Maria Timofeeva and Simona Waltert will square off in the 1st round of the Hungarian Grand Prix for the 1st time in their career. They are scheduled to play on Monday at 4:00 pm on GRAND COURT. In this post, we analyze their head to head performance and prediction.

Prediction, odds and live streaming

The pick for Tennis Tonic is Maria Timofeeva who should win in 3 sets.

As per the initial odds, Maria Timofeeva is the pick to win this match.
Maria Timofeeva -> 1.57
Simona Waltert -> 2.41

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Prediction and head to head Maria Timofeeva vs. Simona Waltert

There is no head to head record between Maria Timofeeva and Simona Waltert since this will be the first time that they will clash against each other in the main tour.

Maria Timofeeva

Maria Timofeeva

12 - 14win/loss

Hard
9-7
I Hard
0-0
Clay
3-6
Grass
0-1
Rank
103
High
93
WLLLWWLLLW
Year Total Hard Clay I.hard Grass Carpet
2024 13-14 9-7 4-6 0-0 0-1 0-0
2023 30-19 15-6 10-6 5-5 0-2 0-0
2022 34-21 21-11 7-7 6-3 0-0 0-0
2021 40-19 22-11 13-4 3-3 0-0 2-1
2020 11-4 11-3 0-0 0-1 0-0 0-0

Ranked no. 102, Timofeeva will start her run in Budapest after she played her last match at the London where she lost 6-1 6-3 to Gadecki in the qualifications on the 25th of June.

The Russian has a compiled 12-14 win-loss record in 2024, 3-6 on clay (See FULL STATS).

Talking about her overall career, Maria has an overall 151-86 record. She has a positive 40-26 record on clay.

Previously in Budapest

Previously, she won this tournament once in 2023. See her history.

Budapest
Timofeeva's Record

Simona Waltert

Simona Waltert

19 - 20win/loss

Hard
3-2
I Hard
4-6
Clay
11-10
Grass
1-2
Rank
248
High
107
LWWLLWLLLL
Year Total Hard Clay I.hard Grass Carpet
2024 19-20 3-2 11-10 4-6 1-2 0-0
2023 30-28 4-10 12-8 11-7 3-3 0-0
2022 35-27 9-8 23-12 1-4 2-2 0-1
2021 44-24 13-5 19-14 5-3 1-1 6-1
2020 7-8 5-3 1-4 1-1 0-0 0-0

Ranked no. 229, Simona reached the 1st round after defeating Anastasiya Soboleva 6-4 6-2 and Qianhui Tang 6-1 6-4.

In the qualifications, Waltert had a good straight sets win against Tang (6-1 6-4). During the match Waltert scored 70 points vs Tang’s 48. Waltert was pretty aggressive to blast 31 winners.

Talking about serving, Waltert blasted 3 aces and she committed only 4 double faults. Simona Waltert lost the serve twice and she saved 2 break points. Furthermore, Waltert put 72% of her first serves in, winning 76% (31/41) of the points behind her 1st serve and 38% (6/16) on the 2nd serve. The Swiss broke Tang 5 times after converting 56% of her break points (5/9).

Overall Performance in this tournament

Waltert started her run at this tournament from the qualifications. In the main draw, she hasn’t surrendered yet a set in this event to conquer 57% of the points she played.

Simona’s best result of the season was reaching the semifinal in the Antalya.

Simona has an aggregate 19-20 win-loss record in 2024, 11-10 on clay (See FULL STATS).

Previously in Budapest

Waltert has never competed in this tournament before.

Budapest
Waltert's Record

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