Donna Vekic and Greetje Minnen will fight against each other in the 2nd round of the U.S. Open for the 2nd time in their career. They are scheduled to compete on Wednesday at 4:00 pm on Court 12. In this post, we analyze their head to head performance and prediction.

Prediction, odds and live streaming

The pick for Tennis Tonic is Donna Vekic who should win in 2 sets.

As per the initial odds, Donna Vekic is the pick to win this match.
Donna Vekic -> 1.28
Greetje Minnen -> 3.7

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Prediction and head to head Donna Vekic vs. Greetje Minnen

This will be the 2nd time that Donna Vekic and Greetje Minnen face off. The head to head is 1-0 for Minnen (see full H2H stats), but they have never competed against each other on hard.

The last time that they squared off, Minnen won 6-1 0-6 7-5 in the 2nd round in Hertogenbosch back in June 2024.

Donna Vekic

Donna Vekic

28 - 17win/loss

Hard
8-7
I Hard
2-1
Clay
8-5
Grass
10-4
Rank
19
High
18
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Year Total Hard Clay I.hard Grass Carpet
2024 32-20 12-10 8-5 2-1 10-4 0-0
2023 29-20 16-9 4-5 2-3 7-3 0-0
2022 28-20 10-9 9-6 2-1 7-4 0-0
2021 19-16 10-12 0-1 5-0 4-3 0-0
2020 8-11 6-6 1-3 1-2 0-0 0-0
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Ranked no. 24, Donna got to the 2nd round after defeating Kimberly Birrell 6-4 6-4.

In the 1st round, Donna had a good straight sets win against Birrell (6-4 6-4). During the match, Vekic scored 68 points vs Birrell’s 57. Donna was pretty aggressive to blast 22 winners.

Regarding the service games, Vekic scored just 1 ace in the encounter and she committed only 4 double faults. Overall, Donna Vekic was extremely effective on serve to win 71% (22/31) of her 1st serve and 54% (15/28) on the second serve. However, this didn’t prevent her to concede the serve twice. The Croatian broke Birrell 4 times after converting 67% of her break points (4/6).

Vekic has good record in the last 10 years having won 56% of her matches (275-220). 8-7 on hard in 2024. Regarding her performance on the same surface of this event, Vekic has an aggregate 127-109 win-loss record in the last years on hard.

The Croatian’s best result of the year was getting to the final in Bad Homburg and Paris.

Vekic has an overall 28-17 win-loss record in 2024, 8-7 on hard (See FULL STATS).

Previously at the U.S. Open

U.S. Open
Vekic's Record

Greetje Minnen

Greetje Minnen

22 - 26win/loss

Hard
14-13
I Hard
0-2
Clay
2-7
Grass
6-4
Rank
96
High
59
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Year Total Hard Clay I.hard Grass Carpet
2024 26-32 18-19 2-7 0-2 6-4 0-0
2023 56-20 12-6 13-4 22-6 5-3 4-1
2022 19-21 0-9 2-4 10-4 2-4 5-0
2021 39-27 19-12 7-6 8-7 5-2 0-0
2020 13-15 11-7 1-6 1-2 0-0 0-0
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Ranked no. 70, the Belgian got to the 2nd round after beating Magdalena Frech 7-5 7-5.

In the 1st round, Greetje had a good straight sets win against Frech (7-5 7-5). During the match Minnen scored 85 points vs Frech’s 70. Greetje was very aggressive to blast 33 winners.

About the serving games, Minnen fired 3 aces and she committed only 5 double faults. Greetje Minnen lost the serve 3 times and she saved 5 break points. Furthermore, Minnen put 59% of her first serves in, winning 75% (33/44) of the points behind her 1st serve and 45% (14/31) on the 2nd serve. Minnen was clinical in her return game without wasting any break point and break Frech 5 times.

The Belgian’s best result of the current year was reaching the semifinal in the Charleston.

Greetje has an overall 22-26 win-loss record in 2024, 14-13 on hard (See FULL STATS).

Previously at the U.S. Open

Previously, her best result was reaching the 3rd round in 2021 and 2023. See her history.

