Ankita Raina and Kateryna Volodko will face off in the qualifications of the Japan Open Tennis Championships for the 2^nd time in their career. They are scheduled to compete on Sunday at 11:00 am on Court 1. In the following lines you can find the head to head analysis and prediction.

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The pick for Tennis Tonic is Ankita Raina who should win in 3 sets.

(image) As per the initial odds, Ankita Raina is the pick to win this match.
Ankita Raina -> 1.46
Kateryna Volodko -> 2.57

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Prediction and head to head Ankita Raina vs. Kateryna Volodko

This will be the 2^nd time that Ankita Raina and Kateryna Volodko play each other. The head to head is 1-0 for Raina (see full H2H stats), 1-0 on hard.

The last time that they played each other, Raina won 6-1 6-1 in the qualifications in the W80 Tyler back in 2020.

Ankita Raina

Ranked no. 189, Raina reached the qualifications after beating Yuki Naito 6-3 7-5.

In the qualifications, Raina had a good straight sets win against Naito (6-3 7-5). During the match, Raina scored 81 points vs Naito’s 60. The Indian was very aggressive to blast 33 winners.

Regarding the service games, Raina scored just 1 ace in the encounter and she committed only 1 double fault. Ankita Raina lost the serve twice and she saved 3 break points. Furthermore, Raina put 70% of her first serves in, winning 77% (33/43) of the points behind her 1st serve and 44% (8/18) on the 2nd serve. The Indian broke Naito 4 times after converting 33% of her break points (4/12).

Raina has positive win-loss record in the last 10 years having won 53% of her matches (294-256). 29-20 on hard in 2023. Regarding her performance on the same surface of this tournament, Raina has a composed 232-172 win-loss record in the last years on hard.

Raina’s best result of the current season was reaching the final in the W40 Bengaluru and the W25 Jakarta.

Ankita has a composed 37-27 win-loss record in 2023, 29-20 on hard (See FULL STATS).

Previously in Osaka

Raina has never competed in this tournament before.

Kateryna Volodko

Ranked no. 277, Kateryna got to the qualifications after beating Sakura Hosogi 6-3 6-1.

In the qualifications, The Ukrainian had a good straight sets win against Hosogi (6-3 6-1). During the match Bondarenko scored 54 points vs Hosogi’s 34. The Ukrainian was pretty aggressive to blast 15 winners.

Talking about serving, Bondarenko scored just 1 ace during the entire match and she committed only 2 double faults. Kateryna Volodko lost the serve once. Furthermore, Bondarenko put 53% of her first serves in, winning 65% (15/23) of the points behind her 1st serve and 70% (14/20) on the 2nd serve. Bondarenko broke Hosogi 5 times after converting 50% of her break points (5/10).

Her best result of the current season was winning the title the W40 Nonthaburi where she defeated Valeria Savinykh in the final 6-2 6-3.

Kateryna has a compiled 18-11 win-loss record in 2023, 16-8 on hard (See FULL STATS).

H2H Performance in the tournament

Matches, sets, games and points

Both Raina and Bondarenko played 1 match. Also both players started their run from the qualifications.Both players have not conceded a single set in this event so far. Talking about their workload, Raina and Bondarenko have played the same amount of sets 2. However, Raina played 5 games more than Bondarenko. The Indian scored 33 winners (41% of the total points). On the other side, Bondarenko managed to score 15 winners (28%).

Serve Performance

Raina recorded 1 ace . Bondarenko also struck 1 ace . Raina won 77% points behind her first serve. She had a solid display on her second serve to win 44% of the points. On the other side, Bondarenko won 65% of the points behind her first serve. She had a solid display on her second serve to win 70% of the points.

How they played the important points

Raina broke her opponent 4 times with a 33% conversion rate. Ankita dropped her serve twice and she saved 60% of the break points that she conceded. Bondarenko broke her opponent 5 times with a 50% conversion rate. Kateryna conceded her serve once and she saved 0% of the break points that she conceded.