Garbine Muguruza and Barbora Krejcikova will square off in the final of the Dubai Duty Free Championships for the 1st time in their career. They are scheduled to compete on Saturday at 7:00 pm on Centre Court. In the following lines you can find the head to head analysis and prediction.

Prediction, odds and live streaming

The pick for Tennis Tonic is Garbine Muguruza who should win in 2 sets.

As per the initial odds, Garbine Muguruza is the pick to win this match.
Garbine Muguruza -> 1.32
Barbora Krejcikova -> 3.65

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Prediction and head to head Garbine Muguruza vs. Barbora Krejcikova

There is no head to head record between Garbine Muguruza and Barbora Krejcikova since this will be the first time that they will square off in the main tour.

Garbine Muguruza

Ranked no. 16, the Spaniard reached the final after beating Irina-Camelia Begu 6-3 7-5, Amanda Anisimova 6-4 6-2, Iga Swiatek 6-0 6-4, Aryna Sabalenka 3-6 6-3 6-2 and Elise Mertens 6-4 7-65.

In the semifinal, The Spaniard had a good straight sets win against Mertens (6-4 7-65). During the match Muguruza scored 88 points vs Mertens’s 77. The Spaniard was exceptionally aggressive to blast 31 winners.

Talking about the service games, Muguruza scored just 1 ace during the match and she committed only 8 double faults. Garbine Muguruza lost the serve 4 times and she saved 6 break points. Furthermore, Muguruza put 60% of her first serves in, winning 62% (31/50) of the points behind her 1st serve and 55% (18/33) on the 2nd serve. Muguruza broke Mertens 5 times after converting 38% of her break points (5/13).

Overall Performance in this tournament

Garbine started her run at this tournament from the qualifications. In the main draw, she has surrendered 1 set in this event to win 55% of the points she played.

Muguruza has a solid win-loss record in the last 10 years having won 66% of her matches (322-169). 17-4 on hard in 2021. Regarding her performance on the same surface of this competition, Muguruza has a 191-95 match record in the last years on hard.

The Spaniard’s best result of the current season was reaching the final in Melbourne and Doha.

The Spaniard has a 17-4 win-loss record in 2021, 17-4 on hard (See FULL STATS).

Previously in Dubai

Previously, her best result was reaching the semifinal in 2015 and 2018. See her history.

Dubai
Muguruza's Record

Barbora Krejcikova

Ranked no. 63, the Czech reached the final after defeating Maria Sakkari 6-2 7-64, Jelena Ostapenko 6-3 6-1, Svetlana Kuznetsova 6-3 6-2, Anastasia Potapova 6-0 6-2 and Jil Teichmann 7-5 6-2.

In the semifinal, Krejcikova had a good straight sets win against Belen Teichmann (7-5 6-2). During the match Krejcikova scored 80 points vs Belen Teichmann’s 65. The Czech was extremely aggressive to blast 41 winners.

Talking about serving, Krejcikova bagged 4 aces and she committed only 3 double faults. Barbora Krejcikova lost the serve once and she saved 10 break points. Furthermore, Krejcikova put 70% of her first serves in, winning 72% (41/57) of the points behind her 1st serve and 40% (10/25) on the 2nd serve. Krejcikova broke Belen Teichmann 4 times after converting 44% of her break points (4/9).

Overall Performance in this tournament

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

Krejcikova’s best result of the season was getting to the semifinal in Dubai.

Barbora has a 10-4 win-loss record in 2021, 10-4 on hard (See FULL STATS).

Previously in Dubai

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

Dubai
Krejcikova's Record

H2H Performance in the tournament (main draw)

Matches, sets, games and points

Points Muguruza Krejcikova
Match played 5 5
Tot Set 11 10
Tot Games 104 88
Pts 381-309 337-247
Total Points 690 584
Winners 149 124
%Winners 39% 37%

Both Muguruza and Krejcikova played 5 matches. At the moment, Garbine Muguruza lost 1 set while Barbora Krejcikova hasn’t dropped a set so far. Muguruza has played 1 set more than Krejcikova (11 vs 10). Therefore, Muguruza played 16 games more than Krejcikova. Garbine scored 149 winners (39% of the total points). On the other side, The Czech struck 124 winners (37%).

