Jelena Ostapenko and Xiyu Wang will fight against each other in the 1st round of the Dubai Duty Free Championships for the 2nd time in their career. They are scheduled to compete on Monday at 1:00 pm 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 Jelena Ostapenko who should win in 2 sets.

As per the initial odds, Jelena Ostapenko is the pick to win this match.
Jelena Ostapenko -> 1.285
Xiyu Wang -> 3.65

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Prediction and head to head Jelena Ostapenko vs. Xiyu Wang

This will be the 2nd time that Jelena Ostapenko and Xiyu Wang fight against each other. The head to head is 1-0 for Ostapenko (see full H2H stats), 1-0 on hard.

The last time that they played each other, Ostapenko won 6-4 6-7(4) 6-1 in the 1st round in Miami back in 2021.

Jelena Ostapenko

Jelena Ostapenko

14 - 3win/loss

Hard
10-3
I Hard
4-0
Rank
11
High
5
LLWWWWLWLL
Year Total Hard Clay I.hard Grass Carpet
2024 30-15 13-6 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
2020 9-8 3-2 4-3 2-3 0-0 0-0

Ranked no. 11, the Latvian will start her run in Dubai after she played her last match in Doha where she lost 6-0 6-3 to Azarenka in the 3rd round on the 14th of February.

The Latvian has an aggregate 14-3 win-loss record in 2024, 10-3 on hard (See FULL STATS).

Her best result of the current year was conquering the title in Adelaide where she beat Daria Kasatkina in the final 6-3 6-2 and in Linz where she overcame Ekaterina Alexandrova in the final 6-2 6-3.

Talking about her overall career, Ostapenko has an overall 374-223 record. She has a positive 133-104 record on hard.

Previously in Dubai

Previously, she won this tournament once in 2022. See her history.

Dubai
Ostapenko's Record

Xiyu Wang

Xiyu Wang

6 - 5win/loss

Hard
6-5
I Hard
0-0
Rank
52
High
49
WWLWLLLWWW
Year Total Hard Clay I.hard Grass Carpet
2024 21-19 12-10 9-7 0-0 0-2 0-0
2023 27-25 17-17 5-4 0-0 5-4 0-0
2022 41-25 15-10 23-11 3-3 0-1 0-0
2021 21-19 8-7 9-7 0-1 4-3 0-1
2020 11-7 11-7 0-0 0-0 0-0 0-0

Ranked no. 62, Wang got to the 1st round after defeating Erika Andreeva 6-4 6-2 and Sara Errani 6-3 6-2.

In the qualifications, Xiyu had a good straight sets win against Errani (6-3 6-2). During the match Wang scored 66 points vs Errani’s 45. Xiyu was very aggressive to blast 25 winners.

About the serving games, Wang recorded 6 aces and she committed only 5 double faults. Xiyu Wang lost the serve 3 times and she saved 11 break points. Furthermore, Wang put 74% of her first serves in, winning 60% (25/42) of the points behind her 1st serve and 53% (8/15) on the 2nd serve. Xiyu broke Errani 7 times after converting 70% of her break points (7/10).

Overall Performance in this tournament

Wang started her run at this tournament from the qualifications. In the main draw, she hasn’t dropped yet a set in this event to win 59% of the points she played.

Xiyu’s best result of the year was getting to the semifinal in Auckland.

Wang has an overall 6-5 win-loss record in 2024, 6-5 on hard (See FULL STATS).

Previously in Dubai

Xiyu has never competed in this tournament before.

Dubai
Wang's Record

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