Taylor Townsend and Clervie Ngounoue will fight against each other in the qualifications of the BNP Paribas Open for the 1^st time in their career. They are scheduled to compete on Tuesday at 2:00 pm on STADIUM 4. In the following paragraphs, you can find the head to head analysis and prediction.

Prediction, odds and live streaming

The pick for Tennis Tonic is Taylor Townsend who should win in 3 sets.

As per the initial odds, Taylor Townsend is the pick to win this match.
Taylor Townsend -> 1.44
Clervie Ngounoue -> 2.66

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Prediction and head to head Taylor Townsend vs. Clervie Ngounoue

There is no head to head record between Taylor Townsend and Clervie Ngounoue since this will be the first time that they will play each other in the main tour.

Taylor Townsend

Taylor Townsend

5 - 5win/loss

Hard

5-5

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0-0

Rank
76

High
57

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Year	Total	Hard	Clay	I.hard	Grass	Carpet
2024	12-14	10-7	2-4	0-0	0-3	0-0
2023	32-16	16-9	12-4	2-1	2-2	0-0
2022	23-8	14-5	9-3	0-0	0-0	0-0
2021	0-0	0-0	0-0	0-0	0-0	0-0
2020	4-6	4-6	0-0	0-0	0-0	0-0

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Ranked no. 77, the American got to the qualifications after defeating Iva Jovic 6-1 6-2.

In the qualifications, The American had a good straight sets win against Jovic (6-1 6-2). During the match, Townsend scored 56 points vs Jovic’s 31. Townsend was quite aggressive to blast 24 winners.

Talking about the service games, Townsend recorded 4 aces and she committed only 2 double faults. Taylor Townsend was extremely effective on serve to win 86% (24/28) of her 1st serve and 56% (9/16) on the second serve. This was the main reason for not conceding a single break during the match. Taylor broke Jovic 4 times after converting 50% of her break points (4/8).

Townsend has a solid match record in the last 10 years having won 63% of her matches (209-124). 4-5 on hard in 2024. Talking about her performance on the same surface of this competition, Townsend has an overall 118-80 win-loss record in the last years on hard.

Townsend has an aggregate 4-5 win-loss record in 2024, 4-5 on hard (See FULL STATS).

Previously in Indian Wells

Indian Wells

Townsend's Record

Clervie Ngounoue

Clervie Ngounoue

11 - 5win/loss

Hard

4-3

I Hard

0-1

Clay

7-1

Rank
382

High
359

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Year	Total	Hard	Clay	I.hard	Grass	Carpet
2024	11-7	4-3	7-2	0-1	0-1	0-0
2023	14-11	11-10	3-1	0-0	0-0	0-0
2022	18-8	11-5	7-2	0-1	0-0	0-0
2021	2-4	0-1	2-3	0-0	0-0	0-0

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Ranked no. 386 (career-high), Clervie reached the qualifications after beating Alize Cornet 6-2 6-3.

In the qualifications, Clervie had a good straight sets win against Cornet (6-2 6-3). During the match Ngounoue scored 66 points vs Cornet’s 46. The American was quite aggressive to blast 23 winners.

Talking about serving, Ngounoue struck 3 aces and she committed only 7 double faults. Clervie Ngounoue lost the serve twice and she saved 2 break points. Furthermore, Ngounoue put 59% of her first serves in, winning 77% (23/30) of the points behind her 1st serve and 38% (8/21) on the 2nd serve. Clervie broke Cornet 6 times after converting 55% of her break points (6/11).

Her best result of the current season was conquering the title the W35 Naples where she overcame Allie Kiick in the final 6-1 6-1.

Ngounoue has an aggregate 11-4 win-loss record in 2024, 4-2 on hard (See FULL STATS).

Previously in Indian Wells

Clervie has never competed in this tournament before.

Indian Wells

Ngounoue's Record

H2H Performance in the tournament

Matches, sets, games and points

Both Townsend and Ngounoue played 1 match. Also both players started their run from the qualifications.Both players have not dropped a single set in this event so far. Talking about their workload, Townsend and Ngounoue have played the same amount of sets 2. However, Townsend played 2 games less than Ngounoue. Taylor scored 24 winners (43% of the total points). On the other side, Clervie blasted 23 winners (35%).

Serve Performance

Townsend blasted 4 aces . Ngounoue fired 3 aces . Townsend won 86% points behind her first serve. She pretty solid on her second serve to win 56% of the points. On the other side, Ngounoue won 77% of the points behind her first serve. She had a solid display on her second serve to win 38% of the points.

How they played the important points

Taylor broke her opponent 4 times with a 50% conversion rate. Townsend quite strong on her serve as she has never surrendered a single service game after saving 1 break points. Clervie broke her opponent 6 times with a 55% conversion rate. The American conceded her serve twice and she saved 50% of the break points that she conceded.

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Clervie
Ngounoue

Rank

76

High

57

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Rank

382

High

359

Win Loss

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2024 2023 2022

12 - 14

11 - 7

10-7

Hard

4-3

2-4

Clay

7-2

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