H2H, prediction of Elena Rybakina vs Anna Blinkova at the Australian Open with odds, preview, pick | 18th January 2024

PREVIEW. Melbourne. Rybakina and Blinkova will square off in the 2nd round of the Australian Open. See the prediction, H2H stats, odds, and preview of their next match on Thursday the 18th of January

Prediction and head to head Elena Rybakina vs. Anna Blinkova

Elena Rybakina and Anna Blinkova will face off in the 2nd round of the Australian Open for the 2nd time in their career. They are scheduled to play on Thursday at 7:00 pm on Rod Laver Arena. Here the head to head stats and relative prediction.

Prediction, odds and live streaming

The pick for Tennis Tonic is Elena Rybakina who should win in 2 sets.

See updated oddsAs per the initial odds, Elena Rybakina is the pick to win this match.
Elena Rybakina -> 1.044
Anna Blinkova -> 10.75

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Prediction and head to head Elena Rybakina vs. Anna Blinkova

This will be the 2nd time that Elena Rybakina and Anna Blinkova face off. The head to head is 1-0 for Blinkova (see full H2H stats), but they have never competed against each other on hard.

The last time that they competed against each other, Blinkova won 5-7 6-2 6-3 in the 1st round in the Petersburg back in 2017.

Elena Rybakina

Elena Rybakina
Elena Rybakina

7 - 1win/loss

Hard
7-1
I Hard
0-0
Rank
4
High
3
LWLWWWWLWW
Year Total Hard Clay I.hard Grass Carpet
2024 35-7 22-4 12-2 0-0 1-1 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
2020 29-10 18-5 7-3 4-2 0-0 0-0

Ranked no. 3 (career-high), Elena reached the 2nd round after defeating Karolina Pliskova 7-66 6-4.

In the 1st round, The Kazakhstani had a good straight sets win against Pliskova (7-66 6-4). During the match, Rybakina scored 73 points vs Pliskova’s 63. The Kazakhstani was pretty aggressive to blast 27 winners.

Regarding the service games, Rybakina struck 6 aces and she committed only 1 double fault. Overall, Elena Rybakina was quite efficient on serve to win 73% (27/37) of her 1st serve and 74% (17/23) on the second serve. However, this didn’t prevent her to concede the serve once. The Kazakhstani broke Pliskova twice after converting 25% of her break points (2/8).

Rybakina has a solid win-loss record in the last 10 years having won 69% of her matches (296-133). 7-1 on hard in 2024. Regarding her performance on the same surface of this event, Rybakina has a composed 134-67 match record in the last years on hard.

Her best result of the current season was winning the title in Brisbane where she beat Aryna Sabalenka in the final 6-0 6-3.

Rybakina has an aggregate 7-1 win-loss record in 2024, 7-1 on hard (See FULL STATS).

Previously at the Australian Open

Rybakina
Australian Open
Rybakina's Record

Anna Blinkova

Anna Blinkova
Anna Blinkova

1 - 2win/loss

Hard
1-2
I Hard
0-0
Rank
66
High
34
LWWLLLWLLW
Year Total Hard Clay I.hard Grass Carpet
2024 11-17 6-6 2-6 1-2 2-3 0-0
2023 33-28 15-15 10-7 3-3 5-3 0-0
2022 46-29 7-8 16-10 21-7 1-3 1-1
2021 15-24 5-11 6-6 2-4 2-3 0-0
2020 9-14 4-10 4-3 1-1 0-0 0-0

Ranked no. 57, Blinkova got to the 2nd round after beating Cristina Bucsa 6-2 6-4.

In the 1st round, Anna had a good straight sets win against Bucsa (6-2 6-4). During the match Blinkova scored 65 points vs Bucsa’s 56. Blinkova was extremely aggressive to blast 34 winners.

Talking about serving, Blinkova struck 3 aces and she committed only 4 double faults. Anna Blinkova conceded no breaks for the entire match to save 4 break points. Furthermore, Blinkova put 69% of her first serves in, winning 72% (34/47) of the points behind her 1st serve and 48% (10/21) on the 2nd serve. The Russian broke Bucsa 3 times after converting 43% of her break points (3/7).

The Russian has an overall 1-2 win-loss record in 2024, 1-2 on hard (See FULL STATS).

Previously at the Australian Open

Previously, her best result was reaching the 2nd round in 2017 and 2020. See her history.

