Victoria Azarenka and Arantxa Rus will square off in the 1^st round of the Dubai Duty Free Championships for the 2^nd time in their career. They are scheduled to compete on Monday at 9:00 am on Centre Court. 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 Victoria Azarenka who should win in 2 sets.

As per the initial odds, Victoria Azarenka is the pick to win this match.
Victoria Azarenka -> 1.27
Arantxa Rus -> 3.78

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Prediction and head to head Victoria Azarenka vs. Arantxa Rus

This will be the 2^nd time that Victoria Azarenka and Arantxa Rus face off. The head to head is 1-0 for Azarenka (see full H2H stats), but they have never played each other on hard.

The last time that they competed against each other, Azarenka won 6-0 6-2 in the 1^st round in Linz back in 2012.

Victoria Azarenka

Ranked no. 31, Azarenka will start her run in Dubai after she played her last match in Doha where she lost 6-4 6-0 to Swiatek in the quarter on the 15^th of February.

Azarenka has an overall 9-3 win-loss record in 2024, 9-3 on hard (See FULL STATS).

Victoria’s best result of the year was getting to the semifinal in Brisbane.

Talking about her overall career, Azarenka has an overall 628-247 record. She has a positive 386-137 record on hard.

Previously in Dubai

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

Arantxa Rus

Ranked no. 43, Rus will start her run in Dubai after she played her last match in Doha where she lost 7-5 3-6 7-6(5) to Martic in the 1^st round on the 12^th of February.

Rus has an aggregate 6-5 win-loss record in 2024, 4-4 on hard (See FULL STATS).

In terms of her career, Rus has an overall 683-408 record. She has a positive 159-136 record on hard.

Previously in Dubai

Previously, her best result was reaching the qualifications in 2012. See her history.

Tennis Scores in Dubai

• Jasmine PaoliniPaolini – Beatriz Haddad MaiaHaddad Maia (4-6 6-4 6-0) – Stats, scores, rankings
• Donna VekicVekic – Xinyu WangWang (6-2 6-4) – Stats, scores, rankings
• Tatjana MariaMaria – Varvara GrachevaGracheva (6-2 6-1) – Stats, scores, rankings
• Sloane StephensStephens – Clara BurelBurel (6-4 1-6 6-2) – Stats, scores, rankings
• Nao HibinoHibino – Magda LinetteLinette (6-2 3-6 6-4) – Stats, scores, rankings
• Peyton StearnsStearns – Mirra AndreevaAndreeva (6-2 2-6 6-1) – Stats, scores, rankings
• Anna KalinskayaKalinskaya – Storm HunterHunter (6-1 6-2) – Stats, scores, rankings
• Emma NavarroNavarro – Katerina SiniakovaSiniakova (4-6 7-5 6-4) – Stats, scores, rankings
• Magdalena FrechFrech – Ekaterina AlexandrovaAlexandrova (7-6² 6-3) – Stats, scores, rankings
• Juan Ignacio LonderoIgnacio Londero – Roberto Ortega-OlmedoOrtega-Olmedo (6-1 7-5) – Stats, scores, rankings
• Marco TrungellitiTrungelliti – Cem IlkelIlkel (3-6 6-3 6-4) – Stats, scores, rankings
• Kamil MajchrzakMajchrzak – Patricio HerasHeras (6-1 6-4) – Stats, scores, rankings
• Tristan LamasineLamasine – Mario Vilella MartinezVilella Martinez (6-3 4-3 ret.) – Stats, scores, rankings
• Hugo DellienDellien – Kenneth RaismaRaisma (6-3 4-1 ret.) – Stats, scores, rankings
• Roberto MarcoraMarcora – Emil RuusuvuoriRuusuvuori (6-3 6-4) – Stats, scores, rankings
• Ivan GakhovGakhov – Patrik Niklas-SalminenNiklas-Salminen (6-2 7-6⁵) – Stats, scores, rankings
• Kimmer CoppejansCoppejans – Joao SouzaSouza (6-3 6-4) – Stats, scores, rankings
• Thiemo de Bakkerde Bakker – Nicola KuhnKuhn (7-6⁵ 6-1) – Stats, scores, rankings
• Jelle SelsSels – Andrea CollariniCollarini (6-4 6-3) – Stats, scores, rankings
• Antoine HoangHoang – Harri HeliovaaraHeliovaara (6-0 6-4) – Stats, scores, rankings
• Tallon GriekspoorGriekspoor – Geoffrey BlancaneauxBlancaneaux (6-1 6-3) – Stats, scores, rankings
• Filippo BaldiBaldi – Gleb SakharovSakharov (7-6¹ 6-2) – Stats, scores, rankings
• Elliot BenchetritBenchetrit – Pedro SousaSousa (6-3 6-2) – Stats, scores, rankings
• Martin CuevasCuevas – Pedro CachinCachin (6-3 4-6 6-3) – Stats, scores, rankings
• Riccardo BellottiBellotti – Carlos Gomez-HerreraGomez-Herrera (3-2 ret.) – Stats, scores, rankings

Upcoming matches in the draw

• Anhelina KalininaKalinina – Elina SvitolinaSvitolina (0-1) – H2H and prediction
• Darya KasatkinaKasatkina – Lucia BronzettiBronzetti (0-0) – H2H and prediction
• Lin ZhuZhu – Anastasia PotapovaPotapova (0-1) – H2H and prediction
• Elise MertensMertens – Elisabetta CocciarettoCocciaretto (1-0) – H2H and prediction
• Karolina PliskovaPliskova – Shuai ZhangZhang (8-0) – H2H and prediction
• Jelena OstapenkoOstapenko – Xiyu WangWang (1-0) – H2H and prediction
• Paula Badosa GibertBadosa Gibert – Lulu SunSun (0-0) – H2H and prediction
• Leylah Annie FernandezAnnie Fernandez – Bernarda PeraPera (1-0) – H2H and prediction
• Petra MarticMartic – Caroline DolehideDolehide (0-0) – H2H and prediction
• Arantxa RusRus – Victoria AzarenkaAzarenka (0-1) – H2H and prediction
• Anastasia PavlyuchenkovaPavlyuchenkova – Marie BouzkovaBouzkova (0-0) – H2H and prediction
• Viktoriya TomovaTomova – Ludmilla SamsonovaSamsonova (1-1) – H2H and prediction
• Veronika KudermetovaKudermetova – Dayana YastremskaYastremska (3-0) – H2H and prediction
• Sofia KeninKenin – Sorana CirsteaCirstea (0-0) – H2H and prediction
• Iga SwiatekSwiatek – Sloane StephensStephens (2-0) – H2H and prediction
• Nao HibinoHibino – Qinwen ZhengZheng (0-0) – H2H and prediction
• Anna KalinskayaKalinskaya – Ons JabeurJabeur (0-2) – H2H and prediction
• Maria SakkariSakkari – Emma NavarroNavarro (0-1) – H2H and prediction
• Marketa VondrousovaVondrousova – Peyton StearnsStearns (2-0) – H2H and prediction
• Donna VekicVekic – Aryna SabalenkaSabalenka (5-2) – H2H and prediction