Varvara Gracheva and Ajla Tomljanovic will clash against each other in the 1^st round of the Western & Southern Open for the 4^th time in their career. They are scheduled to compete on Tuesday at 11:00 am on COURT 10. In the following paragraphs, you can find the head to head analysis and prediction.

Prediction, odds and live streaming

The pick for Tennis Tonic is Varvara Gracheva who should win in 3 sets.

As per the initial odds, Varvara Gracheva is the pick to win this match.
Varvara Gracheva -> 1.6
Ajla Tomljanovic -> 2.34

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Prediction and head to head Varvara Gracheva vs. Ajla Tomljanovic

This will be the 4^th time that Varvara Gracheva and Ajla Tomljanovic face off. The head to head is 3-0 for Gracheva (see full H2H stats), 1-0 on hard.

The last time that they competed against each other, Gracheva won 6-4 6-7(5) 7-5 in the 2^nd round in at the French Open back in 2022.

Varvara Gracheva

Ranked no. 69, the French player reached the 1^st round after defeating Bernarda Pera 6-3 6-1 and Aliaksandra Sasnovich 6-4 6-3.

In the qualifications, The French player had a good straight sets win against Sasnovich (6-4 6-3). During the match, Gracheva scored 76 points vs Sasnovich’s 65. The French player was extremely aggressive to blast 25 winners.

Talking about the service games, Gracheva struck 3 aces and she committed only 5 double faults. Varvara Gracheva lost the serve 4 times and she saved 8 break points. Furthermore, Gracheva put 63% of her first serves in, winning 56% (25/45) of the points behind her 1st serve and 48% (13/27) on the 2nd serve. The French player broke Sasnovich 6 times after converting 43% of her break points (6/14).

Overall Performance in this tournament

Varvara started her run at this tournament from the qualifications. In the main draw, she hasn’t surrendered yet a set in this tournament to win 58% of the points she played.

Gracheva has a winning match record in the last 9 years having won 58% of her matches (257-183). 6-8 on hard in 2024. Regarding her performance on the same surface of this event, Gracheva has a composed69-69 record in the last 9 years on hard.

The French player best result of the season was reaching the semifinal in the Paris.

The French player has a composed 22-20 win-loss record in 2024, 6-8 on hard (See FULL STATS).

Previously in Cincinnati

Ajla Tomljanovic

Ranked no. 123, Ajla will start her run in Cincinnati after she played her last match in Paris where she lost 6-3 6-0 to Gauff in the 1^st round on the 28^th of July.

Ajla has a compiled 12-12 win-loss record in 2024, 2-5 on hard (See FULL STATS).

Ajla’s best result of the year was getting to the final in Birmingham.

In terms of her career, Tomljanovic has an overall 384-298 record. She has a positive 202-161 record on hard.

Previously in Cincinnati

Previously, her best result was reaching the quarter in 2022. See her history.

Tennis Scores in Cincinnati

• Joao Lucas Reis Da SilvaLucas Reis Da Silva – Bobbie De GoeijenDe Goeijen (7-5 7-6²) – Stats, scores, rankings
• Bart StevensStevens – Amadatus AdmiraalAdmiraal (7-6³ 6-2) – Stats, scores, rankings
• Stephan GerritsenGerritsen – Gabriel DecampsDecamps (6-3 0-6 6-4) – Stats, scores, rankings
• Ryan NijboerNijboer – Paul BarrettoBarretto (6-4 7-6⁶) – Stats, scores, rankings
• Benjamin DhoeDhoe – Sidane PontjodikromoPontjodikromo (6-2 4-6 7-5) – Stats, scores, rankings
• Franco Emanuel EgeaEmanuel Egea – Petr HajekHajek (6-3 6-4) – Stats, scores, rankings
• Botic Van De ZandschulpVan De Zandschulp – George BotezanBotezan (6-2 6-4) – Stats, scores, rankings
• Guy Den HeijerDen Heijer – Maxime PauwelsPauwels (7-5 4-6 7-6³) – Stats, scores, rankings
• Marvin MoellerMoeller – Jaume Pla MalfeitoPla Malfeito (6-1 3-6 6-4) – Stats, scores, rankings
• Clement GeensGeens – Michiel De KromDe Krom (6-1 6-3) – Stats, scores, rankings
• Marc GinerGiner – Kenneth RaismaRaisma (6-3 6-1) – Stats, scores, rankings
• Stephan FransenFransen – Dax DondersDonders (6-2 6-4) – Stats, scores, rankings

Upcoming matches in the draw

• Ajla TomljanovicTomljanovic – Varvara GrachevaGracheva (0-3) – H2H and prediction
• Lulu SunSun – (0-0) – H2H and prediction
• Elise MertensMertens – Marta KostyukKostyuk (1-1) – H2H and prediction
• Emma NavarroNavarro – (0-0) – H2H and prediction
• Karolina PliskovaPliskova – Viktoriya TomovaTomova (0-0) – H2H and prediction
• Anastasia PotapovaPotapova – Clara BurelBurel (1-0) – H2H and prediction
• Elina SvitolinaSvitolina – Yafan WangWang (1-1) – H2H and prediction
• Amanda AnisimovaAnisimova – Victoria AzarenkaAzarenka (1-1) – H2H and prediction
• Ludmilla SamsonovaSamsonova – Xin Yu WangYu Wang (1-0) – H2H and prediction
• Katie BoulterBoulter – Magda LinetteLinette (0-0) – H2H and prediction
• Elina AvanesyanAvanesyan – Bianca Vanessa AndreescuVanessa Andreescu (0-0) – H2H and prediction
• Karolina MuchovaMuchova – Dayana YastremskaYastremska (3-0) – H2H and prediction
• Caroline DolehideDolehide – Taylor TownsendTownsend (0-3) – H2H and prediction
• Ekaterina AlexandrovaAlexandrova – Darya KasatkinaKasatkina (2-2) – H2H and prediction
• Donna VekicVekic – (0-0) – H2H and prediction
• Leylah Annie FernandezAnnie Fernandez – Yue YuanYuan (0-0) – H2H and prediction
• Marie BouzkovaBouzkova – Magdalena FrechFrech (1-0) – H2H and prediction
• Caroline WozniackiWozniacki – Anhelina KalininaKalinina (0-2) – H2H and prediction
• Anastasia PavlyuchenkovaPavlyuchenkova – Beatriz Haddad MaiaHaddad Maia (3-0) – H2H and prediction
• Anna KalinskayaKalinskaya – Katerina SiniakovaSiniakova (1-1) – H2H and prediction
• Peyton StearnsStearns – Paula Badosa GibertBadosa Gibert (0-0) – H2H and prediction
• Harriet DartDart – Yulia PutintsevaPutintseva (0-3) – H2H and prediction