Donna Vekic and Marina Stakusic will face off in the 2nd round of the San Diego Open for the 1st time in their career. They are scheduled to compete on Thursday at 1:30 pm on BARNES STADIUM. Here the head to head stats and relative prediction.
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The pick for Tennis Tonic is Donna Vekic who should win in 2 sets.
As per the initial odds, Donna Vekic is the pick to win this match.
Donna Vekic -> 1.34
Marina Stakusic -> 3.28
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Prediction and head to head Donna Vekic vs. Marina Stakusic
There is no head to head record between Donna Vekic and Marina Stakusic since this will be the first time that they will square off in the main tour.
Donna Vekic
| Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 10-10 | 7-6 | 1-3 | 2-1 | 0-0 | 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 |
Ranked no. 28, Donna reached the 2nd round after beating Katherine Hui 7-5 6-2.
In the 1st round, Vekic had a good straight sets win against Hui (7-5 6-2). During the match, Vekic scored 70 points vs Hui’s 45. Vekic was quite aggressive to blast 24 winners.
Regarding the service games, Vekic bagged 2 aces and she committed only 6 double faults. Donna Vekic lost the serve 4 times and she saved 6 break points. Furthermore, Vekic put 52% of her first serves in, winning 77% (24/31) of the points behind her 1st serve and 38% (11/29) on the 2nd serve. The Croatian broke Hui 7 times after converting 70% of her break points (7/10).
Vekic has favorable record in the last 10 years having won 55% of her matches (254-207). 5-3 on hard in 2024. Talking about her performance on the same surface of this competition, Vekic has a compiled 124-105 match record in the last years on hard.
Vekic’s best result of the year was getting to the semifinal in Linz.
Donna has an aggregate 7-4 win-loss record in 2024, 5-3 on hard (See FULL STATS).
Previously in San Diego
Marina Stakusic
| Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 12-7 | 3-1 | 9-6 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2023 | 26-5 | 17-3 | 0-0 | 9-2 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2022 | 28-19 | 12-8 | 11-7 | 5-4 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2021 | 2-6 | 0-2 | 2-4 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2020 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
Ranked no. 283, Marina reached the 2nd round after beating Maria Timofeeva 6-2 3-0 ret., Elsa Jacquemot 6-3 6-4 and Marina Melnikova 6-4 5-7 6-1.
In the 1st round, The Canadian defeated Melnikova (6-4 5-7 6-1). During the match Stakusic scored 96 points vs Melnikova’s 84. Stakusic was very aggressive to blast 32 winners.
Talking about serving, Stakusic struck 4 aces and she committed only 7 double faults. Marina Stakusic lost the serve 6 times and she saved 10 break points. Furthermore, Stakusic put 54% of her first serves in, winning 64% (32/50) of the points behind her 1st serve and 44% (19/43) on the 2nd serve. Stakusic broke Melnikova 8 times after converting 80% of her break points (8/10).
Marina has an overall 3-0 win-loss record in 2024, 3-0 on hard (See FULL STATS).
H2H Performance in the tournament
Matches, sets, games and points
| Points | Vekic | Stakusic |
|---|---|---|
| Match played | 1 | 3 |
| Tot Set | 2 | 8 |
| Tot Games | 20 | 59 |
| Pts | 70-45 | 207-166 |
| Total Points | 115 | 373 |
| Winners | 24 | 72 |
| %Winners | 34% | 35% |
Vekic played 1 match while Stakusic competed in 3 matches. Stakusic started her run from the qualifications while Vekic had a direct access to the main draw. At the moment, Marina Stakusic lost 1 set while Donna Vekic hasn’t surrendered a set so far. Vekic has played 6 set(s) less than Stakusic (2 vs 8). Therefore, Vekic played 39 games less than Stakusic. Donna scored 24 winners (34% of the total points). On the other side, Stakusic scored 72 winners (35%).
