Elina Svitolina and Cori Gauff will clash against each other in the 2^nd round of the Australian Open for the 1^st time in their career. They are scheduled to compete on Thursday at 7 pm on Rod Laver Arena. 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
Cori Gauff -> 2.50

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There is no head to head record between Elina Svitolina and Cori Gauff since this will be the first time that they will play each other in the main tour.

Elina Svitolina

Ranked no. 5, the Ukrainian got to the 2^nd round after defeating Marie Bouzkova 6-3 7-6⁵.

In the 1^st round, The Ukrainian had a good straight sets win against Bouzkova (6-3 7-6⁵). During the match Svitolina scored 85 points vs Bouzkova’s 79. The Ukrainian was extremely aggressive to blast 40 winners.

Talking about the service games, Svitolina bagged 3 aces and she committed only 2 double faults. Elina Svitolina lost the serve once and she saved 5 break points. Furthermore, Svitolina put 56% of her first serves in, winning 70% (40/57) of the points behind her 1st serve and 48% (21/44) on the 2nd serve. Svitolina broke Bouzkova twice after converting 50% of her break points (2/4).

Svitolina has a solid record in the last 10 years having won 67% of her matches (361-181). 6-2 on hard in 2021. In connection with her performance on the same surface of this competition, Svitolina has a 216-99 match record in the last years on hard.

The Ukrainian has a 6-2 win-loss record in 2021, 6-2 on hard (See FULL STATS).

Last year at the Australian Open

Elina lost in the 3^rd round to Garbine Muguruza.

Cori Gauff

Ranked no. 48, the American got to the 2^nd round after defeating Jil Teichmann 6-3 6-2.

In the 1^st round, Gauff had a good straight sets win against Belen Teichmann (6-3 6-2). During the match Gauff scored 59 points vs Belen Teichmann’s 37. The American was quite aggressive to blast 34 winners.

Talking about serving, Gauff blasted 8 aces and she committed only 3 double faults. Cori Gauff conceded no breaks for the entire match to save 2 break points. Furthermore, Gauff put 72% of her first serves in, winning 87% (34/39) of the points behind her 1st serve and 40% (6/15) on the 2nd serve. Gauff was clinical in her return game without wasting any break point and break Belen Teichmann 3 times.

Cori has a 3-2 win-loss record in 2021, 3-2 on hard (See FULL STATS).

Last year at the Australian Open

Cori lost in the 4^th round to Sofia Kenin.

H2H Performance in the tournament

Matches, sets, games and points

Both Svitolina and Gauff played 1 match. Both players have not surrendered a single set in this event so far. Talking about their workload, Svitolina and Gauff have played the same amount of sets 2. However, Svitolina played 5 games more than Gauff. Svitolina scored 40 winners (47% of the total points). On the other side, Cori blasted 34 winners (58%).

Serve Performance

Svitolina recorded 3 aces . Gauff made 8 aces . Svitolina won 70% points behind her first serve. She quite strong on her second serve to win 48% of the points. On the other side, Gauff won 87% of the points on her first serve. She had a solid display on her second serve to win 40% of the points.

How they played the important points

Elina broke her opponent twice with a 50% conversion rate. Elina surrendered her serve once and she saved 83% of the break points that she conceded. Cori broke her opponent 3 times with a 100% conversion rate. Cori was rock solid on her serve as she has never conceded a single service game after saving 2 break points.

Head 2 Head

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• 17Main
• 6ITF
• 1Minor

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• 9Main
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Elina
Svitolina

1:2

Cori
Gauff

Rank

23

High

3

1Hard2

Rank

3

High

2

Win Loss

Svitolina

LWWLWLWWLW

Gauff

WWLWWLWWWW

2024 2023 2022

30 - 18

54 - 17

16-9

Hard

31-9

0-0

I Hard

4-1

10-7

Clay

14-5

4-2

Grass

5-2

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• Ann LiLi – Alize CornetCornet (6-2 7-6⁶) – Stats, scores, rankings
• Serena WilliamsWilliams – Nina StojanovicStojanovic (6-3 6-0) – Stats, scores, rankings
• Sorana CirsteaCirstea – Petra KvitovaKvitova (6-4 1-6 6-1) – Stats, scores, rankings
• Garbine MuguruzaMuguruza – Liudmila SamsonovaSamsonova (6-3 6-1) – Stats, scores, rankings
• Fiona FerroFerro – Elena RybakinaRybakina (6-4 6-4) – Stats, scores, rankings
• Ons JabeurJabeur – Anna SchmiedlovaSchmiedlova (6-3 6-2) – Stats, scores, rankings
• Su-Wei HsiehHsieh – Bianca Vanessa AndreescuVanessa Andreescu (6-3 6-2) – Stats, scores, rankings
• Aryna SabalenkaSabalenka – Daria KasatkinaKasatkina (7-6⁵ 6-3) – Stats, scores, rankings
• Hugo GrenierGrenier – Eero VasaVasa (6-1 6-1) – Stats, scores, rankings

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• Anett KontaveitKontaveit – Heather WatsonWatson (3-2) – H2H and prediction
• Shelby RogersRogers – Olga DanilovicDanilovic (0-1) – H2H and prediction
• Belinda BencicBencic – Svetlana KuznetsovaKuznetsova (3-2) – H2H and prediction
• Lin ZhuZhu – Elise MertensMertens (1-1) – H2H and prediction
• Karolina MuchovaMuchova – Mona BarthelBarthel (0-0) – H2H and prediction
• Danielle Rose CollinsRose Collins – Karolina PliskovaPliskova (1-0) – H2H and prediction
• Sofia KeninKenin – Kaia KanepiKanepi (0-1) – H2H and prediction
• Nadia PodoroskaPodoroska – Donna VekicVekic (1-0) – H2H and prediction
• Jennifer BradyBrady – Madison BrengleBrengle (1-0) – H2H and prediction
• Mayar SherifSherif – Kaja JuvanJuvan (0-0) – H2H and prediction
• Jessica PegulaPegula – Samantha StosurStosur (1-1) – H2H and prediction
• Nao HibinoHibino – Kristina MladenovicMladenovic (0-2) – H2H and prediction
• Yulia PutintsevaPutintseva – Alison Van UytvanckVan Uytvanck (3-0) – H2H and prediction
• Cori GauffGauff – Elina SvitolinaSvitolina (0-0) – H2H and prediction
• Venus WilliamsWilliams – Sara ErraniErrani (3-1) – H2H and prediction
• Caroline GarciaGarcia – Naomi OsakaOsaka (0-0) – H2H and prediction
• Iga SwiatekSwiatek – Camila GiorgiGiorgi (0-1) – H2H and prediction
• Veronika KudermetovaKudermetova – Varvara GrachevaGracheva (0-0) – H2H and prediction
• Ajla TomljanovicTomljanovic – Simona HalepHalep (0-4) – H2H and prediction
• Marketa VondrousovaVondrousova – Sorana CirsteaCirstea (0-0) – H2H and prediction
• Garbine MuguruzaMuguruza – Zarina DiyasDiyas (1-0) – H2H and prediction
• Aryna SabalenkaSabalenka – Ann LiLi (0-0) – H2H and prediction
• Anastasia PotapovaPotapova – Serena WilliamsWilliams (0-1) – H2H and prediction

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