Katarzyna Kawa and Polina Iatcenko will clash against each other in the 2nd round of the Chennai Open for the 1st time in their career. They are scheduled to play on Thursday at 4:30 pm on COURT 1. Here the head to head stats and relative prediction.
Prediction, odds and live streaming
The pick for Tennis Tonic is Polina Iatcenko who should win in 3 sets.
As per the initial odds, Polina Iatcenko is the pick to win this match.
Polina Iatcenko -> 1.68
Katarzyna Kawa -> 2.18
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Prediction and head to head Katarzyna Kawa vs. Polina Iatcenko
There is no head to head record between Katarzyna Kawa and Polina Iatcenko since this will be the first time that they will square off in the main tour.
Katarzyna Kawa
33 - 26win/loss
131
112
LWLWLWWLLL | Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 34-28 | 7-12 | 21-12 | 1-0 | 5-4 | 0-0 |
| 2024 | 23-25 | 3-9 | 17-11 | 3-2 | 0-3 | 0-0 |
| 2023 | 37-29 | 3-5 | 29-17 | 3-6 | 0-0 | 2-1 |
| 2022 | 26-23 | 7-10 | 4-6 | 9-4 | 6-3 | 0-0 |
| 2021 | 16-26 | 7-11 | 5-9 | 2-4 | 2-2 | 0-0 |
Ranked no. 126, the Pole reached the 2nd round after defeating Lucia Bronzetti 6-7 6-0 6-2.
In the 1st round against Bronzetti, Kawa recovered from a 1-set down deficit before winning (6-7 6-0 6-2). During the match, Kawa scored 116 points vs Bronzetti’s 97. Kawa was exceptionally aggressive to blast 36 winners.
Talking about the service games, Kawa scored 3 aces and she committed only 2 double faults. Katarzyna Kawa lost the serve twice and she saved 13 break points. Furthermore, Kawa put 53% of her first serves in, winning 63% (36/57) of the points behind her 1st serve and 57% (29/51) on the 2nd serve. The Pole broke Bronzetti 7 times after converting 54% of her break points (7/13).
Kawa has favorable match record in the last 10 years having won 55% of her matches (257-212). 7-10 on hard in 2025. Talking about her performance on the same surface of this tournament, Kawa has an overall 69-78 record in the last years on hard.
The Pole’s best result of the current season was getting to the final in Bogota and the Bastad.
Katarzyna has a compiled 33-26 win-loss record in 2025, 7-10 on hard (See FULL STATS).
Previously in Chennai
Polina Iatcenko
| Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 43-16 | 39-14 | 0-0 | 4-2 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2024 | 30-21 | 22-15 | 0-0 | 7-4 | 0-0 | 1-2 |
| 2023 | 52-23 | 48-20 | 2-2 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 2-1 |
| 2022 | 37-16 | 32-13 | 4-2 | 1-1 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2021 | 6-8 | 1-3 | 3-3 | 2-2 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
Ranked no. 181 (career-high), Polina got to the 2nd round after beating Alina Charaeva 6-3 5-0 ret..
In the 1st round against Charaeva, Iatcenko had a free pass after Charaeva retired on a 6-3 5-0 . scoreline.
Her best result of the current season was conquering the title the W35 Sharm ElSheikh where she beat Viktoria Hruncakova in the final 6-2 6-2 and the W50 Ourense where she beat Carol Young Suh Lee in the final 6-2 6-2 and the Caldas da Rainha where she overcame Gabriela Andrea Knutson in the final 6-2 5-7 6-2.
The Russian has a compiled 40-14 win-loss record in 2025, 36-12 on hard (See FULL STATS).
H2H Performance in the tournament
Matches, sets, games and points
| Points | Kawa | Iatcenko |
|---|---|---|
| Match played | 1 | 1 |
| Tot Set | 3 | 3 |
| Tot Games | 27 | 14 |
| Pts | 116-97 | 56-38 |
| Total Points | 213 | 94 |
| Winners | 36 | 18 |
| %Winners | 31% | 32% |
Both Kawa and Iatcenko played 1 match. At the moment, Katarzyna Kawa lost 1 set while Polina Iatcenko hasn’t dropped a set so far. Talking about their workload, Kawa and Iatcenko have played the same amount of sets 3. However, Kawa played 13 games more than Iatcenko. Kawa scored 36 winners (31% of the total points). On the other side, Polina recorded 18 winners (32%).
Serve Performance
| Serve | Kawa | Iatcenko |
|---|---|---|
| Aces | 3 | 4 |
| Avg per match | 3 | 4 |
| 1st in | 57/108 | 22/42 |
| %1st in | 53% | 52% |
| 1st pts | 36/57 | 18/22 |
| %1st pts | 63% | 82% |
| 2nd pts | 29/51 | 11/20 |
| %2nd pts | 57% | 55% |
Kawa struck 3 aces . Iatcenko made 4 aces . Kawa won 63% points on her first serve. She extremely effective on her second serve to win 57% of the points. On the other side, Iatcenko won 82% of the points behind her first serve. She had a solid display on her second serve to win 55% of the points.
