Elena Rybakina and Varvara Gracheva will fight against each other in the 1^st round of the St. Petersburg Ladies Trophy for the 1^st time in their career. They are scheduled to compete on Wednesday at 1:00 pm on SIBUR ARENA. In this post, we analyze their head to head performance and prediction.

Prediction, odds and live streaming

The pick for Tennis Tonic is Elena Rybakina who should win in 2 sets.

As per the initial odds, Elena Rybakina is the pick to win this match.
Elena Rybakina -> 1.32
Varvara Gracheva -> 3.52

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Prediction and head to head Elena Rybakina vs. Varvara Gracheva

There is no head to head record between Elena Rybakina and Varvara Gracheva since this will be the first time that they will face off in the main tour.

Elena Rybakina

Ranked no. 12 (career-high), the Kazakhstani will start her run in St. Petersburg after she played her last match at the Melbourne where she lost 6-4 1-0 ret. to Zhang in the 2^nd round on the 20^th of January.

The Kazakhstani has a composed 6-2 win-loss record in 2022, 0-0 on indoor hard courts (See FULL STATS).

This will be the first match of the year on indoor hard courts.

Rybakina’s best result of the current year was getting to the final in Adelaide.

Talking about her overall career, Rybakina has an overall 208-98 record. She has a positive 54-20 record on indoor hard courts.

Previously in St. Petersburg

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

Varvara Gracheva

Ranked no. 81, Varvara reached the 1^st round after defeating Amina Anshba 6-1 6-2, Irina Maria Bara 6-3 6-3 and Ana Bogdan 6-4 6-4.

In the qualifications, Varvara had a good straight sets win against Bogdan (6-4 6-4). During the match Gracheva scored 74 points vs Bogdan’s 62. Gracheva was exceptionally aggressive to blast 28 winners.

Talking about serving, Gracheva blasted 2 aces and she committed only 7 double faults. Varvara Gracheva lost the serve 3 times and she saved 10 break points. Furthermore, Gracheva put 63% of her first serves in, winning 62% (28/45) of the points behind her 1st serve and 52% (14/27) on the 2nd serve. Gracheva broke Bogdan 5 times after converting 50% of her break points (5/10).

Overall Performance in this tournament

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

The Russian has a composed 3-2 win-loss record in 2022, 3-0 on indoor hard courts (See FULL STATS).

Tennis Scores in St. Petersburg

• Jaqueline CristianCristian – Bernarda PeraPera (7-6³ 6-4) – Stats, scores, rankings
• Petra KvitovaKvitova – Jule NiemeierNiemeier (6-2 6-1) – Stats, scores, rankings
• Tereza MartincovaMartincova – Vera ZvonarevaZvonareva (2-6 6-1 6-4) – Stats, scores, rankings
• Petra MarticMartic – Kamilla RakhimovaRakhimova (6-4 2-6 6-4) – Stats, scores, rankings
• Andrea PetkovicPetkovic – Rebecca PetersonPeterson (7-6⁵ 6-2) – Stats, scores, rankings
• Sorana CirsteaCirstea – Marketa VondrousovaVondrousova (7-5 3-6 6-4) – Stats, scores, rankings
• Maria SakkariSakkari – Anastasia PotapovaPotapova (6-4 6-4) – Stats, scores, rankings
• Jelena OstapenkoOstapenko – Xinyu WangWang (6-1 6-4) – Stats, scores, rankings
• Kaja JuvanJuvan – Alison Van UytvanckVan Uytvanck (4-6 6-4 6-3) – Stats, scores, rankings
• Aliaksandra Sasnovich
  Sasnovich – Magda LinetteLinette (7-5 4-6 6-4) – Stats, scores, rankings
• Elise MertensMertens – Alize CornetCornet (3-6 6-2 6-4) – Stats, scores, rankings
• Anett KontaveitKontaveit – Jil TeichmannTeichmann (6-3 1-6 6-3) – Stats, scores, rankings
• Ekaterina AlexandrovaAlexandrova – Camila GiorgiGiorgi (6-2 1-6 6-2) – Stats, scores, rankings
• Belinda BencicBencic – Veronika KudermetovaKudermetova (6-2 4-6 7-6⁵) – Stats, scores, rankings
• Kei NishikoriNishikori – Fernando VerdascoVerdasco (6-7⁷ 6-3 6-4) – Stats, scores, rankings
• Robin HaaseHaase – David FerrerFerrer (3-6 7-5 6-3) – Stats, scores, rankings
• Roberto Bautista AgutBautista Agut – Carlos BerlocqBerlocq (6-0 4-6 6-2) – Stats, scores, rankings
• Mischa ZverevZverev – Lukas LackoLacko (6-4 6-4) – Stats, scores, rankings
• Lucas PouillePouille – Jan-Lennard StruffStruff (1-6 6-3 6-4) – Stats, scores, rankings
• Bernard TomicTomic – Tommy HaasHaas (6-4 6-4) – Stats, scores, rankings
• Alexander ZverevZverev – Paolo LorenziLorenzi (6-3 6-2) – Stats, scores, rankings
• Roger FedererFederer – Yuichi SugitaSugita (6-3 6-1) – Stats, scores, rankings
• Florian MayerMayer – Benoit PairePaire (6-0 6-4) – Stats, scores, rankings
• Mikhail YouzhnyYouzhny – Ivo KarlovicKarlovic (6-3 7-6⁶) – Stats, scores, rankings
• Karen KhachanovKhachanov – Gilles SimonSimon (6-2 6-7² 6-3) – Stats, scores, rankings
• Dustin BrownBrown – Vasek PospisilPospisil (6-1 6-7³ 7-6⁴) – Stats, scores, rankings
• Dominic ThiemThiem – Maximilian MartererMarterer (7-5 6-3) – Stats, scores, rankings
• Richard GasquetGasquet – Gael MonfilsMonfils (3-6 6-4 6-3) – Stats, scores, rankings
• Philipp KohlschreiberKohlschreiber – Joao SousaSousa (3-6 6-4 6-4) – Stats, scores, rankings
• Andrey RublevRublev – Albert Ramos-VinolasRamos-Vinolas (6-7¹ 7-5 6-4) – Stats, scores, rankings
• Irina-Camelia BeguIrina-Camelia – Shuai ZhangShuai (6-3 6-1) – See score progression

Upcoming matches in the draw

• Elena RybakinaRybakina – Varvara GrachevaGracheva (0-0) – H2H and prediction
• Maria SakkariSakkari – Ekaterina AlexandrovaAlexandrova (3-1) – H2H and prediction
• Petra MarticMartic – Elise MertensMertens (0-2) – H2H and prediction
• Irina-Camelia BeguBegu – Petra KvitovaKvitova (0-5) – H2H and prediction
• Jelena OstapenkoOstapenko – Andrea PetkovicPetkovic (2-2) – H2H and prediction
• Aliaksandra SasnovichSasnovich – Jaqueline CristianCristian (0-0) – H2H and prediction
• Belinda BencicBencic – Kaja JuvanJuvan (0-1) – H2H and prediction
• Sorana CirsteaCirstea – Anett KontaveitKontaveit (0-5) – H2H and prediction