Elena Rybakina and Jelena Ostapenko will play each other in the 2nd round of the Western & Southern Open for the 5th time in their career. They are scheduled to play on Wednesday at 5:00 pm on STADIUM 3. 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 -> 1.39
Jelena Ostapenko -> 3
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Prediction and head to head Elena Rybakina vs. Jelena Ostapenko
This will be the 5th time that Elena Rybakina and Jelena Ostapenko face off. The head to head is 2-2 (see full H2H stats), 1-0 on hard.
The last time that they played, Rybakina won 6-2 6-4 in the semifinal in Rome back in May 2023.
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. 4, Rybakina will start her run in Cincinnati after she played her last match in Montreal where she lost 1-6 6-1 6-2 to Samsonova in the semifinal on the 13th of August.
Elena has an aggregate 40-10 win-loss record in 2023, 24-6 on hard (See FULL STATS).
Her best result of the season was winning the title in Indian Wells where she defeated Aryna Sabalenka in the final 7-6(11) 6-4 and in Rome where she overcame Anhelina Kalinina in the final 6-4 1-0 ret..
Talking about her overall career, Elena has an overall 282-127 record. She has a positive 120-61 record on hard.
Previously in Cincinnati
Previously, her best result was reaching the quarter in 2022. See her history.
Jelena Ostapenko
| Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 18-20 | 8-14 | 9-4 | 0-0 | 1-2 | 0-0 |
| 2024 | 31-19 | 14-10 | 8-6 | 4-0 | 5-3 | 0-0 |
| 2023 | 37-22 | 21-15 | 7-4 | 1-1 | 8-2 | 0-0 |
| 2022 | 33-19 | 19-10 | 3-3 | 3-3 | 8-3 | 0-0 |
| 2021 | 32-19 | 12-9 | 5-4 | 7-4 | 8-2 | 0-0 |
Ranked no. 20, Jelena reached the 2nd round after beating Karolina Pliskova 1-6 6-3 6-4.
In the 1st round against Pliskova, Ostapenko recovered from a 1-set down deficit before winning (1-6 6-3 6-4). During the match Ostapenko and Pliskova scored the same amount of points (85). However, the world no. 4 was stronger during the important points and that was the most significant difference in the match. The Latvian was very aggressive to blast 24 winners.
Talking about serving, Ostapenko made 4 aces and she was not very solid on her 2nd serve to score 10 double faults. Jelena Ostapenko lost the serve 7 times and she saved 5 break points. Furthermore, Ostapenko put 49% of her first serves in, winning 65% (24/37) of the points behind her 1st serve and 32% (12/38) on the 2nd serve. Jelena broke Pliskova 7 times after converting 47% of her break points (7/15).
Her best result of the season was winning the title in Birmingham where she defeated Barbora Krejcikova in the final 7-6(8) 6-4.
Ostapenko has a composed 28-15 win-loss record in 2023, 13-9 on hard (See FULL STATS).
Previously in Cincinnati
Previously, her best result was reaching the 3rd round in 2021. See her history.
Tennis Scores in Cincinnati
- Sloane StephensStephens – Caroline GarciaGarcia (4-6 6-4 6-4) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Ons JabeurJabeur – Anhelina KalininaKalinina (6-3 6-72 7-62) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Evgeny DonskoyDonskoy – Damir DzumhurDzumhur (6-1 6-1) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Borna CoricCoric – Benoit PairePaire (6-1 6-4) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Filip KrajinovicKrajinovic – Marcos BaghdatisBaghdatis (7-62 6-4) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Yuichi SugitaSugita – Jan-Lennard StruffStruff (7-64 6-4) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Stefanos TsitsipasTsitsipas – Philipp KohlschreiberKohlschreiber (4-6 6-3 6-4) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Lucas PouillePouille – Karen KhachanovKhachanov (6-4 3-6 6-3) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Malek JaziriJaziri – Robin HaaseHaase (7-64 7-63) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Roberto Bautista AgutBautista Agut – Pierre-Hugues HerbertHerbert (6-4 6-72 6-1) – Stats, scores, rankings
Upcoming matches in the draw
- Madison KeysKeys – Elise MertensMertens (3-0) – H2H and prediction
- Iga SwiatekSwiatek – Danielle Rose CollinsRose Collins (3-1) – H2H and prediction
- Qinwen ZhengZheng – Venus WilliamsWilliams (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Marketa VondrousovaVondrousova – Anastasia PotapovaPotapova (2-1) – H2H and prediction
- Elena RybakinaRybakina – Jelena OstapenkoOstapenko (2-2) – H2H and prediction
- Jasmine PaoliniPaolini – Cristina BucsaBucsa (1-0) – H2H and prediction
- Petra KvitovaKvitova – (1-0) – H2H and prediction
- Mayar SherifSherif – Cori GauffGauff (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Maria SakkariSakkari – Sorana CirsteaCirstea (0-2) – H2H and prediction
- Petra MarticMartic – Karolina MuchovaMuchova (1-0) – H2H and prediction
- Martina TrevisanTrevisan – Jessica PegulaPegula (0-2) – H2H and prediction
- Donna VekicVekic – Victoria AzarenkaAzarenka (2-1) – H2H and prediction
- Darya KasatkinaKasatkina – Varvara GrachevaGracheva (1-2) – H2H and prediction
- Ann LiLi – Aryna SabalenkaSabalenka (0-1) – H2H and prediction