Marketa Vondrousova and Claire Liu will fight against each other in the qualifications of the Dubai Duty Free Championships for the 1st time in their career. They are scheduled to compete on Sunday at 12:30 pm on Court 2. In this post, we analyze their head to head performance and prediction.

Prediction, odds and live streaming

The pick for Tennis Tonic is Marketa Vondrousova who should win in 2 sets.

As per the initial odds, Marketa Vondrousova is the pick to win this match.
Marketa Vondrousova -> 1.333
Claire Liu -> 3.3

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Prediction and head to head Marketa Vondrousova vs. Claire Liu

There is no head to head record between Marketa Vondrousova and Claire Liu since this will be the first time that they will clash against each other in the main tour.

Marketa Vondrousova

Marketa Vondrousova

0 - 0win/loss

Rank
34
High
6
LLWWWWLWLW
Year Total Hard Clay I.hard Grass Carpet
2025 18-10 10-8 2-1 0-0 6-1 0-0
2024 16-11 5-4 10-5 0-0 1-2 0-0
2023 41-18 19-12 9-3 4-2 9-1 0-0
2022 21-7 11-3 2-1 8-3 0-0 0-0
2021 34-19 21-10 4-4 8-2 1-3 0-0

Ranked no. 38, Vondrousova reached the qualifications after defeating Ena Shibahara 7-62 6-3.

In the qualifications, Vondrousova had a good straight sets win against Shibahara (7-62 6-3). During the match, Vondrousova scored 86 points vs Shibahara’s 80. Marketa was pretty aggressive to blast 30 winners.

Regarding the service games, Vondrousova fired 3 aces and she was not very consistent on her 2nd serve to score 10 double faults. Marketa Vondrousova lost the serve twice and she saved 5 break points. Furthermore, Vondrousova put 44% of her first serves in, winning 75% (30/40) of the points behind her 1st serve and 49% (25/51) on the 2nd serve. The Czech broke Shibahara 3 times after converting 60% of her break points (3/5).

Vondrousova has a fantastic win-loss record in the last 9 years having won 70% of her matches (203-88). 4-2 on hard in 2022. Talking about her performance on the same surface of this competition, Vondrousova has an aggregate70-39 match record in the last 9 years on hard.

Vondrousova has a compiled 4-3 win-loss record in 2022, 4-2 on hard (See FULL STATS).

Previously in Dubai

Dubai
Vondrousova's Record

Claire Liu

Claire Liu

0 - 0win/loss

Rank
210
High
52
LWWLLWWWWW
Year Total Hard Clay I.hard Grass Carpet
2025 24-19 20-13 4-6 0-0 0-0 0-0
2024 18-12 11-7 7-5 0-0 0-0 0-0
2023 27-29 19-19 7-8 0-0 1-2 0-0
2022 29-22 15-14 12-4 0-1 2-3 0-0
2021 39-17 17-11 17-4 0-0 5-2 0-0

Ranked no. 88 (career-high), the American got to the qualifications after defeating Stefanie Voegele 7-63 6-3.

In the qualifications, The American had a good straight sets win against Voegele (7-63 6-3). During the match Liu scored 86 points vs Voegele’s 77. Claire was quite aggressive to blast 43 winners.

About the serving games, Liu struck 11 aces and she committed only 2 double faults. Claire Liu lost the serve once and she saved 10 break points. Furthermore, Liu put 61% of her first serves in, winning 75% (43/57) of the points behind her 1st serve and 44% (16/36) on the 2nd serve. Liu broke Voegele twice after converting 29% of her break points (2/7).

Claire has an aggregate 5-3 win-loss record in 2022, 5-3 on hard (See FULL STATS).

Previously in Dubai

Claire has never competed in this tournament before.