How they played the important points
| Breaks | Kawa | Iatcenko |
|---|---|---|
| Won | 7 | 4 |
| Converted | 7/13 | 4/10 |
| % Converted | 54% | 40% |
| Conceded | 15 | 0 |
| Saved | 13 | 0 |
| % Saved | 87% | 0% |
| Times Broken | 2 | 0 |
Kawa broke her opponent 7 times with a 54% conversion rate. The Pole surrendered her serve twice and she saved 87% of the break points that she conceded. Polina broke her opponent 4 times with a 40% conversion rate. Polina was rock solid on her serve as she has never conceded a single service game after saving 0 break points.
| Kawa | |||
| R1 Bronzetti |
Total | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Score | 6-7 6-0 6-2 | ||
| Tot Set | 3 | 3 | |
| Tot Games | 27 | 27 | |
| pts | 116-97 | 116-97 | |
| Total points | 213 | 213 | |
| Winners | 36 | 36 | |
| %Winners | 31% | 31% | |
| SERVE | |||
| Aces | 3 | 3 | |
| Double Faults | 2 | 2 | |
| 1st in | 57/108 | 57/108 | |
| % 1st in | 53% | 53% | |
| 1st pts | 36/57 | 36/57 | |
| % 1st pts | 63% | 63% | |
| 2nd pts | 29/51 | 29/51 | |
| % 2nd pts | 57% | 57% | |
| Breaks | |||
| Won | 7 | 7 | |
| Converted | 7/13 | 7/13 | |
| Converted % | 54% | 54% | |
| Conceded | 15 | 15 | |
| Saved | 13/15 | 13 | |
| Saved % | 87% | 87% | |
| Times Broken | 2 | 2 | |
| Iatcenko | |||
| R1 Charaeva |
Total | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Score | 6-3 5-0 ret. | ||
| Tot Set | 2 | 2 | |
| Tot Games | 14 | 14 | |
| pts | 56-38 | 56-38 | |
| Total points | 94 | 94 | |
| Winners | 18 | 18 | |
| %Winners | 32% | 32% | |
| SERVE | |||
| Aces | 4 | 4 | |
| Double Faults | 2 | 2 | |
| 1st in | 22/42 | 22/42 | |
| % 1st in | 52% | 52% | |
| 1st pts | 18/22 | 18/22 | |
| % 1st pts | 82% | 82% | |
| 2nd pts | 11/20 | 11/20 | |
| % 2nd pts | 55% | 55% | |
| Breaks | |||
| Won | 4 | 4 | |
| Converted | 4/10 | 4/10 | |
| Converted % | 40% | 40% | |
| Conceded | 0 | 0 | |
| Saved | 0/0 | 0 | |
| Saved % | – | 0% | |
| Times Broken | 0 | 0 | |
Head 2 Head
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WWLLWWLWWW Tennis Scores in Chennai
- Polina IatcenkoIatcenko – Alina CharaevaCharaeva (6-3 5-0 ret.) – See score progression
- Storm HunterHunter – Mai HontamaHontama (6-70 6-2 6-4) – See score progression
- Katarzyna KawaKawa – Lucia BronzettiBronzetti (6-7 6-0 6-2) – See score progression
- Shrivalli Rashmikaa BhamidipatyRashmikaa Bhamidipaty – Maaya Rajeshwaran RevathiRajeshwaran Revathi (6-1 6-4) – See score progression
- Mia PohankovaPohankova – Nao HibinoHibino (7-5 6-1) – See score progression
- Janice TjenTjen – Caroline WernerWerner (6-4 6-75 6-2) – See score progression
- Arina RodionovaRodionova – Nina StojanovicStojanovic (6-3 5-5 ret.) – See score progression
- Mei YamaguchiYamaguchi – Francesca JonesJones (5-7 6-0 1-0 ret.) – See score progression
- Joanna GarlandGarland – Arianne HartonoHartono (6-4 6-3) – See score progression
- Zeynep SonmezSonmez – Tatiana ProzorovaProzorova (7-5 6-4) – See score progression
- Kimberly BirrellBirrell – Nikola BartunkovaBartunkova (1-6 6-1 6-3) – See score progression
- Sahaja YamalapalliYamalapalli – Priska Madelyn NugrohoMadelyn Nugroho (6-4 6-2) – See score progression
- Diane ParryParry – Thasaporn NakloNaklo (6-2 6-0) – See score progression
- Donna VekicVekic – Vaishnavi AdkarAdkar (6-1 6-2) – See score progression
- Linda FruhvirtovaFruhvirtova – Astrid Lew Yan FoonLew Yan Foon (6-2 6-2) – See score progression
- Lanlana TararudeeTararudee – Maria TimofeevaTimofeeva (6-2 2-0 ret.) – See score progression
- Zeynep SonmezSonmez – Tatiana ProzorovaProzorova (7-5 6-4) – See score progression
- Mia PohankovaPohankova – Nao HibinoHibino (7-5 6-1) – See score progression
- Diane ParryParry – Thasaporn NakloNaklo (6-2 6-0) – See score progression
- Sahaja YamalapalliYamalapalli – Priska Madelyn NugrohoMadelyn Nugroho (6-4 6-2) – See score progression
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- Zeynep SonmezSonmez – (0-0) – H2H and prediction
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- Arina RodionovaRodionova – Storm SandersSanders (2-1) – H2H and prediction
- Joanna GarlandGarland – Mei YamaguchiYamaguchi (1-0) – H2H and prediction
