Elena Rybakina and Heather Watson will face off in the 2nd round of the LTA London Championships for the 2nd time in their career. They are scheduled to play on Thursday at 2:30 pm on ANDY MURRAY ARENA. In the following lines you can find the head to head analysis 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 -> 1.072
Heather Watson -> 8.3
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Prediction and head to head Elena Rybakina vs. Heather Watson
This will be the 2nd time that Elena Rybakina and Heather Watson fight against each other. The head to head is 1-0 for Rybakina (see full H2H stats), but they have never competed against each other on grass.
The last time that they squared off, Rybakina won 6-3 4-6 6-4 in the semifinal in Hobart back in 2020.
Elena Rybakina
| Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 29-12 | 15-7 | 9-3 | 2-0 | 3-2 | 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. 11, Rybakina will start her run in London after she played her last match at the Paris where she lost 1-6 6-3 7-5 to Swiatek in the 4th round on the 1st of June.
Elena has an aggregate 26-10 win-loss record in 2025, 0-0 on grass (See FULL STATS).
This will be the first match of the year on grass.
Her best result of the current year was winning the title in Strasbourg where she overcame Liudmila Samsonova in the final 6-1 6-7(2) 6-1.
Talking about her overall career, Rybakina has an overall 358-153 record. She has a positive 33-11 record on grass.
Previously in London
The Kazakhstani has never competed in this tournament before.
Heather Watson
13 - 11win/loss
143
38
LWLLWWWLWL | Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 14-14 | 9-7 | 0-2 | 0-1 | 5-4 | 0-0 |
| 2024 | 26-20 | 16-11 | 1-4 | 8-2 | 1-3 | 0-0 |
| 2023 | 32-25 | 18-13 | 2-4 | 6-3 | 6-5 | 0-0 |
| 2022 | 29-26 | 14-13 | 4-6 | 6-3 | 5-4 | 0-0 |
| 2021 | 11-21 | 6-13 | 0-3 | 1-1 | 4-4 | 0-0 |
Ranked no. 164, the Brit got to the 2nd round after beating Ena Shibahara 6-1 5-7 6-4, Zeynep Sonmez 6-0 6-3 and Yulia Putintseva 6-4 6-3.
In the 1st round, The Brit had a good straight sets win against Putintseva (6-4 6-3). During the match Watson scored 67 points vs Putintseva’s 52. The Brit was extremely aggressive to blast 33 winners.
Talking about serving, Watson made 3 aces and she committed only 1 double fault for the entire match. Heather Watson lost the serve twice and she saved 4 break points. Furthermore, Watson put 65% of her first serves in, winning 75% (33/44) of the points behind her 1st serve and 33% (8/24) on the 2nd serve. Heather was clinical in her return game without wasting any break point and break Putintseva 4 times.
Watson’s best result of the season was getting to the semifinal in the Puerto Vallarta and the W100 Gifu.
Watson has a composed 13-11 win-loss record in 2025, 4-1 on grass (See FULL STATS).
Previously in London
Watson has never competed in this tournament before.
Head 2 Head
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LWLLWWWLWL Tennis Scores in London
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- Emma NavarroNavarro – Beatriz Haddad MaiaHaddad Maia (1-6 7-64 6-3) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Gianluca BeghiBeghi – Kirill KivattsevKivattsev (3-6 6-4 10-1) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Ronald SlobodchikovSlobodchikov – Edoardo LavagnoLavagno (6-3 7-5) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Pietro RondoniRondoni – Giorgio RiccaRicca (6-4 6-3) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Lorenzo FrigerioFrigerio – Adrian AndreevAndreev (6-3 6-4) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Andrea GuerrieriGuerrieri – Paul WoernerWoerner (7-61 6-0) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Savriyan DanilovDanilov – Samuele RamazzottiRamazzotti (7-5 6-2) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Andrea BollaBolla – Emiliano MaggioliMaggioli (6-2 6-2) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Amanda AnisimovaAmanda – Sonay KartalSonay (6-1 6-3) – See score progression
Upcoming matches in the draw
- Qinwen ZhengZheng – Mccartney KesslerKessler (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Emma RaducanuRaducanu – Rebecca SramkovaSramkova (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Heather WatsonWatson – Elena RybakinaRybakina (0-1) – H2H and prediction
- Anastasia ZakharovaZakharova – Madison KeysKeys (0-0) – H2H and prediction
