Aryna Sabalenka and Anett Kontaveit will fight against each other in the 3rd round of the Dubai Duty Free Championships for the 3rd time of their career. They are scheduled to compete on Wednesday at 2:30 pm on Centre Court. Here you can find the head to head analysis 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 -> 1.58
Anett Kontaveit -> 2.51

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Prediction and head to head Aryna Sabalenka vs. Anett Kontaveit

This will be the 3rd time that Aryna Sabalenka and Anett Kontaveit square off. The head to head is 2-0 for Sabalenka (see full H2H stats), 2-0 on hard.

The last time that they squared off, Sabalenka won 7-5 2-6 7-5 in the 2nd round in Doha back in 2020.

Aryna Sabalenka

Ranked no. 8, Aryna got to the 3rd round after defeating Alize Cornet 6-2 6-4.

In the 2nd round, The Belarussian had a good straight sets win against Cornet (6-2 6-4). During the match Sabalenka scored 68 points vs Cornet’s 55. Aryna was quite aggressive to blast 18 winners.

Regarding the service games, Sabalenka scored just 1 ace for the entire match and she committed only 6 double faults. Aryna Sabalenka lost the serve 4 times and she saved 2 break points. Furthermore, Sabalenka put 56% of her first serves in, winning 62% (18/29) of the points behind her 1st serve and 39% (9/23) on the 2nd serve. Aryna broke Cornet 7 times after converting 41% of her break points (7/17).

Sabalenka has a solid match record in the last 6 years having won 65% of her matches (195-103). 10-3 on hard in 2021. Talking about her performance on the same surface of this event, Sabalenka has a 120-53 record in the last 6 years on hard.

Her best result of the current year was winning the title in in Abu Dhabi where she defeated Veronika Kudermetova in the final 6-2 6-2.

Aryna has a 10-3 win-loss record in 2021, 10-3 on hard (See FULL STATS).

Previously in Dubai

Previously, her best result was reaching the quarter in 2020. See her history.

Dubai
Sabalenka's Record

Anett Kontaveit

Ranked no. 24, Kontaveit got to the 3rd round after beating Timea Babos 6-2 6-1 and Sorana Cirstea 6-4 7-5.

In the 2nd round, The Estonian had a good straight sets win against Cirstea (6-4 7-5). During the match Kontaveit scored 81 points vs Cirstea’s 72. Anett was extremely aggressive to blast 29 winners.

Talking about serving, Kontaveit made 2 aces and she committed only 3 double faults. Anett Kontaveit lost the serve twice and she saved 6 break points. Furthermore, Kontaveit put 55% of her first serves in, winning 69% (29/42) of the points behind her 1st serve and 51% (18/35) on the 2nd serve. Kontaveit broke Cirstea 4 times after converting 44% of her break points (4/9).

Overall Performance in this tournament

Anett started her run at this tournament from the qualifications. In the main draw, she hasn’t lost yet a set in this tournament to win 58% of the points she played.

Anett’s best result of the season was reaching the semifinal in Melbourne.

The Estonian has a 9-3 win-loss record in 2021, 9-3 on hard (See FULL STATS).

Previously in Dubai

Previously, her best result was reaching the quarter in 2020. See her history.

Dubai
Kontaveit's Record

H2H Performance in the tournament (main draw)

Matches, sets, games and points

Points Sabalenka Kontaveit
Match played 1 2
Tot Set 2 4
Tot Games 18 37
Pts 68-55 141-102
Total Points 123 243
Winners 18 49
%Winners 26% 35%

Sabalenka played 1 match while Kontaveit competed in 2 matches. Both players have not surrendered a single set in this event so far. Sabalenka has played 2 set(s) less than Kontaveit (2 vs 4). Therefore, Sabalenka played 19 games less than Kontaveit. Sabalenka scored 18 winners (26% of the total points). On the other side, Kontaveit made 49 winners (35%).

Serve Performance

Serve Sabalenka Kontaveit
Aces 1 3
Avg per match 1 1.5
1st in 29/52 68/118
%1st in 56% 58%
1st pts 18/29 49/68
%1st pts 62% 72%
2nd pts 9/23 26/50
%2nd pts 39% 52%

Sabalenka scored 1 ace . Kontaveit also scored 3 aces (1.5 per match). Sabalenka won 62% points on her first serve. She pretty solid on her second serve to win 39% of the points. On the other side, Kontaveit won 72% 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

Breaks Sabalenka Kontaveit
Won 7 10
Converted 7/17 10/19
% Converted 41% 53%
Conceded 6 11
Saved 2 7
% Saved 33% 64%
Times Broken 4 4

The Belarussian broke her opponent 7 times with a 41% conversion rate. The Belarussian surrendered her serve 4 times and she saved 33% of the break points that she conceded. The Estonian broke her opponents 10 times with a 53% conversion rate. Kontaveit conceded her serve 4 times and she saved 64% of the break points that she conceded.

Sabalenka
R2
Cornet		 Total
Score 6-2 6-4
Tot Set 2 2
Tot Games 18 18
pts 68-55 68-55
Total points 123 123
Winners 18 18
%Winners 26% 26%
SERVE
Aces 1 1
Double Faults 6 6
1st in 29/52 29/52
% 1st in 56% 56%
1st pts 18/29 18/29
% 1st pts 62% 62%
2nd pts 9/23 9/23
% 2nd pts 39% 39%
Breaks
Won 7 7
Converted 7/17 7/17
Converted % 41% 41%
Conceded 6 6
Saved 2/6 2
Saved % 33% 33%
Times Broken 4 4
Kontaveit
R1
Babos		 R2
Cirstea		 Total
Score 6-2 6-1 6-4 7-5
Tot Set 2 2 4
Tot Games 15 22 37
pts 60-30 81-72 141-102
Total points 90 153 243
Winners 20 29 49
%Winners 33% 36% 35%
SERVE
Aces 1 2 3
Double Faults 2 3 5
1st in 26/41 42/77 68/118
% 1st in 63% 55% 58%
1st pts 20/26 29/42 49/68
% 1st pts 77% 69% 72%
2nd pts 8/15 18/35 26/50
% 2nd pts 53% 51% 52%
Breaks
Won 6 4 10
Converted 6/10 4/9 10/19
Converted % 60% 44% 53%
Conceded 3 8 11
Saved 1/3 6/8 7
Saved % 33% 75% 108%
Times Broken 2 2 4

Tennis Scores in Dubai

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Sabalenka
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Kontaveit

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