Donna Vekic and Elina Avanesyan will play each other in the 2nd round of the BNP Paribas Open for the 2nd time in their career. They are scheduled to play on Saturday at 12:00 pm on STADIUM 9. In this post, we analyze their head to head performance and prediction.
Prediction, odds and live streaming
The pick for Tennis Tonic is Elina Avanesyan who should win in 3 sets.
Elina Avanesyan -> 1.727
Donna Vekic -> 2.11
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Prediction and head to head Donna Vekic vs. Elina Avanesyan
This will be the 2nd time that Donna Vekic and Elina Avanesyan clash against each other. The head to head is 1-0 for Vekic (see full H2H stats), but they have never competed against each other on hard.
The last time that they squared off, Vekic won 6-2 7-6(0) in the quarter in Berlin back in 2023.
Donna Vekic
| Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 14-23 | 9-15 | 3-4 | 0-0 | 2-4 | 0-0 |
| 2024 | 32-20 | 12-10 | 8-5 | 2-1 | 10-4 | 0-0 |
| 2023 | 29-20 | 16-9 | 4-5 | 2-3 | 7-3 | 0-0 |
| 2022 | 28-20 | 10-9 | 9-6 | 2-1 | 7-4 | 0-0 |
| 2021 | 19-16 | 10-12 | 0-1 | 5-0 | 4-3 | 0-0 |
Ranked no. 22, the Croatian will start her run in Indian Wells after she played her last match in Merida where she lost 6-1 6-2 to Joint in the 2nd round on the 26th of February.
Donna has an overall 3-7 win-loss record in 2025, 3-7 on hard (See FULL STATS).
Talking about her overall career, Donna has an overall 397-290 record. She has a positive 224-158 record on hard.
Previously in Indian Wells
Previously, her best result was reaching the 2nd round in 2014, 2015, 2017, 2019, 2023 and 2024. See her history.
Elina Avanesyan
| Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 12-16 | 10-9 | 1-5 | 1-1 | 0-1 | 0-0 |
| 2024 | 29-24 | 12-13 | 11-7 | 1-1 | 5-3 | 0-0 |
| 2023 | 31-24 | 7-12 | 20-9 | 0-0 | 4-3 | 0-0 |
| 2022 | 38-26 | 11-7 | 25-17 | 2-1 | 0-1 | 0-0 |
| 2021 | 48-19 | 0-0 | 48-18 | 0-1 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
Ranked no. 39 (career-high), the Armenian got to the 2nd round after beating Lauren Davis 6-4 6-2.
In the 1st round, Avanesyan had a good straight sets win against Davis (6-4 6-2). During the match Avanesyan scored 65 points vs Davis’s 52. Elina was quite aggressive to blast 20 winners.
About the serving games, Avanesyan scored just 1 ace during the entire match and she committed only 5 double faults. Elina Avanesyan lost the serve 4 times and she saved 3 break points. Furthermore, Avanesyan put 61% of her first serves in, winning 54% (20/37) of the points behind her 1st serve and 46% (11/24) on the 2nd serve. Elina broke Davis 7 times after converting 50% of her break points (7/14).
Avanesyan’s best result of the year was reaching the semifinal in Hobart and Merida.
Elina has a composed 10-7 win-loss record in 2025, 9-6 on hard (See FULL STATS).
Previously in Indian Wells
Previously, her best result was reaching the 1st round in 2024. See her history.
Tennis Scores in Indian Wells
- Katerina SiniakovaSiniakova – Yulia PutintsevaPutintseva (6-2 6-2) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Iga SwiatekSwiatek – Caroline GarciaGarcia (6-2 6-0) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Clara TausonTauson – Maria Camila Osorio SerranoCamila Osorio Serrano (7-63 7-5) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Karolina MuchovaMuchova – Elisabetta CocciarettoCocciaretto (6-4 6-3) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Jessica PegulaPegula – Magda LinetteLinette (6-4 6-2) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Dayana YastremskaYastremska – Ons JabeurJabeur (6-3 6-1) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Katie BoulterBoulter – Irina-Camelia BeguBegu (6-72 6-3 6-0) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Xinyu WangWang – Jelena OstapenkoOstapenko (6-4 6-4) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Caroline DolehideDolehide – Eva LysLys (7-63 6-4) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Lulu SunSun – Linda NoskovaNoskova (6-1 6-4) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Elena RybakinaRybakina – Suzan LamensLamens (6-3 6-3) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Marta KostyukKostyuk – Robin MontgomeryMontgomery (6-1 6-3) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Bogdan Ionut ApostolIonut Apostol – Calin MandaManda (6-4 6-2) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Albert Alcaraz IvorraAlcaraz Ivorra – Nicolae FrunzaFrunza (6-4 6-3) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Alexander IgoshinIgoshin – Joao Lucas Reis Da SilvaLucas Reis Da Silva (7-5 7-5) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Maxime ChazalChazal – Matvey MininMinin (6-4 6-3) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Alexandar LazarovLazarov – Mats RosenkranzRosenkranz (6-1 6-2) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Thomas FancuttFancutt – Alexandru Vasile ManoleVasile Manole (6-4 6-3) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Giovanni FonioFonio – Justin ButschButsch (6-74 7-64 6-3) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Matheus Pucinelle De AlmeidaPucinelle De Almeida – Tomas Lipovsek PuchesLipovsek Puches (6-1 0-6 6-0) – Stats, scores, rankings
Upcoming matches in the draw
- Aryna SabalenkaSabalenka – Mccartney KesslerKessler (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Lucia BronzettiBronzetti – Magdalena FrechFrech (2-0) – H2H and prediction
- Ekaterina AlexandrovaAlexandrova – (0-1) – H2H and prediction
- Darya KasatkinaKasatkina – Sofia KeninKenin (2-3) – H2H and prediction
- Caty McNallyMcNally – Ludmilla SamsonovaSamsonova (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Leylah Annie FernandezAnnie Fernandez – Jaqueline CristianCristian (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Cori GauffGauff – Moyuka UchijimaUchijima (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Viktoriya TomovaTomova – Maria SakkariSakkari (1-4) – H2H and prediction
- Amanda AnisimovaAnisimova – Belinda BencicBencic (2-1) – H2H and prediction
- Alycia ParksParks – (1-1) – H2H and prediction
- Emma NavarroNavarro – Sorana CirsteaCirstea (0-1) – H2H and prediction
- Elina AvanesyanAvanesyan – Donna VekicVekic (0-1) – H2H and prediction
- Elise MertensMertens – Kimberly BirrellBirrell (0-1) – H2H and prediction
- Anastasia PotapovaPotapova – Madison KeysKeys (1-1) – H2H and prediction
- Varvara GrachevaGracheva – (0-1) – H2H and prediction
- Danielle Rose CollinsRose Collins – Hailey BaptisteBaptiste (1-0) – H2H and prediction
- Qinwen ZhengZheng – Victoria AzarenkaAzarenka (0-2) – H2H and prediction
- Elena RybakinaRybakina – Katie BoulterBoulter (1-0) – H2H and prediction
- Xin Yu WangYu Wang – Jessica PegulaPegula (2-0) – H2H and prediction
- Marta KostyukKostyuk – Caroline DolehideDolehide (1-0) – H2H and prediction
- Karolina MuchovaMuchova – Katerina SiniakovaSiniakova (0-1) – H2H and prediction
- Dayana YastremskaYastremska – Iga SwiatekSwiatek (1-1) – H2H and prediction