Elena Rybakina and Lucrezia Stefanini will face off in the 1st round of the Abu Dhabi Tennis Open for the 2nd time of their career. They are scheduled to play on Thursday at 10:00 am on Centre Court. In this post, we analyze their head to head performance and the 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 -> 1.057
Lucrezia Stefanini -> 10.5
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Prediction and head to head Elena Rybakina vs. Lucrezia Stefanini
This will be the 2nd time that Elena Rybakina and Lucrezia Stefanini square off. The head to head is 1-0 for Rybakina (see full H2H stats), but they have never competed against each other on hard.
Elena Rybakina
Ranked no. 19, the Kazakhstani will start her run in Abu Dhabi after she played her last match in Ostrava where she lost 6-2 3-6 6-3 to Kasatkina in the 1st round on the 20th of October.
This will be the first match of the season on hard.
Talking about her overall career, The Kazakhstani has an overall 183-82 record. She has a positive 69-34 record on hard.
Last year in Abu Dhabi
The Kazakhstani didn’t play in Abu Dhabi in 2020.
Lucrezia Stefanini
Ranked no. 394, the Italian got to the 1st round after defeating Tena Lukas 4-6 6-4 6-2 and Irina Fetecau 1-6 6-2 7-63.
In the qualifications against Fetecau, Stefanini recovered from a 1-set down deficit before winning (1-6 6-2 7-63).-89) than Fetecau. In fact, the world no. 19 won 89 points vs Fetecau’s. That means that Stefanini was more focused during the important points. Lucrezia was quite aggressive to blast 43 winners.
Talking about serving, Stefanini was unable to score even 1 ace for the entire match and she committed only 3 double faults. Lucrezia Stefanini lost the serve 6 times and she saved 7 break points. Furthermore, Stefanini put 72% of her first serves in, winning 63% (43/68) of the points behind her 1st serve and 26% (7/27) on the 2nd serve. Stefanini was clinical in her return game without wasting any break point and break Fetecau 5 times.
Overall Performance in this tournament
Lucrezia has conceded 2 set in the tournament to win 52% of the points she played.
Lucrezia 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
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- Ajla TomljanovicTomljanovic – Lin ZhuZhu (6-2 7-61) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Ons JabeurJabeur – Anastasia PavlyuchenkovaPavlyuchenkova (7-63 6-3) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Veronika KudermetovaKudermetova – Anett KontaveitKontaveit (7-5 6-1) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Barbora KrejcikovaKrejcikova – Jamie LoebLoeb (6-1 6-3) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Julien DubailDubail – Benjamin HassanHassan (6-4 5-7 6-4) – Stats, scores, rankings
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Upcoming matches in the draw
- Sofia KeninKenin – Zhaoxuan YangYang (1-0) – H2H and prediction
- Cori GauffGauff – Ulrikke EikeriEikeri (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Aliaksandra SasnovichSasnovich – Anna BondarBondar (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Kristina MladenovicMladenovic – Garbine MuguruzaMuguruza (2-1) – H2H and prediction
- Aryna SabalenkaSabalenka – Polona HercogHercog (1-1) – H2H and prediction
- Kateryna BondarenkoBondarenko – Yafan WangWang (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Karolina MuchovaMuchova – Danka KovinicKovinic (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Arantxa RusRus – Xiyu WangWang (1-0) – H2H and prediction
- Lucrezia StefaniniStefanini – Elena RybakinaRybakina (0-1) – H2H and prediction
- Marketa VondrousovaVondrousova – Su-Wei HsiehHsieh (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Marta KostyukKostyuk – Lucie HradeckaHradecka (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Tamara ZidansekZidansek – Jennifer BradyBrady (1-0) – H2H and prediction
- Sara Sorribes TormoSorribes Tormo – Nadia PodoroskaPodoroska (1-0) – H2H and prediction
- Mona BarthelBarthel – Anastasia GasanovaGasanova (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Sorana CirsteaCirstea – Karolina PliskovaPliskova (1-1) – H2H and prediction
- Elise MertensMertens – Alize CornetCornet (1-1) – H2H and prediction
- Bianca TuratiTurati – Yaroslava ShvedovaShvedova (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Heather WatsonWatson – Jodie Anna BurrageAnna Burrage (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Vera ZvonarevaZvonareva – Amandine HesseHesse (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Jessica PegulaPegula – Elina SvitolinaSvitolina (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Barbora KrejcikovaKrejcikova – Yulia PutintsevaPutintseva (0-0) – H2H and prediction
