Sara Errani and Anna-Lena Friedsam will fight against each other in the qualifications of the French Open for the 2nd time in their career. They are scheduled to compete on Thursday at 2:00 pm on Court 6. 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 Anna-Lena Friedsam who should win in 3 sets.
Anna-Lena Friedsam -> 1.55
Sara Errani -> 2.39
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Prediction and head to head Sara Errani vs. Anna-Lena Friedsam
This will be the 2nd time that Sara Errani and Anna-Lena Friedsam play each other. The head to head is 1-0 for Friedsam (see full H2H stats), but they have never competed against each other on clay.
The last time that they competed against each other, Friedsam won 6-2 6-4 in the 1st round in Linz back in 2023.
Sara Errani
| Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 3-9 | 1-4 | 2-5 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2024 | 29-22 | 9-11 | 13-7 | 4-2 | 3-2 | 0-0 |
| 2023 | 36-31 | 11-9 | 21-17 | 3-2 | 1-3 | 0-0 |
| 2022 | 33-29 | 8-10 | 21-15 | 0-2 | 4-2 | 0-0 |
| 2021 | 16-21 | 6-10 | 9-9 | 0-0 | 1-2 | 0-0 |
Ranked no. 179, the Italian reached the qualifications after defeating Jule Niemeier 0-6 7-6(4) 6-2.
In the qualifications against Niemeier, The Italian recovered from a 1-set down deficit before winning (0-6 7-64 6-2).During the match, Errani scored less points (5) than Niemeier. In fact, the world no. 179 won 86 points vs Niemeier’s. That means that Errani was more focused during the important points. Errani was quite aggressive to blast 39 winners.
Talking about the service games, Errani wasn’t able to score even 1 ace in the course of the match and she committed only 1 double fault. Sara Errani lost the serve 6 times and she saved 3 break points. Furthermore, Errani put 81% of her first serves in, winning 56% (39/70) of the points behind her 1st serve and 44% (7/16) on the 2nd serve. Errani broke Niemeier 5 times after converting 42% of her break points (5/12).
Errani has winning win-loss record in the last 10 years having won 53% of her matches (236-210). 2-4 on clay in 2025. Regarding her performance on the same surface of this event, Errani has an overall 128-99 record in the last years on clay.
The Italian has an overall 3-8 win-loss record in 2025, 2-4 on clay (See FULL STATS).
Previously at the French Open
Anna-Lena Friedsam
23 - 7win/loss
194
45
| Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 37-20 | 13-10 | 11-6 | 10-3 | 0-1 | 3-0 |
| 2024 | 9-12 | 0-3 | 0-3 | 6-5 | 0-0 | 3-1 |
| 2023 | 31-27 | 8-9 | 10-8 | 13-8 | 0-2 | 0-0 |
| 2022 | 30-27 | 7-9 | 10-9 | 12-6 | 1-2 | 0-1 |
| 2021 | 18-23 | 3-6 | 9-8 | 5-7 | 1-2 | 0-0 |
Ranked no. 284, Anna-Lena got to the qualifications after beating Ksenia Efremova 6-1 7-5.
In the qualifications, The German had a good straight sets win against Efremova (6-1 7-5). During the match Friedsam scored 73 points vs Efremova’s 57. Anna-Lena was exceptionally aggressive to blast 26 winners.
About the serving games, Friedsam was unable to score even 1 ace for the entire match and she committed only 4 double faults. Anna-Lena Friedsam lost the serve 4 times and she saved 8 break points. Furthermore, Friedsam put 63% of her first serves in, winning 59% (26/44) of the points behind her 1st serve and 46% (12/26) on the 2nd serve. Anna-Lena broke Efremova 7 times after converting 47% of her break points (7/15).
Her best result of the season was conquering the title the W35 Esch/Alzette where she overcame Emily Appleton in the final 3-6 6-0 7-5.
The German has a composed 23-7 win-loss record in 2025, 4-2 on clay (See FULL STATS).
Previously at the French Open
Previously, her best result was reaching the 2nd round in 2015 and 2023. See her history.
H2H Performance in the tournament
Matches, sets, games and points
| Points | Errani | Friedsam |
|---|---|---|
| Match played | 1 | 1 |
| Tot Set | 3 | 2 |
| Tot Games | 27 | 19 |
| Pts | 86-91 | 73-57 |
| Total Points | 177 | 130 |
| Winners | 39 | 26 |
| %Winners | 45% | 36% |
Both Errani and Friedsam played 1 match. Also both players started their run from the qualifications.At the moment, Sara Errani lost 1 set while Anna-Lena Friedsam hasn’t dropped a set so far. Errani has played 1 set more than Friedsam (3 vs 2). Therefore, Errani played 8 games more than Friedsam. Errani scored 39 winners (45% of the total points). On the other side, Anna-Lena recorded 26 winners (36%).
