Ann Li vs Elina SvitolinaPrediction, Head-to-Head Results, and Stats
🇺🇸Ann Li
#30 · 25 yrs · Right-Handed
1 meeting · sets 0–2
🇺🇦Elina Svitolina
#7 · 31 yrs · Right-Handed
Ann Li and Elina Svitolina have met 1 time since 2021; Elina Svitolina leads 1–0. Across all meetings Li has taken 0 sets to Svitolina's 2. Their most recent meeting: Elina Svitolina won at French Open - Paris (2021).
Upcoming match
- Tournament
- China Open - Beijing
- Level
- WTA 1000
- Round
- 4th Round
- Surface
- Hard
- Date & time
- October 7 · 10:30 AM ET
Book odds
Set spread
Game spread
Record at prices like this
At 3.77 or longer, Ann Li has won 2 of 27 (7%). The price implied 21%, so Ann Li has fallen 14 points short of it.
At 1.28 or shorter, Elina Svitolina has won 107 of 126 (85%). The price implied 81%, so Elina Svitolina has beaten it by 4 points.
Book prices with the bookmaker margin removed, across every priced match we hold for each player. Green beats the price by 3 points or more, red falls that far short, grey is within 3 points. Samples under ten are not shown.
Elina Svitolina and Ann Li meet in the 4th Round of the China Open in Beijing on October 6, with the world number 7 facing the number 30 seed on hard court. Svitolina arrives with momentum after wins in both her previous matches this week, while Ann Li has also won her last two outings and sits on a two-match streak of her own.
The head-to-head record stands 1-0 in Svitolina's favor from their sole prior meeting. Svitolina has converted 4 of her last 5 matches and 8 of her last 10; Ann Li has won 4 of 5 but 7 of 10 over the same respective windows. Both players faced Iga Swiatek recently with opposite results, though Svitolina has posted wins over Coco Gauff, Dayana Yastremska, Ekaterina Alexandrova, and Elena Rybakina where Ann Li lost to each.
Svitolina's game relies on tactical variety and court movement, backed by a 75% hard court win rate in the sample. Ann Li builds her play around serve strength and aims to dictate from the baseline. Li's hard court record stands at 50% over the same period, highlighting the surface's demands on consistency. The match turns on whether Li's serve can generate sufficient pressure early in points, or if Svitolina's adaptive approach can disrupt that rhythm and extend rallies.
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Spread & Straight-Sets Form
Completed best-of-3 matches · Last 12 months
| Indicator | Li | Svitolina | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Indicator | Ann Li | Elina Svitolina | ||
| Wins in straight sets | 61% | 19/31 | 61% | 27/44 |
| Wins a set when losing | 44% | 12/27 | 31% | 4/13 |
| Goes to a deciding set | 41% | 24/58 | 37% | 21/57 |
| Covers −1.5 sets as favorite | 39% | 14/36 | 55% | 24/44 |
| Covers +1.5 sets as underdog | 68% | 13/19 | 75% | 9/12 |
| Tiebreak sets won | 44% | 8/18 | 69% | 11/16 |
| Wins after taking set 1 | 92% | 23/25 | 100% | 34/34 |
| Wins 2-0 after taking set 1 | 76% | 19/25 | 79% | 27/34 |
Colored rows are higher-is-better: green above 50%, red below. Favorite/underdog set by book odds; cover rows count only matches with odds on record. Head-to-head: 1 of 1 completed meetings ended in straight sets (Li 0, Svitolina 1).
Style Matchup
Playing styles and historical archetype record
Li
🤖 Servebot
Svitolina
👑 The Complete Package
Matchup analysis
The 👑 The Complete Package archetype wins about 55% vs 🤖 Servebot across 2,131 matches in our dataset: a stylistic lean toward Elina Svitolina.
The Complete Package players often use elite serve & return and high bp conversion to pressure the servebot's high ace rate.
