Elena Rybakina and Daria Kasatkina will play each other in the 2nd round of the National Bank Open for the 6th time in their career. They are scheduled to compete on Wednesday at 12:30 pm on CENTRE COURT. In the following paragraphs, you can find the head to head analysis and prediction.
Prediction, odds and live streaming
The pick for Tennis Tonic is Elena Rybakina who should win in 2 sets.
As per the initial odds, Elena Rybakina is the pick to win this match.
Elena Rybakina -> 1.107
Daria Kasatkina -> 6.6
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Prediction and head to head Elena Rybakina vs. Daria Kasatkina
This will be the 6th time that Elena Rybakina and Daria Kasatkina square off. The head to head is 3-2 for Rybakina (see full H2H stats), 3-1 on hard.
The last time that they locked horns, Rybakina won 6-1 6-4 in the final in Abu Dhabi back in 2024.
Highlights Elena Rybakina vs Daria Kasatkina – Abu Dhabi 11-February-2024
Elena Rybakina
34 - 11win/loss
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LWWWWWWWLW | Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | 49-14 | 36-8 | 10-3 | 0-0 | 3-3 | 0-0 |
| 2025 | 59-19 | 37-13 | 9-3 | 8-0 | 5-3 | 0-0 |
| 2024 | 43-11 | 23-5 | 12-2 | 2-2 | 6-2 | 0-0 |
| 2023 | 47-15 | 31-11 | 11-2 | 0-0 | 5-2 | 0-0 |
| 2022 | 40-21 | 18-12 | 9-5 | 5-2 | 8-2 | 0-0 |
Ranked no. 2 (career-high), Elena will start her run in Montreal after she played her last match at the London where she lost 7-6(4) 6-1 to Mertens in the 3rd round on the 4th of July.
Rybakina has a composed 34-11 win-loss record in 2026, 21-5 on hard (See FULL STATS).
Her best result of the season was winning the title at the Australian Open where she overcame Aryna Sabalenka in the final 6-4 4-6 6-4 and in Stuttgart where she defeated Karolina Muchova in the final 7-5 6-1.
Talking about her overall career, Elena has an overall 425-173 record. She has a positive 208-89 record on hard.
Previously in Montreal
Previously, her best result was reaching the semifinal in 2023 and 2025. See her history.
Daria Kasatkina
20 - 15win/loss
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LLLLLWLWWL | Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | 20-20 | 7-10 | 11-5 | 0-1 | 2-4 | 0-0 |
| 2025 | 19-22 | 12-13 | 5-5 | 0-0 | 2-4 | 0-0 |
| 2024 | 40-23 | 24-16 | 8-4 | 0-1 | 8-2 | 0-0 |
| 2023 | 39-25 | 19-15 | 12-6 | 2-1 | 6-3 | 0-0 |
| 2022 | 41-22 | 24-14 | 12-5 | 1-1 | 4-2 | 0-0 |
Ranked no. 61, the Australian reached the 2nd round after beating Xinyu Wang 1-6 7-6(5) 7-5.
In the 1st round against Wang, Kasatkina recovered from a 1-set down deficit before winning (1-6 7-65 7-5).During the match Kasatkina scored less points (5) than Wang. In fact, the world no. 2 won 99 points vs Wang’s. That means that Kasatkina was more focused during the important points. Darya was very aggressive to blast 39 winners.
Talking about serving, Kasatkina wasn’t able to score even 1 ace for the entire match and she committed only 9 double faults. Daria Kasatkina lost the serve 8 times and she saved 9 break points. Furthermore, Kasatkina put 61% of her first serves in, winning 60% (39/65) of the points behind her 1st serve and 40% (17/42) on the 2nd serve. The Australian broke Wang 7 times after converting 64% of her break points (7/11).
Her best result of the current year was conquering the title the La Bisbal D’Emporda where she defeated Tamara Korpatsch in the final 2-6 6-3 7-5.
The Australian has a compiled 20-15 win-loss record in 2026, 7-6 on hard (See FULL STATS).
Previously in Montreal
Previously, her best result was reaching the quarter in 2016 and 2023. See her history.
Head 2 Head
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