Ekaterina Alexandrova and Dayana Yastremska will play each other in the final of the Upper Austria Ladies Linz for the 6th time in their career. They are scheduled to compete on Sunday at 2:00 pm on CENTER COURT. In this post, we analyze their head to head performance and prediction.
Prediction, odds and live streaming
The pick for Tennis Tonic is Ekaterina Alexandrova who should win in 3 sets.
As per the initial odds, Ekaterina Alexandrova is the pick to win this match.
Ekaterina Alexandrova -> 1.64
Dayana Yastremska -> 2.26
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Prediction and head to head Ekaterina Alexandrova vs. Dayana Yastremska
This will be the 6th time that Ekaterina Alexandrova and Dayana Yastremska square off. The head to head is 3-2 for Yastremska (see full H2H stats), 1-0 on indoor hard courts.
The last time that they played, Alexandrova won 2-6 7-6(1) 6-2 in the 1st round in Hertogenbosch back in 2022.
Ekaterina Alexandrova
| Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 9-5 | 5-5 | 0-0 | 4-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2024 | 26-25 | 17-13 | 1-7 | 3-2 | 5-3 | 0-0 |
| 2023 | 33-21 | 17-13 | 6-5 | 0-1 | 10-2 | 0-0 |
| 2022 | 35-18 | 12-10 | 13-5 | 4-2 | 6-1 | 0-0 |
| 2021 | 26-23 | 10-9 | 6-5 | 7-7 | 3-2 | 0-0 |
Ranked no. 30, Alexandrova reached the final after beating Unknown Player bye, Aliaksandra Sasnovich 6-3 6-2, Petra Martic 3-6 6-2 6-2 and Karolina Muchova 6-0 6-4.
In the semifinal, The Russian had a good straight sets win against Muchova (6-0 6-4). During the match, Alexandrova scored 62 points vs Muchova’s 39. Ekaterina was very aggressive to blast 27 winners.
Regarding the service games, Alexandrova scored 6 aces and she committed only 4 double faults. Ekaterina Alexandrova was extremely effective on serve to win 77% (27/35) of her 1st serve and 59% (10/17) on the second serve. This was the main reason for not conceding a single break during the match. Ekaterina broke Muchova 4 times after converting 67% of her break points (4/6).
Overall Performance in this tournament
The Russian has lost 1 set in this tournament to win 58% of the points she played.
Alexandrova has a solid match record in the last 10 years having won 60% of her matches (297-199). 3-0 on indoor hard courts in 2025. Talking about her performance on the same surface of this competition, Alexandrova has an aggregate 85-33 match record in the last years on indoor hard courts.
Alexandrova’s best result of the season was getting to the semifinal in Linz.
Ekaterina has an aggregate 4-3 win-loss record in 2025, 3-0 on indoor hard courts (See FULL STATS).
Previously in Linz
Dayana Yastremska
| Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 10-6 | 6-5 | 0-0 | 4-1 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2024 | 22-22 | 12-12 | 5-5 | 2-2 | 3-3 | 0-0 |
| 2023 | 39-29 | 19-13 | 12-9 | 5-4 | 3-3 | 0-0 |
| 2022 | 21-25 | 7-11 | 5-4 | 7-6 | 2-4 | 0-0 |
| 2021 | 7-12 | 3-8 | 2-1 | 2-3 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
Ranked no. 72, Yastremska got to the final after defeating Lucia Bronzetti 7-6(6) 7-5, Antonia Ruzic 7-5 6-1, Maria Sakkari 7-5 6-0 and Clara Tauson 6-1 6-4.
In the semifinal, Dayana had a good straight sets win against Tauson (6-1 6-4). During the match Yastremska scored 77 points vs Tauson’s 62. Dayana was quite aggressive to blast 29 winners.
Talking about serving, Yastremska bagged 6 aces and she committed only 7 double faults. Dayana Yastremska was exceptionally efficient on serve to win 73% (29/40) of her 1st serve and 54% (21/39) on the second serve. This was the main reason for not conceding a single break during the match. Yastremska broke Tauson 3 times after converting 30% of her break points (3/10).
Overall Performance in this tournament
Dayana hasn’t dropped yet a set in the tournament to win 56% of the points she played.
Yastremska’s best result of the season was getting to the semifinal in Linz.
Yastremska has a composed 8-3 win-loss record in 2025, 4-0 on indoor hard courts (See FULL STATS).
Previously in Linz
Previously, her best result was reaching the 2nd round in 2024. See her history.
H2H Performance in the tournament (main draw)
Matches, sets, games and points
| Points | Alexandrova | Yastremska |
|---|---|---|
| Match played | 3 | 4 |
| Tot Set | 7 | 8 |
| Tot Games | 58 | 79 |
| Pts | 223-159 | 305-243 |
| Total Points | 382 | 548 |
| Winners | 103 | 113 |
| %Winners | 46% | 37% |
Alexandrova played 3 matches while Yastremska competed in 4 matches. At the moment, Ekaterina Alexandrova surrendered 1 set while Dayana Yastremska hasn’t lost a set so far. Alexandrova has played 1 set(s) less than Yastremska (7 vs 8). Therefore, Alexandrova played 21 games less than Yastremska. Alexandrova scored 103 winners (46% of the total points). On the other side, The Ukrainian made 113 winners (37%).
