Yulia Putintseva and Nigina Abduraimova will play each other in the qualifications of the Mubadala Abu Dhabi Open for the 2nd time in their career. They are scheduled to play on Monday at 11:00 am on Stadium Court. In this post, we analyze their head to head performance and prediction.
Prediction, odds and live streaming
The pick for Tennis Tonic is Yulia Putintseva who should win in 2 sets.
As per the initial odds, Yulia Putintseva is the pick to win this match.
Yulia Putintseva -> 1.163
Nigina Abduraimova -> 4.7
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Prediction and head to head Yulia Putintseva vs. Nigina Abduraimova
This will be the 2nd time that Yulia Putintseva and Nigina Abduraimova play each other. The head to head is 1-0 for Putintseva (see full H2H stats), but they have never competed against each other on hard.
The last time that they fought against each other, Putintseva won 6-2 7-5 in the 1st round in the Nantes.
Yulia Putintseva
| Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 31-15 | 14-9 | 9-4 | 0-2 | 8-0 | 0-0 |
| 2023 | 34-27 | 19-17 | 13-8 | 2-0 | 0-2 | 0-0 |
| 2022 | 26-21 | 9-11 | 15-7 | 1-1 | 1-2 | 0-0 |
| 2021 | 32-24 | 14-12 | 12-8 | 5-2 | 1-2 | 0-0 |
| 2020 | 21-11 | 16-7 | 4-2 | 1-2 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
Ranked no. 44, Putintseva reached the qualifications after defeating Anastasia Zakharova 6-2 7-5.
In the qualifications, The Kazakhstani had a good straight sets win against Zakharova (6-2 7-5). During the match, Putintseva scored 71 points vs Zakharova’s 55. The Kazakhstani was pretty aggressive to blast 26 winners.
Talking about the service games, Putintseva scored just 1 ace for the entire match and she was extremely solid in conceding no double faults. Yulia Putintseva lost the serve 3 times and she saved 3 break points. Furthermore, Putintseva put 72% of her first serves in, winning 59% (26/44) of the points behind her 1st serve and 65% (11/17) on the 2nd serve. Yulia broke Zakharova 6 times after converting 67% of her break points (6/9).
Putintseva has positive match record in the last 10 years having won 54% of her matches (276-231). 4-5 on hard in 2023. In connection with her performance on the same surface of this event, Putintseva has an overall 135-137 match record in the last years on hard.
The Kazakhstani has a compiled 4-5 win-loss record in 2023, 4-5 on hard (See FULL STATS).
Previously in Abu Dhabi
Nigina Abduraimova
| Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 13-17 | 5-7 | 2-5 | 5-3 | 1-1 | 0-1 |
| 2023 | 35-37 | 13-12 | 16-15 | 6-8 | 0-2 | 0-0 |
| 2022 | 45-30 | 27-14 | 3-5 | 13-8 | 2-3 | 0-0 |
| 2021 | 26-10 | 9-6 | 5-0 | 12-4 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2020 | 2-2 | 2-2 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
Ranked no. 152, the Uzbek reached the qualifications after defeating Diane Parry 6-3 6-3.
In the qualifications, Nigina had a good straight sets win against Parry (6-3 6-3). During the match Abduraimova scored 56 points vs Parry’s 45. Nigina was exceptionally aggressive to blast 32 winners.
About the serving games, Abduraimova bagged 5 aces and she committed only 4 double faults. Nigina Abduraimova was exceptionally effective on serve to win 76% (32/42) of her 1st serve and 58% (7/12) on the second serve. This was the main reason for not conceding a single break during the match. Abduraimova broke Parry 3 times after converting 50% of her break points (3/6).
Abduraimova’s best result of the season was reaching the final in the W40 Pune.
Nigina has an overall 9-4 win-loss record in 2023, 9-4 on hard (See FULL STATS).