Serve Performance
| Serve | Errani | Friedsam |
|---|---|---|
| Aces | 0 | 0 |
| Avg per match | 0 | 0 |
| 1st in | 70/86 | 44/70 |
| %1st in | 81% | 63% |
| 1st pts | 39/70 | 26/44 |
| %1st pts | 56% | 59% |
| 2nd pts | 7/16 | 12/26 |
| %2nd pts | 44% | 46% |
Errani didn’t manage to fire a single ace to far. Friedsam also didn’t manage to fire a single ace to far. Errani won 56% points behind her first serve. She was rock solid on her second serve to win 44% of the points. On the other side, Friedsam won 59% of the points behind her first serve. She had a solid display on her second serve to win 46% of the points.
How they played the important points
| Breaks | Errani | Friedsam |
|---|---|---|
| Won | 5 | 7 |
| Converted | 5/12 | 7/15 |
| % Converted | 42% | 47% |
| Conceded | 9 | 12 |
| Saved | 3 | 8 |
| % Saved | 33% | 67% |
| Times Broken | 6 | 4 |
Sara broke her opponent 5 times with a 42% conversion rate. Sara dropped her serve 6 times and she saved 33% of the break points that she conceded. Anna-Lena broke her opponent 7 times with a 47% conversion rate. Friedsam conceded her serve 4 times and she saved 67% of the break points that she conceded.
| Errani | |||
| Q1 Niemeier | Total | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Score | 0-6 7-64 6-2 | ||
| Tot Set | 3 | 3 | |
| Tot Games | 27 | 27 | |
| pts | 86-91 | 86-91 | |
| Total points | 177 | 177 | |
| Winners | 39 | 39 | |
| %Winners | 45% | 45% | |
| SERVE | |||
| Aces | 0 | 0 | |
| Double Faults | 1 | 1 | |
| 1st in | 70/86 | 70/86 | |
| % 1st in | 81% | 81% | |
| 1st pts | 39/70 | 39/70 | |
| % 1st pts | 56% | 56% | |
| 2nd pts | 7/16 | 7/16 | |
| % 2nd pts | 44% | 44% | |
| Breaks | |||
| Won | 5 | 5 | |
| Converted | 5/12 | 5/12 | |
| Converted % | 42% | 42% | |
| Conceded | 9 | 9 | |
| Saved | 3/9 | 3 | |
| Saved % | 33% | 33% | |
| Times Broken | 6 | 6 | |
| Friedsam | |||
| Q1 Efremova | Total | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Score | 6-1 7-5 | ||
| Tot Set | 2 | 2 | |
| Tot Games | 19 | 19 | |
| pts | 73-57 | 73-57 | |
| Total points | 130 | 130 | |
| Winners | 26 | 26 | |
| %Winners | 36% | 36% | |
| SERVE | |||
| Aces | 0 | 0 | |
| Double Faults | 4 | 4 | |
| 1st in | 44/70 | 44/70 | |
| % 1st in | 63% | 63% | |
| 1st pts | 26/44 | 26/44 | |
| % 1st pts | 59% | 59% | |
| 2nd pts | 12/26 | 12/26 | |
| % 2nd pts | 46% | 46% | |
| Breaks | |||
| Won | 7 | 7 | |
| Converted | 7/15 | 7/15 | |
| Converted % | 47% | 47% | |
| Conceded | 12 | 12 | |
| Saved | 8/12 | 8 | |
| Saved % | 67% | 67% | |
| Times Broken | 4 | 4 | |
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Upcoming matches in the draw
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- Dalma GalfiGalfi – (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Simona WaltertWaltert – Shuai ZhangZhang (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Aliaksandra SasnovichSasnovich – Lucrezia StefaniniStefanini (1-0) – H2H and prediction
- Nuria BrancaccioBrancaccio – Veronika ErjavecErjavec (1-1) – H2H and prediction
- Anna-Lena FriedsamFriedsam – Sara ErraniErrani (1-0) – H2H and prediction
- Mananchaya SawangkaewSawangkaew – (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Astra SharmaSharma – Leyre Romero GormazRomero Gormaz (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Taylor TownsendTownsend – Hanna ChangChang (2-0) – H2H and prediction
- Kathinka Von DeichmannVon Deichmann – (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Kaja JuvanJuvan – Maja ChwalinskaChwalinska (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Katarzyna KawaKawa – Maria Lourdes CarleLourdes Carle (1-1) – H2H and prediction
- Guiomar Zuleta De RealesZuleta De Reales – Xiyu WangWang (0-0) – H2H and prediction
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- Julia RieraRiera – (0-0) – H2H and prediction
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- Carole MonnetMonnet – Kristina DmitrukDmitruk (1-0) – H2H and prediction
- Varvara LepchenkoLepchenko – Nina StojanovicStojanovic (1-0) – H2H and prediction