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Julie Struplova vs Polona HercogPrediction, Head-to-Head Results, and Stats

🇨🇿Julie Struplova

#218 · 21 yrs

4Lost 4 straight

0–0

First meeting

🇸🇮Polona Hercog

#236 · 35 yrs · Right-Handed

3Lost 3 straight

Upcoming match

Tournament: Zavarovalnica Triglav - Ljubljana
Level: WTA 125
Round: 1st Round
Surface: Clay
Date & time: September 14 · 5:30 AM ET

Book odds

Polona Hercog1.58

Julie Struplova2.25

Set spread

Hercog -1.52.34

Struplova +1.51.53

Game spread

Hercog -2.51.81

Struplova +2.51.90

HercogClay-court specialist (85%)StruplovaClay-court specialist (95%)

Record at prices like this

Polona Hercog1.58implies 65%won 61%−4 pts

At 1.58 or shorter, Polona Hercog has won 19 of 31 (61%). The price implied 65%, so Polona Hercog has fallen 4 points short of it.

Book prices with the bookmaker margin removed, across every priced match we hold for each player. Green beats the price by 3 points or more, red falls that far short, grey is within 3 points. Samples under ten are not shown.

Julie Struplova and Polona Hercog meet next at the Zavarovalnica Triglav - Ljubljana on September 14 on clay.

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Spread & Straight-Sets Form

Completed best-of-3 matches · Last 12 months

Indicator	Struplova	Hercog
Indicator	Julie Struplova		Polona Hercog
Wins in straight sets	63%	29/46	72%	23/32
Wins a set when losing	35%	7/20	35%	6/17
Goes to a deciding set	36%	24/66	31%	15/49
Covers −1.5 sets as favorite	49%	23/47	53%	19/36
Covers +1.5 sets as underdog	44%	7/16	67%	8/12
Tiebreak sets won	52%	11/21	62%	8/13
Wins after taking set 1	89%	33/37	93%	26/28
Wins 2-0 after taking set 1	78%	29/37	82%	23/28

Colored rows are higher-is-better: green above 50%, red below. Favorite/underdog set by book odds; cover rows count only matches with odds on record.

Style Matchup

Playing styles and historical archetype record

Struplova

⚔️ The Gladiator

Physical intensityBalanced gameStrong in deciding setsCompetitive fighter

Hercog

👑 The Complete Package

Elite serve & returnHigh BP conversionAll-surface dominanceClutch performer

Matchup analysis

The 👑 The Complete Package archetype wins about 55% vs ⚔️ The Gladiator across 3,394 matches in our dataset: a stylistic lean toward Polona Hercog.

The Complete Package players often use elite serve & return and high bp conversion to pressure the the gladiator's physical intensity.

Previous meetings

First career meeting

Struplova and Hercog have never faced each other on tour.

Prop Research

Hit rates on common betting markets · Last 90 days

Outcome	Struplova	Hercog
Outcome	Julie Struplova		Polona Hercog
1 or more	47%	7/15	67%	2/3
3 or more	7%	1/15	33%	1/3
5 or more	0%	0/15	0%	0/3
10 or more	0%	0/15	0%	0/3
15 or more	0%	0/15	0%	0/3
20 or more	0%	0/15	0%	0/3

Player ROI

Hypothetical if you put 1u on each player to win every one of their matches · Last 90 days

Metric	Struplova	Hercog
W-L	6–6	1–2
Avg odds	1.83	2.44
ROI %	-38.1%	-54.0%
Units P/L	-4.57u	-1.62u

Small sample: ROI stabilizes with more matches; fewer than 10 in the window is noisy.

Travel

Last 30 days

Metric	Struplova	Hercog
Countries	2	1
Events	2	1
Matches	2	1
Distance	5,269 mi · 8,479 km	0 mi · 0 km
Route	NED → USA	NED

Host country from the tournament each match was played in, over the last 30 days. Route is the order of countries visited; consecutive stops in the same country are shown once. Distance is the great-circle total between host cities, shown only when every stop in the window is geocoded. A rough fatigue signal, not a headline stat.

Common opponents

Results vs. opponents both players faced · Last 12 months

Hercog has a higher win rate against shared opponents (50% vs Struplova's 0%).

Opponent	Struplova	Hercog
Alevtina Ibragimova	L 26 67	L 16 61 57
Yelyzaveta Kotliar	L 61 57 26	W 62 76

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