Victoria Azarenka and Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova will square off in the 1st round of the Dubai Duty Free Championships for the 8th time in their career. They are scheduled to play on Monday at 4:00 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 Victoria Azarenka who should win in 2 sets.

As per the initial odds, Victoria Azarenka is the pick to win this match.
Victoria Azarenka -> 1.171
Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova -> 5.05

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Prediction and head to head Victoria Azarenka vs. Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova

This will be the 8th time that Victoria Azarenka and Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova play each other. The head to head is 5-2 for Azarenka (see full H2H stats), 3-1 on hard.

The last time that they played each other, Pavlyuchenkova won 5-7 6-3 6-2 in the 4th round in at the French Open back in 2021.

Highlights Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova vs Victoria Azarenka – French Open 06-June-2021

Victoria Azarenka

Victoria Azarenka

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Rank
135
High
1
LWWLLWWWLW
Year Total Hard Clay I.hard Grass Carpet
2025 11-12 6-7 2-3 0-0 3-2 0-0
2024 30-15 20-10 7-4 0-0 3-1 0-0
2023 23-19 17-13 2-3 0-0 4-3 0-0
2022 24-13 18-9 6-3 0-1 0-0 0-0
2021 28-9 18-6 4-1 0-0 6-2 0-0

Ranked no. 17, Azarenka will start her run in Dubai after she played her last match in Doha where she lost 1-6 7-6(4) 6-4 to Bencic in the 2nd round on the 15th of February.

Victoria has a compiled 8-4 win-loss record in 2023, 8-4 on hard (See FULL STATS).

Azarenka’s best result of the season was getting to the semifinal at the Australian Open .

Talking about her overall career, The Belarussian has an overall 604-229 record. She has a positive 368-125 record on hard.

Previously in Dubai

Previously, her best result was reaching the final in 2010. See her history.

Dubai
Azarenka's Record

Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova

Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova

0 - 0win/loss

Rank
47
High
11
LWLLLLWWWW
Year Total Hard Clay I.hard Grass Carpet
2025 14-14 6-9 1-3 0-0 7-2 0-0
2024 27-19 20-11 3-5 3-1 1-2 0-0
2023 24-17 6-8 15-7 3-2 0-0 0-0
2022 2-3 2-1 0-2 0-0 0-0 0-0
2021 29-20 12-11 10-3 5-4 2-2 0-0

Ranked no. 730, Anastasia will start her run in Dubai after she played her last match in Linz where she lost 6-3 4-6 6-3 to Tomova in the qualifications on the 6th of February.

Pavlyuchenkova has a composed 1-3 win-loss record in 2023, 0-2 on hard (See FULL STATS).

In terms of her career, Anastasia has an overall 490-324 record. She has a positive 262-175 record on hard.

Previously in Dubai

Previously, her best result was reaching the quarter in 2010. See her history.

Dubai
Pavlyuchenkova's Record

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