Ekaterina Alexandrova and Ena Shibahara will play each other in the 1^st round of the Sydney Tennis Classic for the 1^st time in their career. They are scheduled to compete on Tuesday at 1:30 pm on COURT 5. In this post, we analyze their head to head performance and prediction.

Prediction, odds and live streaming

The pick for Tennis Tonic is Ekaterina Alexandrova who should win in 2 sets.

As per the initial odds, Ekaterina Alexandrova is the pick to win this match.
Ekaterina Alexandrova -> 1.11
Ena Shibahara -> 6.50

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Prediction and head to head Ekaterina Alexandrova vs. Ena Shibahara

There is no head to head record between Ekaterina Alexandrova and Ena Shibahara since this will be the first time that they will clash against each other in the main tour.

Ekaterina Alexandrova

Ekaterina Alexandrova

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Rank
22

High
15

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Year	Total	Hard	Clay	I.hard	Grass	Carpet
2024	18-17	9-7	1-6	3-1	5-3	0-0
2023	33-21	17-13	6-5	0-1	10-2	0-0
2022	35-18	12-10	13-5	4-2	6-1	0-0
2021	26-23	10-9	6-5	7-7	3-2	0-0
2020	20-12	9-4	4-5	7-3	0-0	0-0

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Ranked no. 40, Ekaterina will start her run in Sydney after she played her last match in Adelaide where she lost 6-3 6-4 to Annie in the 1^st round on the 3^rd of January.

Ekaterina has a composed 0-1 win-loss record in 2022, 0-1 on hard (See FULL STATS).

Talking about her overall career, Ekaterina has an overall 233-154 record. She has a positive 61-51 record on hard.

Previously in Sydney

Previously, her best result was reaching the 1^st round in 2019. See her history.

Sydney

Alexandrova's Record

Ena Shibahara

Ena Shibahara

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Rank
259

High
256

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Year	Total	Hard	Clay	I.hard	Grass	Carpet
2024	30-10	25-7	3-1	0-0	2-2	0-0
2023	16-15	12-12	4-3	0-0	0-0	0-0
2022	16-15	11-8	1-3	4-4	0-0	0-0
2021	5-7	5-7	0-0	0-0	0-0	0-0
2020	0-1	0-1	0-0	0-0	0-0	0-0

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Ranked no. 589, Shibahara reached the 1^st round after beating Lisa Mays 6-1 6-2 and Claire Liu 6-3 6-4.

In the qualifications, Ena had a good straight sets win against Liu (6-3 6-4). During the match Shibahara scored 70 points vs Liu’s 62. The American was pretty aggressive to blast 27 winners.

About the serving games, Shibahara managed to score 2 aces and she committed only 3 double faults. Ena Shibahara lost the serve once and she saved 3 break points. Furthermore, Shibahara put 62% of her first serves in, winning 73% (27/37) of the points behind her 1st serve and 48% (11/23) on the 2nd serve. The American broke Liu 4 times after converting 33% of her break points (4/12).

Overall Performance in this tournament

Ena started her run at this tournament from the qualifications. In the main draw, she hasn’t surrendered yet a set in this tournament to win 59% of the points she played.

Ena has a compiled 2-0 win-loss record in 2022, 2-0 on hard (See FULL STATS).

Sydney

Shibahara's Record

Head 2 Head

• 0Slam
• 4Main
• 6ITF
• 4Minor

• 0Slam
• 0Main
• 1ITF
• 0Minor

Ekaterina
Alexandrova

1:0

Ena
Shibahara

Rank

22

High

15

1Hard0

Rank

259

High

256

Win Loss

Alexandrova

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Shibahara

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2024 2023 2022

18 - 17

30 - 10

9-7

Hard

25-7

3-1

I Hard

0-0

1-6

Clay

3-1

5-3

Grass

2-2

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