Serve Performance
| Serve | Vekic | Stakusic |
|---|---|---|
| Aces | 2 | 4 |
| Avg per match | 2 | 1.3 |
| 1st in | 31/60 | 112/203 |
| %1st in | 52% | 55% |
| 1st pts | 24/31 | 72/112 |
| %1st pts | 77% | 64% |
| 2nd pts | 11/29 | 43/91 |
| %2nd pts | 38% | 47% |
Vekic bagged 2 aces . Stakusic fired 4 aces (1.3 per match). Vekic won 77% points on her first serve. She very solid her second serve to win 38% of the points. On the other side, Stakusic won 64% of the points on her first serve. She had a solid display on her second serve to win 47% of the points.
How they played the important points
| Breaks | Vekic | Stakusic |
|---|---|---|
| Won | 7 | 17 |
| Converted | 7/10 | 17/24 |
| % Converted | 70% | 71% |
| Conceded | 10 | 27 |
| Saved | 6 | 17 |
| % Saved | 60% | 63% |
| Times Broken | 4 | 10 |
Donna broke her opponent 7 times with a 70% conversion rate. Vekic surrendered her serve 4 times and she saved 60% of the break points that she conceded. Stakusic broke her opponents 17 times with a 71% conversion rate. Marina conceded her serve 10 times and she saved 63% of the break points that she conceded.
| Vekic | |||
| R1 Hui |
Total | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Score | 7-5 6-2 | ||
| Tot Set | 2 | 2 | |
| Tot Games | 20 | 20 | |
| pts | 70-45 | 70-45 | |
| Total points | 115 | 115 | |
| Winners | 24 | 24 | |
| %Winners | 34% | 34% | |
| SERVE | |||
| Aces | 2 | 2 | |
| Double Faults | 6 | 6 | |
| 1st in | 31/60 | 31/60 | |
| % 1st in | 52% | 52% | |
| 1st pts | 24/31 | 24/31 | |
| % 1st pts | 77% | 77% | |
| 2nd pts | 11/29 | 11/29 | |
| % 2nd pts | 38% | 38% | |
| Breaks | |||
| Won | 7 | 7 | |
| Converted | 7/10 | 7/10 | |
| Converted % | 70% | 70% | |
| Conceded | 10 | 10 | |
| Saved | 6/10 | 6 | |
| Saved % | 60% | 60% | |
| Times Broken | 4 | 4 | |
| Stakusic | |||||
| Q1 Timofeeva |
Q3 Jacquemot |
R1 Melnikova |
Total | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Score | 6-2 3-0 ret. | 6-3 6-4 | 6-4 5-7 6-1 | ||
| Tot Set | 2 | 2 | 3 | 7 | |
| Tot Games | 11 | 19 | 29 | 59 | |
| pts | 46-29 | 65-53 | 96-84 | 207-166 | |
| Total points | 75 | 118 | 180 | 373 | |
| Winners | 15 | 25 | 32 | 72 | |
| %Winners | 33% | 38% | 33% | 35% | |
| SERVE | |||||
| Aces | 0 | 0 | 4 | 4 | |
| Double Faults | 3 | 9 | 7 | 19 | |
| 1st in | 25/42 | 37/68 | 50/93 | 112/203 | |
| % 1st in | 60% | 54% | 54% | 55% | |
| 1st pts | 15/25 | 25/37 | 32/50 | 72/112 | |
| % 1st pts | 60% | 68% | 64% | 64% | |
| 2nd pts | 10/17 | 14/31 | 19/43 | 43/91 | |
| % 2nd pts | 59% | 45% | 44% | 47% | |
| Breaks | |||||
| Won | 4 | 5 | 8 | 17 | |
| Converted | 4/7 | 5/7 | 8/10 | 17/24 | |
| Converted % | 57% | 71% | 80% | 71% | |
| Conceded | 5 | 6 | 16 | 27 | |
| Saved | 4/5 | 3/6 | 10/16 | 17 | |
| Saved % | 80% | 50% | 63% | 193% | |
| Times Broken | 1 | 3 | 6 | 10 | |
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