Game plan

Victoria Jimenez Kasintseva v Anouk Koevermans

Every number combines what Victoria Jimenez Kasintseva does well with what Anouk Koevermans allows, each measured against the tour average and shrunk toward it when the sample is thin. Flip perspective

Forecast

Victoria Jimenez Kasintseva wins, best of 3 57%90%: 21%–87% · best of 5: 59%

Serve points won 55.8% / 54.5% Victoria / Anouk · tour 56.3%

Strengths only, no similarity priors 56%serve 56.0% / 54.8%

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 At least one of them is no longer active or has too little charted in the last three seasons, so both are compared on their careers.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 Victoria Jimenez Kasintseva's record against Anouk Koevermans's tactical lookalikes and in their charted head-to-heads (head-to-head: −2.5 on serve, +3.9 on return vs expectation (222 points)). 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

Career	Victoria	Anouk
Direction choice	−0.24 ±0.23 better than 12%	−0.05 ±0.15 better than 45%
Shot selection	+0.40 ±0.20 better than 90%	+0.62 ±0.32 better than 97%
Execution	−0.70 ±0.67 better than 27%	−1.18 ±0.99 better than 15%
Points left on the table	2.81 ±0.37 lower than 23%	2.36 ±0.23 lower than 79%

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.

Victoria Jimenez Kasintseva serving

Deuce court

1st serve	Now	Victoria wins	v Anouk	Matchup	Optimal
Wide	23%	68%	73%	75.2%±11.4	38% ▲
Body	37%	49%	54%	45.2%±10.3	22% ▼
T	40%	64%	65%	60.2%±11.8	40%

Optimal v Anouk Koevermans: +1.2±1.2 per 100 first serves (faults included) over the current mix, inside the 90% margin. Serving wide every time would read +17.1 per 100 first serves in before the returner adjusts.

Ad court

1st serve	Now	Victoria wins	v Anouk	Matchup	Optimal
Wide	49%	57%	59%	50.2%±10.5	49%
Body	33%	53%	59%	56.3%±11.5	18% ▼
T	18%	65%	67%	68.0%±13.8	33% ▲

Optimal v Anouk Koevermans: +0.5±1.2 per 100 first serves (faults included) over the current mix, inside the 90% margin. Serving T every time would read +12.6 per 100 first serves in before the returner adjusts.

Anouk Koevermans serving

Deuce court

1st serve	Now	Anouk wins	v Victoria	Matchup	Optimal
Wide	33%	63%	62%	58.0%±11.4	32%
Body	34%	55%	52%	49.5%±11.7	19% ▼
T	34%	68%	67%	67.1%±11.7	49% ▲

Optimal v Victoria Jimenez Kasintseva: +0.6±1.2 per 100 first serves (faults included) over the current mix, inside the 90% margin. Serving T every time would read +8.9 per 100 first serves in before the returner adjusts.

Ad court

1st serve	Now	Anouk wins	v Victoria	Matchup	Optimal
Wide	33%	69%	60%	63.1%±11.6	47% ▲
Body	35%	54%	59%	56.9%±11.6	20% ▼
T	32%	67%	60%	62.3%±11.7	33%

Optimal v Victoria Jimenez Kasintseva: +0.7±1.2 per 100 first serves (faults included) over the current mix, inside the 90% margin. Serving wide every time would read +2.4 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.

Victoria Jimenez Kasintseva returning

1st serve to the forehand

Return	Now	Tour	Own	v Anouk	Value
FH through the middle	61%	+4.2	+0.3	−0.5	+3.9±3.1
FH crosscourt	27%	+5.3	−1.1	+0.9	+5.0±4.2
FH down the line	11%	+1.5	+1.3	−1.7	+1.1±4.0

Lean FH crosscourt: +1.1±3.6 per 100 returns v the current mix (168 returns charted, inside the 90% margin)

1st serve to the backhand

Return	Now	Tour	Own	v Anouk	Value
BH through the middle	59%	+6.0	−1.8	−1.8	+2.4±2.8
BH crosscourt	25%	+7.7	+0.7	+1.2	+9.7±3.6
BH down the line	16%	+2.2	−2.0	−0.9	−0.8±4.6

