Leylah Annie Fernandez and Julia Grabher will square off in the 1st round of the Dubai Duty Free Championships for the 2nd time in their career. They are scheduled to compete on Sunday at 7:00 pm on Centre Court. In this post, we analyze their head to head performance and prediction.
Prediction, odds and live streaming
The pick for Tennis Tonic is Leylah Annie Fernandez who should win in 2 sets.
As per the initial odds, Leylah Annie Fernandez is the pick to win this match.
Leylah Annie Fernandez -> 1.11
Julia Grabher -> 6.55
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Prediction and head to head Leylah Annie Fernandez vs. Julia Grabher
This will be the 2nd time that Leylah Annie Fernandez and Julia Grabher fight against each other. The head to head is 1-0 for Annie Fernandez (see full H2H stats), 1-0 on hard.
The last time that they fought against each other, Annie Fernandez won 6-0 6-1 in the 2nd round in Auckland back in January 2023.
Leylah Annie Fernandez
| Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 31-24 | 18-15 | 6-6 | 0-0 | 7-3 | 0-0 |
| 2023 | 41-24 | 28-16 | 5-6 | 6-0 | 2-2 | 0-0 |
| 2022 | 21-15 | 12-10 | 6-4 | 3-1 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2021 | 25-17 | 19-10 | 3-5 | 2-0 | 1-2 | 0-0 |
| 2020 | 20-10 | 17-7 | 2-2 | 1-1 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
Ranked no. 39, Leylah will start her run in Dubai after she played her last match in Doha where she lost 6-2 7-5 to Pliskova in the qualifications on the 13th of February.
Leylah has a compiled 7-4 win-loss record in 2023, 7-4 on hard (See FULL STATS).
Talking about her overall career, Annie Fernandez has an overall 133-83 record. She has a positive 86-49 record on hard.
Previously in Dubai
Leylah has never competed in this tournament before.
Julia Grabher
| Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 17-16 | 0-1 | 16-14 | 1-1 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2023 | 23-26 | 5-9 | 17-11 | 1-4 | 0-2 | 0-0 |
| 2022 | 55-32 | 3-6 | 46-22 | 6-3 | 0-1 | 0-0 |
| 2021 | 30-25 | 5-4 | 21-13 | 3-7 | 1-1 | 0-0 |
| 2020 | 10-13 | 0-3 | 5-4 | 5-6 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
Ranked no. 90, Julia reached the 1st round after defeating Eden Silva 6-2 6-3 and Kristina Mladenovic 6-3 6-2.
In the qualifications, The Austrian had a good straight sets win against Mladenovic (6-3 6-2). During the match Grabher scored 65 points vs Mladenovic’s 48. Grabher was exceptionally aggressive to blast 26 winners.
Talking about serving, Grabher struck 3 aces and she committed only 1 double fault for the entire match. Julia Grabher lost the serve once and she saved 2 break points. Furthermore, Grabher put 56% of her first serves in, winning 84% (26/31) of the points behind her 1st serve and 42% (10/24) on the 2nd serve. The Austrian broke Mladenovic 4 times after converting 44% of her break points (4/9).
Overall Performance in this tournament
Julia started her run at this tournament from the qualifications. In the main draw, she hasn’t lost yet a set in this competition to win 58% of the points she played.
Julia has an aggregate 3-5 win-loss record in 2023, 3-3 on hard (See FULL STATS).
Head 2 Head
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- Zsombor PirosPiros – Patrik BrydolfBrydolf (6-2 4-6 6-3) – Stats, scores, rankings
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Upcoming matches in the draw
- Julia GrabherGrabher – Leylah Annie FernandezAnnie Fernandez (0-1) – H2H and prediction
- Qinwen ZhengZheng – Shuai ZhangZhang (1-0) – H2H and prediction
- Paula Badosa GibertBadosa Gibert – Ludmilla SamsonovaSamsonova (0-2) – H2H and prediction
- Veronika KudermetovaKudermetova – Anhelina KalininaKalinina (1-0) – H2H and prediction
- Dayana YastremskaYastremska – Alize CornetCornet (1-1) – H2H and prediction
- Karolina PliskovaPliskova – Marketa VondrousovaVondrousova (2-0) – H2H and prediction
- Jasmine PaoliniPaolini – Madison KeysKeys (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Amanda AnisimovaAnisimova – Vera ZvonarevaZvonareva (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Anastasia PavlyuchenkovaPavlyuchenkova – Victoria AzarenkaAzarenka (2-5) – H2H and prediction
- Elena RybakinaRybakina – Bianca Vanessa AndreescuVanessa Andreescu (1-0) – H2H and prediction
- Sofia KeninKenin – Marie BouzkovaBouzkova (1-0) – H2H and prediction
- Aliaksandra SasnovichSasnovich – Rebeka MasarovaMasarova (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Ipek OzOz – Marta KostyukKostyuk (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Karolina MuchovaMuchova – Bernarda PeraPera (1-1) – H2H and prediction
- Sorana CirsteaCirstea – Beatriz Haddad MaiaHaddad Maia (3-1) – H2H and prediction
- Ekaterina AlexandrovaAlexandrova – Shelby RogersRogers (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Laura SiegemundSiegemund – Ana BogdanBogdan (1-0) – H2H and prediction
- Kaia KanepiKanepi – Viktoriya TomovaTomova (1-0) – H2H and prediction
- Irina-Camelia BeguBegu – Barbora KrejcikovaKrejcikova (1-0) – H2H and prediction
- Petra MarticMartic – Yulia PutintsevaPutintseva (0-2) – H2H and prediction
- Martina TrevisanTrevisan – Petra KvitovaKvitova (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Jelena OstapenkoOstapenko – Katarina ZavatskaZavatska (0-1) – H2H and prediction
- Jil TeichmannTeichmann – Anastasia PotapovaPotapova (0-3) – H2H and prediction
