Veronika Kudermetova vs Victoria Azarenka: Bet on a Confident Win for Victoria

After a failure at the St. Petersburg Open, Veronika Kudermetova flew to Dubai to face Victoria Azarenka in the first round. The athletes have never played each other before and the bookmakers are on the side of the Belarusian.

Kudermetova got to the third round of the Australian Open, dropping out once defeated by Sakkari. In St. Petersburg the Russian was eliminated after her first match against Olympic champion Belinda Bencic. Veronika had a chance to advance to the second round, but Kudermetova was beaten on a tie-break in the third set. Her statistics for that match show that Veronika had trouble with her second serve, and she needs to work on receive as well; her first serve percentage in women's tennis is 19%, which is very low to say the least.

WTA Dubai will be the first tournament for Victoria since the Australian Open where she performed very well. She made it to the round of 16 in Melbourne after knocking out Udvardy, Teichmann and Svitolina. In the end Azarenka beat the Czech player in two sets 6-2, 6-2. But again it has to be said Victoria is not in bad shape.

Victoria Azarenka is an experienced athlete, the Belarusian doesn't like, as they say, to stretch the fun; it's not often that you see a long match with Victoria. Also note that Azarenka has two Doha tournament titles in her career. Qatar is not the UAE, but the region is the same, so we can say that the climate here is quite comfortable for the Belarusian. We think that Azarenka has a good chance to start with a confident win in Dubai. Here are the betting options for the upcoming match: Correct Score 0-2 for 1.83; H2 (-5.5) for 2.30; Correct Score 0-2 for 1.80.