Mananchaya Sawangkaew and Veronika Erjavec will square off in the qualifications of the Australian Open for the 1st time in their career. They are scheduled to compete on Wednesday at 3:00 pm on Court 8. In this post, we analyze their head to head performance and prediction.

Prediction, odds and live streaming

The pick for Tennis Tonic is Mananchaya Sawangkaew who should win in 2 sets.

As per the initial odds, Mananchaya Sawangkaew is the pick to win this match.
Mananchaya Sawangkaew -> 1.39
Veronika Erjavec -> 2.9

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Prediction and head to head Mananchaya Sawangkaew vs. Veronika Erjavec

There is no head to head record between Mananchaya Sawangkaew and Veronika Erjavec since this will be the first time that they will fight against each other in the main tour.

Mananchaya Sawangkaew

Mananchaya Sawangkaew

2 - 1win/loss

Hard
2-1
I Hard
0-0
Rank
127
High
127
Year Total Hard Clay I.hard Grass Carpet
2025 2-1 2-1 0-0 0-0 0-0 0-0
2024 51-28 45-22 1-1 2-1 0-2 3-2
2023 44-19 44-18 0-0 0-1 0-0 0-0
2022 25-9 25-9 0-0 0-0 0-0 0-0
2021 3-3 3-3 0-0 0-0 0-0 0-0

Ranked no. 127 (career-high), Mananchaya reached the qualifications after defeating Marina Bassols Ribera 6-1 7-5.

In the qualifications, The Thai had a good straight sets win against Bassols Ribera (6-1 7-5). During the match, Sawangkaew scored 74 points vs Bassols Ribera’s 55. Mananchaya was very aggressive to blast 27 winners.

Talking about the service games, Sawangkaew made 8 aces and she committed only 1 double fault. Mananchaya Sawangkaew lost the serve twice and she saved 8 break points. Furthermore, Sawangkaew put 68% of her first serves in, winning 69% (27/39) of the points behind her 1st serve and 50% (9/18) on the 2nd serve. Mananchaya broke Bassols Ribera 6 times after converting 60% of her break points (6/10).

Sawangkaew has a solid record in the last 9 years having won 67% of her matches (170-85). 2-1 on hard in 2025. Regarding her performance on the same surface of this event, Sawangkaew has an overall164-77 win-loss record in the last 9 years on hard.

Sawangkaew has an overall 2-1 win-loss record in 2025, 2-1 on hard (See FULL STATS).

Previously at the Australian Open

The Thai has never competed in this tournament before.

Australian Open
Sawangkaew's Record

Veronika Erjavec

Veronika Erjavec

1 - 1win/loss

Hard
1-1
I Hard
0-0
Rank
171
High
165
Year Total Hard Clay I.hard Grass Carpet
2025 1-1 1-1 0-0 0-0 0-0 0-0
2024 45-30 2-4 37-17 6-8 0-1 0-0
2023 48-22 0-0 42-16 6-6 0-0 0-0
2022 42-27 0-0 35-22 7-5 0-0 0-0
2021 18-9 0-0 17-7 1-2 0-0 0-0

Ranked no. 171, Erjavec got to the qualifications after defeating Alana Subasic 6-2 6-3.

In the qualifications, Erjavec had a good straight sets win against Subasic (6-2 6-3). During the match Erjavec scored 73 points vs Subasic’s 55. Erjavec was pretty aggressive to blast 24 winners.

Talking about serving, Erjavec managed to score 3 aces and she committed only 3 double faults. Veronika Erjavec lost the serve once and she saved 3 break points. Furthermore, Erjavec put 50% of her first serves in, winning 80% (24/30) of the points behind her 1st serve and 43% (13/30) on the 2nd serve. Erjavec broke Subasic 5 times after converting 45% of her break points (5/11).

Veronika has an aggregate 1-1 win-loss record in 2025, 1-1 on hard (See FULL STATS).

Previously at the Australian Open

Previously, her best result was reaching the qualifications in 2024. See her history.