Blinkova
Australian Open
Blinkova's Record
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H2H Performance in the tournament

E.Rybakina
A.Blinkova
1h:33
1h:33
Time on court​
1h:17
1h:17
1h:33
1h:33
Last match​
1h:17
1h:17
1
1
Match played
1
1
23
23
Games Played​
18
18
2
2
Set played​​
2
2
73
73
Total points​
65
65
73
73
Avg point​
65
65
27
27
Winners
34
34
27
27
Avg Winners​
34
34
37%
37%
Ratio winners
52%
52%
-- Serve --
6
6
Aces
3
3
6
6
Avg Aces
3
3
1
1
Double Faults
4
4
1
1
Avg Double Faults
4
4
27/37
27/37
1st won total​
34/47
34/47
!
73%
73%
1st won %
!
72%
72%
17/23
17/23
2nd won total​
10/21
10/21
!
74%
74%
2nd won %
48%
48%
-- Break Points --
2/8
2/8
BP won
3/7
3/7
2/8
2/8
Avg BP won
3/7
3/7
!
25%
25%
Won
43%
43%
1
1
Conceded
4
4
1
1
Avg Conceded
4
4
1
1
Broken
0
0
1
1
Avg Broken
!
0
0
0
0
Saved
4
4

Matches, sets, games and points

Points Rybakina Blinkova
Match played 1 1
Tot Set 2 2
Tot Games 23 18
Pts 73-63 65-56
Total Points 136 121
Winners 27 34
%Winners 37% 52%

Both Rybakina and Blinkova played 1 match. Both players have not surrendered a single set in this event so far. Talking about their workload, Rybakina and Blinkova have played the same amount of sets 2. However, Rybakina played 5 games more than Blinkova. Elena scored 27 winners (37% of the total points). On the other side, The Russian blasted 34 winners (52%).

Serve Performance

Serve Rybakina Blinkova
Aces 6 3
Avg per match 6 3
1st in 37/60 47/68
%1st in 62% 69%
1st pts 27/37 34/47
%1st pts 73% 72%
2nd pts 17/23 10/21
%2nd pts 74% 48%

Rybakina scored 6 aces . Blinkova managed to score 3 aces . Rybakina won 73% points behind her first serve. She extremely effective on her second serve to win 74% of the points. On the other side, Blinkova won 72% of the points behind her first serve. She had a solid display on her second serve to win 48% of the points.

How they played the important points

Breaks Rybakina Blinkova
Won 2 3
Converted 2/8 3/7
% Converted 25% 43%
Conceded 1 4
Saved 0 4
% Saved 0% 100%
Times Broken 1 0

Rybakina broke her opponent twice with a 25% conversion rate. Elena dropped her serve once and she saved 0% of the break points that she conceded. The Russian broke her opponent 3 times with a 43% conversion rate. Anna was rock solid on her serve as she has never conceded a single service game after saving 4 break points.

Rybakina
R1
Pliskova
Total
Score 7-66 6-4
Tot Set 2 2
Tot Games 23 23
pts 73-63 73-63
Total points 136 136
Winners 27 27
%Winners 37% 37%
SERVE
Aces 6 6
Double Faults 1 1
1st in 37/60 37/60
% 1st in 62% 62%
1st pts 27/37 27/37
% 1st pts 73% 73%
2nd pts 17/23 17/23
% 2nd pts 74% 74%
Breaks
Won 2 2
Converted 2/8 2/8
Converted % 25% 25%
Conceded 1 1
Saved 0/1 0
Saved % 0% 0%
Times Broken 1 1
Blinkova
R1
Bucsa
Total
Score 6-2 6-4
Tot Set 2 2
Tot Games 18 18
pts 65-56 65-56
Total points 121 121
Winners 34 34
%Winners 52% 52%
SERVE
Aces 3 3
Double Faults 4 4
1st in 47/68 47/68
% 1st in 69% 69%
1st pts 34/47 34/47
% 1st pts 72% 72%
2nd pts 10/21 10/21
% 2nd pts 48% 48%
Breaks
Won 3 3
Converted 3/7 3/7
Converted % 43% 43%
Conceded 4 4
Saved 4/4 4
Saved % 100% 100%
Times Broken 0 0

Head 2 Head

Win Loss
Rybakina
LWLWWWWLWW
Blinkova
LWWLLLWLLW
2024 2023 2022
35 - 7
11 - 17
22-4
Hard
6-6
0-0
I Hard
1-2
12-2
Clay
2-6
1-1
Grass
2-3

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