Clara Tauson and Sofia Kenin will clash against each other in the 2nd round of the ASB Classic for the 3rd time in their career. They are scheduled to compete on Wednesday at 3:30 pm on Stadium Court. In this post, we analyze their head to head performance and prediction.
Prediction, odds and live streaming
The pick for Tennis Tonic is Clara Tauson who should win in 3 sets.
As per the initial odds, Clara Tauson is the pick to win this match.
Clara Tauson -> 1.56
Sofia Kenin -> 2.43
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Prediction and head to head Clara Tauson vs. Sofia Kenin
This will be the 3rd time that Clara Tauson and Sofia Kenin fight against each other. The head to head is 1-1 (see full H2H stats), 1-0 on hard.
The last time that they played, Kenin won 6-7(8) 6-4 7-6(6) in the 2nd round in Tokyo back in October 2024.
Highlights Sofia Kenin vs Clara Tauson – Tokyo 24-October-2024
Clara Tauson
| Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 1-0 | 1-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2024 | 38-28 | 19-16 | 14-5 | 5-3 | 0-3 | 0-1 |
| 2023 | 38-21 | 6-7 | 13-5 | 12-8 | 2-1 | 5-0 |
| 2022 | 26-18 | 10-12 | 0-1 | 16-4 | 0-1 | 0-0 |
| 2021 | 42-15 | 13-4 | 4-5 | 21-4 | 0-2 | 4-0 |
Ranked no. 50, Tauson reached the 2nd round after defeating Lucrezia Stefanini 6-2 6-3.
In the 1st round, Clara had a good straight sets win against Stefanini (6-2 6-3). During the match, Tauson scored 63 points vs Stefanini’s 41. The Dane was exceptionally aggressive to blast 21 winners.
Talking about the service games, Tauson bagged 5 aces and she committed only 4 double faults. Clara Tauson lost the serve 3 times and she saved 3 break points. Furthermore, Tauson put 62% of her first serves in, winning 64% (21/33) of the points behind her 1st serve and 50% (10/20) on the 2nd serve. Tauson broke Stefanini 7 times after converting 64% of her break points (7/11).
Tauson has a solid match record in the last 8 years having won 69% of her matches (234-106). 19-16 on hard in 2024. Talking about her performance on the same surface of this competition, Tauson has an overall82-45 record in the last 8 years on hard.
Tauson’s best result of the current year was reaching the final in the Oeiras and the Hong Kong.
Tauson has an overall 38-28 win-loss record in 2024, 19-16 on hard (See FULL STATS).
Previously in Auckland
Clara has never competed in this tournament before.
Sofia Kenin
| Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 1-0 | 1-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2024 | 16-26 | 10-17 | 5-6 | 0-0 | 1-3 | 0-0 |
| 2023 | 27-21 | 17-12 | 3-4 | 1-2 | 6-3 | 0-0 |
| 2022 | 10-17 | 7-14 | 0-0 | 3-3 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2021 | 11-10 | 7-5 | 3-4 | 0-0 | 1-1 | 0-0 |
Ranked no. 81, Kenin reached the 2nd round after beating Xiyu Wang 7-6(5) 6-1.
In the 1st round, Sofia had a good straight sets win against Wang (7-65 6-1). During the match Kenin scored 69 points vs Wang’s 60. Kenin was pretty aggressive to blast 36 winners.
About the serving games, Kenin was unable to score even 1 ace for the entire match and she committed only 3 double faults. Sofia Kenin was pretty efficient on serve to win 72% (36/50) of her 1st serve and 52% (12/23) on the second serve. This was the main reason for not conceding a single break during the match. Sofia broke Wang twice after converting 50% of her break points (2/4).
Sofia’s best result of the current season was getting to the final in Tokyo.
Sofia has an overall 16-26 win-loss record in 2024, 10-17 on hard (See FULL STATS).
Previously in Auckland
Previously, her best result was reaching the quarter in 2018. See her history.
