Ekaterina Alexandrova and Varvara Lepchenko will play each other in the 1st round of the Korea Open for the 1st time in their career. They are scheduled to play on Monday at 4:00 pm on Centre Court. In the following lines you can find the head to head analysis and prediction.

Prediction, odds and live streaming

The pick for Tennis Tonic is Ekaterina Alexandrova who should win in 2 sets.

As per the initial odds, Ekaterina Alexandrova is the pick to win this match.
Ekaterina Alexandrova -> 1.24
Varvara Lepchenko -> 4.1

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Prediction and head to head Ekaterina Alexandrova vs. Varvara Lepchenko

There is no head to head record between Ekaterina Alexandrova and Varvara Lepchenko since this will be the first time that they will play each other in the main tour.

Ekaterina Alexandrova

Ekaterina Alexandrova

22 - 21win/loss

Hard
13-10
I Hard
3-1
Clay
1-7
Grass
5-3
Rank
28
High
15
LWWWLLWLWW
Year Total Hard Clay I.hard Grass Carpet
2024 26-24 17-13 1-7 3-1 5-3 0-0
2023 33-21 17-13 6-5 0-1 10-2 0-0
2022 35-18 12-10 13-5 4-2 6-1 0-0
2021 26-23 10-9 6-5 7-7 3-2 0-0
2020 20-12 9-4 4-5 7-3 0-0 0-0

Ranked no. 31, the Russian will start her run in Seoul after she played her last match at the New York where she lost 2-6 6-1 6-2 to Sabalenka in the 3rd round on the 30th of August.

Alexandrova has an overall 22-21 win-loss record in 2024, 13-10 on hard (See FULL STATS).

Ekaterina’s best result of the year was reaching the final in Linz.

Talking about her overall career, The Russian has an overall 323-213 record. She has a positive 103-83 record on hard.

Previously in Seoul

Previously, she won this tournament once in 2022. See her history.

Seoul
Alexandrova's Record

Varvara Lepchenko

Varvara Lepchenko

38 - 25win/loss

Hard
13-8
I Hard
0-0
Clay
24-15
Grass
1-2
Rank
141
High
19
WLWWLWLWWW
Year Total Hard Clay I.hard Grass Carpet
2024 50-33 22-15 25-15 2-1 1-2 0-0
2023 33-20 25-14 6-3 2-2 0-0 0-1
2022 0-0 0-0 0-0 0-0 0-0 0-0
2021 24-12 11-5 11-5 0-0 2-2 0-0
2020 18-11 10-7 8-4 0-0 0-0 0-0

Ranked no. 159, Varvara reached the 1st round after defeating Kira Pavlova 6-2 4-6 7-5 and Natalija Stevanovic 6-2 6-3.

In the qualifications, The American had a good straight sets win against Kostic (6-2 6-3). During the match Lepchenko scored 65 points vs Kostic’s 49. Lepchenko was quite aggressive to blast 20 winners.

Talking about serving, Lepchenko blasted 3 aces and she committed only 3 double faults. Varvara Lepchenko lost the serve twice and she saved 4 break points. Furthermore, Lepchenko put 61% of her first serves in, winning 65% (20/31) of the points behind her 1st serve and 50% (10/20) on the 2nd serve. Lepchenko broke Kostic 6 times after converting 67% of her break points (6/9).

Overall Performance in this tournament

Varvara started her run at this tournament from the qualifications. In the main draw, she has conceded 1 set in the tournament to win 55% of the points she played.

Lepchenko’s best result of the season was getting to the final in the W75 Brescia and the W35 Rome.

Lepchenko has an aggregate 38-25 win-loss record in 2024, 13-8 on hard (See FULL STATS).

Previously in Seoul

Lepchenko has never competed in this tournament before.

Seoul
Lepchenko's Record

Tennis Scores in Seoul

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