Ekaterina Alexandrova and Donna Vekic will square off in the 2^nd round of the Bad Homburg Open for the 6^th time in their career. They are scheduled to play on Tuesday at 3:00 pm on Centre Court. In this post, we analyze their head to head performance and prediction.

Prediction, odds and live streaming

The pick for Tennis Tonic is Ekaterina Alexandrova who should win in 3 sets.

As per the initial odds, Ekaterina Alexandrova is the pick to win this match.
Ekaterina Alexandrova -> 1.53
Donna Vekic -> 2.51

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Prediction and head to head Ekaterina Alexandrova vs. Donna Vekic

This will be the 6^th time that Ekaterina Alexandrova and Donna Vekic square off. The head to head is 3-2 for Alexandrova (see full H2H stats), but they have never played each other on grass.

The last time that they locked horns, Alexandrova won 6-3 6-4 in the 2^nd round in Miami back in March 2024.

Ekaterina Alexandrova

Ranked no. 22, Ekaterina got to the 2^nd round after defeating Nadia Podoroska 6-3 6-0.

In the 1^st round, Alexandrova had a good straight sets win against Podoroska (6-3 6-0). During the match, Alexandrova scored 56 points vs Podoroska’s 31. Ekaterina was exceptionally aggressive to blast 23 winners.

Regarding the service games, Alexandrova recorded 5 aces and she committed only 4 double faults. Ekaterina Alexandrova was pretty effective on serve to win 88% (23/26) of her 1st serve and 55% (11/20) on the second serve. This was the main reason for not conceding a single break during the match. Alexandrova broke Podoroska 4 times after converting 80% of her break points (4/5).

Alexandrova has a solid record in the last 10 years having won 61% of her matches (319-208). 5-2 on grass in 2024. In connection with her performance on the same surface of this competition, Alexandrova has an overall 38-18 record in the last years on grass.

Alexandrova’s best result of the current season was reaching the final in Linz.

Ekaterina has an aggregate 18-16 win-loss record in 2024, 5-2 on grass (See FULL STATS).

Previously in Bad Homburg

The Russian has never competed in this tournament before.

Donna Vekic

Ranked no. 49, Vekic reached the 2^nd round after beating Lucia Bronzetti 6-3 6-4.

In the 1^st round, Donna had a good straight sets win against Bronzetti (6-3 6-4). During the match Vekic scored 71 points vs Bronzetti’s 53. Donna was very aggressive to blast 23 winners.

About the serving games, Vekic recorded 3 aces and she committed only 1 double fault for the entire match. Overall, Donna Vekic was very effective on serve to win 77% (23/30) of her 1st serve and 52% (11/21) on the second serve. However, this didn’t prevent her to concede the serve twice. Donna broke Bronzetti 5 times after converting 50% of her break points (5/10).

Donna’s best result of the current season was reaching the semifinal in Linz.

Donna has an overall 15-13 win-loss record in 2024, 3-2 on grass (See FULL STATS).

H2H Performance in the tournament

Matches, sets, games and points

Points	Alexandrova	Vekic
Match played	1	1
Tot Set	2	2
Tot Games	15	19
Pts	56-31	71-53
Total Points	87	124
Winners	23	23
%Winners	41%	32%

Both Alexandrova and Vekic played 1 match. Both players have not conceded a single set in this event so far. Talking about their workload, Alexandrova and Vekic have played the same amount of sets 2. However, Alexandrova played 4 games less than Vekic. The Russian scored 23 winners (41% of the total points). On the other side, Donna struck 23 winners (32%).

Serve Performance

Serve	Alexandrova	Vekic
Aces	5	3
Avg per match	5	3
1st in	26/46	30/51
%1st in	57%	59%
1st pts	23/26	23/30
%1st pts	88%	77%
2nd pts	11/20	11/21
%2nd pts	55%	52%

Alexandrova made 5 aces . Vekic blasted 3 aces . Alexandrova won 88% points on her first serve. She extremely effective on her second serve to win 55% of the points. On the other side, Vekic won 77% of the points behind her first serve. She had a solid display on her second serve to win 52% of the points.

How they played the important points

Breaks	Alexandrova	Vekic
Won	4	5
Converted	4/5	5/10
% Converted	80%	50%
Conceded	1	4
Saved	1	2
% Saved	100%	50%
Times Broken	0	2

Alexandrova broke her opponent 4 times with a 80% conversion rate. The Russian was rock solid on her serve as she has never conceded a single service game after saving 1 break points. The Croatian broke her opponent 5 times with a 50% conversion rate. The Croatian conceded her serve twice and she saved 50% of the break points that she conceded.

Alexandrova
	R1 Podoroska	Total
Score	6-3 6-0
Tot Set	2	2
Tot Games	15	15
pts	56-31	56-31
Total points	87	87
Winners	23	23
%Winners	41%	41%
SERVE
Aces	5	5
Double Faults	4	4
1st in	26/46	26/46
% 1st in	57%	57%
1st pts	23/26	23/26
% 1st pts	88%	88%
2nd pts	11/20	11/20
% 2nd pts	55%	55%
Breaks
Won	4	4
Converted	4/5	4/5
Converted %	80%	80%
Conceded	1	1
Saved	1/1	1
Saved %	100%	100%
Times Broken	0	0

Vekic
	R1 Bronzetti	Total
Score	6-3 6-4
Tot Set	2	2
Tot Games	19	19
pts	71-53	71-53
Total points	124	124
Winners	23	23
%Winners	32%	32%
SERVE
Aces	3	3
Double Faults	1	1
1st in	30/51	30/51
% 1st in	59%	59%
1st pts	23/30	23/30
% 1st pts	77%	77%
2nd pts	11/21	11/21
% 2nd pts	52%	52%
Breaks
Won	5	5
Converted	5/10	5/10
Converted %	50%	50%
Conceded	4	4
Saved	2/4	2
Saved %	50%	50%
Times Broken	2	2

Tennis Scores in Bad Homburg

• Benjamin SigouinSigouin – Adrian OrtizOrtiz (6-3 3-1 ret.) – Stats, scores, rankings
• Juan Carlos Manuel AguilarCarlos Manuel Aguilar – Brandon HoltHolt (4-6 6-3 7-6⁸) – Stats, scores, rankings
• Colin MarkesMarkes – Sem VerbeekVerbeek (7-6² 7-6⁴) – Stats, scores, rankings
• Steven DiezDiez – Justin BoulaisBoulais (6-3 6-3) – Stats, scores, rankings
• Jc AragoneAragone – Harrison ScottScott (6-3 6-4) – Stats, scores, rankings
• Alexander RitschardRitschard – Julian BradleyBradley (6-4 7-5) – Stats, scores, rankings
• Alexis GalarneauGalarneau – Samuel ShropshireShropshire (6-3 6-2) – Stats, scores, rankings

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• Ekaterina AlexandrovaAlexandrova – Donna VekicVekic (3-2) – H2H and prediction
• Katerina SiniakovaSiniakova – Ludmilla SamsonovaSamsonova (1-1) – H2H and prediction