U.S. Open
Minnen's Record

H2H Performance in the tournament

D.Vekic
G.Minnen
1h:33
1h:33
Time on court​
1h:52
1h:52
1h:33
1h:33
Last match​
1h:52
1h:52
1
1
Match played
1
1
20
20
Games Played​
24
24
2
2
Set played​​
2
2
68
68
Total points​
85
85
68
68
Avg point​
85
85
22
22
Winners
33
33
22
22
Avg Winners​
33
33
32%
32%
Ratio winners
39%
39%
-- Serve --
1
1
Aces
3
3
1
1
Avg Aces
3
3
4
4
Double Faults
5
5
4
4
Avg Double Faults
5
5
22/31
22/31
1st won total​
33/44
33/44
!
71%
71%
1st won %
!
75%
75%
15/28
15/28
2nd won total​
14/31
14/31
54%
54%
2nd won %
45%
45%
-- Break Points --
4/6
4/6
BP won
5/5
5/5
4/6
4/6
Avg BP won
5/5
5/5
!
67%
67%
Won
!
100%
100%
3
3
Conceded
8
8
3
3
Avg Conceded
8
8
2
2
Broken
3
3
2
2
Avg Broken
3
3
1
1
Saved
5
5
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Matches, sets, games and points

Points Vekic Minnen
Match played 1 1
Tot Set 2 2
Tot Games 20 24
Pts 68-57 85-70
Total Points 125 155
Winners 22 33
%Winners 32% 39%

Both Vekic and Minnen played 1 match. Both players have not surrendered a single set in this event so far. Talking about their workload, Vekic and Minnen have played the same amount of sets 2. However, Vekic played 4 games less than Minnen. The Croatian scored 22 winners (32% of the total points). On the other side, Greetje blasted 33 winners (39%).

Serve Performance

Serve Vekic Minnen
Aces 1 3
Avg per match 1 3
1st in 31/59 44/75
%1st in 53% 59%
1st pts 22/31 33/44
%1st pts 71% 75%
2nd pts 15/28 14/31
%2nd pts 54% 45%

Vekic recorded 1 ace . Minnen also made 3 aces . Vekic won 71% points behind her first serve. She extremely effective on her second serve to win 54% of the points. On the other side, Minnen won 75% of the points on her first serve. She had a solid display on her second serve to win 45% of the points.

How they played the important points

Breaks Vekic Minnen
Won 4 5
Converted 4/6 5/5
% Converted 67% 100%
Conceded 3 8
Saved 1 5
% Saved 33% 63%
Times Broken 2 3

The Croatian broke her opponent 4 times with a 67% conversion rate. Donna conceded her serve twice and she saved 33% of the break points that she conceded. Greetje broke her opponent 5 times with a 100% conversion rate. Minnen conceded her serve 3 times and she saved 63% of the break points that she conceded.

Vekic
R1
Birrell		 Total
Score 6-4 6-4
Tot Set 2 2
Tot Games 20 20
pts 68-57 68-57
Total points 125 125
Winners 22 22
%Winners 32% 32%
SERVE
Aces 1 1
Double Faults 4 4
1st in 31/59 31/59
% 1st in 53% 53%
1st pts 22/31 22/31
% 1st pts 71% 71%
2nd pts 15/28 15/28
% 2nd pts 54% 54%
Breaks
Won 4 4
Converted 4/6 4/6
Converted % 67% 67%
Conceded 3 3
Saved 1/3 1
Saved % 33% 33%
Times Broken 2 2
Minnen
R1
Frech		 Total
Score 7-5 7-5
Tot Set 2 2
Tot Games 24 24
pts 85-70 85-70
Total points 155 155
Winners 33 33
%Winners 39% 39%
SERVE
Aces 3 3
Double Faults 5 5
1st in 44/75 44/75
% 1st in 59% 59%
1st pts 33/44 33/44
% 1st pts 75% 75%
2nd pts 14/31 14/31
% 2nd pts 45% 45%
Breaks
Won 5 5
Converted 5/5 5/5
Converted % 100% 100%
Conceded 8 8
Saved 5/8 5
Saved % 63% 63%
Times Broken 3 3

Tennis Scores – U.S. Open

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