Jelena Ostapenko and Sara Sorribes Tormo will face off in the 3rd round of the Internazionali BNL d’Italia for the 3rd time in their career. They are scheduled to compete on Sunday at 3:00 pm on GRAND STAND ARENA. In this post, we analyze their head to head performance and 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 -> 1.58
Sara Sorribes Tormo -> 2.39

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Prediction and head to head Jelena Ostapenko vs. Sara Sorribes Tormo

This will be the 3rd time that Jelena Ostapenko and Sara Sorribes Tormo fight against each other. The head to head is 2-0 for Sorribes Tormo (see full H2H stats), 1-0 on clay.

The last time that they played, Sorribes Tormo won 7-6(3) 6-4 in the 1st round in Linz back in 2016.

Jelena Ostapenko

Jelena Ostapenko

22 - 9win/loss

Hard
13-6
I Hard
4-0
Clay
5-3
Rank
10
High
5
WLWWWLWWLW
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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
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Ranked no. 10, the Latvian got to the 3rd round after beating Anastasia Potapova 6-4 6-2.

In the 2nd round, The Latvian had a good straight sets win against Potapova (6-4 6-2). During the match, Ostapenko scored 73 points vs Potapova’s 63. The Latvian was exceptionally aggressive to blast 25 winners.

Talking about the service games, Ostapenko wasn’t able to score even 1 ace during the encounter and she committed only 2 double faults. Jelena Ostapenko lost the serve 3 times and she saved 6 break points. Furthermore, Ostapenko put 51% of her first serves in, winning 64% (25/39) of the points behind her 1st serve and 43% (16/37) on the 2nd serve. Ostapenko broke Potapova 6 times after converting 60% of her break points (6/10).

Ostapenko has a solid record in the last 10 years having won 60% of her matches (304-199). 5-3 on clay in 2024. Talking about her performance on the same surface of this tournament, Ostapenko has a compiled 65-42 win-loss record in the last years on clay.

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

Jelena has an aggregate 22-9 win-loss record in 2024, 5-3 on clay (See FULL STATS).

Previously in Rome

Rome
Ostapenko's Record

Sara Sorribes Tormo

Sara Sorribes Tormo

8 - 11win/loss

Hard
2-8
I Hard
0-0
Clay
6-3
Rank
46
High
32
LWWLWWLWWW
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Year Total Hard Clay I.hard Grass Carpet
2024 10-13 2-8 8-5 0-0 0-0 0-0
2023 29-17 10-6 17-9 1-1 1-1 0-0
2022 24-18 9-10 13-6 0-0 2-2 0-0
2021 31-20 24-11 2-5 2-2 3-2 0-0
2020 17-13 4-7 9-4 4-2 0-0 0-0
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Ranked no. 47, Sorribes Tormo reached the 3rd round after defeating Nadia Podoroska 6-4 6-3 and Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova 6-3 1-6 7-5.

In the 2nd round, Sorribes Tormo defeated Pavlyuchenkova (6-3 1-6 7-5).During the match Sorribes Tormo scored less points (5) than Pavlyuchenkova. In fact, the world no. 10 won 84 points vs Pavlyuchenkova’s. That means that Sorribes Tormo was more focused during the important points. Sara was pretty aggressive to blast 30 winners.

About the serving games, Sorribes Tormo was unable to score even 1 ace for the entire match and she committed only 2 double faults. Sara Sorribes Tormo lost the serve 7 times and she saved 5 break points. Furthermore, Sorribes Tormo put 80% of her first serves in, winning 46% (30/65) of the points behind her 1st serve and 56% (9/16) on the 2nd serve. Sara broke Pavlyuchenkova 7 times after converting 54% of her break points (7/13).

Overall Performance in this tournament

The Spaniard has conceded 1 set in the tournament to win 51% of the points she played.

Sorribes Tormo has a composed 8-11 win-loss record in 2024, 6-3 on clay (See FULL STATS).

Previously in Rome

Previously, her best result was reaching the 2nd round in 2021. See her history.

