ITF W100 Wiesbaden: Anna Bondar vs Julia Grabher final analysis
From Advantage (side) to victory
A week ago, two distinct unbeaten runs were on the line in the ITF Tour W100 Wiesbaden final.
Top seed Anna Bondar (WTA #102) was biding to complete a full year of invincibility in German tournaments. Since losing to Katarina Zavatska in last year’s Wiesbaden Tennis Open second round, Bondar triumphed at W75 Hechingen and WTA 125 Hamburg and earned a shot at a second Wiesbaden title — won in 2021 — by extending her unbeaten run on Germain soil to 14 matches.
Bondar’s opponent for this year’s title was Julia Grabher (WTA #238), the most in-form player on the ITF World Tour. Riding a 21-match win streak, Grabher was gunning for a fourth tournament victory in five weeks, following successful campaigns at W35 Santa Margherita di Pula, W75 Koper and W75 Chiasso.
A huge part of each player’s strategy in the final was to upgrade backhands into run-around forehands whenever possible to command rallies or go for point-deciding shots.
→ A few points won by Bondar with run-around forehands
📺 source: ITF Tour
→ Grabher also produced a considerable amount of inside-in and inside-out forehand winners
In the end, Bondar secured a 6-2, 6-4 victory by performing significantly better from the AD side; in particular, by missing a lot less.
The top seed accumulated a combined 10 winning groundstrokes off inside-in or inside-out forehands with 6 unforced errors (green box below). Grabher topped that offensive output by ripping 11 winning run-around forehands but it came with the considerably heavier cost of 9 extra unforced errors (blue box below).
Run-around forehands
Bondar: 10 winning shots / 6 unforced errors = +4
Grabher: 11 winning shots / 15 unforced errors = -4
Grabher’s title hopes were further dented by a similar excess in backhand mistakes. Her 12 unforced errors on groundstrokes off that wing were thrice more than Bondar’s total of 4.
Overall, Grabher missed as many as 35 groundstrokes struck from the AD side (blue circle, right side below). It was nearly 3-times more than Bondar’s 13 errors made from that side of the court during rallies (green circle, left side below).
AD side groundstrokes
Bondar: 17 winning shots / 13 errors = +4
Grabher: 16 winning shots / 35 errors = -19
Deuce side groundstrokes
Bondar: 4 winning shots / 11 errors = -7
Grabher: 9 winning shots / 9 errors = 0
By the end of the final, the gap between AD side performances reached 25 points (+4 to -19).
A gigantic difference that provided Bondar all she needed to make it a full year without defeats in German pro tournaments and celebrate her 19th career singles title.
Curiously…
Bondar’s last 3 titles have all been clinched in Germany
This was the Hungarian’s 17th title on the ITF World Tour but only her first at its highest W100 level
Anna Bondar (WTA #102, seed 1) vs Julia Grabher (WTA #238)
2025 Wiesbaden final - Match Data
Set by Set Stats
Strategy Stats
Points Won by Rally Length
Rally Length
Winners and Errors (returns & rally shots)
Strokes Breakdown
Serve and Return
1st Serves
2nd Serves
Return & rallying performance
Points won breakdown
This final section gives a last, broader look at the match by presenting how each player won points. Points are listed according to their frequency (highest to lowest) and are named in relation to the last touch on the ball. For simplicity, groundstrokes hit from the 5th shot onwards are grouped together.
Breakdown by side (FHs or BHs)
Breakdown by error type (UFEs or FEs)
To find out more about the stats published here, please visit the following post.
While we follow the same criteria used on all major tennis events, our stats are collected through our own video analysis and are not official WTA or ITF stats.
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