Elina Svitolina and Svetlana Kuznetsova will square off in the 2nd round of the Dubai Duty Free Championships for the 6th time of their career. They are scheduled to compete on Tuesday at 5:00 pm on Centre Court. Here you can find the head to head analysis and the prediction.
Prediction, odds and live streaming
The pick for Tennis Tonic is Elina Svitolina who should win in 2 sets.
As per the initial odds, Elina Svitolina is the pick to win this match.
Elina Svitolina -> 1.32
Svetlana Kuznetsova -> 3.52
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Prediction and head to head Elina Svitolina vs. Svetlana Kuznetsova
This will be the 6th time that Elina Svitolina and Svetlana Kuznetsova face off. The head to head is 4-1 for Svitolina (see full H2H stats), 3-0 on hard.
The last time that they locked horns, Svitolina won 7-6(6) 6-4 in the 3rd round in Rome back in 2020.
Highlights Elina Svitolina vs Svetlana Kuznetsova – Rome 18-September-2020
Elina Svitolina
Ranked no. 5, Elina will start her run in Dubai after she played her last match in Doha where she lost 6-2 6-4 to Azarenka in the quarter on the 4th of March.
Elina has a 9-4 win-loss record in 2021, 9-4 on hard (See FULL STATS).
Talking about her overall career, Svitolina has an overall 412-206 record. She has a positive 236-106 record on hard.
Previously in Dubai
Previously, she won this tournament twice in 2017 and 2018. See her history.
Svetlana Kuznetsova
Ranked no. 41, Svetlana reached the 2nd round after defeating Qiang Wang 6-4 1-6 7-5.
In the 1st round, Svetlana defeated Wang (6-4 1-6 7-5).-91) than Wang. In fact, the world no. 5 won 91 points vs Wang’s. That means that Kuznetsova was more focused during the important points. Kuznetsova was exceptionally aggressive to blast 35 winners.
Talking about serving, Kuznetsova scored just 1 ace during the entire match and she committed only 3 double faults. Svetlana Kuznetsova lost the serve 5 times and she saved 4 break points. Furthermore, Kuznetsova put 64% of her first serves in, winning 65% (35/54) of the points behind her 1st serve and 37% (11/30) on the 2nd serve. The Russian broke Wang 5 times after converting 36% of her break points (5/14).
The Russian has a 2-3 win-loss record in 2021, 2-3 on hard (See FULL STATS).
Previously in Dubai
Previously, her best result was reaching the final in 2004, 2008 and 2011. See her history.
Head 2 Head
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Tennis Scores in Dubai
- Daniel AltmaierAltmaier – Jeroen VannesteVanneste (6-2 5-7 6-2) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Casper RuudRuud – Jelle SelsSels (6-3 6-4) – Stats, scores, rankings
Upcoming matches in the draw
- Elina SvitolinaSvitolina – Svetlana KuznetsovaKuznetsova (4-1) – H2H and prediction
- Jelena OstapenkoOstapenko – Barbora KrejcikovaKrejcikova (2-0) – H2H and prediction
- Madison KeysKeys – Anastasia PotapovaPotapova (1-0) – H2H and prediction
- Veronika KudermetovaKudermetova – Belinda BencicBencic (3-2) – H2H and prediction
- Petra KvitovaKvitova – Jil TeichmannTeichmann (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Ons JabeurJabeur – Elena RybakinaRybakina (0-1) – H2H and prediction
- Marketa VondrousovaVondrousova – Cori GauffGauff (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Tereza MartincovaMartincova – Kiki BertensBertens (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Iga SwiatekSwiatek – Misaki DoiDoi (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Amanda AnisimovaAnisimova – Garbine MuguruzaMuguruza (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Anett KontaveitKontaveit – Sorana CirsteaCirstea (2-0) – H2H and prediction
- Alize CornetCornet – Aryna SabalenkaSabalenka (1-0) – H2H and prediction
- Martina TrevisanTrevisan – Caroline GarciaGarcia (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Shelby RogersRogers – Elise MertensMertens (0-1) – H2H and prediction
- Kristina MladenovicMladenovic – Jessica PegulaPegula (0-2) – H2H and prediction
- Anastasija SevastovaSevastova – Karolina PliskovaPliskova (2-1) – H2H and prediction
