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.
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
22 - 21win/loss
28
15
| 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.
Varvara Lepchenko
38 - 25win/loss
143
19
| Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 49-33 | 22-15 | 24-15 | 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.
Tennis Scores in Seoul
- Luca StaeheliStaeheli – Sven LahLah (7-5 3-2 ret.) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Bruno Sant’AnnaSant’Anna – Neil OberleitnerOberleitner (6-2 6-2) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Mike UrbanijaUrbanija – Alexander ErlerErler (6-1 4-6 6-3) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Giorgio PortaluriPortaluri – Marco BortolottiBortolotti (7-5 5-7 6-3) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Riccardo BellottiBellotti – Filip DudaDuda (6-1 6-2) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Luca GiacominiGiacomini – Michael VrbenskyVrbensky (6-3 7-64) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Manuel Pena LopezPena Lopez – Calin MandaManda (6-4 6-4) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Matthias HaimHaim – Kirill KivattsevKivattsev (6-3 6-2) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Mario Vilella MartinezVilella Martinez – Alexander WeisWeis (6-1 6-4) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Petr NouzaNouza – Adrian BodmerBodmer (7-62 6-2) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Bogdan BobrovBobrov – Bjorn NareykaNareyka (6-2 7-65) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Mick VeldheerVeldheer – Laurin AerneAerne (6-4 6-4) – Stats, scores, rankings
Upcoming matches in the draw
- Sloane StephensStephens – Hailey BaptisteBaptiste (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Peyton StearnsStearns – Emma RaducanuRaducanu (0-1) – H2H and prediction
- Elena Gabriela RuseGabriela Ruse – Yue YuanYuan (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Dayeon BackBack – Carol ZhaoZhao (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Heather WatsonWatson – Jia-Jing LuLu (0-1) – H2H and prediction
- Arantxa RusRus – Marta KostyukKostyuk (1-1) – H2H and prediction
- Ekaterina AlexandrovaAlexandrova – Varvara LepchenkoLepchenko (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Magdalena FrechFrech – Priscilla HonHon (0-1) – H2H and prediction
- Ajla TomljanovicTomljanovic – Su Jeong JangJeong Jang (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Yulia PutintsevaPutintseva – Amanda AnisimovaAnisimova (1-1) – H2H and prediction
- Tatjana MariaMaria – Viktoriya TomovaTomova (0-2) – H2H and prediction
- Veronika KudermetovaKudermetova – Shuai ZhangZhang (0-1) – H2H and prediction