Simona Halep and Elena Rybakina will face off in the 3rd round of the U.S. Open for the 3rd time in their career. They are scheduled to compete on Friday at 11:00 am on Louis Armstrong Stadium. 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 Elena Rybakina who should win in 3 sets.
As per the initial odds, Elena Rybakina is the pick to win this match.
Elena Rybakina -> 1.85
Simona Halep -> 2.04
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Prediction and head to head Simona Halep vs. Elena Rybakina
This will be the 3rd time that Simona Halep and Elena Rybakina face off. The head to head is 1-1 for Halep and Rybakina (see full H2H stats),but they are 1-1 on hard.
The last time that they competed against each other, Halep won 3-6 6-3 7-6(5) in the final in Dubai back in 2020.
Highlights Simona Halep vs Elena Rybakina – Dubai 22-February-2020
Simona Halep
Ranked no. 13, the Romanian reached the 3rd round after defeating Camila Giorgi 6-4 7-63 and Kristina Kucova 6-3 6-1.
In the 2nd round, Halep had a good straight sets win against Kucova (6-3 6-1). During the match, Halep scored 63 points vs Kucova’s 37. The Romanian was pretty aggressive to blast 22 winners.
Talking about the service games, Halep scored just 1 ace during the match and she committed only 2 double faults. Overall, Simona Halep was pretty efficient on serve to win 76% (22/29) of her 1st serve and 58% (11/19) on the second serve. However, this didn’t prevent her to concede the serve once. The Romanian broke Kucova 5 times after converting 50% of her break points (5/10).
Overall Performance in this tournament
The Romanian 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.
Halep has an extraordinary record in the last 10 years having won 73% of her matches (398-148). 10-3 on hard in 2021. Talking about her performance on the same surface of this tournament, Halep has a composed 208-81 match record in the last years on hard.
The Romanian’s best result of the current season was getting to the semifinal in Stuttgart.
Halep has an overall 14-6 win-loss record in 2021, 10-3 on hard (See FULL STATS).
Previously at the U.S. Open
Previously, her best result was reaching the semifinal in 2015. See her history.
Elena Rybakina
Ranked no. 20, Rybakina got to the 3rd round after beating Aliaksandra Sasnovich 6-2 6-3 and Caroline Garcia 6-1 6-4.
In the 2nd round, Elena had a good straight sets win against Garcia (6-1 6-4). During the match Rybakina scored 63 points vs Garcia’s 42. The Kazakhstani was pretty aggressive to blast 28 winners.
Talking about serving, Rybakina managed to score 11 aces and she committed only 4 double faults. Elena Rybakina was extremely efficient on serve to win 85% (28/33) of her 1st serve and 60% (9/15) on the second serve. This was the main reason for not conceding a single break during the match. The Kazakhstani broke Garcia 3 times after converting 50% of her break points (3/6).
Overall Performance in this tournament
Elena 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 59% of the points she played.
Elena’s best result of the year was reaching the bronze in Tokyo.
Elena has a composed 28-18 win-loss record in 2021, 15-11 on hard (See FULL STATS).
Previously at the U.S. Open
Previously, her best result was reaching the 2nd round in 2020. See her history.
H2H Performance in the tournament (main draw)
Matches, sets, games and points
| Points | Halep | Rybakina |
|---|---|---|
| Match played | 2 | 2 |
| Tot Set | 4 | 4 |
| Tot Games | 39 | 34 |
| Pts | 135-99 | 130-92 |
| Total Points | 234 | 222 |
| Winners | 57 | 61 |
| %Winners | 42% | 47% |
Both Halep and Rybakina played 2 matches. Both players have not lost a single set in this event so far. Talking about their workload, Halep and Rybakina have played the same amount of sets 4. However, Halep played 5 games more than Rybakina. Halep scored 57 winners (42% of the total points). On the other side, Elena struck 61 winners (47%).
Serve Performance
| Serve | Halep | Rybakina |
|---|---|---|
| Aces | 7 | 21 |
| Avg per match | 3.5 | 10.5 |
| 1st in | 71/123 | 70/105 |
| %1st in | 58% | 67% |
| 1st pts | 57/71 | 61/70 |
| %1st pts | 80% | 87% |
| 2nd pts | 25/52 | 15/35 |
| %2nd pts | 48% | 43% |
Halep managed to score 7 aces (3.5 per match). Rybakina made 21 aces (10.5 per match). Halep won 80% points on her first serve. She extremely effective on her second serve to win 48% of the points. On the other side, Rybakina won 87% of the points on her first serve. She had a solid display on her second serve to win 43% of the points.
