Aryna Sabalenka and Elena Rybakina will play each other in the quarter of the Abu Dhabi Tennis Open for the 2nd time of their career. They are scheduled to compete on Monday 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 Aryna Sabalenka who should win in 3 sets.

As per the initial odds, Aryna Sabalenka is the pick to win this match.
Aryna Sabalenka -> 1.57
Elena Rybakina -> 2.54

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Prediction and head to head Aryna Sabalenka vs. Elena Rybakina

This will be the 2nd time that Aryna Sabalenka and Elena Rybakina fight against each other. The head to head is 1-0 for Sabalenka (see full H2H stats), 1-0 on hard.

Aryna Sabalenka

Ranked no. 10, Aryna reached the quarter after beating Polona Hercog 7-65 6-2, Ajla Tomljanovic 7-5 6-4 and Ons Jabeur 6-2 6-4.

In the 3rd round, The Belarussian had a good straight sets win against Jabeur (6-2 6-4). During the match Sabalenka scored 59 points vs Jabeur’s 47. The Belarussian was extremely aggressive to blast 20 winners.

Talking about the service games, Sabalenka scored just 1 ace throughout the encounter and she committed only 6 double faults. Aryna Sabalenka lost the serve twice and she saved 1 break points. Furthermore, Sabalenka put 54% of her first serves in, winning 77% (20/26) of the points behind her 1st serve and 41% (9/22) on the 2nd serve. Aryna broke Jabeur 5 times after converting 56% of her break points (5/9).

Overall Performance in this tournament

The Belarussian hasn’t conceded yet a set in this competition to win 56% of the points she played.

Sabalenka has a solid match record in the last 6 years having won 65% of her matches (188-100). 3-0 on hard in 2021. Regarding her performance on the same surface of this tournament, Sabalenka has a 113-50 record in the last 6 years on hard.

Sabalenka has a 3-0 win-loss record in 2021, 3-0 on hard (See FULL STATS).

Last year in Abu Dhabi

Aryna didn’t compete in Abu Dhabi in 2020.

Elena Rybakina

Ranked no. 19, Rybakina got to the quarter after defeating Lucrezia Stefanini 6-1 6-3, Xiyu Wang 6-4 6-4 and Daria Kasatkina 6-3 6-4.

In the 3rd round, The Kazakhstani had a good straight sets win against Kasatkina (6-3 6-4). During the match Rybakina scored 62 points vs Kasatkina’s 43. The Kazakhstani was very aggressive to blast 23 winners.

Talking about serving, Rybakina scored 4 aces and she committed only 2 double faults. Overall, Elena Rybakina was very effective on serve to win 77% (23/30) of her 1st serve and 79% (15/19) on the second serve. However, this didn’t prevent her to concede the serve once. Elena broke Kasatkina 3 times after converting 38% of her break points (3/8).

Overall Performance in this tournament

Elena hasn’t dropped yet a set in the tournament to win 58% of the points she played.

Elena has a 3-0 win-loss record in 2021, 3-0 on hard (See FULL STATS).

H2H Performance in the tournament

Matches, sets, games and points

Points Sabalenka Rybakina
Match played 3 3
Tot Set 6 6
Tot Games 61 55
Pts 145-115 179-127
Total Points 260 306
Winners 52 66
%Winners 36% 37%

Both Sabalenka and Rybakina played 3 matches. Both players have not dropped a single set in this event so far. Talking about their workload, Sabalenka and Rybakina have played the same amount of sets 6. However, Sabalenka played 6 games more than Rybakina. Sabalenka scored 52 winners (36% of the total points). On the other side, Elena managed to score 66 winners (37%).

Serve Performance

Serve Sabalenka Rybakina
Aces 5 12
Avg per match 1.7 4
1st in 70/127 81/151
%1st in 55% 54%
1st pts 52/70 66/81
%1st pts 74% 81%
2nd pts 25/57 46/70
%2nd pts 44% 66%

Sabalenka made 5 aces (1.7 per match). Rybakina recorded 12 aces (4 per match). Sabalenka won 74% points behind her first serve. She pretty effective on her second serve to win 44% of the points. On the other side, Rybakina won 81% of the points on her first serve. She had a solid display on her second serve to win 66% of the points.

How they played the important points

Breaks Sabalenka Rybakina
Won 10 10
Converted 10/21 10/18
% Converted 48% 56%
Conceded 12 4
Saved 7 2
% Saved 58% 50%
Times Broken 5 2

Aryna broke her opponents 10 times with a 48% conversion rate. The Belarussian dropped her serve 5 times and she saved 58% of the break points that she conceded. Elena broke her opponents 10 times with a 56% conversion rate. Elena conceded her serve twice and she saved 50% of the break points that she conceded.

Sabalenka
R1
Hercog		 R2
Tomljanovic		 R3
Jabeur		 Total
Score 7-65 6-2 7-5 6-4 6-2 6-4
Tot Set 2 2 2 6
Tot Games 21 22 18 61
pts 86-68 – 59-47 145-115
Total points 154 0 106 260
Winners 32 20 52
%Winners 37% NAN% 34% 36%
SERVE
Aces 4 0 1 5
Double Faults 6 6 12
1st in 44/79 / 26/48 70/127
% 1st in 56% NAN% 54% 55%
1st pts 32/44 / 20/26 52/70
% 1st pts 73% NAN% 77% 74%
2nd pts 16/35 / 9/22 25/57
% 2nd pts 46% NAN% 41% 44%
Breaks
Won 5 5 10
Converted 5/12 / 5/9 10/21
Converted % 42% NAN% 56% 48%
Conceded 9 3 12
Saved 6/9 0/ 1/3 7
Saved % 67% – 33% 33%
Times Broken 3 2 5
Rybakina
R1
Stefanini		 R2
Wang		 R3
Kasatkina		 Total
Score 6-1 6-3 6-4 6-4 6-3 6-4
Tot Set 2 2 2 6
Tot Games 16 20 19 55
pts 55-28 62-56 62-43 179-127
Total points 83 118 105 306
Winners 16 27 23 66
%Winners 29% 44% 37% 37%
SERVE
Aces 5 3 4 12
Double Faults 0 1 2 3
1st in 19/37 32/65 30/49 81/151
% 1st in 51% 49% 61% 54%
1st pts 16/19 27/32 23/30 66/81
% 1st pts 84% 84% 77% 81%
2nd pts 12/18 19/33 15/19 46/70
% 2nd pts 67% 58% 79% 66%
Breaks
Won 5 2 3 10
Converted 5/7 2/3 3/8 10/18
Converted % 71% 67% 38% 56%
Conceded 1 2 1 4
Saved 0/1 2/2 0/1 2
Saved % 0% 100% 0% 33%
Times Broken 1 0 1 2

Tennis Scores in Abu Dhabi

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