Garbine Muguruza and Elena Rybakina will play each other in the quarter of the Olympics for the 2nd time in their career. They are scheduled to play on Wednesday at 3:00 pm on Court 2. 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 3 sets.
As per the initial odds, Garbine Muguruza is the pick to win this match.
Garbine Muguruza -> 1.58
Elena Rybakina -> 2.71
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Prediction and head to head Garbine Muguruza vs. Elena Rybakina
This will be the 2nd time that Garbine Muguruza and Elena Rybakina clash against each other. The head to head is 1-0 for Muguruza (see full H2H stats), but they have never competed against each other on hard.
The last time that they played each other, Muguruza won 6-4 6-3 in the 2nd round in Berlin back in June 2021.
Highlights Garbine Muguruza vs Elena Rybakina – Berlin 17-June-2021
Garbine Muguruza
Ranked no. 9, Garbine reached the quarter after beating Veronika Kudermetova 7-5 7-5, Qiang Wang 6-3 6-0 and Alison Van Uytvanck 6-4 6-1.
In the 3rd round, Muguruza had a good straight sets win against Van Uytvanck (6-4 6-1). During the match, Muguruza scored 65 points vs Van Uytvanck’s 48. Garbine was extremely aggressive to blast 32 winners.
Talking about the service games, Muguruza blasted 3 aces and she was pretty steady in conceding no double faults. Garbine Muguruza lost the serve once and she saved 3 break points. Furthermore, Muguruza put 80% of her first serves in, winning 74% (32/43) of the points behind her 1st serve and 45% (5/11) on the 2nd serve. Muguruza broke Van Uytvanck 4 times after converting 50% of her break points (4/8).
Overall Performance in this tournament
The Spaniard started her run at this tournament from the qualifications. In the main draw, she hasn’t surrendered yet a set in this event to win 57% of the points she played.
Muguruza has a solid win-loss record in the last 10 years having won 66% of her matches (335-175). 23-5 on hard in 2021. In connection with her performance on the same surface of this tournament, Muguruza has an overall 197-96 match record in the last years on hard.
Her best result of the season was winning the title in in Dubai where she overcame Barbora Krejcikova in the final 7-6(6) 6-3.
Muguruza has an aggregate 30-10 win-loss record in 2021, 23-5 on hard (See FULL STATS).
Previously in Olympics
Previously, her best result was reaching the 3rd round in 2016. See her history.
Elena Rybakina
Ranked no. 20, Rybakina got to the quarter after defeating Samantha Stosur 6-4 6-2, Rebecca Peterson 6-2 6-3 and Donna Vekic 7-63 6-4.
In the 3rd round, Rybakina had a good straight sets win against Vekic (7-63 6-4). During the match Rybakina and Vekic scored the same amount of points (). However, the world no. 9 was stronger during the important points and that was the most significant difference in the match.
About the serving games, Rybakina couldn’t to score even 1 ace for the entire match and she was quite steady in conceding no double faults for the entire match. Elena Rybakina conceded no breaks for the entire match to put NAN% of her first serves in, win NAN% (/) of the points behind her 1st serve and NAN% (/) on the 2nd serve.
Overall Performance in this tournament
The Kazakhstani started her run at this tournament from the qualifications. In the main draw, she hasn’t lost yet a set in this competition to win 60% of the points she played.
Rybakina’s best result of the season was getting to the semifinal in Eastbourne.
Rybakina has an aggregate 22-13 win-loss record in 2021, 9-6 on hard (See FULL STATS).
H2H Performance in the tournament (main draw)
Matches, sets, games and points
| Points | Muguruza | Rybakina |
|---|---|---|
| Match played | 3 | 3 |
| Tot Set | 6 | 6 |
| Tot Games | 56 | 58 |
| Pts | 206-153 | 128-84 |
| Total Points | 359 | 212 |
| Winners | 94 | 46 |
| %Winners | 46% | 36% |
Both Muguruza and Rybakina played 3 matches. Both players have not dropped a single set in this event so far. Talking about their workload, Muguruza and Rybakina have played the same amount of sets 6. However, Muguruza played 2 games less than Rybakina. Garbine scored 94 winners (46% of the total points). On the other side, The Kazakhstani blasted 46 winners (36%).
