Yafan Wang and Kateryna Bondarenko will face off in the 1st round of the Abu Dhabi Tennis Open for the 1st time in their career. They are scheduled to play on Thursday at 10:00 am on Court 3. In this post, we analyze their head to head performance and the prediction.
Prediction, odds and live streaming
The pick for Tennis Tonic is Yafan Wang who should win in 3 sets.
As per the initial odds, Yafan Wang is the pick to win this match.
Yafan Wang -> 1.615
Kateryna Bondarenko -> 2.375
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Prediction and head to head Yafan Wang vs. Kateryna Bondarenko
There is no head to head record between Yafan Wang and Kateryna Bondarenko since this will be the first time that they will play each other in the main tour.
Yafan Wang
Ranked no. 95, Wang will start her run in Abu Dhabi after she played her last match in Monterrey where she lost 6-2 7-5 to Bouzkova in the quarter on the 6th of March.
This will be the first match of the season on hard.
Talking about her overall career, Yafan has an overall 223-150 record. She has a positive 186-111 record on hard.
Last year in Abu Dhabi
Yafan didn’t play in Abu Dhabi in 2020.
Kateryna Bondarenko
Ranked no. 285, the Ukrainian reached the 1st round after defeating Panna Udvardy 6-75 6-2 6-4 and Valentini Grammatikopoulou 6-1 6-3.
In the qualifications, Bondarenko had a good straight sets win against Grammatikopoulou (6-1 6-3). During the match Bondarenko scored 57 points vs Grammatikopoulou’s 41. The Ukrainian was exceptionally aggressive to blast 24 winners.
Talking about serving, Bondarenko scored just 1 ace during the entire match and she committed only 4 double faults. Kateryna Bondarenko lost the serve once. Furthermore, Bondarenko put 57% of her first serves in, winning 77% (24/31) of the points behind her 1st serve and 43% (10/23) on the 2nd serve. The Ukrainian was clinical in her return game without wasting any break point and break Grammatikopoulou 5 times.
Overall Performance in this tournament
Kateryna has conceded 1 set in the tournament to win 56% of the points she played.
Kateryna has a 2-0 win-loss record in 2021, 2-0 on hard (See FULL STATS).
Head 2 Head
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- Paula Badosa GibertBadosa Gibert – Anastasija SevastovaSevastova (6-2 5-7 6-2) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Kirsten FlipkensFlipkens – Laura SiegemundSiegemund (5-7 7-5 6-4) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Maria SakkariSakkari – Anastasia PotapovaPotapova (6-4 6-2) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Leylah Annie FernandezAnnie Fernandez – Jasmine PaoliniPaolini (6-4 6-2) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Daria KasatkinaKasatkina – Qiang WangWang (6-2 3-6 6-2) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Ajla TomljanovicTomljanovic – Lin ZhuZhu (6-2 7-61) – Stats, scores, rankings
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- Julien DubailDubail – Benjamin HassanHassan (6-4 5-7 6-4) – Stats, scores, rankings
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- Lucrezia StefaniniStefanini – Elena RybakinaRybakina (0-1) – H2H and prediction
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- Heather WatsonWatson – Jodie Anna BurrageAnna Burrage (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Vera ZvonarevaZvonareva – Amandine HesseHesse (0-0) – H2H and prediction
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