Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova and Sofia Kenin will play each other in the 1st round of the Mubadala Abu Dhabi Open for the 3rd time in their career. They are scheduled to compete on Tuesday at 6:00 pm on ADCB COURT 1. 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 Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova who should win in 3 sets.
Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova -> 1.61
Sofia Kenin -> 2.32
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Prediction and head to head Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova vs. Sofia Kenin
This will be the 3rd time that Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova and Sofia Kenin face off. The head to head is 2-0 for Kenin (see full H2H stats), 2-0 on hard.
The last time that they fought against each other, Kenin won 6-3 6-2 in the 2nd round in Beijing back in 2019.
Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova
| Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 14-14 | 6-9 | 1-3 | 0-0 | 7-2 | 0-0 |
| 2024 | 27-19 | 20-11 | 3-5 | 3-1 | 1-2 | 0-0 |
| 2023 | 24-17 | 6-8 | 15-7 | 3-2 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2022 | 2-3 | 2-1 | 0-2 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2021 | 29-20 | 12-11 | 10-3 | 5-4 | 2-2 | 0-0 |
Ranked no. 26, Pavlyuchenkova will start her run in Abu Dhabi after she played her last match at the Melbourne where she lost 6-2 2-6 6-3 to Sabalenka in the quarter on the 21st of January.
Pavlyuchenkova has an aggregate 4-2 win-loss record in 2025, 4-2 on hard (See FULL STATS).
Talking about her overall career, Anastasia has an overall 544-358 record. She has a positive 292-193 record on hard.
Previously in Abu Dhabi
Previously, her best result was reaching the 1st round in 2021. See her history.
Sofia Kenin
| Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 31-26 | 19-18 | 9-5 | 0-0 | 3-3 | 0-0 |
| 2024 | 16-26 | 10-17 | 5-6 | 0-0 | 1-3 | 0-0 |
| 2023 | 27-21 | 17-12 | 3-4 | 1-2 | 6-3 | 0-0 |
| 2022 | 10-17 | 7-14 | 0-0 | 3-3 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2021 | 11-10 | 7-5 | 3-4 | 0-0 | 1-1 | 0-0 |
Ranked no. 75, Kenin got to the 1st round after beating Aoi Ito 7-6(4) 6-2 and Veronika Kudermetova 7-6(3) 6-2.
In the qualifications, Sofia had a good straight sets win against Kudermetova (7-63 6-2). During the match Kenin scored 78 points vs Kudermetova’s 60. The American was quite aggressive to blast 36 winners.
About the serving games, Kenin blasted 2 aces and she committed only 2 double faults. Sofia Kenin lost the serve twice and she saved 4 break points. Furthermore, Kenin put 72% of her first serves in, winning 73% (36/49) of the points behind her 1st serve and 42% (8/19) on the 2nd serve. Sofia broke Kudermetova 4 times after converting 44% of her break points (4/9).
Overall Performance in this tournament
The American started her run at this tournament from the qualifications. In the main draw, she hasn’t dropped yet a set in this tournament to win 56% of the points she played.
Sofia has a composed 5-3 win-loss record in 2025, 5-3 on hard (See FULL STATS).
Previously in Abu Dhabi
Previously, her best result was reaching the quarter in 2021. See her history.
Tennis Scores in Abu Dhabi
- Ashlyn KruegerKrueger – Mccartney KesslerKessler (6-3 6-74 6-3) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Wakana SonobeSonobe – Yue YuanYuan (6-4 6-3) – Stats, scores, rankings
- David PoljakPoljak – Sadio DoumbiaDoumbia (2-3 ret.) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Jiri LeheckaLehecka – Fabrizio OrnagoOrnago (7-5 6-0) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Marco BortolottiBortolotti – Michal KonecnyKonecny (6-4 6-2) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Daniel Dutra Da SilvaDutra Da Silva – Danylo KalenichenkoKalenichenko (6-75 6-0 6-2) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Colin SinclairSinclair – Marvin NetuschilNetuschil (6-3 7-64) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Gijs BrouwerBrouwer – Francesco FortiForti (7-65 7-68) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Peter TorebkoTorebko – Vit KoprivaKopriva (7-65 6-1) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Peter HellerHeller – Tobias SimonSimon (3-1 ret.) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Evan FurnessFurness – Jan SatralSatral (6-3 7-5) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Alejandro TabiloTabilo – Bruno Sant’AnnaSant’Anna (6-4 5-7 6-1) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Lukas KleinKlein – Vaclav SafranekSafranek (3-6 7-62 7-62) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Andrew PaulsonPaulson – Nik RazborsekRazborsek (6-4 6-3) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Lucas GerchGerch – Fabien ReboulReboul (6-3 6-1) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Patrik RiklRikl – Marek GengelGengel (7-5 6-1) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Sekou BangouraBangoura – Yannick MertensMertens (6-4 6-0) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Jacob GrillsGrills – Tomas VankoVanko (2-1 ret.) – Stats, scores, rankings
Upcoming matches in the draw
- Ons JabeurJabeur – Jelena OstapenkoOstapenko (3-2) – H2H and prediction
- Marketa VondrousovaVondrousova – Emma RaducanuRaducanu (1-1) – H2H and prediction
- Belinda BencicBencic – Rebecca SramkovaSramkova (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Veronika KudermetovaKudermetova – Ludmilla SamsonovaSamsonova (5-2) – H2H and prediction
- Leylah Annie FernandezAnnie Fernandez – Moyuka UchijimaUchijima (1-0) – H2H and prediction
- Caroline GarciaGarcia – Lulu SunSun (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Anastasia PavlyuchenkovaPavlyuchenkova – Sofia KeninKenin (0-2) – H2H and prediction
- Renata ZarazuaZarazua – Magda LinetteLinette (0-1) – H2H and prediction
- Magdalena FrechFrech – (1-1) – H2H and prediction