H2H Performance in the tournament
Matches, sets, games and points
| Points | Putintseva | Abduraimova |
|---|---|---|
| Match played | 1 | 1 |
| Tot Set | 2 | 2 |
| Tot Games | 20 | 18 |
| Pts | 71-55 | 56-45 |
| Total Points | 126 | 101 |
| Winners | 26 | 32 |
| %Winners | 37% | 57% |
Both Putintseva and Abduraimova played 1 match. Also both players started their run from the qualifications.Both players have not conceded a single set in this event so far. Talking about their workload, Putintseva and Abduraimova have played the same amount of sets 2. However, Putintseva played 2 games more than Abduraimova. The Kazakhstani scored 26 winners (37% of the total points). On the other side, Nigina struck 32 winners (57%).
Serve Performance
| Serve | Putintseva | Abduraimova |
|---|---|---|
| Aces | 1 | 5 |
| Avg per match | 1 | 5 |
| 1st in | 44/61 | 42/54 |
| %1st in | 72% | 78% |
| 1st pts | 26/44 | 32/42 |
| %1st pts | 59% | 76% |
| 2nd pts | 11/17 | 7/12 |
| %2nd pts | 65% | 58% |
Putintseva recorded 1 ace . Abduraimova also recorded 5 aces . Putintseva won 59% points on her first serve. She extremely effective on her second serve to win 65% of the points. On the other side, Abduraimova won 76% of the points behind her first serve. She had a solid display on her second serve to win 58% of the points.
How they played the important points
| Breaks | Putintseva | Abduraimova |
|---|---|---|
| Won | 6 | 3 |
| Converted | 6/9 | 3/6 |
| % Converted | 67% | 50% |
| Conceded | 6 | 0 |
| Saved | 3 | 0 |
| % Saved | 50% | 0% |
| Times Broken | 3 | 0 |
The Kazakhstani broke her opponent 6 times with a 67% conversion rate. Putintseva dropped her serve 3 times and she saved 50% of the break points that she conceded. Nigina broke her opponent 3 times with a 50% conversion rate. Abduraimova was rock solid on her serve as she has never conceded a single service game after saving 0 break points.
| Putintseva | |||
| Q1 Zakharova |
Total | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Score | 6-2 7-5 | ||
| Tot Set | 2 | 2 | |
| Tot Games | 20 | 20 | |
| pts | 71-55 | 71-55 | |
| Total points | 126 | 126 | |
| Winners | 26 | 26 | |
| %Winners | 37% | 37% | |
| SERVE | |||
| Aces | 1 | 1 | |
| Double Faults | 0 | 0 | |
| 1st in | 44/61 | 44/61 | |
| % 1st in | 72% | 72% | |
| 1st pts | 26/44 | 26/44 | |
| % 1st pts | 59% | 59% | |
| 2nd pts | 11/17 | 11/17 | |
| % 2nd pts | 65% | 65% | |
| Breaks | |||
| Won | 6 | 6 | |
| Converted | 6/9 | 6/9 | |
| Converted % | 67% | 67% | |
| Conceded | 6 | 6 | |
| Saved | 3/6 | 3 | |
| Saved % | 50% | 50% | |
| Times Broken | 3 | 3 | |
| Abduraimova | |||
| Q1 Parry |
Total | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Score | 6-3 6-3 | ||
| Tot Set | 2 | 2 | |
| Tot Games | 18 | 18 | |
| pts | 56-45 | 56-45 | |
| Total points | 101 | 101 | |
| Winners | 32 | 32 | |
| %Winners | 57% | 57% | |
| SERVE | |||
| Aces | 5 | 5 | |
| Double Faults | 4 | 4 | |
| 1st in | 42/54 | 42/54 | |
| % 1st in | 78% | 78% | |
| 1st pts | 32/42 | 32/42 | |
| % 1st pts | 76% | 76% | |
| 2nd pts | 7/12 | 7/12 | |
| % 2nd pts | 58% | 58% | |
| Breaks | |||
| Won | 3 | 3 | |
| Converted | 3/6 | 3/6 | |
| Converted % | 50% | 50% | |
| Conceded | 0 | 0 | |
| Saved | 0/0 | 0 | |
| Saved % | – | 0% | |
| Times Broken | 0 | 0 | |
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