Cori Gauff and Elina Svitolina will play each other in the final of the ASB Classic for the 2^nd time in their career. They are scheduled to compete on Sunday at 5:00 pm on Stadium. In this post, we analyze their head to head performance and prediction.

Prediction, odds and live streaming

The pick for Tennis Tonic is Cori Gauff who should win in 2 sets.

As per the initial odds, Cori Gauff is the pick to win this match.
Cori Gauff -> 1.196
Elina Svitolina -> 4.65

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Prediction and head to head Cori Gauff vs. Elina Svitolina

This will be the 2^nd time that Cori Gauff and Elina Svitolina square off. The head to head is 1-0 for Svitolina (see full H2H stats), 1-0 on hard.

The last time that they competed against each other, Svitolina won 6-4 6-3 in the 2^nd round in at the Australian Open back in 2021.

Highlights Elina Svitolina vs Cori Gauff – Australian Open 11-February-2021

Cori Gauff

Ranked no. 3 (career-high), the American reached the final after beating Claire Liu 6-4 6-2, Brenda Fruhvirtova 6-3 6-0

, Varvara Gracheva 6-1 6-1 and Emma Navarro 6-3 6-1.

In the semifinal, Cori had a good straight sets win against Navarro (6-3 6-1). During the match, Gauff scored 62 points vs Navarro’s 37. Gauff was very aggressive to blast 28 winners.

Talking about the service games, Gauff scored 10 aces and she committed only 1 double fault. Cori Gauff conceded no breaks for the entire match to save 2 break points. Furthermore, Gauff put 65% of her first serves in, winning 93% (28/30) of the points behind her 1st serve and 44% (7/16) on the 2nd serve. Gauff broke Navarro 4 times after converting 80% of her break points (4/5).

Overall Performance in this tournament

The American hasn’t lost yet a set in this competition to win 61% of the points she played.

Gauff has a solid match record in the last 8 years having won 69% of her matches (179-82). 4-0 on hard in 2024. Talking about her performance on the same surface of this tournament, Gauff has an aggregate103-48 win-loss record in the last 8 years on hard.

Cori’s best result of the current season was getting to the semifinal in Auckland.

The American has a compiled 4-0 win-loss record in 2024, 4-0 on hard (See FULL STATS).

Previously in Auckland

Elina Svitolina

Ranked no. 25, Svitolina reached the final after defeating Caroline Wozniacki 6-4 6-3, Emma Raducanu 6-7⁵ 7-6³ 6-1, Marie Bouzkova 6-0 6-3 and Xiyu Wang 2-6 6-4 6-3.

In the semifinal against Wang, Elina recovered from a 1-set down deficit before winning (2-6 6-4 6-3).During the match Svitolina scored less points (2) than Wang. In fact, the world no. 3 won 85 points vs Wang’s. That means that Svitolina was more focused during the important points. Svitolina was pretty aggressive to blast 40 winners.

About the serving games, Svitolina fired 6 aces and she committed only 3 double faults. Elina Svitolina lost the serve 4 times and she saved 6 break points. Furthermore, Svitolina put 70% of her first serves in, winning 65% (40/62) of the points behind her 1st serve and 44% (12/27) on the 2nd serve. The Ukrainian broke Wang 4 times after converting 40% of her break points (4/10).

Overall Performance in this tournament

The Ukrainian has conceded 2 set in the tournament to win 53% of the points she played.

Svitolina’s best result of the current season was getting to the semifinal in Auckland.

Elina has an aggregate 4-0 win-loss record in 2024, 4-0 on hard (See FULL STATS).

Previously in Auckland

Elina has never competed in this tournament before.

H2H Performance in the tournament (main draw)

Matches, sets, games and points

Points	Gauff	Svitolina
Match played	4	4
Tot Set	8	10
Tot Games	63	94
Pts	242-152	337-293
Total Points	394	630
Winners	95	140
%Winners	39%	42%

Both Gauff and Svitolina played 4 matches. At the moment, Elina Svitolina conceded 2 sets while Cori Gauff hasn’t lost a set so far. Gauff has played 2 set(s) less than Svitolina (8 vs 10). Therefore, Gauff played 31 games less than Svitolina. The American scored 95 winners (39% of the total points). On the other side, Elina managed to score 140 winners (42%).