Serve Performance

Serve Muguruza Krejcikova
Aces 14 16
Avg per match 2.8 3.2
1st in 213/347 179/306
%1st in 61% 58%
1st pts 149/213 124/179
%1st pts 70% 69%
2nd pts 68/134 70/127
%2nd pts 51% 55%

Muguruza managed to score 14 aces (2.8 per match). Krejcikova struck 16 aces (3.2 per match). Muguruza won 70% points behind her first serve. She had a solid display on her second serve to win 51% of the points. On the other side, Krejcikova won 69% of the points on her first serve. She had a solid display on her second serve to win 55% of the points.

How they played the important points

Breaks Muguruza Krejcikova
Won 24 23
Converted 24/56 23/39
% Converted 43% 59%
Conceded 30 24
Saved 18 18
% Saved 60% 75%
Times Broken 12 6

Muguruza broke her opponents 24 times with a 43% conversion rate. The Spaniard conceded her serve 12 times and she saved 60% of the break points that she conceded. The Czech broke her opponents 23 times with a 59% conversion rate. The Czech conceded her serve 6 times and she saved 75% of the break points that she conceded.

Muguruza
R1
Begu		 R2
Anisimova		 R3
Swiatek		 1/4
Sabalenka		 1/2
Mertens		 Total
Score 6-3 7-5 6-4 6-2 6-0 6-4 3-6 6-3 6-2 6-4 7-65
Tot Set 2 2 2 3 2 11
Tot Games 21 18 16 26 23 104
pts 73-60 75-64 56-35 89-73 88-77 381-309
Total points 133 139 91 162 165 690
Winners 25 33 25 35 31 149
%Winners 34% 44% 45% 39% 35% 39%
SERVE
Aces 2 1 3 7 1 14
Double Faults 4 4 0 4 8 20
1st in 37/64 48/77 34/49 44/74 50/83 213/347
% 1st in 58% 62% 69% 59% 60% 61%
1st pts 25/37 33/48 25/34 35/44 31/50 149/213
% 1st pts 68% 69% 74% 80% 62% 70%
2nd pts 14/27 13/29 9/15 14/30 18/33 68/134
% 2nd pts 52% 45% 60% 47% 55% 51%
Breaks
Won 5 4 5 5 5 24
Converted 5/13 4/12 5/7 5/11 5/13 24/56
Converted % 38% 33% 71% 45% 38% 43%
Conceded 5 5 3 7 10 30
Saved 2/5 4/5 2/3 4/7 6/10 18
Saved % 40% 80% 67% 57% 60% 61%
Times Broken 3 1 1 3 4 12
Krejcikova
R1
Sakkari		 R2
Ostapenko		 R3
Kuznetsova		 1/4
Potapova		 1/2
Belen Teichmann		 Total
Score 6-2 7-64 6-3 6-1 6-3 6-2 6-0 6-2 7-5 6-2
Tot Set 2 2 2 2 2 10
Tot Games 21 16 17 14 20 88
pts 74-60 64-46 59-42 60-34 80-65 337-247
Total points 134 110 101 94 145 584
Winners 23 21 24 15 41 124
%Winners 31% 33% 41% 25% 51% 37%
SERVE
Aces 2 5 4 1 4 16
Double Faults 0 3 2 1 3 9
1st in 37/67 36/60 31/55 18/42 57/82 179/306
% 1st in 55% 60% 56% 43% 70% 58%
1st pts 23/37 21/36 24/31 15/18 41/57 124/179
% 1st pts 62% 58% 77% 83% 72% 69%
2nd pts 20/30 16/24 11/24 13/24 10/25 70/127
% 2nd pts 67% 67% 46% 54% 40% 55%
Breaks
Won 4 5 4 6 4 23
Converted 4/9 5/5 4/6 6/10 4/9 23/39
Converted % 44% 100% 67% 60% 44% 59%
Conceded 4 7 1 1 11 24
Saved 2/4 6/7 0/1 0/1 10/11 18
Saved % 50% 86% 0% 0% 91% 45%
Times Broken 2 1 1 1 1 6

Tennis Scores in Dubai

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