How they played the important points
| Breaks | Halep | Rybakina |
|---|---|---|
| Won | 8 | 6 |
| Converted | 8/13 | 6/16 |
| % Converted | 62% | 38% |
| Conceded | 10 | 4 |
| Saved | 7 | 4 |
| % Saved | 70% | 100% |
| Times Broken | 3 | 0 |
Simona broke her opponents 8 times with a 62% conversion rate. Halep lost her serve 3 times and she saved 70% of the break points that she conceded. Elena broke her opponents 6 times with a 38% conversion rate. Rybakina was rock solid on her serve as she has never conceded a single service game after saving 4 break points.
| Halep | ||||
| R1 Giorgi |
R2 Kucova |
Total | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Score | 6-4 7-63 | 6-3 6-1 | ||
| Tot Set | 2 | 2 | 4 | |
| Tot Games | 23 | 16 | 39 | |
| pts | 72-62 | 63-37 | 135-99 | |
| Total points | 134 | 100 | 234 | |
| Winners | 35 | 22 | 57 | |
| %Winners | 49% | 35% | 42% | |
| SERVE | ||||
| Aces | 6 | 1 | 7 | |
| Double Faults | 3 | 2 | 5 | |
| 1st in | 42/75 | 29/48 | 71/123 | |
| % 1st in | 56% | 60% | 58% | |
| 1st pts | 35/42 | 22/29 | 57/71 | |
| % 1st pts | 83% | 76% | 80% | |
| 2nd pts | 14/33 | 11/19 | 25/52 | |
| % 2nd pts | 42% | 58% | 48% | |
| Breaks | ||||
| Won | 3 | 5 | 8 | |
| Converted | 3/3 | 5/10 | 8/13 | |
| Converted % | 100% | 50% | 62% | |
| Conceded | 6 | 4 | 10 | |
| Saved | 4/6 | 3/4 | 7 | |
| Saved % | 67% | 75% | 71% | |
| Times Broken | 2 | 1 | 3 | |
| Rybakina | ||||
| R1 Sasnovich |
R2 Garcia |
Total | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Score | 6-2 6-3 | 6-1 6-4 | ||
| Tot Set | 2 | 2 | 4 | |
| Tot Games | 17 | 17 | 34 | |
| pts | 67-50 | 63-42 | 130-92 | |
| Total points | 117 | 105 | 222 | |
| Winners | 33 | 28 | 61 | |
| %Winners | 49% | 44% | 47% | |
| SERVE | ||||
| Aces | 10 | 11 | 21 | |
| Double Faults | 6 | 4 | 10 | |
| 1st in | 37/57 | 33/48 | 70/105 | |
| % 1st in | 65% | 69% | 67% | |
| 1st pts | 33/37 | 28/33 | 61/70 | |
| % 1st pts | 89% | 85% | 87% | |
| 2nd pts | 6/20 | 9/15 | 15/35 | |
| % 2nd pts | 30% | 60% | 43% | |
| Breaks | ||||
| Won | 3 | 3 | 6 | |
| Converted | 3/10 | 3/6 | 6/16 | |
| Converted % | 30% | 50% | 38% | |
| Conceded | 3 | 1 | 4 | |
| Saved | 3/3 | 1/1 | 4 | |
| Saved % | 100% | 100% | 100% | |
| Times Broken | 0 | 0 | 0 | |
Head 2 Head
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- Angelique KerberKerber – Anhelina KalininaKalinina (6-3 6-2) – See score progression
- Jessica PegulaPegula – Misaki DoiDoi (6-3 6-2) – See score progression
- Ashleigh BartyBarty – Clara TausonTauson (6-1 7-5) – See score progression
- Varvara GrachevaGracheva – Paula Badosa GibertBadosa Gibert (6-4 6-4) – See score progression
- Belinda BencicBencic – Martina TrevisanTrevisan (6-3 6-1) – See score progression
- Petra KvitovaKvitova – Kristyna PliskovaPliskova (7-64 6-2) – See score progression
- Anett KontaveitKontaveit – Jil TeichmannTeichmann (6-4 6-1) – See score progression
- Iga SwiatekSwiatek – Fiona FerroFerro (3-6 7-63 6-0) – See score progression
- Emma RaducanuRaducanu – Shuai ZhangZhang (6-2 6-4) – See score progression
- Maria SakkariSakkari – Katerina SiniakovaSiniakova (6-4 6-2) – See score progression
- Anastasia PavlyuchenkovaPavlyuchenkova – Anna SchmiedlovaSchmiedlova (6-2 5-7 6-2) – See score progression
- Bianca Vanessa AndreescuVanessa Andreescu – Lauren DavisDavis (6-4 6-4) – See score progression
- Sara Sorribes TormoSorribes Tormo – Su-Wei HsiehHsieh (6-1 6-3) – See score progression
- Victoria AzarenkaAzarenka – Jasmine PaoliniPaolini (6-3 7-61) – See score progression
- Daria KasatkinaKasatkina – Marketa VondrousovaVondrousova (3-6 6-4 6-4) – See score progression
- Elina SvitolinaSvitolina – Rebeka MasarovaMasarova (6-2 7-5) – See score progression
- Aryna SabalenkaSabalenka – Tamara ZidansekZidansek (6-3 6-1) – See score progression
