Ashleigh Barty and Elena Rybakina will play each other in the 3rd round of the Australian Open for the 1st time in their career. They are scheduled to compete on Friday at 11 am on the Rod Laver Arena. Here you can find the head to head analysis and the prediction.

Prediction, odds and live streaming

The pick for Tennis Tonic is Ashleigh Barty who should win in 2 sets.

As per the initial odds, Ashleigh Barty is the pick to win this match.
Ashleigh Barty -> 1.25
Elena Rybakina -> 4.00

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Prediction and head to head Ashleigh Barty vs. Elena Rybakina

There is no head to head record between Ashleigh Barty and Elena Rybakina since this will be the first time that they will fight against each other at pro level.

Ashleigh Barty

Currently world no. 1 Ashleigh reached the 3rd round after defeating Lesya Tsurenko 5-7 6-1 6-1 and Polona Hercog 6-1 6-4.

In the 2nd round, Barty had a good straight sets win against Hercog (6-1 6-4). During the match Barty scored 63 points vs Hercog’s 46. Ashleigh was extremely aggressive to blast 27 winners.

Talking about serving, Barty blasted 5 aces and she committed only 1 double fault for the entire match. Ashleigh Barty was extremely effective on serve to win 79% (27/34) of her 1st serve and 52% (12/23) on the second serve. This was the main reason for not conceding a single break during the match. The Australian broke Hercog 3 times after converting 43% of her break points (3/7).

Overall Performance in this tournament

The Australian has dropped 1 set in this tournament to conquer 60% of the points she played.

Barty has a unfavourable record in the last 9 years having won 25% of her matches (810-272). 6-1 on hard in 2020. Talking about her performance on the same surface of this tournament, Barty has a 189-77 win-loss record in the last 9 years on hard.

Her best result of the current year was winning the title in Adelaide where she beat Dayana Yastremska in the final 6-2 7-5.

Ashleigh has a 6-1 win-loss record in 2020, 6-1 on hard (See FULL STATS).

Last year at the Australian Open

The Australian had to bow in the quarter 6-1 6-4 to Petra Kvitova.

Elena Rybakina

Ranked no. 26 (career high), Elena reached the 3rd round after defeating Bernarda Pera 6-3 6-2 and Greetje Minnen 6-3 6-4.

In the 2nd round, Elena had a good straight sets win against Minnen (6-3 6-4). During the match Rybakina scored 64 points vs Minnen’s 57. Rybakina was extremely aggressive to blast 27 winners.

Talking about serving, Rybakina blasted 6 aces and she committed only 1 double fault for the entire match. Elena Rybakina lost the serve once and she saved 1 break points. Furthermore, Rybakina put 53% of her first serves in, winning 87% (27/31) of the points behind her 1st serve and 44% (12/27) on the 2nd serve. Rybakina broke Minnen 3 times after converting 50% of her break points (3/6).

Overall Performance in this tournament

Rybakina hasn’t dropped yet a set in the tournament to win 56% of the points she played.

Rybakina has a fantastic record in the last 6 years having won 71% of her matches (147-59). 11-1 on hard in 2020. In connection with her performance on the same surface of this tournament, Rybakina has a 74-35 record in the last 6 years on hard.

Her best result of the season was winning the title in Hobart where she beat Shuai Zhang in the final 7-6(7) 6-3.

The Kazakhstani has a 11-1 win-loss record in 2020, 11-1 on hard (See FULL STATS).

Last year at the Australian Open

Elena lost in the qualifications 6-2 6-4 to Lin Zhu.

Live score

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H2H Performance in the tournament

Matches, sets, games and points

Points Barty Rybakina
Match played 2 2
Tot Set 5 4
Tot Games 43 36
Pts 151-102 127-100
Total Points 253 227
Winners 59 53
%Winners 39% 42%

Both Barty and Rybakina played 2 matches. At the moment, Ashleigh Barty dropped 1 set while Elena Rybakina hasn’t dropped a set so far. Barty has played 1 sets more than Rybakina (5 vs 4). Therefore, Barty played 7 games more than Rybakina. Ashleigh scored 59 winners (39% on total points). On the other side, The Kazakhstani blasted 53 winners (42%).

Serve Performance

Serve Barty Rybakina
Aces 15 7
Avg per match 7.5 3.5
1st in 75/129 61/108
%1st in 58% 56%
1st pts 59/75 53/61
%1st pts 79% 87%
2nd pts 27/54 23/47
%2nd pts 50% 49%

Barty blasted 15 aces (7.5 per match). Rybakina blasted 7 aces (3.5 per match). Barty won 79% points behind her first serve. She had a solid display on her second serve to win 50% of the points. On the other side, Rybakina won 87% points behind her first serve. She had a solid display on her second serve to win 49% of the points.

How they played the important points

Breaks Barty Rybakina
Won 10 6
Converted 10/17 6/11
% Converted 59% 55%
Conceded 13 2
Saved 10 1
% Saved 77% 50%
Times Broken 3 1

The Australian broke her opponents 10 times with 59% conversion rate. Barty conceded her serve 3 times and she saved 77% of the break points that she conceded. The Kazakhstani broke her opponents 6 times with 55% conversion rate. Rybakina conceded her serve once and she saved 50% of the break points that she conceded.

Barty
R1
Tsurenko		 R2
Hercog		 Total
Score 5-7 6-1 6-1 6-1 6-4
Tot Set 3 2 5
Tot Games 26 17 43
pts 88-56 63-46 151-102
Total points 144 109 253
Winners 32 27 59
%Winners 36% 43% 39%
SERVE
Aces 10 5 15
Double Faults 1 1 2
1st in 41/72 34/57 75/129
% 1st in 57% 60% 58%
1st pts 32/41 27/34 59/75
% 1st pts 78% 79% 79%
2nd pts 15/31 12/23 27/54
% 2nd pts 48% 52% 50%
Breaks
Won 7 3 10
Converted 7/10 3/7 10/17
Converted % 70% 43% 59%
Conceded 7 6 13
Saved 4 6 10
Saved % 43% 0% 22%
Times Broken 3 0 3
Rybakina
R1
Pera		 R2
Minnen		 Total
Score 6-3 6-2 6-3 6-4
Tot Set 2 2 4
Tot Games 17 19 36
pts 63-43 64-57 127-100
Total points 106 121 227
Winners 26 27 53
%Winners 41% 42% 42%
SERVE
Aces 1 6 7
Double Faults 1 1 2
1st in 30/50 31/58 61/108
% 1st in 60% 53% 56%
1st pts 26/30 27/31 53/61
% 1st pts 87% 87% 87%
2nd pts 11/20 12/27 23/47
% 2nd pts 55% 44% 49%
Breaks
Won 3 3 6
Converted 3/5 3/6 6/11
Converted % 60% 50% 55%
Conceded 0 2 2
Saved 0 1 1
Saved % 0% 50% 25%
Times Broken 0 1 1

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