Aryna Sabalenka and Veronika Kudermetova will fight against each other in the 2nd round of the Dubai Duty Free Championships for the 6th time in their career. They are scheduled to compete on Tuesday at 9:00 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 Aryna Sabalenka who should win in 2 sets.
Aryna Sabalenka -> 1.139
Veronika Kudermetova -> 5.7
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Prediction and head to head Aryna Sabalenka vs. Veronika Kudermetova
This will be the 6th time that Aryna Sabalenka and Veronika Kudermetova fight against each other. The head to head is 3-2 for Sabalenka (see full H2H stats), 3-0 on hard.
The last time that they competed against each other, Kudermetova won 6-2 7-6(2) in the 2nd round in Berlin back in 2023.
Highlights Veronika Kudermetova vs Aryna Sabalenka – Berlin 22-June-2023
Aryna Sabalenka
| Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 63-12 | 35-6 | 17-3 | 4-1 | 7-2 | 0-0 |
| 2024 | 56-14 | 38-7 | 15-4 | 2-2 | 1-1 | 0-0 |
| 2023 | 55-14 | 35-9 | 14-3 | 0-0 | 6-2 | 0-0 |
| 2022 | 33-22 | 20-15 | 9-5 | 0-0 | 4-2 | 0-0 |
| 2021 | 45-18 | 24-11 | 13-3 | 1-1 | 7-3 | 0-0 |
Currently world no. 1 the Belarussian will start her run in Dubai after she played her last match in Doha where she lost 3-6 6-3 7-6(5) to Alexandrova in the 2nd round on the 11th of February.
Sabalenka has an aggregate 11-2 win-loss record in 2025, 11-2 on hard (See FULL STATS).
Her best result of the year was winning the title in Brisbane where she overcame Polina Kudermetova in the final 4-6 6-3 6-2.
Talking about her overall career, Aryna has an overall 385-170 record. She has a positive 238-94 record on hard.
Previously in Dubai
Previously, her best result was reaching the quarter in 2020, 2021 and 2023. See her history.
Veronika Kudermetova
| Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 35-25 | 22-16 | 9-5 | 0-0 | 4-4 | 0-0 |
| 2024 | 18-25 | 10-16 | 3-5 | 0-0 | 5-4 | 0-0 |
| 2023 | 34-22 | 18-14 | 8-5 | 1-1 | 7-2 | 0-0 |
| 2022 | 39-20 | 27-13 | 7-4 | 0-1 | 5-2 | 0-0 |
| 2021 | 33-24 | 15-13 | 14-4 | 3-4 | 1-3 | 0-0 |
Ranked no. 50, Kudermetova reached the 2nd round after beating Chloe Paquet 7-6(4) 6-4, Celine Simunyu 6-2 7-5 and Ekaterina Alexandrova 3-6 6-4 6-3.
In the 1st round against Alexandrova, Kudermetova recovered from a 1-set down deficit before winning (3-6 6-4 6-3). During the match Kudermetova and Alexandrova scored the same amount of points (90). However, the world no. 1 was stronger during the important points and that was the most significant difference in the match. Veronika was quite aggressive to blast 44 winners.
Talking about serving, Kudermetova blasted 9 aces and she was pretty steady in conceding no double faults for the entire match. Veronika Kudermetova lost the serve twice and she saved 5 break points. Furthermore, Kudermetova put 64% of her first serves in, winning 70% (44/63) of the points behind her 1st serve and 50% (18/36) on the 2nd serve. Kudermetova broke Alexandrova 3 times after converting 43% of her break points (3/7).
The Russian has an aggregate 12-6 win-loss record in 2025, 12-6 on hard (See FULL STATS).
Previously in Dubai
Previously, her best result was reaching the final in 2022. See her history
.Tennis Scores in Dubai
- Ljubomir CelebicCelebic – Martins PodzusPodzus (6-4 6-4) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Juan Pablo FicovichPablo Ficovich – Maxim KrapivinKrapivin (6-1 6-3) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Pierre FaivreFaivre – Duje AjdukovicAjdukovic (6-3 6-2) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Artem DubrivnyyDubrivnyy – Sebastian PrechtelPrechtel (6-4 6-4) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Gonzalo VillanuevaVillanueva – Kenneth RaismaRaisma (7-5 1-6 6-2) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Francisco CerundoloCerundolo – Stefan MicovMicov (2-6 6-4 6-1) – Stats, scores, rankings
- David PichlerPichler – Maxime TchoutakianTchoutakian (6-0 6-4) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Christopher O ConnellO Connell – Maxim RatniukRatniuk (6-1 6-1) – Stats, scores, rankings
Upcoming matches in the draw
- Aryna SabalenkaSabalenka – Veronika KudermetovaKudermetova (3-2) – H2H and prediction
- Clara TausonTauson – Elina SvitolinaSvitolina (1-0) – H2H and prediction
- Ludmilla SamsonovaSamsonova – Jessica PegulaPegula (1-3) – H2H and prediction
- Cori GauffGauff – Mccartney KesslerKessler (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Emma RaducanuRaducanu – Karolina MuchovaMuchova (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Sorana CirsteaCirstea – Alycia ParksParks (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Belinda BencicBencic – Emma NavarroNavarro (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Elena RybakinaRybakina – Moyuka UchijimaUchijima (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Elise MertensMertens – Paula Badosa GibertBadosa Gibert (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Sofia KeninKenin – Marta KostyukKostyuk (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Eva LysLys – Jasmine PaoliniPaolini (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Qinwen ZhengZheng – Peyton StearnsStearns (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Marketa VondrousovaVondrousova – (0-1) – H2H and prediction
- Anastasia PotapovaPotapova – Dayana YastremskaYastremska (1-1) – H2H and prediction
- Victoria AzarenkaAzarenka – Iga SwiatekSwiatek (1-3) – H2H and prediction