Serve Performance
| Serve | Muguruza | Rybakina |
|---|---|---|
| Aces | 16 | 11 |
| Avg per match | 5.3 | 3.7 |
| 1st in | 128/186 | 52/98 |
| %1st in | 69% | 53% |
| 1st pts | 94/128 | 46/52 |
| %1st pts | 73% | 88% |
| 2nd pts | 27/55 | 27/39 |
| %2nd pts | 49% | 69% |
Muguruza scored 16 aces (5.3 per match). Rybakina struck 11 aces (3.7 per match). Muguruza won 73% points behind her first serve. She pretty effective on her second serve to win 49% of the points. On the other side, Rybakina won 88% of the points behind her first serve. She had a solid display on her second serve to win 69% of the points.
How they played the important points
| Breaks | Muguruza | Rybakina |
|---|---|---|
| Won | 14 | 8 |
| Converted | 14/23 | 8/14 |
| % Converted | 61% | 57% |
| Conceded | 13 | 3 |
| Saved | 8 | 1 |
| % Saved | 62% | 33% |
| Times Broken | 5 | 2 |
The Spaniard broke her opponents 14 times with a 61% conversion rate. Muguruza surrendered her serve 5 times and she saved 62% of the break points that she conceded. Elena broke her opponents 8 times with a 57% conversion rate. Rybakina conceded her serve twice and she saved 33% of the break points that she conceded.
| Muguruza | |||||
| R1 Kudermetova |
R2 Wang |
R3 Van Uytvanck |
Total | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Score | 7-5 7-5 | 6-3 6-0 | 6-4 6-1 | ||
| Tot Set | 2 | 2 | 2 | 6 | |
| Tot Games | 24 | 15 | 17 | 56 | |
| pts | 87-78 | 54-27 | 65-48 | 206-153 | |
| Total points | 165 | 81 | 113 | 359 | |
| Winners | 42 | 20 | 32 | 94 | |
| %Winners | 48% | 37% | 49% | 46% | |
| SERVE | |||||
| Aces | 11 | 2 | 3 | 16 | |
| Double Faults | 2 | 1 | 0 | 3 | |
| 1st in | 60/92 | 25/40 | 43/54 | 128/186 | |
| % 1st in | 65% | 63% | 80% | 69% | |
| 1st pts | 42/60 | 20/25 | 32/43 | 94/128 | |
| % 1st pts | 70% | 80% | 74% | 73% | |
| 2nd pts | 12/30 | 10/14 | 5/11 | 27/55 | |
| % 2nd pts | 40% | 71% | 45% | 49% | |
| Breaks | |||||
| Won | 5 | 5 | 4 | 14 | |
| Converted | 5/9 | 5/6 | 4/8 | 14/23 | |
| Converted % | 56% | 83% | 50% | 61% | |
| Conceded | 8 | 1 | 4 | 13 | |
| Saved | 5/8 | 0/1 | 3/4 | 8 | |
| Saved % | 63% | 0% | 75% | 46% | |
| Times Broken | 3 | 1 | 1 | 5 | |
| Rybakina | |||||
| R1 Stosur |
R2 Peterson |
R3 Vekic |
Total | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Score | 6-4 6-2 | 6-2 6-3 | 7-63 6-4 | ||
| Tot Set | 2 | 2 | 2 | 6 | |
| Tot Games | 18 | 17 | 23 | 58 | |
| pts | 62-43 | 66-41 | – | 128-84 | |
| Total points | 105 | 107 | 0 | 212 | |
| Winners | 19 | 27 | 46 | ||
| %Winners | 31% | 41% | NAN% | 36% | |
| SERVE | |||||
| Aces | 7 | 4 | 0 | 11 | |
| Double Faults | 4 | 3 | 7 | ||
| 1st in | 20/44 | 32/54 | / | 52/98 | |
| % 1st in | 45% | 59% | – | 53% | |
| 1st pts | 19/20 | 27/32 | / | 46/52 | |
| % 1st pts | 95% | 84% | – | 88% | |
| 2nd pts | 17/20 | 10/19 | / | 27/39 | |
| % 2nd pts | 85% | 53% | – | 69% | |
| Breaks | |||||
| Won | 3 | 5 | 8 | ||
| Converted | 3/6 | 5/8 | / | 8/14 | |
| Converted % | 50% | 63% | – | 57% | |
| Conceded | 0 | 3 | 3 | ||
| Saved | 0/0 | 1/3 | 0/ | 1 | |
| Saved % | – | 33% | – | 11% | |
| Times Broken | 0 | 2 | 2 | ||
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