Ons Jabeur and Simona Halep will square off in the quarter of the Dubai Duty Free Championships for the 3rd time in their career. They are scheduled to compete on Thursday at 7:00 pm on Centre Court. In the following paragraphs, you can find the head to head analysis and prediction.
Prediction, odds and live streaming
The pick for Tennis Tonic is Simona Halep who should win in 3 sets.
As per the initial odds, Simona Halep is the pick to win this match.
Simona Halep -> 1.53
Ons Jabeur -> 2.50
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Prediction and head to head Ons Jabeur vs. Simona Halep
This will be the 3rd time that Ons Jabeur and Simona Halep play each other. The head to head is 1-1 for Jabeur and Halep (see full H2H stats),but they are 1-1 on hard.
The last time that they fought against each other, Halep won 1-6 6-2 7-6(7) in the 2nd round in Dubai back in 2020.
Highlights Simona Halep vs Ons Jabeur – Dubai 19-February-2020
Ons Jabeur
| Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 15-12 | 2-5 | 8-5 | 0-0 | 5-2 | 0-0 |
| 2023 | 36-17 | 18-11 | 11-3 | 0-0 | 7-3 | 0-0 |
| 2022 | 47-17 | 19-12 | 17-4 | 0-0 | 11-1 | 0-0 |
| 2021 | 48-19 | 25-12 | 13-4 | 0-1 | 10-2 | 0-0 |
| 2020 | 23-11 | 18-8 | 3-2 | 2-1 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
Ranked no. 10, Jabeur got to the quarter after defeating Vera Zvonareva 6-2 2-6 7-5 and Jessica Pegula 6-3 6-1.
In the 2nd round, Jabeur had a good straight sets win against Pegula (6-3 6-1). During the match, Jabeur scored 69 points vs Pegula’s 49. Ons was pretty aggressive to blast 22 winners.
Talking about the service games, Jabeur fired 3 aces and she committed only 3 double faults. Ons Jabeur lost the serve once and she saved 5 break points. Furthermore, Jabeur put 50% of her first serves in, winning 69% (22/32) of the points behind her 1st serve and 53% (17/32) on the 2nd serve. The Tunisian broke Pegula 5 times after converting 56% of her break points (5/9).
Overall Performance in this tournament
The Tunisian has surrendered 1 set in this competition to conquer 54% of the points she played.
Jabeur has a solid record in the last 10 years having won 63% of her matches (295-173). 4-1 on hard in 2022. Regarding her performance on the same surface of this tournament, Jabeur has a compiled 115-87 match record in the last years on hard.
Ons has an overall 4-1 win-loss record in 2022, 4-1 on hard (See FULL STATS).
Previously in Dubai
Simona Halep
| Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 0-2 | 0-1 | 0-1 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2023 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2022 | 39-11 | 23-6 | 5-3 | 0-0 | 11-2 | 0-0 |
| 2021 | 24-10 | 12-5 | 4-3 | 8-2 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2020 | 23-3 | 10-2 | 13-1 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
Ranked no. 23, the Romanian reached the quarter after beating Alison Riske 6-2 6-4 and Elena Gabriela Ruse 6-3 6-2.
In the 2nd round, Simona had a good straight sets win against Gabriela Ruse (6-3 6-2). During the match Halep scored 59 points vs Gabriela Ruse’s 41. Halep was extremely aggressive to blast 20 winners.
Talking about serving, Halep recorded 6 aces and she committed only 2 double faults. Simona Halep lost the serve once and she saved 1 break points. Furthermore, Halep put 57% of her first serves in, winning 69% (20/29) of the points behind her 1st serve and 55% (12/22) on the 2nd serve. Halep broke Gabriela Ruse 5 times after converting 71% of her break points (5/7).
Overall Performance in this tournament
Simona hasn’t dropped yet a set in the tournament to win 59% of the points she played.
Her best result of the season was winning the title in in Melbourne where she beat Veronika Kudermetova in the final 6-2 6-3.
Halep has a composed 10-1 win-loss record in 2022, 10-1 on hard (See FULL STATS).
Previously in Dubai
Previously, she won this tournament twice in 2015 and 2020. See her history.
H2H Performance in the tournament (main draw)
Matches, sets, games and points
| Points | Jabeur | Halep |
|---|---|---|
| Match played | 2 | 2 |
| Tot Set | 5 | 4 |
| Tot Games | 44 | 35 |
| Pts | 171-147 | 122-85 |
| Total Points | 318 | 207 |
| Winners | 53 | 51 |
| %Winners | 31% | 42% |
Both Jabeur and Halep played 2 matches. At the moment, Ons Jabeur conceded 1 set while Simona Halep hasn’t surrendered a set so far. Jabeur has played 1 set more than Halep (5 vs 4). Therefore, Jabeur played 9 games more than Halep. Jabeur scored 53 winners (31% of the total points). On the other side, Halep scored 51 winners (42%).
