Rybakina vs Sabalenka: another tight clash?
Throughout her career, Rybakina took two defeats from Aryna Sabalenka, but both of those matches were heavily contested and ended in three sets. On July 5, players will fight for the spot in the quarter-final of Wimbledon. We are offering our prediction for this match.

Command Analysis

Elena Rybakina

Elena Rybakina is close to her second consecutive quarter-final on the Grand Slam tournaments. Just one month ago Kazakhstan representative played in the quarter-final of Roland Garros, where she was beaten by Pavlyuchenkova (7:6, 1:6, 7:9).
So far Elena didn't meet any problems on the London tournament. In the main draw she beat Mladenovic (6:4, 6:4), Liu (6:4, 6:4) and Rogers (6:1, 6:4). Elena is almost flawless on her serve, only once in three matches she lost a game while serving.

Aryna Sabalenka

Aryna Sabalenka won two WTA tournaments in 2021, but so far she is not successful on the Grand Slam competitions. She managed to reach the round of 16 at Australian Open and the third round of Roland Garros.
Aryna got an easy draw in London - she beat Niculescu, Boulter and Osorio Serrano before the round of 16. Despite that, she still lost one set to Boulter (4:6, 6:3, 6:3). In three matches combined Belarusian player lost seven games at her serve.
Trends
СтавкаSecond set: total over 9.5
In three out of last five Rybakina's matches more than nine games were played in the second set

СтавкаSets total over 2.5
In both head-to-head matches a set exchange took place

Tip and bets
Rybakina and Sabalenka played two head-to-head matches before. Both of them were closely contested and Aryna needed three sets for the victory. But Elena is looking very well in London, so she should be able to put up a fight against her opponent.
Our prediction - Rybakina to win with a handicap of (+4) games
Considering a bet on total, we should take a look at the history of head-to-head matches. Both of them were going on for a long time, so we should place a bet on total over.
Our second bet is on total over 21 games