Elena Rybakina and Moyuka Uchijima will fight against each other in the 2nd round of the Dubai Duty Free Championships for the 1st time in their career. They are scheduled to compete on Tuesday at 11:00 am on COURT 1. In this post, we analyze their head to head performance and prediction.

Prediction, odds and live streaming

The pick for Tennis Tonic is Elena Rybakina who should win in 2 sets.

As per the initial odds, Elena Rybakina is the pick to win this match.
Elena Rybakina -> 1.16
Moyuka Uchijima -> 5.25

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Prediction and head to head Elena Rybakina vs. Moyuka Uchijima

There is no head to head record between Elena Rybakina and Moyuka Uchijima since this will be the first time that they will face off in the main tour.

Elena Rybakina

Elena Rybakina

10 - 4win/loss

Hard
10-4
I Hard
0-0
Rank
5
High
3
WWWWWWWWWW
Year Total Hard Clay I.hard Grass Carpet
2025 59-19 37-13 9-3 8-0 5-3 0-0
2024 43-11 23-5 12-2 2-2 6-2 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

Ranked no. 7, Elena will start her run in Dubai after she played her last match in Doha where she lost 6-2 7-5 to Swiatek in the quarter on the 13th of February.

The Kazakhstani has an overall 10-4 win-loss record in 2025, 10-4 on hard (See FULL STATS).

Elena’s best result of the season was reaching the semifinal in Australia and Abu Dhabi.

Talking about her overall career, The Kazakhstani has an overall 342-147 record. She has a positive 160-75 record on hard.

Previously in Dubai

Previously, her best result was reaching the final in 2020. See her history.

Dubai
Rybakina's Record

Moyuka Uchijima

Moyuka Uchijima

7 - 7win/loss

Hard
7-6
I Hard
0-1
Rank
91
High
47
LLLLWWWLLW
Year Total Hard Clay I.hard Grass Carpet
2025 24-32 15-21 7-7 2-2 0-2 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. 62, the Japanese got to the 2nd round after beating Arantxa Rus 6-4 6-2, Anastasia Zakharova 7-6(3) 4-6 6-4 and Jelena Ostapenko 6-3 6-3.

In the 1st round, Uchijima had a good straight sets win against Ostapenko (6-3 6-3). During the match Uchijima scored 75 points vs Ostapenko’s 60. Moyuka was extremely aggressive to blast 22 winners.

Talking about serving, Uchijima struck 7 aces and she committed only 3 double faults. Moyuka Uchijima lost the serve twice and she saved 4 break points. Furthermore, Uchijima put 56% of her first serves in, winning 69% (22/32) of the points behind her 1st serve and 52% (13/25) on the 2nd serve. The Japanese broke Ostapenko 5 times after converting 42% of her break points (5/12).

Uchijima has an overall 7-7 win-loss record in 2025, 7-6 on hard (See FULL STATS).

Previously in Dubai

Moyuka has never competed in this tournament before.

Dubai
Uchijima's Record

Tennis Scores in Dubai

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