Claire Liu and Dayana Yastremska will clash against each other in the qualifications of the Mubadala Abu Dhabi Open for the 4th time in their career. They are scheduled to compete on Monday at 11:00 am on Court 1. In this post, we analyze their head to head performance and prediction.
Prediction, odds and live streaming
The pick for Tennis Tonic is Claire Liu who should win in 3 sets.
Claire Liu -> 1.54
Dayana Yastremska -> 2.36
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Prediction and head to head Claire Liu vs. Dayana Yastremska
This will be the 4th time that Claire Liu and Dayana Yastremska clash against each other. The head to head is 3-0 for Liu (see full H2H stats), 1-0 on hard.
The last time that they competed against each other, Liu won 6-1 6-3 in the 1st round in the Paris back in 2022.
Claire Liu
| 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. 52 (career-high), Liu reached the qualifications after defeating Stefania Bojica 7-63 6-1.
In the qualifications, Liu had a good straight sets win against Bojica (7-63 6-1). During the match, Liu scored 70 points vs Bojica’s 50. Liu was pretty aggressive to blast 30 winners.
Regarding the service games, Liu made 3 aces and she committed only 1 double fault. Claire Liu lost the serve twice. Furthermore, Liu put 66% of her first serves in, winning 77% (30/39) of the points behind her 1st serve and 40% (8/20) on the 2nd serve. The American broke Bojica 4 times after converting 57% of her break points (4/7).
Liu has a solid match record in the last 10 years having won 60% of her matches (193-128). 5-3 on hard in 2023. In connection with her performance on the same surface of this tournament, Liu has an overall 102-82 match record in the last years on hard.
The American has an overall 5-3 win-loss record in 2023, 5-3 on hard (See FULL STATS).
Previously in Abu Dhabi
Liu has never competed in this tournament before.
Dayana Yastremska
| Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 32-22 | 12-13 | 8-5 | 4-1 | 8-3 | 0-0 |
| 2024 | 22-22 | 12-12 | 5-5 | 2-2 | 3-3 | 0-0 |
| 2023 | 39-29 | 19-13 | 12-9 | 5-4 | 3-3 | 0-0 |
| 2022 | 21-25 | 7-11 | 5-4 | 7-6 | 2-4 | 0-0 |
| 2021 | 7-12 | 3-8 | 2-1 | 2-3 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
Ranked no. 103, Dayana reached the qualifications after defeating Laura Siegemund 6-3 6-1.
In the qualifications, Yastremska had a good straight sets win against Siegemund (6-3 6-1). During the match Yastremska scored 60 points vs Siegemund’s 41. Dayana was quite aggressive to blast 27 winners.
About the serving games, Yastremska blasted 3 aces and she committed only 1 double fault for the entire match. Dayana Yastremska lost the serve once and she saved 1 break points. Furthermore, Yastremska put 71% of her first serves in, winning 68% (27/40) of the points behind her 1st serve and 56% (9/16) on the 2nd serve. Dayana broke Siegemund 5 times after converting 83% of her break points (5/6).
The Ukrainian has a composed 2-3 win-loss record in 2023, 2-3 on hard (See FULL STATS).
H2H Performance in the tournament
Matches, sets, games and points
| Points | Liu | Yastremska |
|---|---|---|
| Match played | 1 | 1 |
| Tot Set | 2 | 2 |
| Tot Games | 20 | 16 |
| Pts | 70-50 | 60-41 |
| Total Points | 120 | 101 |
| Winners | 30 | 27 |
| %Winners | 43% | 45% |
Both Liu and Yastremska played 1 match. Also both players started their run from the qualifications.Both players have not dropped a single set in this event so far. Talking about their workload, Liu and Yastremska have played the same amount of sets 2. However, Liu played 4 games more than Yastremska. The American scored 30 winners (43% of the total points). On the other side, The Ukrainian made 27 winners (45%).
Serve Performance
| Serve | Liu | Yastremska |
|---|---|---|
| Aces | 3 | 3 |
| Avg per match | 3 | 3 |
| 1st in | 39/59 | 40/56 |
| %1st in | 66% | 71% |
| 1st pts | 30/39 | 27/40 |
| %1st pts | 77% | 68% |
| 2nd pts | 8/20 | 9/16 |
| %2nd pts | 40% | 56% |
Liu blasted 3 aces . Yastremska made 3 aces . Liu won 77% points behind her first serve. She had a solid display on her second serve to win 40% of the points. On the other side, Yastremska won 68% of the points behind her first serve. She had a solid display on her second serve to win 56% of the points.
How they played the important points
| Breaks | Liu | Yastremska |
|---|---|---|
| Won | 4 | 5 |
| Converted | 4/7 | 5/6 |
| % Converted | 57% | 83% |
| Conceded | 2 | 2 |
| Saved | 0 | 1 |
| % Saved | 0% | 50% |
| Times Broken | 2 | 1 |
The American broke her opponent 4 times with a 57% conversion rate. The American surrendered her serve twice and she saved 0% of the break points that she conceded. Dayana broke her opponent 5 times with a 83% conversion rate. Yastremska conceded her serve once and she saved 50% of the break points that she conceded.
| Liu | |||
| Q1 Bojica | Total | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Score | 7-63 6-1 | ||
| Tot Set | 2 | 2 | |
| Tot Games | 20 | 20 | |
| pts | 70-50 | 70-50 | |
| Total points | 120 | 120 | |
| Winners | 30 | 30 | |
| %Winners | 43% | 43% | |
| SERVE | |||
| Aces | 3 | 3 | |
| Double Faults | 1 | 1 | |
| 1st in | 39/59 | 39/59 | |
| % 1st in | 66% | 66% | |
| 1st pts | 30/39 | 30/39 | |
| % 1st pts | 77% | 77% | |
| 2nd pts | 8/20 | 8/20 | |
| % 2nd pts | 40% | 40% | |
| Breaks | |||
| Won | 4 | 4 | |
| Converted | 4/7 | 4/7 | |
| Converted % | 57% | 57% | |
| Conceded | 2 | 2 | |
| Saved | 0/2 | 0 | |
| Saved % | 0% | 0% | |
| Times Broken | 2 | 2 | |
| Yastremska | |||
| Q1 Siegemund | Total | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Score | 6-3 6-1 | ||
| Tot Set | 2 | 2 | |
| Tot Games | 16 | 16 | |
| pts | 60-41 | 60-41 | |
| Total points | 101 | 101 | |
| Winners | 27 | 27 | |
| %Winners | 45% | 45% | |
| SERVE | |||
| Aces | 3 | 3 | |
| Double Faults | 1 | 1 | |
| 1st in | 40/56 | 40/56 | |
| % 1st in | 71% | 71% | |
| 1st pts | 27/40 | 27/40 | |
| % 1st pts | 68% | 68% | |
| 2nd pts | 9/16 | 9/16 | |
| % 2nd pts | 56% | 56% | |
| Breaks | |||
| Won | 5 | 5 | |
| Converted | 5/6 | 5/6 | |
| Converted % | 83% | 83% | |
| Conceded | 2 | 2 | |
| Saved | 1/2 | 1 | |
| Saved % | 50% | 50% | |
| Times Broken | 1 | 1 | |
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