Anna Kalinskaya and Elina Svitolina will play 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 Sunday at 6:30 pm on CENTER COURT. Here the head to head stats and relative prediction.

Prediction, odds and live streaming

The pick for Tennis Tonic is Elina Svitolina who should win in 2 sets.

As per the initial odds, Elina Svitolina is the pick to win this match.
Elina Svitolina -> 1.41
Anna Kalinskaya -> 2.91

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Prediction and head to head Anna Kalinskaya vs. Elina Svitolina

This will be the 2nd time that Anna Kalinskaya and Elina Svitolina play each other. The head to head is 1-0 for Svitolina (see full H2H stats), but they have never played each other on hard.

The last time that they fought against each other, Svitolina won 6-3 6-3 in the 3rd round in Rome back in 2024.

Highlights Elina Svitolina vs Anna Kalinskaya – Rome 12-May-2024

Anna Kalinskaya

Anna Kalinskaya

3 - 4win/loss

Hard
0-3
I Hard
3-1
Rank
33
High
11
LWWLWWLLLW
Year Total Hard Clay I.hard Grass Carpet
2025 25-21 16-14 5-4 3-1 1-2 0-0
2024 38-19 28-12 3-5 0-0 7-2 0-0
2023 28-18 16-15 7-3 5-0 0-0 0-0
2022 27-20 22-10 2-6 1-1 2-3 0-0
2021 30-23 19-12 3-7 5-2 3-2 0-0

Ranked no. 18, the Russian will start her run in Dubai after she played her last match in Doha where she lost 6-7(3) 7-5 6-4 to Bucsa in the 1st round on the 9th of February.

Kalinskaya has a composed 3-4 win-loss record in 2025, 0-3 on hard (See FULL STATS).

Anna’s best result of the year was getting to the semifinal in Singapore.

Talking about her overall career, The Russian has an overall 301-182 record. She has a positive 157-82 record on hard.

Previously in Dubai

Previously, her best result was reaching the final in 2024. See her history.

Dubai
Kalinskaya's Record

Elina Svitolina

Elina Svitolina

5 - 3win/loss

Hard
5-2
I Hard
0-1
Rank
14
High
3
LWLLLWWWLW
Year Total Hard Clay I.hard Grass Carpet
2025 36-15 14-8 18-3 1-2 3-2 0-0
2024 30-18 16-9 10-7 0-0 4-2 0-0
2023 21-12 4-3 12-7 0-0 5-2 0-0
2022 5-8 5-8 0-0 0-0 0-0 0-0
2021 41-20 31-13 8-4 0-0 2-3 0-0

Ranked no. 22, the Ukrainian will start her run in Dubai after she played her last match in Doha where she lost 6-3 7-6(3) to Pegula in the 2nd round on the 11th of February.

The Ukrainian has a composed 5-3 win-loss record in 2025, 5-2 on hard (See FULL STATS).

In terms of her career, Elina has an overall 505-263 record. She has a positive 288-137 record on hard.

Previously in Dubai

Previously, she won this tournament twice in 2017 and 2018. See her history.

Dubai
Svitolina's Record

Tennis Scores in Dubai

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