Vitalia Diatchenko and Natalia Vikhlyantseva will clash against each other in the semifinal of the Open Angers Arena Loire for the 3^rd time in their career. They are scheduled to play on Saturday at 2:00 pm on Central P21. In this post, we analyze their head to head performance and prediction.

Prediction, odds and live streaming

The pick for Tennis Tonic is Vitalia Diatchenko who should win in 3 sets.

As per the initial odds, Vitalia Diatchenko is the pick to win this match.
Vitalia Diatchenko -> 1.68
Natalia Vikhlyantseva -> 2.24

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Prediction and head to head Vitalia Diatchenko vs. Natalia Vikhlyantseva

This will be the 3^rd time that Vitalia Diatchenko and Natalia Vikhlyantseva fight against each other. The head to head is 2-0 for Diatchenko (see full H2H stats), 1-0 on indoor hard courts.

The last time that they locked horns, Diatchenko won 6-3 2-6 6-3 in the 1^st round in the W100+H Dubai back in November 2021.

Vitalia Diatchenko

Ranked no. 165, Diatchenko got to the semifinal after beating Chloe Noel 6-0 6-3, Cristina Bucsa 6-1 6-2, Daniela Vismane 2-6 7-6⁶ 7-6⁰ and Mallaurie Noel 6-1 7-5.

In the quarter, Vitalia had a good straight sets win against Noel (6-1 7-5). During the match, Diatchenko scored 71 points vs Noel’s 55. Vitalia was pretty aggressive to blast 33 winners.

Regarding the service games, Diatchenko fired 2 aces and she committed only 5 double faults. Vitalia Diatchenko lost the serve once and she saved 6 break points. Furthermore, Diatchenko put 70% of her first serves in, winning 72% (33/46) of the points behind her 1st serve and 50% (10/20) on the 2nd serve. Diatchenko broke Noel 4 times after converting 36% of her break points (4/11).

Overall Performance in this tournament

Vitalia started her run at this tournament from the qualifications. In the main draw, she has surrendered 1 set in this competition to win 54% of the points she played.

Diatchenko has a solid record in the last 10 years having won 65% of her matches (216-114). 8-6 on indoor hard courts in 2021. In connection with her performance on the same surface of this competition, Diatchenko has a compiled 77-30 match record in the last years on indoor hard courts.

Diatchenko’s best result of the season was reaching the semifinal in the W60 Nantes.

Vitalia has an overall 20-17 win-loss record in 2021, 8-6 on indoor hard courts (See FULL STATS).

Previously in the Angers

Diatchenko has never competed in this tournament before.

Natalia Vikhlyantseva

Ranked no. 244, Natalia got to the semifinal after defeating Yu-Chieh Hsieh 6-3 7-5, Iryna Shymanovich 7-5 6-1, Ana Bogdan 6-2 6-2, Vera Zvonareva 6-3 6-4 and Clara Burel w/o.

In the quarter, Natalia defeated Burel (w/o). During the match Vikhlyantseva and Burel scored the same amount of points (). However, the world no. 165 was stronger during the important points and that was the most significant difference in the match. Vikhlyantseva was not very aggressive do strike just winners.

Talking about serving, Vikhlyantseva was unable to score even 1 ace for the entire match and she was exceptionally steady in conceding no double faults for the entire match. Natalia Vikhlyantseva conceded no breaks for the entire match to put 0% of her first serves in, win 0% (/) of the points behind her 1st serve and 0% (/) on the 2nd serve.

Overall Performance in this tournament

Vikhlyantseva started her run at this tournament from the qualifications. In the main draw, she hasn’t conceded yet a set in this event to conquer 58% of the points she played.

Vikhlyantseva has an aggregate 12-18 win-loss record in 2021, 5-5 on indoor hard courts (See FULL STATS).

H2H Performance in the tournament

Matches, sets, games and points

Both Diatchenko and Vikhlyantseva played 4 matches. Also both players started their run from the qualifications.At the moment, Vitalia Diatchenko surrendered 1 set while Natalia Vikhlyantseva hasn’t dropped a set so far. Diatchenko has played 1 set more than Vikhlyantseva (9 vs 8). Therefore, Diatchenko played 8 games more than Vikhlyantseva. Vitalia scored 142 winners (45% of the total points). On the other side, The Russian blasted 110 winners (41%).

Serve Performance

Diatchenko scored 12 aces (3 per match). Vikhlyantseva bagged 13 aces (3.3 per match). Diatchenko won 70% points behind her first serve. She very solid her second serve to win 42% of the points. On the other side, Vikhlyantseva won 75% of the points on her first serve. She had a solid display on her second serve to win 52% of the points.

How they played the important points

Vitalia broke her opponents 18 times with a 45% conversion rate. Diatchenko conceded her serve 9 times and she saved 73% of the break points that she conceded. The Russian broke her opponents 17 times with a 52% conversion rate. Natalia conceded her serve 6 times and she saved 45% of the break points that she conceded.