Jelena Ostapenko and Moyuka Uchijima will play each other in the 1st round of the Dubai Duty Free Championships for the 1st time in their career. They are scheduled to compete on Monday at 3:00 pm on COURT 1. 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 Jelena Ostapenko who should win in 2 sets.
Jelena Ostapenko -> 1.25
Moyuka Uchijima -> 3.94
Click here to see the updated quotes and live streaming (only selected countries - USA excluded).
Here where top tennis events are broadcasted or streamed online (ATP, WTA).
At the challenger level, there will be free live streaming on Challenger TV.
Prediction and head to head Jelena Ostapenko vs. Moyuka Uchijima
There is no head to head record between Jelena Ostapenko and Moyuka Uchijima since this will be the first time that they will fight against each other in the main tour.
Jelena Ostapenko
| Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 7-9 | 6-8 | 1-1 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2024 | 31-19 | 14-10 | 8-6 | 4-0 | 5-3 | 0-0 |
| 2023 | 37-22 | 21-15 | 7-4 | 1-1 | 8-2 | 0-0 |
| 2022 | 33-19 | 19-10 | 3-3 | 3-3 | 8-3 | 0-0 |
| 2021 | 32-19 | 12-9 | 5-4 | 7-4 | 8-2 | 0-0 |
Ranked no. 37, Jelena will start her run in Dubai after she played her last match in Doha where she lost 6-4 6-3 to Anisimova in the final on the 15th of February.
Jelena has an aggregate 6-5 win-loss record in 2025, 6-5 on hard (See FULL STATS).
Ostapenko’s best result of the current season was reaching the final in Doha.
Talking about her overall career, The Latvian has an overall 397-244 record. She has a positive 143-116 record on hard.
Previously in Dubai
Previously, she won this tournament once in 2022. See her history.
Moyuka Uchijima
| Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 10-11 | 9-10 | 0-0 | 1-1 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2024 | 51-26 | 25-14 | 22-5 | 2-4 | 2-3 | 0-0 |
| 2023 | 35-34 | 23-21 | 7-9 | 4-2 | 1-2 | 0-0 |
| 2022 | 54-28 | 24-15 | 19-5 | 11-6 | 0-2 | 0-0 |
| 2021 | 30-9 | 19-5 | 8-3 | 3-1 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
Ranked no. 63, Moyuka reached the 1st round after defeating Arantxa Rus 6-4 6-2 and Anastasia Zakharova 7-6(3) 4-6 6-4.
In the qualifications, Uchijima defeated Zakharova (7-63 4-6 6-4). During the match Uchijima scored 117 points vs Zakharova’s 109. Uchijima was extremely aggressive to blast 55 winners.
Talking about serving, Uchijima managed to score 10 aces and she committed only 6 double faults. Moyuka Uchijima lost the serve 3 times and she saved 8 break points. Furthermore, Uchijima put 64% of her first serves in, winning 74% (55/74) of the points behind her 1st serve and 48% (20/42) on the 2nd serve. Uchijima broke Zakharova 3 times after converting 25% of her break points (3/12).
Overall Performance in this tournament
Uchijima started her run at this tournament from the qualifications. In the main draw, she has conceded 1 set in the tournament to win 54% of the points she played.
The Japanese has an aggregate 6-7 win-loss record in 2025, 6-6 on hard (See FULL STATS).
Previously in Dubai
Moyuka has never competed in this tournament before.
Tennis Scores in Dubai
- Tereza Mihalikova/Olivia NichollsMihalikova/Olivia Nicholls – Hao-Ching Chan/Veronika KudermetovaChan/Veronika Kudermetova (6-4 6-2) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Dayana YastremskaYastremska – Magda LinetteLinette (6-3 7-5) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Karolina MuchovaMuchova – Suzan LamensLamens (6-2 6-2) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Liudmila SamsonovaSamsonova – Anastasia PavlyuchenkovaPavlyuchenkova (6-2 6-2) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Sofia KeninKenin – Donna VekicVekic (7-5 6-3) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Elina SvitolinaSvitolina – Anna KalinskayaKalinskaya (6-1 6-2) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Elise MertensMertens – Leylah Annie FernandezAnnie Fernandez (6-2 6-2) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Linda NoskovaNoskova – Yulia PutintsevaPutintseva (6-2 7-65) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Marketa VondrousovaVondrousova – Caroline GarciaGarcia (6-2 6-2) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Paula BadosaBadosa – Lulu SunSun (6-3 6-4) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Alycia ParksParks – Xinyu WangWang (6-3 6-3) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Belinda BencicBencic – Aoi ItoIto (6-0 6-2) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Sebastian PrechtelPrechtel – Dusan RajicRajic (7-5 6-2) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Maxime TchoutakianTchoutakian – Frane NincevicNincevic (4-6 6-3 6-1) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Pierre FaivreFaivre – Oscar Jose GutierrezJose Gutierrez (7-5 7-5) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Gonzalo VillanuevaVillanueva – Marek SemjanSemjan (6-3 6-3) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Christopher O ConnellO Connell – Juan Manuel CerundoloManuel Cerundolo (6-1 6-4) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Maxim RatniukRatniuk – Nebojsa MilenkovicMilenkovic (6-3 6-0) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Martins PodzusPodzus – Shunsuke WakitaWakita (6-3 6-3) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Ljubomir CelebicCelebic – Gorazd SrbljakSrbljak (1-6 7-65 6-0) – Stats, scores, rankings
- David PichlerPichler – Daniil GlinkaGlinka (6-1 6-3) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Juan Pablo FicovichPablo Ficovich – Milan DrinicDrinic (6-1 6-3) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Duje AjdukovicAjdukovic – Nemanja SubanovicSubanovic (6-4 6-2) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Kenneth RaismaRaisma – Bozo BarunBarun (6-1 6-1) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Francisco CerundoloCerundolo – Duje KekezKekez (5-7 6-4 6-4) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Artem DubrivnyyDubrivnyy – Robert StrombachsStrombachs (7-63 6-4) – Stats, scores, rankings
Upcoming matches in the draw
- Ekaterina AlexandrovaAlexandrova – Veronika KudermetovaKudermetova (3-2) – H2H and prediction
- Rebecca SramkovaSramkova – Clara TausonTauson (1-2) – H2H and prediction
- Mccartney KesslerKessler – Amanda AnisimovaAnisimova (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Maria SakkariSakkari – Emma RaducanuRaducanu (0-2) – H2H and prediction
- Darya KasatkinaKasatkina – Sorana CirsteaCirstea (2-2) – H2H and prediction
- Moyuka UchijimaUchijima – Jelena OstapenkoOstapenko (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Katerina SiniakovaSiniakova – Marta KostyukKostyuk (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Eva LysLys – Irina-Camelia BeguBegu (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Ons JabeurJabeur – Peyton StearnsStearns (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Elina AvanesyanAvanesyan – (0-2) – H2H and prediction
- Beatriz Haddad MaiaHaddad Maia – Anastasia PotapovaPotapova (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Victoria AzarenkaAzarenka – Anhelina KalininaKalinina (1-0) – H2H and prediction
- Ludmilla SamsonovaSamsonova – Jessica PegulaPegula (1-3) – H2H and prediction
- Belinda BencicBencic – Emma NavarroNavarro (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Elise MertensMertens – Paula Badosa GibertBadosa Gibert (0-0) – H2H and prediction