Viktoriya Tomova and Suzan Lamens will face off in the 1st round of the Japan Open Tennis Championships for the 2nd time in their career. They are scheduled to compete on Monday at 10:30 am on Court 1. 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 Viktoriya Tomova who should win in 3 sets.

As per the initial odds, Viktoriya Tomova is the pick to win this match.
Viktoriya Tomova -> 1.55
Suzan Lamens -> 2.45

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Prediction and head to head Viktoriya Tomova vs. Suzan Lamens

This will be the 2nd time that Viktoriya Tomova and Suzan Lamens square off. The head to head is 1-0 for Lamens (see full H2H stats), but they have never competed against each other on hard.

The last time that they locked horns, Lamens won 2-6 6-3 6-3 in the 1st round in the W25 Poitiers back in 2021.

Viktoriya Tomova

Viktoriya Tomova

33 - 32win/loss

Hard
14-16
I Hard
0-1
Clay
15-13
Grass
4-2
Rank
49
High
46
LWLLWLWLWW
Year Total Hard Clay I.hard Grass Carpet
2024 34-34 15-18 15-13 0-1 4-2 0-0
2023 42-29 16-9 20-10 4-5 2-5 0-0
2022 41-32 14-8 21-15 2-5 4-3 0-1
2021 23-32 5-9 13-12 2-7 1-3 2-1
2020 17-10 1-4 4-3 12-3 0-0 0-0

Ranked no. 48, Viktoriya will start her run in Osaka after she played her last match in Wuhan where she lost 6-1 6-2 to Gauff in the 2nd round on the 9th of October.

The Bulgarian has an aggregate 33-32 win-loss record in 2024, 14-16 on hard (See FULL STATS).

The Bulgarian’s best result of the year was reaching the final in the Valencia.

Talking about her overall career, The Bulgarian has an overall 312-245 record. She has a positive 93-79 record on hard.

Previously in Osaka

Previously, her best result was reaching the 2nd round in 2019. See her history.

Osaka
Tomova's Record

Suzan Lamens

Suzan Lamens

36 - 23win/loss

Hard
8-9
I Hard
11-3
Clay
16-8
Grass
1-3
Rank
87
High
86
LWWLWWWWWW
Year Total Hard Clay I.hard Grass Carpet
2024 43-25 15-11 16-8 11-3 1-3 0-0
2023 45-31 7-7 33-19 5-5 0-0 0-0
2022 37-27 13-9 24-11 0-3 0-3 0-1
2021 48-27 21-9 22-14 5-3 0-0 0-1
2020 21-14 1-2 15-9 5-3 0-0 0-0

Ranked no. 132, the Dutch got to the 1st round after defeating Ena Koike 7-6(6) 6-1 and Eva Lys 7-5 6-3.

In the qualifications, Lamens had a good straight sets win against Lys (7-5 6-3). During the match Lamens scored 72 points vs Lys’s 57. The Dutch was very aggressive to blast 25 winners.

Talking about serving, Lamens struck 3 aces and she committed only 5 double faults. Suzan Lamens lost the serve 3 times and she saved 3 break points. Furthermore, Lamens put 55% of her first serves in, winning 78% (25/32) of the points behind her 1st serve and 38% (10/26) on the 2nd serve. Suzan broke Lys 6 times after converting 86% of her break points (6/7).

Overall Performance in this tournament

Suzan started her run at this tournament from the qualifications. In the main draw, she hasn’t surrendered yet a set in this event to win 56% of the points she played.

Her best result of the year was winning the title the W75 Trnava where she overcame Celine Naef in the final 6-2 6-2 and the Oeiras where she beat Clara Tauson in the final 6-4 5-7 6-4.

The Dutch has a compiled 36-23 win-loss record in 2024, 8-9 on hard (See FULL STATS)

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Osaka
Lamens's Record

Tennis Scores in Osaka

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