H2H Performance in the tournament
Matches, sets, games and points
| Points | Tauson | Kenin |
|---|---|---|
| Match played | 1 | 1 |
| Tot Set | 2 | 2 |
| Tot Games | 17 | 20 |
| Pts | 63-41 | 69-60 |
| Total Points | 104 | 129 |
| Winners | 21 | 36 |
| %Winners | 33% | 52% |
Both Tauson and Kenin played 1 match. Both players have not conceded a single set in this event so far. Talking about their workload, Tauson and Kenin have played the same amount of sets 2. However, Tauson played 3 games less than Kenin. Clara scored 21 winners (33% of the total points). On the other side, The American scored 36 winners (52%).
Serve Performance
| Serve | Tauson | Kenin |
|---|---|---|
| Aces | 5 | 0 |
| Avg per match | 5 | 0 |
| 1st in | 33/53 | 50/73 |
| %1st in | 62% | 68% |
| 1st pts | 21/33 | 36/50 |
| %1st pts | 64% | 72% |
| 2nd pts | 10/20 | 12/23 |
| %2nd pts | 50% | 52% |
Tauson struck 5 aces . Kenin didn’t manage to fire a single ace to far. Tauson won 64% points on her first serve. She had a solid display on her second serve to win 50% of the points. On the other side, Kenin won 72% of the points on her first serve. She had a solid display on her second serve to win 52% of the points.
How they played the important points
| Breaks | Tauson | Kenin |
|---|---|---|
| Won | 7 | 2 |
| Converted | 7/11 | 2/4 |
| % Converted | 64% | 50% |
| Conceded | 6 | 4 |
| Saved | 3 | 4 |
| % Saved | 50% | 100% |
| Times Broken | 3 | 0 |
Clara broke her opponent 7 times with a 64% conversion rate. The Dane lost her serve 3 times and she saved 50% of the break points that she conceded. Sofia broke her opponent twice with a 50% conversion rate. Sofia was rock solid on her serve as she has never conceded a single service game after saving 4 break points.
| Tauson | |||
| R1 Stefanini |
Total | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Score | 6-2 6-3 | ||
| Tot Set | 2 | 2 | |
| Tot Games | 17 | 17 | |
| pts | 63-41 | 63-41 | |
| Total points | 104 | 104 | |
| Winners | 21 | 21 | |
| %Winners | 33% | 33% | |
| SERVE | |||
| Aces | 5 | 5 | |
| Double Faults | 4 | 4 | |
| 1st in | 33/53 | 33/53 | |
| % 1st in | 62% | 62% | |
| 1st pts | 21/33 | 21/33 | |
| % 1st pts | 64% | 64% | |
| 2nd pts | 10/20 | 10/20 | |
| % 2nd pts | 50% | 50% | |
| Breaks | |||
| Won | 7 | 7 | |
| Converted | 7/11 | 7/11 | |
| Converted % | 64% | 64% | |
| Conceded | 6 | 6 | |
| Saved | 3/6 | 3 | |
| Saved % | 50% | 50% | |
| Times Broken | 3 | 3 | |
| Kenin | |||
| R1 Wang |
Total | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Score | 7-65 6-1 | ||
| Tot Set | 2 | 2 | |
| Tot Games | 20 | 20 | |
| pts | 69-60 | 69-60 | |
| Total points | 129 | 129 | |
| Winners | 36 | 36 | |
| %Winners | 52% | 52% | |
| SERVE | |||
| Aces | 0 | 0 | |
| Double Faults | 3 | 3 | |
| 1st in | 50/73 | 50/73 | |
| % 1st in | 68% | 68% | |
| 1st pts | 36/50 | 36/50 | |
| % 1st pts | 72% | 72% | |
| 2nd pts | 12/23 | 12/23 | |
| % 2nd pts | 52% | 52% | |
| Breaks | |||
| Won | 2 | 2 | |
| Converted | 2/4 | 2/4 | |
| Converted % | 50% | 50% | |
| Conceded | 4 | 4 | |
| Saved | 4/4 | 4 | |
| Saved % | 100% | 100% | |
| Times Broken | 0 | 0 | |
Head 2 Head
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