Rome
Sorribes Tormo's Record

H2H Performance in the tournament (main draw)

J.Ostapenko
S.Sorribes Tormo
1h:37
1h:37
Time on court​
!
4h:21
4h:21
1h:37
1h:37
Last match​
!
2h:22
2h:22
1
1
Match played
!
2
2
18
18
Games Played​
47
47
2
2
Set played​​
5
5
73
73
Total points​
153
153
73
73
Avg point​
76.5
76.5
25
25
Winners
63
63
25
25
Avg Winners​
31.5
31.5
34%
34%
Ratio winners
41%
41%
-- Serve --
0
0
Aces
0
0
0
0
Avg Aces
0
0
2
2
Double Faults
5
5
2
2
Avg Double Faults
2.5
2.5
25/39
25/39
1st won total​
63/118
63/118
64%
64%
1st won %
53%
53%
16/37
16/37
2nd won total​
17/36
17/36
43%
43%
2nd won %
47%
47%
-- Break Points --
6/10
6/10
BP won
12/20
12/20
6/10
6/10
Avg BP won
6/10
6/10
!
60%
60%
Won
!
60%
60%
9
9
Conceded
18
18
9
9
Avg Conceded
9
9
3
3
Broken
10
10
3
3
Avg Broken
!
5
5
6
6
Saved
8
8
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Matches, sets, games and points

Points Ostapenko Sorribes Tormo
Match played 1 2
Tot Set 2 5
Tot Games 18 47
Pts 73-63 153-146
Total Points 136 299
Winners 25 63
%Winners 34% 41%

Ostapenko played 1 match while Sorribes Tormo competed in 2 matches. At the moment, Sara Sorribes Tormo surrendered 1 set while Jelena Ostapenko hasn’t conceded a set so far. Ostapenko has played 3 set(s) less than Sorribes Tormo (2 vs 5). Therefore, Ostapenko played 29 games less than Sorribes Tormo. The Latvian scored 25 winners (34% of the total points). On the other side, Sorribes Tormo struck 63 winners (41%).

Serve Performance

Serve Ostapenko Sorribes Tormo
Aces 0 0
Avg per match 0 0
1st in 39/76 118/154
%1st in 51% 77%
1st pts 25/39 63/118
%1st pts 64% 53%
2nd pts 16/37 17/36
%2nd pts 43% 47%

Ostapenko didn’t manage to fire a single ace to far. Sorribes Tormo also didn’t manage to fire a single ace to far. Ostapenko won 64% points behind her first serve. She very solid her second serve to win 43% of the points. On the other side, Sorribes Tormo won 53% 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 Ostapenko Sorribes Tormo
Won 6 12
Converted 6/10 12/20
% Converted 60% 60%
Conceded 9 18
Saved 6 8
% Saved 67% 44%
Times Broken 3 10

Ostapenko broke her opponent 6 times with a 60% conversion rate. Ostapenko surrendered her serve 3 times and she saved 67% of the break points that she conceded. Sorribes Tormo broke her opponents 12 times with a 60% conversion rate. Sorribes Tormo conceded her serve 10 times and she saved 44% of the break points that she conceded.

Ostapenko
R2
Potapova		 Total
Score 6-4 6-2
Tot Set 2 2
Tot Games 18 18
pts 73-63 73-63
Total points 136 136
Winners 25 25
%Winners 34% 34%
SERVE
Aces 0 0
Double Faults 2 2
1st in 39/76 39/76
% 1st in 51% 51%
1st pts 25/39 25/39
% 1st pts 64% 64%
2nd pts 16/37 16/37
% 2nd pts 43% 43%
Breaks
Won 6 6
Converted 6/10 6/10
Converted % 60% 60%
Conceded 9 9
Saved 6/9 6
Saved % 67% 67%
Times Broken 3 3
Sorribes Tormo
R1
Podoroska		 R2
Pavlyuchenkova		 Total
Score 6-4 6-3 6-3 1-6 7-5
Tot Set 2 3 5
Tot Games 19 28 47
pts 69-57 84-89 153-146
Total points 126 173 299
Winners 33 30 63
%Winners 48% 36% 41%
SERVE
Aces 0 0 0
Double Faults 3 2 5
1st in 53/73 65/81 118/154
% 1st in 73% 80% 77%
1st pts 33/53 30/65 63/118
% 1st pts 62% 46% 53%
2nd pts 8/20 9/16 17/36
% 2nd pts 40% 56% 47%
Breaks
Won 5 7 12
Converted 5/7 7/13 12/20
Converted % 71% 54% 60%
Conceded 6 12 18
Saved 3/6 5/12 8
Saved % 50% 42% 92%
Times Broken 3 7 10

Tennis Scores in Rome

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