Previous meetings
1 career meeting, newest first
Jun 3, 2021
French Open - Paris
C Clay · 2nd Round
Prop Research
Hit rates on common betting markets · Last 90 days
| Outcome | Li | Svitolina | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Outcome | Ann Li | Elina Svitolina | ||
| 1 or more | 79% | 11/14 | 100% | 12/12 |
| 3 or more | 71% | 10/14 | 58% | 7/12 |
| 5 or more | 43% | 6/14 | 8% | 1/12 |
| 10 or more | 7% | 1/14 | 0% | 0/12 |
| 15 or more | 0% | 0/14 | 0% | 0/12 |
| 20 or more | 0% | 0/14 | 0% | 0/12 |
Player ROI
Hypothetical if you put 1u on each player to win every one of their matches · Last 90 days
| Metric | Li | Svitolina |
|---|---|---|
| W-L | 9–6 | 10–3 |
| Avg odds | 2.35 | 1.42 |
| ROI % | +2.9% | -2.3% |
| Units P/L | +0.43u | -0.30u |
Travel
Last 30 days
| Metric | Li | Svitolina |
|---|---|---|
| Countries | 1 | 1 |
| Events | 1 | 1 |
| Matches | 2 | 2 |
| Distance | 0 mi · 0 km | 0 mi · 0 km |
| Route | ROU | ROU |
Host country from each tournament in the last 30 days, including the current event even when a player arrived on a bye. Route is the order of countries visited; consecutive stops in the same country are shown once. Distance is the great-circle total between host cities, shown only when every stop in the window is geocoded. A rough fatigue signal, not a headline stat.
Common opponents
Results vs. opponents both players faced · Last 12 months
Svitolina has a higher win rate against shared opponents (90% vs Li's 50%).
| Opponent | Li | Svitolina |
|---|---|---|
| Belinda Bencic | W 64 63 | W 46 64 60 |
| Ashlyn Krueger | W 64 62 | W 64 62 |
| Linda Noskova | L 26 76 26 | W 76 75 |
| Maya Joint | W 61 62 | W 62 67 64 |
| Antonia Ruzic | W 75 61 | W 36 62 63 |
| Coco Gauff | L 16 67 | W 64 67 62 |
| Iga Swiatek | W | L 36 61 36 |
| Ekaterina Alexandrova | L 16 76 16 | W 36 60 63 |
| Elena Rybakina | L 26 57 | W 26 64 64 |
| Liudmila Samsonova | L 46 36 | W 36 63 62 |
Recent Form
Last five matches per player
Belinda Bencic
China Open - Beijing · 3rd Round
Oct 5
Ashlyn Krueger
China Open - Beijing · 2nd Round
Oct 3
Linda Noskova
U.S. Open - New York · 3rd Round
Sep 4
Donna Vekic
U.S. Open - New York · 2nd Round
Sep 3
Antonia Ruzic
U.S. Open - New York · 1st Round
Sep 1
Diane Parry
Abierto GNP Seguros - Monterrey · Semifinals
Aug 29
Alycia Parks
Abierto GNP Seguros - Monterrey · Quarterfinals
Aug 28
Maria Victoria Quinde Serrano
Abierto GNP Seguros - Monterrey · 1st Round
Aug 25
Maria Sakkari
China Open - Beijing · 3rd Round
Oct 5
Katerina Siniakova
China Open - Beijing · 2nd Round
Oct 3
Anna Kalinskaya
U.S. Open - New York · 3rd Round
Sep 5
Maya Joint
U.S. Open - New York · 2nd Round
Sep 3
Solana Sierra
U.S. Open - New York · 1st Round
Aug 31
Tereza Valentova
Cincinnati Open - Cincinnati · 2nd Round
Aug 17
Iga Swiatek
National Bank Open - Toronto · Semifinals
Aug 13
Ekaterina Alexandrova
National Bank Open - Toronto · Quarterfinals
Aug 11
Win rate
Matches, sets and games won · Last 12 months · 57–58 matches
| Metric | Li | Svitolina |
|---|---|---|
| Matches won | 53% | 77% |
| Sets won | 53% | 68% |
| Games won | 51% | 57% |
Record by tier
Head-to-head record by tournament tier
| Stage | Li | Svitolina |
|---|---|---|
| Grand Slam | 0 | 1 |
By surface
Head-to-head record per surface
| Surface | Li | Svitolina |
|---|---|---|
| Clay | 0 | 1 |