Jelena Ostapenko and Anastasia Potapova will face off in the 2nd round of the Internazionali BNL d’Italia for the 2nd time in their career. They are scheduled to play on Friday at 1:00 pm on COURT 1. Here the head to head stats and relative prediction.

Prediction, odds and live streaming

The pick for Tennis Tonic is Jelena Ostapenko who should win in 3 sets.

As per the initial odds, Jelena Ostapenko is the pick to win this match.
Jelena Ostapenko -> 1.533
Anastasia Potapova -> 2.5

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Prediction and head to head Jelena Ostapenko vs. Anastasia Potapova

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

The last time that they played, Ostapenko won 5-7 6-2 6-4 in the semifinal in Birmingham back in 2023.

Highlights Jelena Ostapenko vs Anastasia Potapova – Birmingham 24-June-2023

Jelena Ostapenko

Jelena Ostapenko

21 - 9win/loss

Hard
13-6
I Hard
4-0
Clay
4-3
Rank
10
High
5
WLWWWLWWLW
Year Total Hard Clay I.hard Grass Carpet
2024 25-10 13-6 8-4 4-0 0-0 0-0
2023 37-22 21-15 7-4 1-1 8-2 0-0
2022 33-19 19-10 3-3 3-3 8-3 0-0
2021 32-19 12-9 5-4 7-4 8-2 0-0
2020 9-8 3-2 4-3 2-3 0-0 0-0

Ranked no. 10, Jelena will start her run in Rome after she played her last match in Madrid where she lost 6-0 6-4 to Jabeur in the 4th round on the 29th of April.

Jelena has a compiled 21-9 win-loss record in 2024, 4-3 on clay (See FULL STATS).

Her best result of the season was conquering the title in Adelaide where she defeated Daria Kasatkina in the final 6-3 6-2 and in Linz where she defeated Ekaterina Alexandrova in the final 6-2 6-3.

Talking about her overall career, The Latvian has an overall 381-229 record. She has a positive 104-51 record on clay.

Previously in Rome

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

Rome
Ostapenko's Record

Anastasia Potapova

Anastasia Potapova

13 - 9win/loss

Hard
8-6
I Hard
2-1
Clay
3-2
Rank
41
High
21
LLWLWLWLLW
Year Total Hard Clay I.hard Grass Carpet
2024 13-11 8-6 3-4 2-1 0-0 0-0
2023 30-21 11-14 7-4 7-1 5-2 0-0
2022 35-24 14-14 18-7 3-2 0-1 0-0
2021 21-23 11-11 3-5 5-5 2-2 0-0
2020 11-6 7-5 0-0 4-1 0-0 0-0

Ranked no. 43, Anastasia reached the 2nd round after beating Xiyu Wang 6-1 7-5.

In the 1st round, The Russian had a good straight sets win against Wang (6-1 7-5). During the match Potapova scored 72 points vs Wang’s 46. The Russian was very aggressive to blast 22 winners.

About the serving games, Potapova scored 3 aces and she committed only 4 double faults. Overall, Anastasia Potapova was quite effective on serve to win 81% (22/27) of her 1st serve and 67% (20/30) on the second serve. However, this didn’t prevent her to concede the serve once. Potapova broke Wang 4 times after converting 50% of her break points (4/8).

Anastasia has a composed 13-9 win-loss record in 2024, 3-2 on clay (See FULL STATS).

Previously in Rome

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

Rome
Potapova's Record

Tennis Scores in Rome

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