Victoria Azarenka and Magda Linette will play each other in the 2nd round of the Internazionali BNL d’Italia for the 6th time in their career. They are scheduled to play on Friday at 4:00 pm on COURT 12. In this post, we analyze their head to head performance and prediction.
Prediction, odds and live streaming
The pick for Tennis Tonic is Victoria Azarenka who should win in 3 sets.
As per the initial odds, Victoria Azarenka is the pick to win this match.
Victoria Azarenka -> 1.54
Magda Linette -> 2.48
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Prediction and head to head Victoria Azarenka vs. Magda Linette
This will be the 6th time that Victoria Azarenka and Magda Linette fight against each other. The head to head is 3-2 for Azarenka (see full H2H stats), but they have never played each other on clay.
The last time that they locked horns, Linette won 5-7 6-1 6-2 in the 1st round in Beijing back in 2023.
Victoria Azarenka
17 - 8win/loss
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LWWWLWLWWL | Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 20-9 | 14-6 | 6-3 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2023 | 23-19 | 17-13 | 2-3 | 0-0 | 4-3 | 0-0 |
| 2022 | 24-13 | 18-9 | 6-3 | 0-1 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2021 | 28-9 | 18-6 | 4-1 | 0-0 | 6-2 | 0-0 |
| 2020 | 18-6 | 11-3 | 4-2 | 3-1 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
Ranked no. 24, Victoria will start her run in Rome after she played her last match in Madrid where she lost 7-6(0) 6-3 to Sorribes Tormo in the 3rd round on the 27th of April.
Victoria has an aggregate 17-8 win-loss record in 2024, 3-2 on clay (See FULL STATS).
The Belarussian’s best result of the year was reaching the semifinal in Brisbane and Miami.
Talking about her overall career, Azarenka has an overall 636-252 record. She has a positive 134-62 record on clay.
Previously in Rome
Previously, her best result was reaching the final in 2013. See her history.
Magda Linette
| Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 13-13 | 3-9 | 10-4 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2023 | 27-29 | 19-15 | 4-7 | 0-4 | 4-3 | 0-0 |
| 2022 | 40-29 | 23-16 | 10-7 | 3-2 | 4-4 | 0-0 |
| 2021 | 18-18 | 8-9 | 5-6 | 3-1 | 2-2 | 0-0 |
| 2020 | 14-11 | 9-7 | 2-3 | 3-1 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
Ranked no. 51, Magda got to the 2nd round after defeating Lin Zhu 6-3 6-2.
In the 1st round, Magda had a good straight sets win against Zhu (6-3 6-2). During the match Linette scored 64 points vs Zhu’s 40. Magda was pretty aggressive to blast 19 winners.
About the serving games, Linette was unable to score even 1 ace for the entire match and she committed only 1 double fault for the entire match. Magda Linette was very effective on serve to win 86% (19/22) of her 1st serve and 74% (17/23) on the second serve. This was the main reason for not conceding a single break during the match. The Pole broke Zhu 3 times after converting 30% of her break points (3/10).
The Pole’s best result of the current season was getting to the final in Rouen.
The Pole has a composed 11-12 win-loss record in 2024, 8-3 on clay (See FULL STATS).
Previously in Rome
Previously, her best result was reaching the 3rd round in 2023. See her history.
