
Clara Tauson and Anna Blinkova will face off in the quarter of the Upper Austria Ladies Linz for the 3rd time in their career. They are scheduled to play on Friday at 3:30 pm on CENTER 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 Clara Tauson who should win in 2 sets.
As per the initial odds, Clara Tauson is the pick to win this match.
Clara Tauson -> 1.33
Anna Blinkova -> 3.32
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Prediction and head to head Clara Tauson vs. Anna Blinkova
This will be the 3rd time that Clara Tauson and Anna Blinkova fight against each other. The head to head is 1-1 (see full H2H stats), 1-0 on indoor hard courts.
The last time that they competed against each other, Tauson won 7-5 6-3 in the 2nd round in the Angers back in 2022.
Clara Tauson
Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
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2025 | 15-4 | 12-3 | 0-0 | 3-1 | 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. 39, Clara reached the quarter after beating Anhelina Kalinina 6-3 6-3 and Sorana Cirstea 6-2 6-4.
In the 2nd round, Clara had a good straight sets win against Cirstea (6-2 6-4). During the match, Tauson scored 70 points vs Cirstea’s 49. Tauson was quite aggressive to blast 20 winners.
Regarding the service games, Tauson scored just 1 ace during the match and she committed only 3 double faults. Overall, Clara Tauson was pretty efficient on serve to win 71% (20/28) of her 1st serve and 63% (19/30) on the second serve. However, this didn’t prevent her to concede the serve once. The Dane broke Cirstea 4 times after converting 50% of her break points (4/8).
Overall Performance in this tournament
The Dane hasn’t dropped yet a set in this tournament to win 58% of the points she played.
Tauson has a solid match record in the last 9 years having won 69% of her matches (243-107). 2-0 on indoor hard courts in 2025. Regarding her performance on the same surface of this tournament, Tauson has an overall77-24 record in the last 9 years on indoor hard courts.
Her best result of the current year was winning the title in Auckland where she overcame Naomi Osaka in the final 4-6 ret..
Tauson has an aggregate 9-1 win-loss record in 2025, 2-0 on indoor hard courts (See FULL STATS).
Previously in Linz
Anna Blinkova
Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
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2025 | 6-5 | 3-3 | 0-0 | 3-2 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
2024 | 25-30 | 14-15 | 2-8 | 7-3 | 2-4 | 0-0 |
2023 | 33-28 | 15-15 | 10-7 | 3-3 | 5-3 | 0-0 |
2022 | 46-29 | 7-8 | 16-10 | 21-7 | 1-3 | 1-1 |
2021 | 15-24 | 5-11 | 6-6 | 2-4 | 2-3 | 0-0 |
Ranked no. 83, Anna reached the quarter after beating Sinja Kraus 7-6(3) 6-2 and Elina Svitolina 6-4 6-4.
In the 2nd round, Blinkova had a good straight sets win against Svitolina (6-4 6-4). During the match Blinkova scored 72 points vs Svitolina’s 63. Blinkova was extremely aggressive to blast 23 winners.
About the serving games, Blinkova recorded 2 aces and she committed only 5 double faults. Anna Blinkova lost the serve 5 times and she saved 9 break points. Furthermore, Blinkova put 58% of her first serves in, winning 58% (23/40) of the points behind her 1st serve and 41% (12/29) on the 2nd serve. Anna broke Svitolina 7 times after converting 50% of her break points (7/14).
Overall Performance in this tournament
The Russian hasn’t dropped yet a set in the tournament to win 54% of the points she played.
The Russian has a compiled 5-3 win-loss record in 2025, 2-0 on indoor hard courts (See FULL STATS).
Previously in Linz
Previously, her best result was reaching the 1st round in 2018, 2019, 2023 and 2024. See her history.
H2H Performance in the tournament (main draw)
Matches, sets, games and points
Points | Tauson | Blinkova |
---|---|---|
Match played | 2 | 2 |
Tot Set | 4 | 4 |
Tot Games | 36 | 41 |
Pts | 134-96 | 140-118 |
Total Points | 230 | 258 |
Winners | 48 | 50 |
%Winners | 36% | 36% |
Both Tauson and Blinkova played 2 matches. Both players have not dropped a single set in this event so far. Talking about their workload, Tauson and Blinkova have played the same amount of sets 4. However, Tauson played 5 games less than Blinkova. Clara scored 48 winners (36% of the total points). On the other side, Blinkova managed to score 50 winners (36%).
Serve Performance
Serve | Tauson | Blinkova |
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Aces | 12 | 2 |
Avg per match | 6 | 1 |
1st in | 60/112 | 77/133 |
%1st in | 54% | 58% |
1st pts | 48/60 | 50/77 |
%1st pts | 80% | 65% |
2nd pts | 31/52 | 25/56 |
%2nd pts | 60% | 45% |
Tauson blasted 12 aces (6 per match). Blinkova fired 2 aces (1 per match). Tauson won 80% points on her first serve. She quite strong on her second serve to win 60% of the points. On the other side, Blinkova won 65% of the points on her first serve. She had a solid display on her second serve to win 45% of the points.