Serve Performance
| Serve | Alexandrova | Yastremska |
|---|---|---|
| Aces | 21 | 15 |
| Avg per match | 7 | 3.8 |
| 1st in | 133/197 | 163/300 |
| %1st in | 68% | 54% |
| 1st pts | 103/133 | 113/163 |
| %1st pts | 77% | 69% |
| 2nd pts | 29/64 | 72/137 |
| %2nd pts | 45% | 53% |
Alexandrova managed to score 21 aces (7 per match). Yastremska made 15 aces (3.8 per match). Alexandrova won 77% points on her first serve. She extremely effective on her second serve to win 45% of the points. On the other side, Yastremska won 69% of the points on her first serve. She had a solid display on her second serve to win 53% of the points.
How they played the important points
| Breaks | Alexandrova | Yastremska |
|---|---|---|
| Won | 12 | 17 |
| Converted | 12/21 | 17/35 |
| % Converted | 57% | 49% |
| Conceded | 22 | 29 |
| Saved | 20 | 23 |
| % Saved | 91% | 79% |
| Times Broken | 2 | 6 |
The Russian broke her opponents 12 times with a 57% conversion rate. Ekaterina surrendered her serve twice and she saved 91% of the break points that she conceded. The Ukrainian broke her opponents 17 times with a 49% conversion rate. Dayana conceded her serve 6 times and she saved 79% of the break points that she conceded.
| Alexandrova | |||||
| R2 Sasnovich |
1/4 Martic |
1/2 Muchova |
Total | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Score | 6-3 6-2 | 3-6 6-2 6-2 | 6-0 6-4 | ||
| Tot Set | 2 | 3 | 2 | 7 | |
| Tot Games | 17 | 25 | 16 | 58 | |
| pts | 67-47 | 94-73 | 62-39 | 223-159 | |
| Total points | 114 | 167 | 101 | 382 | |
| Winners | 29 | 47 | 27 | 103 | |
| %Winners | 43% | 50% | 44% | 46% | |
| SERVE | |||||
| Aces | 6 | 9 | 6 | 21 | |
| Double Faults | 4 | 8 | 4 | 16 | |
| 1st in | 37/60 | 61/85 | 35/52 | 133/197 | |
| % 1st in | 62% | 72% | 67% | 68% | |
| 1st pts | 29/37 | 47/61 | 27/35 | 103/133 | |
| % 1st pts | 78% | 77% | 77% | 77% | |
| 2nd pts | 9/23 | 10/24 | 10/17 | 29/64 | |
| % 2nd pts | 39% | 42% | 59% | 45% | |
| Breaks | |||||
| Won | 4 | 4 | 4 | 12 | |
| Converted | 4/9 | 4/6 | 4/6 | 12/21 | |
| Converted % | 44% | 67% | 67% | 57% | |
| Conceded | 4 | 14 | 4 | 22 | |
| Saved | 3/4 | 13/14 | 4/4 | 20 | |
| Saved % | 75% | 93% | 100% | 89% | |
| Times Broken | 1 | 1 | 0 | 2 | |
| Yastremska | ||||||
| R1 Bronzetti |
R2 Ruzic |
1/4 Sakkari |
1/2 Tauson |
Total | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Score | 7-66 7-5 | 7-5 6-1 | 7-5 6-0 | 6-1 6-4 | ||
| Tot Set | 2 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 8 | |
| Tot Games | 25 | 19 | 18 | 17 | 79 | |
| pts | 89-84 | 76-55 | 63-42 | 77-62 | 305-243 | |
| Total points | 173 | 131 | 105 | 139 | 548 | |
| Winners | 39 | 26 | 19 | 29 | 113 | |
| %Winners | 44% | 34% | 30% | 38% | 37% | |
| SERVE | ||||||
| Aces | 5 | 3 | 1 | 6 | 15 | |
| Double Faults | 7 | 7 | 1 | 7 | 22 | |
| 1st in | 51/95 | 38/72 | 34/54 | 40/79 | 163/300 | |
| % 1st in | 54% | 53% | 63% | 51% | 54% | |
| 1st pts | 39/51 | 26/38 | 19/34 | 29/40 | 113/163 | |
| % 1st pts | 76% | 68% | 56% | 73% | 69% | |
| 2nd pts | 18/44 | 18/34 | 15/20 | 21/39 | 72/137 | |
| % 2nd pts | 41% | 53% | 75% | 54% | 53% | |
| Breaks | ||||||
| Won | 3 | 5 | 6 | 3 | 17 | |
| Converted | 3/3 | 5/12 | 6/10 | 3/10 | 17/35 | |
| Converted % | 100% | 42% | 60% | 30% | 49% | |
| Conceded | 8 | 7 | 5 | 9 | 29 | |
| Saved | 6/8 | 5/7 | 3/5 | 9/9 | 23 | |
| Saved % | 75% | 71% | 60% | 100% | 102% | |
| Times Broken | 2 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 6 | |
Head 2 Head
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