Head 2 Head
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WWLWLWLWWW Tennis Scores in Rome
- Iga SwiatekSwiatek – Bernarda PeraPera (6-0 6-2) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Naomi OsakaOsaka – Marta KostyukKostyuk (6-3 6-2) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Diana ShnaiderShnaider – Liudmila SamsonovaSamsonova (6-1 6-3) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Aliaksandra SasnovichSasnovich – Ekaterina AlexandrovaAlexandrova (6-0 6-1) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Jaqueline CristianCristian – Elina AvanesyanAvanesyan (5-7 6-2 6-2) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Yulia PutintsevaPutintseva – Sloane StephensStephens (6-3 6-2) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Linda NoskovaNoskova – Lucrezia StefaniniStefanini (6-3 7-61) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Daria KasatkinaKasatkina – Tatjana MariaMaria (7-5 6-1) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Marketa VondrousovaVondrousova – Ana BogdanBogdan (6-2 3-6 6-4) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Cori GauffGauff – Magdalena FrechFrech (6-3 6-3) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Beatriz Haddad MaiaHaddad Maia – Xinyu WangWang (4-6 6-3 6-4) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Qinwen ZhengZheng – Shelby RogersRogers (6-2 6-0) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Angelique KerberKerber – Veronika KudermetovaKudermetova (6-3 6-0) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Lloyd HarrisHarris – Joris De LooreDe Loore (6-2 6-0) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Liam BroadyBroady – Jay ClarkeClarke (7-63 6-4) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Martin RedlickiRedlicki – Marcos GironGiron (6-3 6-4) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Thomas FabbianoFabbiano – Stefano NapolitanoNapolitano (6-2 6-2) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Thanasi KokkinakisKokkinakis – Kaichi UchidaUchida (7-5 6-0) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Ernesto EscobedoEscobedo – Aleksandar VukicVukic (7-66 7-61) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Christopher EubanksEubanks – Michael MmohMmoh (7-64 6-4) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Prajnesh GunneswaranGunneswaran – Jc AragoneAragone (4-6 7-5 6-4) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Madison KeysMadison – Maria Camila Osorio SerranoMaria (6-0 4-6 6-3) – See score progression
- Sorana CirsteaSorana – Brenda FruhvirtovaBrenda (7-5 6-0) – See score progression
Upcoming matches in the draw
- Emma NavarroNavarro – Paula Badosa GibertBadosa Gibert (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Maria SakkariSakkari – Varvara GrachevaGracheva (1-0) – H2H and prediction
- Lesya TsurenkoTsurenko – Anhelina KalininaKalinina (1-0) – H2H and prediction
- Victoria AzarenkaAzarenka – Magda LinetteLinette (3-2) – H2H and prediction
- Mayar SherifSherif – Jasmine PaoliniPaolini (1-0) – H2H and prediction
- Danielle Rose CollinsRose Collins – Anna BlinkovaBlinkova (0-1) – H2H and prediction
- Elisabetta CocciarettoCocciaretto – Caroline GarciaGarcia (1-4) – H2H and prediction
- Elise MertensMertens – Katerina SiniakovaSiniakova (4-0) – H2H and prediction
- Irina-Camelia BeguBegu – Elena RybakinaRybakina (1-0) – H2H and prediction
- Ons JabeurJabeur – Sofia KeninKenin (2-5) – H2H and prediction
- Rebecca SramkovaSramkova – Katie BoulterBoulter (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Anastasia PavlyuchenkovaPavlyuchenkova – Sara Sorribes TormoSorribes Tormo (3-2) – H2H and prediction
- Anastasia PotapovaPotapova – Jelena OstapenkoOstapenko (0-1) – H2H and prediction
- Elina SvitolinaSvitolina – Sara ErraniErrani (0-2) – H2H and prediction
- Clara TausonTauson – Anna KalinskayaKalinskaya (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Dayana YastremskaYastremska – Laura SiegemundSiegemund (2-0) – H2H and prediction
- Katie VolynetsVolynets – Aryna SabalenkaSabalenka (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Iga SwiatekSwiatek – Yulia PutintsevaPutintseva (3-0) – H2H and prediction
- Angelique KerberKerber – Aliaksandra SasnovichSasnovich (2-1) – H2H and prediction
- Beatriz Haddad MaiaHaddad Maia – Madison KeysKeys (1-0) – H2H and prediction
- Sorana CirsteaCirstea – Marketa VondrousovaVondrousova (3-1) – H2H and prediction
- Cori GauffGauff – Jaqueline CristianCristian (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Darya KasatkinaKasatkina – Naomi OsakaOsaka (0-1) – H2H and prediction
