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Brenda Fruhvirtova v Anhelina Kalinina

Every number combines what Brenda Fruhvirtova does well with what Anhelina Kalinina allows, each measured against the tour average and shrunk toward it when the sample is thin. Flip perspective

Forecast

Brenda Fruhvirtova wins, best of 3 30%90%: 4%–77% · best of 5: 25%
Serve points won 54.1% / 58.0% Brenda / Anhelina · tour 58.1%
Strengths only, no similarity priors 30%serve 54.1% / 58.0%

Each player's serve and return strength is fitted against every opponent they were charted against, so a record built on weak opponents counts for less. At least one of them is no longer active or has too little charted in the last three seasons, so both are compared on their careers. The result is then nudged by Brenda Fruhvirtova's record against Anhelina Kalinina's tactical lookalikes and in their charted head-to-heads. A game-by-game Markov chain turns point odds into match odds; the 90% range covers the uncertainty in the two strengths, not the nudges. Charted matches lean toward big events, so treat this as a scouting estimate, not a betting line.

Head to head, per 100 shots

CareerBrendaAnhelina
Direction choice−0.13 ±0.13
better than 30%
+0.24 ±0.10
better than 90%
Shot selection−0.34 ±0.23
better than 19%
−0.03 ±0.17
better than 44%
Execution+0.86 ±1.03
better than 88%
+0.47 ±0.64
better than 78%
Points left on the table2.52 ±0.20
lower than 64%
2.11 ±0.10
lower than 98%

Each player's career against an average tour player in the same position, adjusted for opponent strength, with a 90% margin (shots clustered by match). Points left on the table is the gap to the best-value direction for the same stroke, so lower is better. Percentiles are within each player's own tour. A side is highlighted only when the gap is larger than the margin on the difference.

Serve plan

The share of points the server wins when a first serve lands in that direction (hover a rate for its 90% interval; ± is the 90% margin). "Matchup" combines the server's rate with how this returner handles that serve. "Optimal" is the mix that wins most against this returner once they start reading a habit, at the response measured across the tour, and only within the range servers' habits actually vary. The gain over the current mix is how exploitable that mix is.

Brenda Fruhvirtova serving

Deuce court

1st serveNowBrenda winsv AnhelinaMatchupOptimal
Wide40%61%64%59.4%±9.055% ▲
Body21%55%58%56.1%±10.76% ▼
T39%67%62%61.5%±10.439%

Optimal v Anhelina Kalinina: +0.7±1.1 per 100 first serves (faults included) over the current mix, inside the 90% margin. Serving T every time would read +2.0 per 100 first serves in before the returner adjusts.

Ad court

1st serveNowBrenda winsv AnhelinaMatchupOptimal
Wide63%60%64%58.3%±9.263%
Body18%57%51%51.2%±12.43% ▼
T18%59%66%60.8%±11.934% ▲

Optimal v Anhelina Kalinina: +0.9±1.2 per 100 first serves (faults included) over the current mix, inside the 90% margin. Serving T every time would read +3.3 per 100 first serves in before the returner adjusts.

Anhelina Kalinina serving

Deuce court

1st serveNowAnhelina winsv BrendaMatchupOptimal
Wide39%61%64%58.8%±9.539%
Body27%55%58%56.1%±11.412% ▼
T34%64%73%69.0%±11.149% ▲

Optimal v Brenda Fruhvirtova: +0.8±1.2 per 100 first serves (faults included) over the current mix, inside the 90% margin. Serving T every time would read +7.5 per 100 first serves in before the returner adjusts.

Ad court

1st serveNowAnhelina winsv BrendaMatchupOptimal
Wide50%63%69%67.4%±9.858% ▲
Body25%51%58%52.3%±12.69% ▼
T25%62%67%65.4%±10.133% ▲

Optimal v Brenda Fruhvirtova: +0.9±1.1 per 100 first serves (faults included) over the current mix, inside the 90% margin. Serving wide every time would read +4.2 per 100 first serves in before the returner adjusts.

Return plan

Value of each return, in points per 100 returns against an average return of the same serve (direction, court, surface): the tour's result with that return, the returner's own edge with it, and what this server gives up when it comes back to that side. Returns with no charted direction are left out, so values compare with each other rather than with zero. Depth isn't a choice here: missed returns have no depth. Serve quality isn't charted, so a block through the middle partly reflects the serve that forced it.

