Elina Svitolina and Veronika Kudermetova will square off in the quarter of the Abu Dhabi Tennis Open for the 2^nd time of their career. They are scheduled to compete on Monday at 5:30 pm 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 Elina Svitolina who should win in 3 sets.

As per the initial odds, Elina Svitolina is the pick to win this match.
Elina Svitolina -> 1.53
Veronika Kudermetova -> 2.65

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This will be the 2^nd time that Elina Svitolina and Veronika Kudermetova square off. The head to head is 1-0 for Kudermetova (see full H2H stats), but they have never played each other on hard.

Elina Svitolina

Ranked no. 5, the Ukrainian reached the quarter after defeating Jessica Pegula 6-4 6-3, Vera Zvonareva 6-4 6-1 and Ekaterina Alexandrova 6-2 6-7⁵ 7-6⁸.

In the 3^rd round, Svitolina defeated Alexandrova (6-2 6-7⁵ 7-6⁸). During the match Svitolina scored 124 points vs Alexandrova’s 106. The Ukrainian was very aggressive to blast 48 winners.

Talking about the service games, Svitolina fired 6 aces and she committed only 4 double faults. Elina Svitolina lost the serve 5 times and she saved 14 break points. Furthermore, Svitolina put 57% of her first serves in, winning 72% (48/67) of the points behind her 1st serve and 40% (20/50) on the 2nd serve. Elina broke Alexandrova 7 times after converting 54% of her break points (7/13).

Overall Performance in this tournament

Svitolina has dropped 1 set in this event to win 55% of the points she played.

Svitolina has a solid record in the last 10 years having won 67% of her matches (358-179). 3-0 on hard in 2021. In connection with her performance on the same surface of this competition, Svitolina has a 213-97 record in the last years on hard.

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

Last year in Abu Dhabi

Elina didn’t compete in Abu Dhabi in 2020.

Veronika Kudermetova

Ranked no. 46, the Russian got to the quarter after defeating Anett Kontaveit 7-5 6-1, Bianca Turati 6-2 6-1 and Paula Badosa Gibert 6-4 4-6 6-1.

In the 3^rd round, Veronika defeated Badosa (6-4 4-6 6-1). During the match Kudermetova scored 83 points vs Badosa’s 72. Kudermetova was exceptionally aggressive to blast 31 winners.

Talking about serving, Kudermetova bagged 10 aces and she committed only 5 double faults. Veronika Kudermetova lost the serve 4 times and she saved 6 break points. Furthermore, Kudermetova put 50% of her first serves in, winning 82% (31/38) of the points behind her 1st serve and 37% (14/38) on the 2nd serve. Kudermetova broke Badosa 7 times after converting 64% of her break points (7/11).

Overall Performance in this tournament

The Russian has conceded 1 set in the tournament to win 56% of the points she played.

Veronika 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

Both Svitolina and Kudermetova played 3 matches. Both players lost a set in the event. Elina Svitolina conceded 1 set, while Veronika Kudermetova dropper 1 set. Talking about their workload, Svitolina and Kudermetova have played the same amount of sets 7. However, Svitolina played 9 games more than Kudermetova. Elina scored 93 winners (37% of the total points). On the other side, The Russian struck 74 winners (33%).

Serve Performance

Svitolina fired 10 aces (3.3 per match). Kudermetova scored 15 aces (5 per match). Svitolina won 73% points on her first serve. She quite strong on her second serve to win 51% of the points. On the other side, Kudermetova won 71% of the points on her first serve. She had a solid display on her second serve to win 52% of the points.

How they played the important points

Elina broke her opponents 15 times with a 65% conversion rate. Elina conceded her serve 6 times and she saved 76% of the break points that she conceded. Veronika broke her opponents 16 times with a 55% conversion rate. Kudermetova conceded her serve 5 times and she saved 67% of the break points that she conceded.

Head 2 Head

• 0Slam
• 17Main
• 6ITF
• 1Minor

• 0Slam
• 2Main
• 4ITF
• 1Minor

Elina
Svitolina

0:2

Veronika
Kudermetova

Rank

23

High

3

0Hard1

0I.hard1

Rank

76

High

9

Win Loss

Svitolina

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Kudermetova

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2024 2023 2022

30 - 18

18 - 25

16-9

Hard

10-16

10-7

Clay

3-5

4-2

Grass

5-4

Tennis Scores in Abu Dhabi

• Elena RybakinaRybakina – Daria KasatkinaKasatkina (6-3 6-4) – See score progression
• Marta KostyukKostyuk – Tamara ZidansekZidansek (6-1 6-1) – See score progression
• Maria SakkariSakkari – Garbine MuguruzaMuguruza (7-5 6-4) – See score progression
• Elina SvitolinaSvitolina – Ekaterina AlexandrovaAlexandrova (6-2 6-7⁵ 7-6⁸) – See score progression
• Sara Sorribes TormoSorribes Tormo – Anastasia GasanovaGasanova (7-5 6-3) – See score progression
• Sofia KeninKenin – Yulia PutintsevaPutintseva (3-6 7-6⁵ 6-4) – See score progression
• Aryna SabalenkaSabalenka – Ons JabeurJabeur (6-2 6-4) – See score progression
• Veronika KudermetovaKudermetova – Paula Badosa GibertBadosa Gibert (6-4 4-6 6-1) – See score progression

• Sofia KeninKenin – Maria SakkariSakkari (2-0) – H2H and prediction
• Aryna SabalenkaSabalenka – Elena RybakinaRybakina (1-0) – H2H and prediction
• Marta KostyukKostyuk – Sara Sorribes TormoSorribes Tormo (0-1) – H2H and prediction
• Veronika KudermetovaKudermetova – Elina SvitolinaSvitolina (1-0) – H2H and prediction

Svitolina

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Kudermetova