Elena Rybakina and Irina-Camelia Begu will fight against each other in the 2nd round of the Internazionali BNL d’Italia for the 2nd time in their career. They are scheduled to compete on Friday at 1:00 pm on CENTER COURT. In the following paragraphs, you can find the head to head analysis and prediction.
Prediction, odds and live streaming
The pick for Tennis Tonic is Elena Rybakina who should win in 2 sets.
Elena Rybakina -> 1.125
Irina-Camelia Begu -> 6.15
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Prediction and head to head Elena Rybakina vs. Irina-Camelia Begu
This will be the 2nd time that Elena Rybakina and Irina-Camelia Begu play each other. The head to head is 1-0 for Begu (see full H2H stats), but they have never competed against each other on clay.
The last time that they squared off, Begu won 6-1 3-6 6-3 in the 1st round in Moscow back in 2017.
Elena Rybakina
| Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 30-5 | 22-4 | 8-1 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 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. 4, the Kazakhstani will start her run in Rome after she played her last match in Madrid where she lost 1-6 7-5 7-6(5) to Sabalenka in the semifinal on the 2nd of May.
Elena has a compiled 30-5 win-loss record in 2024, 8-1 on clay (See FULL STATS).
Her best result of the season was winning the title in Brisbane where she defeated Aryna Sabalenka in the final 6-0 6-3 and in Abu Dhabi where she defeated Daria Kasatkina in the final 6-1 6-4 and in Stuttgart where she defeated Marta Kostyuk in the final 6-2 6-2.
Talking about her overall career, Rybakina has an overall 319-137 record. She has a positive 83-35 record on clay.
Previously in Rome
Previously, she won this tournament once in 2023. See her history.
Irina-Camelia Begu
| Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 11-4 | 0-0 | 11-4 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2023 | 17-14 | 5-7 | 11-5 | 0-1 | 1-1 | 0-0 |
| 2022 | 32-17 | 7-9 | 20-5 | 3-2 | 2-1 | 0-0 |
| 2021 | 21-17 | 16-10 | 3-5 | 0-1 | 2-1 | 0-0 |
| 2020 | 23-11 | 15-5 | 7-4 | 1-2 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
Ranked no. 161, Begu reached the 2nd round after beating Rebeka Masarova 5-7 6-3 6-4.
In the 1st round against Masarova, Begu recovered from a 1-set down deficit before winning (5-7 6-3 6-4). During the match Begu scored 119 points vs Masarova’s 110. Begu was exceptionally aggressive to blast 60 winners.
About the serving games, Begu managed to score 4 aces and she committed only 5 double faults. Irina-Camelia Begu lost the serve 3 times and she saved 13 break points. Furthermore, Begu put 75% of her first serves in, winning 68% (60/88) of the points behind her 1st serve and 38% (11/29) on the 2nd serve. Irina-Camelia broke Masarova 4 times after converting 33% of her break points (4/12).
Begu’s best result of the season was getting to the final in the Antalya.
Irina-Camelia has a composed 9-3 win-loss record in 2024, 9-3 on clay (See FULL STATS).
Previously in Rome
Previously, her best result was reaching the semifinal in 2016. See her history.
