Anastasia Potapova and Tamara Zidansek will face off in the 1st round of the Australian Open for the 4th time in their career. They are scheduled to compete on Monday at 1:00 pm on Court 15. 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 Anastasia Potapova who should win in 2 sets.

As per the initial odds, Anastasia Potapova is the pick to win this match.
Anastasia Potapova -> 1.28
Tamara Zidansek -> 3.68

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Prediction and head to head Anastasia Potapova vs. Tamara Zidansek

This will be the 4th time that Anastasia Potapova and Tamara Zidansek square off. The head to head is 2-1 for Potapova (see full H2H stats),but they are 1-1 on hard.

The last time that they squared off, Zidansek won 6-3 3-6 6-2 in the 2nd round in Monastir back in 2022.

Anastasia Potapova

Anastasia Potapova

2 - 1win/loss

Hard
2-1
I Hard
0-0
Rank
50
High
21
LWWWLWLLWL
Year Total Hard Clay I.hard Grass Carpet
2025 24-16 10-11 6-3 7-1 1-1 0-0
2024 28-22 17-13 6-5 2-1 3-3 0-0
2023 30-21 11-14 7-4 7-1 5-2 0-0
2022 35-24 14-14 18-7 3-2 0-1 0-0
2021 21-23 11-11 3-5 5-5 2-2 0-0

Ranked no. 35, Potapova will start her run at the Australian Open after she played her last match in Brisbane where she lost 7-6(2) 6-2 to Birrell in the 3rd round on the 2nd of January.

The Russian has a compiled 2-1 win-loss record in 2025, 2-1 on hard (See FULL STATS).

Talking about her overall career, Potapova has an overall 220-156 record. She has a positive 102-86 record on hard.

Previously at the Australian Open

Previously, her best result was reaching the 3rd round in 2021. See her history.

Australian Open
Potapova's Record

Tamara Zidansek

Tamara Zidansek

3 - 1win/loss

Hard
3-1
I Hard
0-0
Rank
160
High
22
WWLLWWWLWW
Year Total Hard Clay I.hard Grass Carpet
2025 36-21 3-3 31-16 2-1 0-1 0-0
2024 20-25 6-10 12-11 1-3 1-1 0-0
2023 42-26 7-8 27-11 6-4 1-2 1-1
2022 21-24 12-9 7-11 0-0 2-4 0-0
2021 30-20 9-13 21-6 0-0 0-1 0-0

Ranked no. 180, Tamara reached the 1st round after defeating Lanlana Tararudee 6-0 4-6 6-4, Raluca Georgiana Serban 6-2 6-2 and Carole Monnet 6-3 5-7 6-3.

In the qualifications, The Slovenian defeated Monnet (6-3 5-7 6-3). During the match Zidansek scored 116 points vs Monnet’s 103. Tamara was exceptionally aggressive to blast 45 winners.

About the serving games, Zidansek wasn’t able to score even 1 ace for the entire match and she committed only 3 double faults. Tamara Zidansek lost the serve 7 times and she saved 14 break points. Furthermore, Zidansek put 65% of her first serves in, winning 56% (45/81) of the points behind her 1st serve and 42% (18/43) on the 2nd serve. Zidansek broke Monnet 9 times after converting 64% of her break points (9/14).

Overall Performance in this tournament

Zidansek started her run at this tournament from the qualifications. In the main draw, she has conceded 2 set in the tournament to win 55% of the points she played.

Zidansek has an overall 3-1 win-loss record in 2025, 3-1 on hard (See FULL STATS).

Previously at the Australian Open

Previously, her best result was reaching the 3rd round in 2022. See her history.

Australian Open
Zidansek's Record

Tennis Scores – Australian Open

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