Brenda Fruhvirtova returning

1st serve to the forehand

ReturnNowTourOwnv AnhelinaValue
FH through the middle43%+4.2+2.8+1.1+8.1±2.9
FH down the line17%+1.5+0.2+1.5+3.1±4.6
FH slice through the middle16%−6.7±0.0±0.0−6.7±2.4
FH crosscourt14%+5.3±0.0+1.6+6.9±4.1
FH slice down the line6%−10.5+1.2−0.8−10.0±2.4

Lean FH through the middle: +5.1±2.0 per 100 returns v the current mix (164 returns charted)

1st serve to the backhand

ReturnNowTourOwnv AnhelinaValue
BH through the middle46%+6.0+0.8+0.1+6.9±2.7
BH crosscourt34%+7.7+0.2−1.4+6.5±3.3
BH down the line20%+2.2−3.7−0.9−2.4±4.3

Lean BH through the middle: +2.0±2.0 per 100 returns v the current mix (65 returns charted, inside the 90% margin)

2nd serve to the backhand

ReturnNowTourOwnv AnhelinaValue
BH through the middle45%−2.6+0.9±0.0−1.7±2.6
BH crosscourt43%+1.5+0.7−1.9+0.3±3.3
BH down the line13%−0.5−0.1+5.1+4.5±4.3

Lean BH crosscourt: +0.4±2.3 per 100 returns v the current mix (40 returns charted, inside the 90% margin)

Anhelina Kalinina returning

1st serve to the forehand

ReturnNowTourOwnv BrendaValue
FH through the middle38%+4.2−2.3+0.3+2.1±3.0
FH crosscourt26%+5.3+3.1+0.7+9.2±4.3
FH slice through the middle16%−6.7+0.5±0.0−6.2±1.8
FH down the line11%+1.5−1.3+0.4+0.6±4.5
FH slice crosscourt7%−6.6+1.3±0.0−5.4±1.8

Lean FH crosscourt: +7.5±3.4 per 100 returns v the current mix (312 returns charted)

1st serve to the backhand

ReturnNowTourOwnv BrendaValue
BH through the middle48%+6.0+1.3+1.9+9.2±2.7
BH crosscourt44%+7.7−0.2+3.8+11.3±3.5
BH down the line9%+2.2+3.6+1.5+7.2±4.5

Lean BH crosscourt: +1.3±2.4 per 100 returns v the current mix (270 returns charted, inside the 90% margin)

2nd serve to the forehand

ReturnNowTourOwnv BrendaValue
FH crosscourt48%+0.5+0.4+0.9+1.8±4.2
FH through the middle35%−3.2+3.0+1.5+1.3±3.0
FH down the line17%−0.6+0.1−1.8−2.3±4.3

Lean FH crosscourt: +0.9±2.5 per 100 returns v the current mix (81 returns charted, inside the 90% margin)

2nd serve to the backhand

ReturnNowTourOwnv BrendaValue
BH crosscourt58%+1.5−1.0+2.1+2.6±3.6
BH through the middle37%−2.6+1.4+0.6−0.6±2.8
BH down the line6%−0.5+0.8−1.4−1.1±3.8

Lean BH crosscourt: +1.4±1.8 per 100 returns v the current mix (120 returns charted, inside the 90% margin)

Rally plan

Edge, in points per 100 shots: the hitter's skill with the shot (own) plus how much the receiver usually gives up against it (theirs), both measured against the tour average on grass. Each player's grass record is shrunk toward their all-surface one, so a thin sample on it moves the numbers only a little.

Brenda Fruhvirtova

Favour

ShotEdgeOwnTheirs
FH to their forehand · serve +1+6.5±4.7+1.4+5.1
FH to their backhand · rally+5.4±5.4−0.5+5.9
FH to the middle · rally+4.4±3.4+2.8+1.6
BH to their backhand · serve +1+3.1±4.4+1.3+1.7
BH to their backhand · return +1+2.6±3.6+0.8+1.8
FH to the middle · return+2.0±4.0+3.7−1.7

Avoid

ShotEdgeOwnTheirs
BH to their backhand · return−1.2±3.3+0.5−1.7
BH to their backhand · rally−0.7±4.4−0.6−0.1
BH to their forehand · rally+0.4±6.1−1.6+2.0
BH to the middle · serve +1+0.7±3.1+0.4+0.3
BH to the middle · rally+1.1±3.2+1.2±0.0

Anhelina Kalinina

Favour

ShotEdgeOwnTheirs
BH to the middle · return+5.0±3.7+1.3+3.7
FH to their forehand · rally+2.8±4.8+0.3+2.5
BH to the middle · serve +1+2.2±3.1+0.9+1.3
FH to their backhand · rally+1.6±5.4+2.1−0.4
FH to the middle · return+1.5±3.3+0.1+1.3
BH to the middle · rally+1.4±3.2−1.0+2.4

Avoid

ShotEdgeOwnTheirs
FH to their forehand · serve +1−1.6±5.6−4.0+2.4
BH to their forehand · rally−1.2±5.0+1.4−2.6
BH to their backhand · rally−0.9±4.6−0.4−0.5
FH to their backhand · serve +1+0.2±4.3−0.3+0.5
FH to the middle · rally+0.8±3.0−0.5+1.3

Against Anhelina Kalinina-like opponents

Brenda Fruhvirtova vMatchesServe pts wonReturn pts won
All charted opponents–54.9%42.9%

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