break points. Furthermore, Alexandrova put 63% of her first serves in, winning 85% (33/39) of the points behind her 1st serve and 48% (11/23) on the 2nd serve. Alexandrova broke Potapova 3 times after converting 27% of her break points (3/11).

Overall Performance in this tournament

The Russian hasn’t conceded yet a set in this event to conquer 58% of the points she played.

Alexandrova has a solid record in the last 10 years having won 61% of her matches (306-195). 2-0 on indoor hard courts in 2024. Talking about her performance on the same surface of this competition, Alexandrova has a composed 88-37 match record in the last years on indoor hard courts.

Alexandrova’s best result of the current year was getting to the semifinal in Adelaide.

Ekaterina has an overall 5-3 win-loss record in 2024, 2-0 on indoor hard courts (See FULL STATS).

Previously in Linz

Linz
Alexandrova's Record

Donna Vekic

Donna Vekic

4 - 1win/loss

Hard
2-1
I Hard
2-0
Rank
19
High
18
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Year Total Hard Clay I.hard Grass Carpet
2024 32-20 12-10 8-5 2-1 10-4 0-0
2023 29-20 16-9 4-5 2-3 7-3 0-0
2022 28-20 10-9 9-6 2-1 7-4 0-0
2021 19-16 10-12 0-1 5-0 4-3 0-0
2020 8-11 6-6 1-3 1-2 0-0 0-0
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Ranked no. 34, Donna reached the semifinal after defeating Dayana Yastremska 6-1 6-1 and Clara Burel 6-0 7-63.

In the quarter, The Croatian had a good straight sets win against Burel (6-0 7-63). During the match Vekic scored 71 points vs Burel’s 49. Vekic was pretty aggressive to blast 25 winners.

Talking about serving, Vekic wasn’t able to score even 1 ace for the entire match and she committed only 3 double faults. Donna Vekic lost the serve twice. Furthermore, Vekic put 57% of her first serves in, winning 69% (25/36) of the points behind her 1st serve and 52% (14/27) on the 2nd serve. Donna broke Burel 5 times after converting 50% of her break points (5/10).

Overall Performance in this tournament

Vekic hasn’t dropped yet a set in the tournament to win 61% of the points she played.

The Croatian has an aggregate 4-1 win-loss record in 2024, 2-0 on indoor hard courts (See FULL STATS)

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Previously in Linz

Previously, her best result was reaching the quarter in 2023. See her history.

Linz
Vekic's Record

H2H Performance in the tournament (main draw)

E.Alexandrova
D.Vekic
2h:30
2h:30
Time on court​
2h:34
2h:34
1h:26
1h:26
Last match​
1h:30
1h:30
2
2
Match played
2
2
36
36
Games Played​
33
33
4
4
Set played​​
4
4
141
141
Total points​
129
129
70.5
70.5
Avg point​
64.5
64.5
54
54
Winners
47
47
27
27
Avg Winners​
23.5
23.5
38%
38%
Ratio winners
36%
36%
-- Serve --
16
16
Aces
4
4
8
8
Avg Aces
2
2
3
3
Double Faults
5
5
1.5
1.5
Avg Double Faults
2.5
2.5
54/68
54/68
1st won total​
47/64
47/64
!
79%
79%
1st won %
!
73%
73%
19/38
19/38
2nd won total​
23/41
23/41
50%
50%
2nd won %
56%
56%
-- Break Points --
9/23
9/23
BP won
10/18
10/18
4.5/11.5
4.5/11.5
Avg BP won
5/9
5/9
39%
39%
Won
!
56%
56%
8
8
Conceded
5
5
4
4
Avg Conceded
2.5
2.5
2
2
Broken
2
2
1
1
Avg Broken
1
1
6
6
Saved
3
3
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Matches, sets, games and points

Points Alexandrova Vekic
Match played 2 2
Tot Set 4 4
Tot Games 36 33
Pts 141-103 129-83
Total Points 244 212
Winners 54 47
%Winners 38% 36%

Both Alexandrova and Vekic played 2 matches. Both players have not dropped a single set in this event so far. Talking about their workload, Alexandrova and Vekic have played the same amount of sets 4. However, Alexandrova played 3 games more than Vekic. Alexandrova scored 54 winners (38% of the total points). On the other side, Vekic bagged 47 winners (36%).

Serve Performance

Serve Alexandrova Vekic
Aces 16 4
Avg per match 8 2
1st in 68/106 64/105
%1st in 64% 61%
1st pts 54/68 47/64
%1st pts 79% 73%
2nd pts 19/38 23/41
%2nd pts 50% 56%

Alexandrova fired 16 aces (8 per match). Vekic recorded 4 aces (2 per match). Alexandrova won 79% points on her first serve. She pretty effective on her second serve to win 50% of the points. On the other side, Vekic won 73% of the points on her first serve. She had a solid display on her second serve to win 56% of the points.

How they played the important points

Breaks Alexandrova Vekic
Won 9 10
Converted 9/23 10/18
% Converted 39% 56%
Conceded 8 5
Saved 6 3
% Saved 75% 60%
Times Broken 2 2

The Russian broke her opponents 9 times with a 39% conversion rate. Ekaterina dropped her serve twice and she saved 75% of the break points that she conceded. Donna broke her opponents 10 times with a 56% conversion rate. Donna conceded her serve twice and she saved 60% of the break points that she conceded.

Alexandrova
R2
Niemeier		 1/4
Potapova		 Total
Score 6-3 6-0 6-2 7-68
Tot Set 2 2 4
Tot Games 15 21 36
pts 62-38 79-65 141-103
Total points 100 144 244
Winners 21 33 54
%Winners 34% 42% 38%
SERVE
Aces 8 8 16
Double Faults 2 1 3
1st in 29/44 39/62 68/106
% 1st in 66% 63% 64%
1st pts 21/29 33/39 54/68
% 1st pts 72% 85% 79%
2nd pts 8/15 11/23 19/38
% 2nd pts 53% 48% 50%
Breaks
Won 6 3 9
Converted 6/12 3/11 9/23
Converted % 50% 27% 39%
Conceded 4 4 8
Saved 3/4 3/4 6
Saved % 75% 75% 75%
Times Broken 1 1 2
Vekic
R2
Yastremska		 1/4
Burel		 Total
Score 6-1 6-1 6-0 7-63
Tot Set 2 2 4
Tot Games 14 19 33
pts 58-34 71-49 129-83
Total points 92 120 212
Winners 22 25 47
%Winners 38% 35% 36%
SERVE
Aces 4 0 4
Double Faults 2 3 5
1st in 28/42 36/63 64/105
% 1st in 67% 57% 61%
1st pts 22/28 25/36 47/64
% 1st pts 79% 69% 73%
2nd pts 9/14 14/27 23/41
% 2nd pts 64% 52% 56%
Breaks
Won 5 5 10
Converted 5/8 5/10 10/18
Converted % 63% 50% 56%
Conceded 3 2 5
Saved 3/3 0/2 3
Saved % 100% 0% 50%
Times Broken 0 2 2

Tennis Scores in Linz

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