Dubai
Liu's Record

H2H Performance in the tournament

M.Vondrousova
C.Liu
1h:47
1h:47
Time on court​
1h:53
1h:53
1h:47
1h:47
Last match​
1h:53
1h:53
1
1
Match played
1
1
22
22
Games Played​
22
22
2
2
Set played​​
2
2
86
86
Total points​
86
86
86
86
Avg point​
86
86
30
30
Winners
43
43
30
30
Avg Winners​
43
43
35%
35%
Ratio winners
50%
50%
-- Serve --
3
3
Aces
11
11
3
3
Avg Aces
!
11
11
10
10
Double Faults
2
2
!
10
10
Avg Double Faults
2
2
30/40
30/40
1st won total​
43/57
43/57
!
75%
75%
1st won %
!
75%
75%
25/51
25/51
2nd won total​
16/36
16/36
49%
49%
2nd won %
44%
44%
-- Break Points --
3/5
3/5
BP won
2/7
2/7
3/5
3/5
Avg BP won
2/7
2/7
!
60%
60%
Won
!
29%
29%
7
7
Conceded
11
11
7
7
Avg Conceded
11
11
2
2
Broken
1
1
2
2
Avg Broken
1
1
5
5
Saved
10
10

Matches, sets, games and points

Points Vondrousova Liu
Match played 1 1
Tot Set 2 2
Tot Games 22 22
Pts 86-80 86-77
Total Points 166 163
Winners 30 43
%Winners 35% 50%

Both Vondrousova and Liu played 1 match. Also both players started their run from the qualifications.Both players have not lost a single set in this event so far. Talking about their workload, Vondrousova and Liu have played the same amount of sets 2. They also played the same amount of games (22). Vondrousova scored 30 winners (35% of the total points). On the other side, Liu blasted 43 winners (50%).

Serve Performance

Serve Vondrousova Liu
Aces 3 11
Avg per match 3 11
1st in 40/91 57/93
%1st in 44% 61%
1st pts 30/40 43/57
%1st pts 75% 75%
2nd pts 25/51 16/36
%2nd pts 49% 44%

Vondrousova fired 3 aces . Liu recorded 11 aces . Vondrousova won 75% points behind her first serve. She extremely effective on her second serve to win 49% of the points. On the other side, Liu won 75% of the points on her first serve. She had a solid display on her second serve to win 44% of the points.

How they played the important points

Breaks Vondrousova Liu
Won 3 2
Converted 3/5 2/7
% Converted 60% 29%
Conceded 7 11
Saved 5 10
% Saved 71% 91%
Times Broken 2 1

Vondrousova broke her opponent 3 times with a 60% conversion rate. Vondrousova surrendered her serve twice and she saved 71% of the break points that she conceded. The American broke her opponent twice with a 29% conversion rate. Liu conceded her serve once and she saved 91% of the break points that she conceded.

Vondrousova
Q1
Shibahara
Total
Score 7-62 6-3
Tot Set 2 2
Tot Games 22 22
pts 86-80 86-80
Total points 166 166
Winners 30 30
%Winners 35% 35%
SERVE
Aces 3 3
Double Faults 10 10
1st in 40/91 40/91
% 1st in 44% 44%
1st pts 30/40 30/40
% 1st pts 75% 75%
2nd pts 25/51 25/51
% 2nd pts 49% 49%
Breaks
Won 3 3
Converted 3/5 3/5
Converted % 60% 60%
Conceded 7 7
Saved 5/7 5
Saved % 71% 71%
Times Broken 2 2
Liu
Q1
Voegele
Total
Score 7-63 6-3
Tot Set 2 2
Tot Games 22 22
pts 86-77 86-77
Total points 163 163
Winners 43 43
%Winners 50% 50%
SERVE
Aces 11 11
Double Faults 2 2
1st in 57/93 57/93
% 1st in 61% 61%
1st pts 43/57 43/57
% 1st pts 75% 75%
2nd pts 16/36 16/36
% 2nd pts 44% 44%
Breaks
Won 2 2
Converted 2/7 2/7
Converted % 29% 29%
Conceded 11 11
Saved 10/11 10
Saved % 91% 91%
Times Broken 1 1

Tennis Scores in Dubai

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