How they played the important points
Breaks | Tauson | Blinkova |
---|---|---|
Won | 7 | 11 |
Converted | 7/13 | 11/19 |
% Converted | 54% | 58% |
Conceded | 9 | 20 |
Saved | 8 | 13 |
% Saved | 89% | 65% |
Times Broken | 1 | 7 |
The Dane broke her opponents 7 times with a 54% conversion rate. Clara lost her serve once and she saved 89% of the break points that she conceded. The Russian broke her opponents 11 times with a 58% conversion rate. The Russian conceded her serve 7 times and she saved 65% of the break points that she conceded.
Tauson | ||||
R1 Kalinina |
R2 Cirstea |
Total | ||
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Score | 6-3 6-3 | 6-2 6-4 | ||
Tot Set | 2 | 2 | 4 | |
Tot Games | 18 | 18 | 36 | |
pts | 64-47 | 70-49 | 134-96 | |
Total points | 111 | 119 | 230 | |
Winners | 28 | 20 | 48 | |
%Winners | 44% | 29% | 36% | |
SERVE | ||||
Aces | 11 | 1 | 12 | |
Double Faults | 4 | 3 | 7 | |
1st in | 32/54 | 28/58 | 60/112 | |
% 1st in | 59% | 48% | 54% | |
1st pts | 28/32 | 20/28 | 48/60 | |
% 1st pts | 88% | 71% | 80% | |
2nd pts | 12/22 | 19/30 | 31/52 | |
% 2nd pts | 55% | 63% | 60% | |
Breaks | ||||
Won | 3 | 4 | 7 | |
Converted | 3/5 | 4/8 | 7/13 | |
Converted % | 60% | 50% | 54% | |
Conceded | 5 | 4 | 9 | |
Saved | 5/5 | 3/4 | 8 | |
Saved % | 100% | 75% | 88% | |
Times Broken | 0 | 1 | 1 |
Blinkova | ||||
R1 Kraus |
R2 Svitolina |
Total | ||
---|---|---|---|---|
Score | 7-63 6-2 | 6-4 6-4 | ||
Tot Set | 2 | 2 | 4 | |
Tot Games | 21 | 20 | 41 | |
pts | 68-55 | 72-63 | 140-118 | |
Total points | 123 | 135 | 258 | |
Winners | 27 | 23 | 50 | |
%Winners | 40% | 32% | 36% | |
SERVE | ||||
Aces | 0 | 2 | 2 | |
Double Faults | 2 | 5 | 7 | |
1st in | 37/64 | 40/69 | 77/133 | |
% 1st in | 58% | 58% | 58% | |
1st pts | 27/37 | 23/40 | 50/77 | |
% 1st pts | 73% | 58% | 65% | |
2nd pts | 13/27 | 12/29 | 25/56 | |
% 2nd pts | 48% | 41% | 45% | |
Breaks | ||||
Won | 4 | 7 | 11 | |
Converted | 4/5 | 7/14 | 11/19 | |
Converted % | 80% | 50% | 58% | |
Conceded | 6 | 14 | 20 | |
Saved | 4/6 | 9/14 | 13 | |
Saved % | 67% | 64% | 66% | |
Times Broken | 2 | 5 | 7 |
Head 2 Head



Tennis Scores in Linz
- Anna Danilina/Irina KhromachevaDanilina/Irina Khromacheva – Anastasia Potapova/Yana SizikovaPotapova/Yana Sizikova (6-1 6-2) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Timea Babos/Luisa StefaniBabos/Luisa Stefani – Tereza Mihalikova/Olivia NichollsMihalikova/Olivia Nicholls (6-3 2-0 ret.) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Oleg PrihodkoPrihodko – Matias ZukasZukas (7-611 3-1 ret.) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Aleksandre MetreveliMetreveli – Koray KirciKirci (6-2 3-1 ret.) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Vlad Victor CorneaVictor Cornea – Vladimir KorolevKorolev (6-4 6-4) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Dimitar KuzmanovKuzmanov – Marsel IlhanIlhan (6-2 6-3) – Stats, scores, rankings
Upcoming matches in the draw
- Karolina MuchovaMuchova – Anastasia PotapovaPotapova (3-1) – H2H and prediction
- Ekaterina AlexandrovaAlexandrova – Petra MarticMartic (0-2) – H2H and prediction
- Dayana YastremskaYastremska – Maria SakkariSakkari (0-1) – H2H and prediction
- Clara TausonTauson – Anna BlinkovaBlinkova (1-1) – H2H and prediction