Australian Open
Erjavec's Record

H2H Performance in the tournament

M.Sawangkaew
V.Erjavec
1h:24
1h:24
Time on court​
1h:18
1h:18
1h:24
1h:24
Last match​
1h:18
1h:18
1
1
Match played
1
1
19
19
Games Played​
17
17
2
2
Set played​​
2
2
74
74
Total points​
73
73
74
74
Avg point​
73
73
27
27
Winners
24
24
27
27
Avg Winners​
24
24
36%
36%
Ratio winners
33%
33%
-- Serve --
8
8
Aces
3
3
8
8
Avg Aces
3
3
1
1
Double Faults
3
3
1
1
Avg Double Faults
3
3
27/39
27/39
1st won total​
24/30
24/30
69%
69%
1st won %
!
80%
80%
9/18
9/18
2nd won total​
13/30
13/30
50%
50%
2nd won %
43%
43%
-- Break Points --
6/10
6/10
BP won
5/11
5/11
6/10
6/10
Avg BP won
5/11
5/11
!
60%
60%
Won
45%
45%
10
10
Conceded
4
4
10
10
Avg Conceded
4
4
2
2
Broken
1
1
2
2
Avg Broken
1
1
8
8
Saved
3
3

Matches, sets, games and points

Points Sawangkaew Erjavec
Match played 1 1
Tot Set 2 2
Tot Games 19 17
Pts 74-55 73-55
Total Points 129 128
Winners 27 24
%Winners 36% 33%

Both Sawangkaew and Erjavec played 1 match. Also both players started their run from the qualifications.Both players have not lost a single set in this event so far. Talking about their workload, Sawangkaew and Erjavec have played the same amount of sets 2. However, Sawangkaew played 2 games more than Erjavec. The Thai scored 27 winners (36% of the total points). On the other side, Veronika scored 24 winners (33%).

Serve Performance

Serve Sawangkaew Erjavec
Aces 8 3
Avg per match 8 3
1st in 39/57 30/60
%1st in 68% 50%
1st pts 27/39 24/30
%1st pts 69% 80%
2nd pts 9/18 13/30
%2nd pts 50% 43%

Sawangkaew fired 8 aces . Erjavec blasted 3 aces . Sawangkaew won 69% points behind her first serve. She very solid her second serve to win 50% of the points. On the other side, Erjavec won 80% of the points on her first serve. She had a solid display on her second serve to win 43% of the points.

How they played the important points

Breaks Sawangkaew Erjavec
Won 6 5
Converted 6/10 5/11
% Converted 60% 45%
Conceded 10 4
Saved 8 3
% Saved 80% 75%
Times Broken 2 1

Sawangkaew broke her opponent 6 times with a 60% conversion rate. Mananchaya lost her serve twice and she saved 80% of the break points that she conceded. The Slovenian broke her opponent 5 times with a 45% conversion rate. Erjavec conceded her serve once and she saved 75% of the break points that she conceded.

Sawangkaew
Q1
Bassols
Total
Score 6-1 7-5
Tot Set 2 2
Tot Games 19 19
pts 74-55 74-55
Total points 129 129
Winners 27 27
%Winners 36% 36%
SERVE
Aces 8 8
Double Faults 1 1
1st in 39/57 39/57
% 1st in 68% 68%
1st pts 27/39 27/39
% 1st pts 69% 69%
2nd pts 9/18 9/18
% 2nd pts 50% 50%
Breaks
Won 6 6
Converted 6/10 6/10
Converted % 60% 60%
Conceded 10 10
Saved 8/10 8
Saved % 80% 80%
Times Broken 2 2
Erjavec
Q1
Subasic
Total
Score 6-2 6-3
Tot Set 2 2
Tot Games 17 17
pts 73-55 73-55
Total points 128 128
Winners 24 24
%Winners 33% 33%
SERVE
Aces 3 3
Double Faults 3 3
1st in 30/60 30/60
% 1st in 50% 50%
1st pts 24/30 24/30
% 1st pts 80% 80%
2nd pts 13/30 13/30
% 2nd pts 43% 43%
Breaks
Won 5 5
Converted 5/11 5/11
Converted % 45% 45%
Conceded 4 4
Saved 3/4 3
Saved % 75% 75%
Times Broken 1 1

Tennis Scores – Australian Open

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