- Elena RybakinaRybakina – Caroline GarciaGarcia (6-1 6-4) – See score progression
- Kamilla RakhimovaRakhimova – Ekaterina AlexandrovaAlexandrova (6-4 6-1) – See score progression
- Garbine MuguruzaMuguruza – Andrea PetkovicPetkovic (6-4 6-2) – See score progression
- Barbora KrejcikovaKrejcikova – Christina MchaleMchale (6-3 6-1) – See score progression
- Ons JabeurJabeur – Maria Camila Osorio SerranoCamila Osorio Serrano (6-0 6-1) – See score progression
- Simona HalepHalep – Kristina KucovaKucova (6-3 6-1) – See score progression
- Leylah Annie FernandezAnnie Fernandez – Kaia KanepiKanepi (7-5 7-5) – See score progression
- Naomi OsakaOsaka – Olga DanilovicDanilovic (w/o) – See score progression
- Sloane StephensStephens – Cori GauffGauff (6-4 6-2) – See score progression
- Elise MertensMertens – Valentini GrammatikopoulouGrammatikopoulou (6-2 6-2) – See score progression
- Danielle Rose CollinsRose Collins – Kaja JuvanJuvan (6-4 6-2) – See score progression
- Dimitar KuzmanovKuzmanov – Pavel TsoyTsoy (6-1 6-3) – See score progression
- Ashleigh BartyBarty – Clara TausonTauson (6-1 7-5) – See score progression
- Shelby RogersRogers – Sorana CirsteaCirstea (7-5 6-2) – See score progression
- Sara Sorribes TormoSorribes Tormo – Su-Wei HsiehHsieh (6-1 6-3) – See score progression
- Emma RaducanuRaducanu – Shuai ZhangZhang (6-2 6-4) – See score progression
- Belinda BencicBencic – Martina TrevisanTrevisan (6-3 6-1) – See score progression
- Jessica PegulaPegula – Misaki DoiDoi (6-3 6-2) – See score progression
- Anett KontaveitKontaveit – Jil TeichmannTeichmann (6-4 6-1) – See score progression
- Iga SwiatekSwiatek – Fiona FerroFerro (3-6 7-6(3) 6-0) – See score progression
- Varvara GrachevaGracheva – Paula Badosa GibertBadosa Gibert (6-4 6-4) – See score progression
- Anastasia PavlyuchenkovaPavlyuchenkova – Anna SchmiedlovaSchmiedlova (6-2 5-7 6-2) – See score progression
- Petra KvitovaKvitova – Kristyna PliskovaPliskova (7-6(4) 6-2) – See score progression
- Maria SakkariSakkari – Katerina SiniakovaSiniakova (6-4 6-2) – See score progression
- Greetje MinnenMinnen – Liudmila SamsonovaSamsonova (6-4 6-4) – See score progression
- Bianca Vanessa AndreescuVanessa Andreescu – Lauren DavisDavis (6-4 6-4) – See score progression
- Angelique KerberKerber – Anhelina KalininaKalinina (6-3 6-2) – See score progression
Upcoming matches in the draw
- Karolina PliskovaPliskova – Amanda AnisimovaAnisimova (3-0) – H2H and prediction
- Ajla TomljanovicTomljanovic – Petra MarticMartic (0-2) – H2H and prediction
- Ashleigh BartyBarty – Shelby RogersRogers (5-0) – H2H and prediction
- Sara Sorribes TormoSorribes Tormo – Emma RaducanuRaducanu (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Belinda BencicBencic – Jessica PegulaPegula (2-0) – H2H and prediction
- Anett KontaveitKontaveit – Iga SwiatekSwiatek (2-1) – H2H and prediction
- Varvara GrachevaGracheva – Anastasia PavlyuchenkovaPavlyuchenkova (0-1) – H2H and prediction
- Petra KvitovaKvitova – Maria SakkariSakkari (3-2) – H2H and prediction
- Greetje MinnenMinnen – Bianca Vanessa AndreescuVanessa Andreescu (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Elina SvitolinaSvitolina – Darya KasatkinaKasatkina (5-0) – H2H and prediction
- Elena RybakinaRybakina – Simona HalepHalep (1-1) – H2H and prediction
- Angelique KerberKerber – Sloane StephensStephens (1-5) – H2H and prediction
- Leylah Annie FernandezAnnie Fernandez – Naomi OsakaOsaka (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Barbora KrejcikovaKrejcikova – Kamilla RakhimovaRakhimova (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Victoria AzarenkaAzarenka – Garbine MuguruzaMuguruza (2-2) – H2H and prediction
- Elise MertensMertens – Ons JabeurJabeur (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Danielle Rose CollinsRose Collins – Aryna SabalenkaSabalenka (0-2) – H2H and prediction
