Pooja Ingale vs Zhibek KulambayevaPrediction, Head-to-Head Results, and Stats
🇮🇳Pooja Ingale
Unranked · 24 yrs
7w1 meeting · sets 1–2
🇰🇿Zhibek Kulambayeva
#472 · 26 yrs · Right-Handed
Pooja Ingale and Zhibek Kulambayeva have met 1 time since 2026; Zhibek Kulambayeva leads 1–0. Across all meetings Ingale has taken 1 sets to Kulambayeva's 2. Their most recent meeting: Zhibek Kulambayeva won at W15 Nagpur 1 (2026).
Spread & Straight-Sets Form
Completed best-of-3 matches · Last 12 months
| Indicator | Ingale | Kulambayeva | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Indicator | Pooja Ingale | Zhibek Kulambayeva | ||
| Wins in straight sets | 20% | 1/5 | 64% | 14/22 |
| Wins a set when losing | 25% | 4/16 | 13% | 2/15 |
| Goes to a deciding set | 38% | 8/21 | 27% | 10/37 |
| Covers −1.5 sets as favorite | 25% | 1/4 | 53% | 9/17 |
| Covers +1.5 sets as underdog | 38% | 6/16 | 38% | 6/16 |
| Tiebreak sets won | 50% | 2/4 | 60% | 3/5 |
| Wins after taking set 1 | 50% | 3/6 | 100% | 17/17 |
| Wins 2-0 after taking set 1 | 17% | 1/6 | 82% | 14/17 |
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: 0 of 1 completed meetings ended in straight sets (Ingale 0, Kulambayeva 0).
Style Matchup
Playing styles and historical archetype record
Ingale
🏃 Pusher
Kulambayeva
🪃 Counterpuncher
Matchup analysis
The 🪃 Counterpuncher archetype wins about 84% vs 🏃 Pusher across 1,548 matches in our dataset: a stylistic lean toward Zhibek Kulambayeva.
Counterpuncher players often use elite bp conversion and strong return game to pressure the pusher's extreme retrieval.
Previous meetings
1 career meeting, newest first
Mar 26, 2026
W15 Nagpur 1
C Clay · 2nd Round
Player ROI
Hypothetical if you put 1u on each player to win every one of their matches · Last 90 days
| Metric | Ingale | Kulambayeva |
|---|---|---|
| W-L | 0–1 | 10–7 |
| Avg odds | 2.44 | 2.16 |
| ROI % | -100.0% | +8.5% |
| Units P/L | -1.00u | +1.45u |
Small sample: ROI stabilizes with more matches; fewer than 10 in the window is noisy.
Travel
Last 30 days
| Metric | Ingale | Kulambayeva |
|---|---|---|
| Countries | — | 2 |
| Events | — | 2 |
| Matches | — | 3 |
| Distance | — | — |
| Route | — | FRA → DEN |
Host country from the tournament each match was played in, over the last 30 days. 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
Kulambayeva has a higher win rate against shared opponents (100% vs Ingale's 50%).
| Opponent | Ingale | Kulambayeva |
|---|---|---|
| Danica Fernando | W 75 16 64 | W 63 60 |
| Zeel Desai | L 16 26 | W 76 63 |
Recent Form
Last five matches per player
Aisulu Zholbolat
Astana 7 ITF
Jul 13
Aleksandra Khomitskaya
Astana 14 ITF
Jul 6
Arina Arifullina
W35 Tumkur · 2nd Round
May 7
Danica Fernando
W35 Tumkur · 1st Round
May 5
Elina Nepliy
W15 New Delhi · 1st Round
Apr 29
Ksenia Laskutova
W15 Panipat · 2nd Round
Apr 23
Rubani Kaur Sidhu
W15 Panipat · 1st Round
Apr 21
Zeel Desai
W15 Ch. Sambhaji Nagar 1 · 1st Round
Apr 1
Georgia Pedone
W50 Kursumlijska Banja · 1st Round
Aug 26
Mia Ristic
W75 Kursumlijska Banja · 2nd Round
Aug 13
Zongyu Li
W75 Kursumlijska Banja · 1st Round
Aug 12
Andrea Lazaro Garcia
W100 Gran Canaria-Maspalomas · 1st Round
Jul 28
Leyre Romero Gormaz
Iasi WTA
Jul 13
Lisa Zaar
Iasi WTA
Jul 12
Joelle Lilly Sophie Steur
W75 The Hague · 2nd Round
Jul 9
Nuria Brancaccio
W75 The Hague · 1st Round
Jul 8
Win rate
Matches, sets and games won · Last 12 months · 21–37 matches
| Metric | Ingale | Kulambayeva |
|---|---|---|
| Matches won | 24% | 59% |
| Sets won | 28% | 55% |
| Games won | 39% | 53% |
Record by tier
Head-to-head record by tournament tier
| Stage | Ingale | Kulambayeva |
|---|---|---|
| ITF W15 | 0 | 1 |
By surface
Head-to-head record per surface
| Surface | Ingale | Kulambayeva |
|---|---|---|
| Clay | 0 | 1 |
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