Serve Performance

Serve	Gauff	Svitolina
Aces	23	25
Avg per match	5.8	6.3
1st in	118/184	223/341
%1st in	64%	65%
1st pts	95/118	140/223
%1st pts	81%	63%
2nd pts	33/66	62/118
%2nd pts	50%	53%

Gauff blasted 23 aces (5.8 per match). Svitolina made 25 aces (6.3 per match). Gauff won 81% points behind her first serve. She quite strong on her second serve to win 50% of the points. On the other side, Svitolina won 63% of the points behind her first serve. She had a solid display on her second serve to win 53% of the points.

How they played the important points

Breaks	Gauff	Svitolina
Won	19	20
Converted	19/26	20/43
% Converted	73%	47%
Conceded	10	35
Saved	7	23
% Saved	70%	66%
Times Broken	3	12

Gauff broke her opponents 19 times with a 73% conversion rate. Gauff surrendered her serve 3 times and she saved 70% of the break points that she conceded. The Ukrainian broke her opponents 20 times with a 47% conversion rate. The Ukrainian conceded her serve 12 times and she saved 66% of the break points that she conceded.

Gauff
	R1 Liu	R2 Fruhvirtova	1/4 Gracheva	1/2 Navarro	Total
Score	6-4 6-2	6-3 6-0	6-1 6-1	6-3 6-1
Tot Set	2	2	2	2	8
Tot Games	18	15	14	16	63
pts	64-48	61-36	55-31	62-37	242-152
Total points	112	97	86	99	394
Winners	23	23	21	28	95
%Winners	36%	38%	38%	45%	39%
SERVE
Aces	3	5	5	10	23
Double Faults	4	4	1	1	10
1st in	32/49	27/49	29/40	30/46	118/184
% 1st in	65%	55%	73%	65%	64%
1st pts	23/32	23/27	21/29	28/30	95/118
% 1st pts	72%	85%	72%	93%	81%
2nd pts	9/17	9/22	8/11	7/16	33/66
% 2nd pts	53%	41%	73%	44%	50%
Breaks
Won	5	5	5	4	19
Converted	5/8	5/6	5/7	4/5	19/26
Converted %	63%	83%	71%	80%	73%
Conceded	2	6	0	2	10
Saved	0/2	5/6	0/0	2/2	7
Saved %	0%	83%	–	100%	46%
Times Broken	2	1	0	0	3

Svitolina
	R1 Wozniacki	R2 Raducanu	1/4 Bouzkova	1/2 Wang	Total
Score	6-4 6-3	6-75 7-63 6-1	6-0 6-3	2-6 6-4 6-3
Tot Set	2	3	2	3	10
Tot Games	19	33	15	27	94
pts	75-66	123-109	54-31	85-87	337-293
Total points	141	232	85	172	630
Winners	25	56	19	40	140
%Winners	33%	46%	35%	47%	42%
SERVE
Aces	5	11	3	6	25
Double Faults	1	3	1	3	8
1st in	44/75	87/128	30/49	62/89	223/341
% 1st in	59%	68%	61%	70%	65%
1st pts	25/44	56/87	19/30	40/62	140/223
% 1st pts	57%	64%	63%	65%	63%
2nd pts	17/31	20/41	13/19	12/27	62/118
% 2nd pts	55%	49%	68%	44%	53%
Breaks
Won	5	6	5	4	20
Converted	5/10	6/14	5/9	4/10	20/43
Converted %	50%	43%	56%	40%	47%
Conceded	9	13	3	10	35
Saved	6/9	9/13	2/3	6/10	23
Saved %	67%	69%	67%	60%	66%
Times Broken	3	4	1	4	12

Tennis Scores in Auckland

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Upcoming matches in the draw

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