Marta Kostyuk and Naomi Osaka will clash against each other in the 2nd round of the Internazionali BNL d’Italia for the 2nd time in their career. They are scheduled to play on Thursday at 1:00 pm on GRAND STAND ARENA. 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 Naomi Osaka who should win in 3 sets.

As per the initial odds, Naomi Osaka is the pick to win this match.
Naomi Osaka -> 1.68
Marta Kostyuk -> 2.19

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Prediction and head to head Marta Kostyuk vs. Naomi Osaka

This will be the 2nd time that Marta Kostyuk and Naomi Osaka square off. The head to head is 1-0 for Osaka (see full H2H stats), but they have never competed against each other on clay.

The last time that they squared off, Osaka won 6-3 6-7(4) 6-2 in the 3rd round in at the U.S. Open back in 2020.

Highlights Naomi Osaka vs Marta Kostyuk – U.S. Open 04-September-2020

Marta Kostyuk

Marta Kostyuk

19 - 8win/loss

Hard
15-6
I Hard
0-0
Clay
4-2
Rank
18
High
16
LWLLWWLWWL
Year Total Hard Clay I.hard Grass Carpet
2024 34-20 24-12 8-5 0-0 2-3 0-0
2023 26-22 22-16 2-4 0-0 2-2 0-0
2022 28-20 18-11 3-4 4-3 3-2 0-0
2021 25-17 8-9 10-4 3-1 4-3 0-0
2020 27-12 16-6 7-3 4-3 0-0 0-0

Ranked no. 20 (career-high), the Ukrainian will start her run in Rome after she played her last match in Madrid where she lost 6-2 7-5 to Sherif in the 2nd round on the 26th of April.

Kostyuk has a composed 19-8 win-loss record in 2024, 4-2 on clay (See FULL STATS).

Kostyuk’s best result of the year was reaching the final in San Diego and Stuttgart.

Talking about her overall career, Kostyuk has an overall 203-116 record. She has a positive 68-34 record on clay.

Previously in Rome

Previously, her best result was reaching the 3rd round in 2023. See her history.

Rome
Kostyuk's Record

Naomi Osaka

Naomi Osaka

10 - 8win/loss

Hard
7-6
I Hard
1-0
Clay
2-2
Rank
59
High
1
LWWWLWLWLW
Year Total Hard Clay I.hard Grass Carpet
2024 22-18 13-10 5-5 1-0 3-3 0-0
2023 0-0 0-0 0-0 0-0 0-0 0-0
2022 14-9 13-7 1-2 0-0 0-0 0-0
2021 18-6 16-4 2-2 0-0 0-0 0-0
2020 16-3 16-2 0-1 0-0 0-0 0-0

Ranked no. 173, Osaka got to the 2nd round after beating Clara Burel 7-62 6-1.

In the 1st round, The Japanese had a good straight sets win against Burel (7-62 6-1). During the match Osaka scored 72 points vs Burel’s 54. Osaka was pretty aggressive to blast 28 winners.

Talking about serving, Osaka fired 8 aces and she was quite solid in conceding no double faults for the entire match. Overall, Naomi Osaka was quite efficient on serve to win 82% (28/34) of her 1st serve and 52% (14/27) on the second serve. However, this didn’t prevent her to concede the serve once. Naomi broke Burel 4 times after converting 44% of her break points (4/9).

The Japanese has a compiled 10-8 win-loss record in 2024, 2-2 on clay (See FULL STATS)

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Previously in Rome

Previously, her best result was reaching the 3rd round in 2019. See her history.

Rome
Osaka's Record

Tennis Scores in Rome

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