Lean BH crosscourt: +6.0±3.3 per 100 returns v the current mix (215 returns charted)

2nd serve to the backhand

Return	Now	Tour	Own	v Anouk	Value
BH through the middle	63%	−2.6	+0.3	−1.2	−3.5±2.8
BH crosscourt	30%	+1.5	−1.5	+0.2	+0.3±3.1
BH down the line	7%	−0.5	−0.1	+0.6	±0.0±3.9

Lean BH crosscourt: +2.4±2.8 per 100 returns v the current mix (70 returns charted, inside the 90% margin)

Anouk Koevermans returning

1st serve to the forehand

Return	Now	Tour	Own	v Victoria	Value
FH through the middle	37%	+4.2	+0.1	−1.2	+3.1±3.0
FH down the line	31%	+1.5	−0.4	−0.6	+0.5±4.5
FH crosscourt	19%	+5.3	−1.5	−0.2	+3.6±3.9
FH slice through the middle	13%	−6.7	−0.4	−1.1	−8.2±2.1

Lean FH through the middle: +2.1±2.5 per 100 returns v the current mix (62 returns charted, inside the 90% margin)

1st serve to the backhand

Return	Now	Tour	Own	v Victoria	Value
BH through the middle	37%	+6.0	+0.7	+1.7	+8.4±2.8
BH crosscourt	32%	+7.7	+1.0	+2.5	+11.2±3.6
BH down the line	22%	+2.2	+3.9	−2.0	+4.0±4.6
BH slice through the middle	5%	−6.2	−0.7	−0.5	−7.5±2.0
FH through the middle	5%	+5.1	+0.5	−1.2	+4.4±2.3

Lean BH crosscourt: +3.7±2.9 per 100 returns v the current mix (109 returns charted)

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.

Victoria Jimenez Kasintseva

Favour

Shot	Edge	Own	Theirs
FH to their backhand · rally	+7.2±2.8	+3.1	+4.1
FH to the middle · rally	+1.7±2.3	−0.6	+2.3
BH to the middle · rally	+1.1±2.2	+0.4	+0.7
FH to their backhand · serve +1	+0.7±4.0	−0.2	+0.9
FH to their backhand · return +1	+0.1±4.3	+1.4	−1.3
BH to their backhand · rally	±0.0±3.1	±0.0	−0.1

Avoid

Shot	Edge	Own	Theirs
BH to the middle · return	−3.1±2.6	−1.4	−1.8
BH to their forehand · rally	−1.8±4.0	−0.3	−1.5
FH to the middle · return	−0.6±2.6	+0.6	−1.1
FH to their forehand · rally	−0.1±3.3	−1.8	+1.6
BH to their backhand · rally	±0.0±3.1	±0.0	−0.1

Anouk Koevermans

Favour

Shot	Edge	Own	Theirs
FH to the middle · rally	+2.1±2.5	±0.0	+2.1
FH to their forehand · rally	+2.0±3.0	+1.0	+1.0
FH to their backhand · return +1	+1.8±4.2	+0.8	+1.0
FH to the middle · return	+1.5±2.9	+1.7	−0.2
FH to their backhand · rally	+1.4±3.1	−0.1	+1.5
FH to their forehand · serve +1	+1.3±4.1	+1.2	+0.1

Avoid

Shot	Edge	Own	Theirs
BH to their backhand · rally	−1.7±3.1	−0.3	−1.4
BH to their forehand · rally	−0.9±3.8	−1.6	+0.7
FH to their backhand · serve +1	+0.1±4.0	−0.2	+0.3
BH to the middle · rally	+1.1±2.2	+1.4	−0.4
BH to the middle · return	+1.2±2.7	+0.3	+0.9

Against Anouk Koevermans-like opponents

Victoria Jimenez Kasintseva v	Matches	Serve pts won	Return pts won
All charted opponents	–	51.7%	45.6%
Anouk Koevermans (charted head-to-head)	1	53.5%	49.1%

Charted head-to-head

Victoria Jimenez Kasintseva v Anouk Koevermans ITF Otocec F · Clay · 25 Jun 2024