Tennis Scores in Rome
- Iga SwiatekSwiatek – Bernarda PeraPera (6-0 6-2) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Daria KasatkinaKasatkina – Tatjana MariaMaria (7-5 6-1) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Beatriz Haddad MaiaHaddad Maia – Xinyu WangWang (4-6 6-3 6-4) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Qinwen ZhengZheng – Shelby RogersRogers (6-2 6-0) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Jaqueline CristianCristian – Elina AvanesyanAvanesyan (5-7 6-2 6-2) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Naomi OsakaOsaka – Marta KostyukKostyuk (6-3 6-2) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Diana ShnaiderShnaider – Liudmila SamsonovaSamsonova (6-1 6-3) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Aliaksandra SasnovichSasnovich – Ekaterina AlexandrovaAlexandrova (6-0 6-1) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Marketa VondrousovaVondrousova – Ana BogdanBogdan (6-2 3-6 6-4) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Cori GauffGauff – Magdalena FrechFrech (6-3 6-3) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Yulia PutintsevaPutintseva – Sloane StephensStephens (6-3 6-2) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Linda NoskovaNoskova – Lucrezia StefaniniStefanini (6-3 7-61) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Angelique KerberKerber – Veronika KudermetovaKudermetova (6-3 6-0) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Thomas FabbianoFabbiano – Stefano NapolitanoNapolitano (6-2 6-2) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Lloyd HarrisHarris – Joris De LooreDe Loore (6-2 6-0) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Liam BroadyBroady – Jay ClarkeClarke (7-63 6-4) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Martin RedlickiRedlicki – Marcos GironGiron (6-3 6-4) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Prajnesh GunneswaranGunneswaran – Jc AragoneAragone (4-6 7-5 6-4) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Thanasi KokkinakisKokkinakis – Kaichi UchidaUchida (7-5 6-0) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Ernesto EscobedoEscobedo – Aleksandar VukicVukic (7-66 7-61) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Christopher EubanksEubanks – Michael MmohMmoh (7-64 6-4) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Madison KeysMadison – Maria Camila Osorio SerranoMaria (6-0 4-6 6-3) – See score progression
- Sorana CirsteaSorana – Brenda FruhvirtovaBrenda (7-5 6-0) – See score progression
Upcoming matches in the draw
- Emma NavarroNavarro – Paula Badosa GibertBadosa Gibert (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Maria SakkariSakkari – Varvara GrachevaGracheva (1-0) – H2H and prediction
- Lesya TsurenkoTsurenko – Anhelina KalininaKalinina (1-0) – H2H and prediction
- Victoria AzarenkaAzarenka – Magda LinetteLinette (3-2) – H2H and prediction
- Mayar SherifSherif – Jasmine PaoliniPaolini (1-0) – H2H and prediction
- Danielle Rose CollinsRose Collins – Anna BlinkovaBlinkova (0-1) – H2H and prediction
- Elisabetta CocciarettoCocciaretto – Caroline GarciaGarcia (1-4) – H2H and prediction
- Elise MertensMertens – Katerina SiniakovaSiniakova (4-0) – H2H and prediction
- Irina-Camelia BeguBegu – Elena RybakinaRybakina (1-0) – H2H and prediction
- Ons JabeurJabeur – Sofia KeninKenin (2-5) – H2H and prediction
- Rebecca SramkovaSramkova – Katie BoulterBoulter (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Anastasia PavlyuchenkovaPavlyuchenkova – Sara Sorribes TormoSorribes Tormo (3-2) – H2H and prediction
- Anastasia PotapovaPotapova – Jelena OstapenkoOstapenko (0-1) – H2H and prediction
- Elina SvitolinaSvitolina – Sara ErraniErrani (0-2) – H2H and prediction
- Clara TausonTauson – Anna KalinskayaKalinskaya (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Dayana YastremskaYastremska – Laura SiegemundSiegemund (2-0) – H2H and prediction
- Katie VolynetsVolynets – Aryna SabalenkaSabalenka (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Iga SwiatekSwiatek – Yulia PutintsevaPutintseva (3-0) – H2H and prediction
- Angelique KerberKerber – Aliaksandra SasnovichSasnovich (2-1) – H2H and prediction
- Beatriz Haddad MaiaHaddad Maia – Madison KeysKeys (1-0) – H2H and prediction
- Sorana CirsteaCirstea – Marketa VondrousovaVondrousova (3-1) – H2H and prediction
- Cori GauffGauff – Jaqueline CristianCristian (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Darya KasatkinaKasatkina – Naomi OsakaOsaka (0-1) – H2H and prediction