Aryna Sabalenka and Donna Vekic will fight against each other in the 2nd round of the Dubai Duty Free Championships for the 8th time in their career. They are scheduled to play on Tuesday at 11:00 am on Centre Court. Here the head to head stats and relative prediction.
Prediction, odds and live streaming
The pick for Tennis Tonic is Aryna Sabalenka who should win in 2 sets.
Aryna Sabalenka -> 1.114
Donna Vekic -> 6.5
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Prediction and head to head Aryna Sabalenka vs. Donna Vekic
This will be the 8th time that Aryna Sabalenka and Donna Vekic face off. The head to head is 5-2 for Vekic (see full H2H stats), 3-2 on hard.
The last time that they fought against each other, Sabalenka won 6-3 6-2 in the quarter in at the Australian Open back in 2023.
Highlights Aryna Sabalenka vs Donna Vekic – Australian Open 25-January-2023
Aryna Sabalenka
| Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 49-12 | 33-7 | 15-4 | 0-0 | 1-1 | 0-0 |
| 2023 | 55-14 | 35-9 | 14-3 | 0-0 | 6-2 | 0-0 |
| 2022 | 33-22 | 20-15 | 9-5 | 0-0 | 4-2 | 0-0 |
| 2021 | 45-18 | 24-11 | 13-3 | 1-1 | 7-3 | 0-0 |
| 2020 | 29-10 | 14-7 | 6-3 | 9-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
Ranked no. 2, Sabalenka will start her run in Dubai after she won the title at the Melbourne after beating 6-3 6-2 Zheng in the final.
The Belarussian has a compiled 11-1 win-loss record in 2024, 11-1 on hard (See FULL STATS).
Her best result of the current year was winning the title at the Australian Open where she overcame Qinwen Zheng in the final 6-3 6-2.
The Belarussian won her last 7 matches.
Talking about her overall career, Aryna has an overall 329-155 record. She has a positive 200-86 record on hard.
Previously in Dubai
Previously, her best result was reaching the quarter in 2020, 2021 and 2023. See her history.
Donna Vekic
| Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 31-19 | 11-9 | 8-5 | 2-1 | 10-4 | 0-0 |
| 2023 | 29-20 | 16-9 | 4-5 | 2-3 | 7-3 | 0-0 |
| 2022 | 28-20 | 10-9 | 9-6 | 2-1 | 7-4 | 0-0 |
| 2021 | 19-16 | 10-12 | 0-1 | 5-0 | 4-3 | 0-0 |
| 2020 | 8-11 | 6-6 | 1-3 | 1-2 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
Ranked no. 31, Vekic got to the 2nd round after defeating Xinyu Wang 6-2 6-4.
In the 1st round, Donna had a good straight sets win against Wang (6-2 6-4). During the match Vekic scored 70 points vs Wang’s 58. Vekic was quite aggressive to blast 31 winners.
Talking about serving, Vekic fired 3 aces and she committed only 3 double faults. Donna Vekic lost the serve once and she saved 9 break points. Furthermore, Vekic put 57% of her first serves in, winning 74% (31/42) of the points behind her 1st serve and 41% (13/32) on the 2nd serve. The Croatian broke Wang 4 times after converting 67% of her break points (4/6).
The Croatian’s best result of the current season was reaching the semifinal in Linz.
The Croatian has an aggregate 5-3 win-loss record in 2024, 3-2 on hard (See FULL STATS).
Previously in Dubai
Previously, her best result was reaching the 1st round in 2019. See her history.
Tennis Scores in Dubai
- Juan Ignacio LonderoIgnacio Londero – Roberto MarcoraMarcora (3-6 6-4 6-2) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Kamil MajchrzakMajchrzak – Riccardo BellottiBellotti (6-0 6-1) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Antoine HoangHoang – Ivan GakhovGakhov (7-5 2-6 6-1) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Hugo DellienDellien – Jelle SelsSels (6-4 7-5) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Tristan LamasineLamasine – Filippo BaldiBaldi (6-4 7-5) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Tallon GriekspoorGriekspoor – Martin CuevasCuevas (6-4 6-4) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Thiemo de Bakkerde Bakker – Elliot BenchetritBenchetrit (6-4 3-6 6-1) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Marco TrungellitiTrungelliti – Kimmer CoppejansCoppejans (7-65 6-74 7-5) – Stats, scores, rankings
Upcoming matches in the draw
- Iga SwiatekSwiatek – Sloane StephensStephens (2-0) – H2H and prediction
- Tatjana MariaMaria – Elina SvitolinaSvitolina (3-3) – H2H and prediction
- Lucia BronzettiBronzetti – Anastasia PotapovaPotapova (0-2) – H2H and prediction
- Nao HibinoHibino – Qinwen ZhengZheng (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Cori GauffGauff – Elisabetta CocciarettoCocciaretto (1-0) – H2H and prediction
- Karolina PliskovaPliskova – (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Jelena OstapenkoOstapenko – Lulu SunSun (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Anna KalinskayaKalinskaya – Cristina BucsaBucsa (1-0) – H2H and prediction
- Maria SakkariSakkari – Emma NavarroNavarro (0-1) – H2H and prediction
- Leylah Annie FernandezAnnie Fernandez – Jasmine PaoliniPaolini (3-0) – H2H and prediction
- Magdalena FrechFrech – Petra MarticMartic (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Victoria AzarenkaAzarenka – Elena RybakinaRybakina (0-2) – H2H and prediction
- Marketa VondrousovaVondrousova – Peyton StearnsStearns (2-0) – H2H and prediction
- Anastasia PavlyuchenkovaPavlyuchenkova – Ludmilla SamsonovaSamsonova (1-0) – H2H and prediction
- Veronika KudermetovaKudermetova – Sorana CirsteaCirstea (1-2) – H2H and prediction
- Donna VekicVekic – Aryna SabalenkaSabalenka (5-2) – H2H and prediction