Serve Performance
| Serve | Jabeur | Halep |
|---|---|---|
| Aces | 6 | 12 |
| Avg per match | 3 | 6 |
| 1st in | 80/163 | 68/102 |
| %1st in | 49% | 67% |
| 1st pts | 53/80 | 51/68 |
| %1st pts | 66% | 75% |
| 2nd pts | 43/83 | 20/34 |
| %2nd pts | 52% | 59% |
Jabeur scored 6 aces (3 per match). Halep scored 12 aces (6 per match). Jabeur won 66% points behind her first serve. She pretty solid on her second serve to win 52% of the points. On the other side, Halep won 75% of the points on her first serve. She had a solid display on her second serve to win 59% of the points.
How they played the important points
| Breaks | Jabeur | Halep |
|---|---|---|
| Won | 10 | 8 |
| Converted | 10/20 | 8/18 |
| % Converted | 50% | 44% |
| Conceded | 18 | 4 |
| Saved | 13 | 3 |
| % Saved | 72% | 75% |
| Times Broken | 5 | 1 |
The Tunisian broke her opponents 10 times with a 50% conversion rate. Jabeur conceded her serve 5 times and she saved 72% of the break points that she conceded. Halep broke her opponents 8 times with a 44% conversion rate. The Romanian conceded her serve once and she saved 75% of the break points that she conceded.
| Jabeur | ||||
| R1 Zvonareva |
R2 Pegula |
Total | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Score | 6-2 2-6 7-5 | 6-3 6-1 | ||
| Tot Set | 3 | 2 | 5 | |
| Tot Games | 28 | 16 | 44 | |
| pts | 102-98 | 69-49 | 171-147 | |
| Total points | 200 | 118 | 318 | |
| Winners | 31 | 22 | 53 | |
| %Winners | 30% | 32% | 31% | |
| SERVE | ||||
| Aces | 3 | 3 | 6 | |
| Double Faults | 5 | 3 | 8 | |
| 1st in | 48/99 | 32/64 | 80/163 | |
| % 1st in | 48% | 50% | 49% | |
| 1st pts | 31/48 | 22/32 | 53/80 | |
| % 1st pts | 65% | 69% | 66% | |
| 2nd pts | 26/51 | 17/32 | 43/83 | |
| % 2nd pts | 51% | 53% | 52% | |
| Breaks | ||||
| Won | 5 | 5 | 10 | |
| Converted | 5/11 | 5/9 | 10/20 | |
| Converted % | 45% | 56% | 50% | |
| Conceded | 12 | 6 | 18 | |
| Saved | 8/12 | 5/6 | 13 | |
| Saved % | 67% | 83% | 75% | |
| Times Broken | 4 | 1 | 5 | |
| Halep | ||||
| R1 Riske |
R2 Gabriela Ruse |
Total | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Score | 6-2 6-4 | 6-3 6-2 | ||
| Tot Set | 2 | 2 | 4 | |
| Tot Games | 18 | 17 | 35 | |
| pts | 63-44 | 59-41 | 122-85 | |
| Total points | 107 | 100 | 207 | |
| Winners | 31 | 20 | 51 | |
| %Winners | 49% | 34% | 42% | |
| SERVE | ||||
| Aces | 6 | 6 | 12 | |
| Double Faults | 0 | 2 | 2 | |
| 1st in | 39/51 | 29/51 | 68/102 | |
| % 1st in | 76% | 57% | 67% | |
| 1st pts | 31/39 | 20/29 | 51/68 | |
| % 1st pts | 79% | 69% | 75% | |
| 2nd pts | 8/12 | 12/22 | 20/34 | |
| % 2nd pts | 67% | 55% | 59% | |
| Breaks | ||||
| Won | 3 | 5 | 8 | |
| Converted | 3/11 | 5/7 | 8/18 | |
| Converted % | 27% | 71% | 44% | |
| Conceded | 2 | 2 | 4 | |
| Saved | 2/2 | 1/2 | 3 | |
| Saved % | 100% | 50% | 75% | |
| Times Broken | 0 | 1 | 1 | |
Head 2 Head
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- Jil TeichmannTeichmann – Veronika KudermetovaKudermetova (0-2) – H2H and prediction
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