Elena Rybakina and Karolina Pliskova will play each other in the 2nd round of the Mubadala Abu Dhabi Open for the 3rd time in their career. They are scheduled to compete on Thursday at 7:00 pm on Stadium Court. In the following lines you can find the head to head analysis and prediction.
Prediction, odds and live streaming
The pick for Tennis Tonic is Elena Rybakina who should win in 2 sets.
Elena Rybakina -> 1.363
Karolina Pliskova -> 3.14
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Prediction and head to head Elena Rybakina vs. Karolina Pliskova
This will be the 3rd time that Elena Rybakina and Karolina Pliskova face off. The head to head is 2-0 for Rybakina (see full H2H stats), 2-0 on hard.
The last time that they squared off, Rybakina won 7-6(5) 6-2 in the 1st round in Guadalajara back in 2022.
Elena Rybakina
| Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 59-19 | 37-13 | 9-3 | 8-0 | 5-3 | 0-0 |
| 2024 | 43-11 | 23-5 | 12-2 | 2-2 | 6-2 | 0-0 |
| 2023 | 47-15 | 31-11 | 11-2 | 0-0 | 5-2 | 0-0 |
| 2022 | 40-21 | 18-12 | 9-5 | 5-2 | 8-2 | 0-0 |
| 2021 | 33-23 | 18-14 | 6-4 | 2-2 | 7-3 | 0-0 |
Ranked no. 10 (career-high), Elena will start her run in Abu Dhabi after she played her last match at the Melbourne where she lost 4-6 6-3 6-4 to Sabalenka in the final on the 28th of January.
The Kazakhstani has a composed 7-3 win-loss record in 2023, 7-3 on hard (See FULL STATS).
Rybakina’s best result of the current season was getting to the final at the Australian Open .
Talking about her overall career, Rybakina has an overall 249-120 record. She has a positive 103-58 record on hard.
Previously in Abu Dhabi
Previously, her best result was reaching the quarter in 2021. See her history.
Karolina Pliskova
| Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 1-2 | 1-2 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2024 | 20-16 | 10-10 | 1-3 | 5-0 | 4-3 | 0-0 |
| 2023 | 22-19 | 19-13 | 2-3 | 0-0 | 1-3 | 0-0 |
| 2022 | 21-21 | 12-9 | 6-6 | 0-3 | 3-3 | 0-0 |
| 2021 | 37-19 | 23-12 | 8-4 | 0-0 | 6-3 | 0-0 |
Ranked no. 20, the Czech got to the 2nd round after beating Ysaline Bonaventure 6-1 6-3.
In the 1st round, The Czech had a good straight sets win against Bonaventure (6-1 6-3). During the match Pliskova scored 52 points vs Bonaventure’s 30. The Czech was extremely aggressive to blast 19 winners.
Talking about serving, Pliskova managed to score 4 aces and she was quite steady in conceding no double faults for the entire match. Karolina Pliskova was exceptionally efficient on serve to win 86% (19/22) of her 1st serve and 81% (13/16) on the second serve. This was the main reason for not conceding a single break during the match. The Czech broke Bonaventure 4 times after converting 80% of her break points (4/5).
Karolina has a composed 7-3 win-loss record in 2023, 7-3 on hard (See FULL STATS).
Tennis Scores in Abu Dhabi
- Veronika KudermetovaKudermetova – Elise MertensMertens (6-1 7-5) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Qinwen ZhengZheng – Jelena OstapenkoOstapenko (7-610 6-1) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Belinda BencicBencic – Marta KostyukKostyuk (6-4 7-5) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Shelby RogersRogers – Anett KontaveitKontaveit (4-6 6-3 4-1 ret.) – Stats, scores, rankings
Upcoming matches in the draw
- Darya KasatkinaKasatkina – Jil TeichmannTeichmann (2-0) – H2H and prediction
- Barbora KrejcikovaKrejcikova – Ludmilla SamsonovaSamsonova (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Beatriz Haddad MaiaHaddad Maia – Yulia PutintsevaPutintseva (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Karolina PliskovaPliskova – Elena RybakinaRybakina (0-2) – H2H and prediction
- Shelby RogersRogers – Belinda BencicBencic (1-4) – H2H and prediction