Elena Rybakina 17/100 | Katie Boulter 39/10

Elena Rybakina appears to have shrugged off the virus that noticed her withdraw from the French Open and threatened her Wimbledon title defence. She began sluggishly this 12 months, dropping the primary set in her first-round match with Shelby Rogers.

However she stormed again to guide her place within the 2nd spherical with a brutal show of serving superiority. And he or she regarded even higher in opposition to the artful Alize Cornet, hitting an imposing 36 winners to down the succesful Frenchwoman.

Rybakina has quick emerged as one of the crucial feared big-match gamers in girls’s tennis, taking her place alongside Swiatek and Sabalenka in a brand new ‘Massive Three’. Her run to Wimbledon victory final 12 months was fairly leftfield.

However she backed that up with a run to the ultimate of this 12 months’s Aussie Open. She additionally reached back-to-back finals on the Sunshine Double (successful at Indian Wells). She defied additional expectations with a WTA 1000 victory on the purple clay in Rome. Her huge serve and unflappable demeanor are sufficient to present any participant nightmares.

Brit Katie Boulter is the polar reverse of the unassuming Rybakina. As soon as dubbed the brand new glamour woman of girls’s tennis, Boulter has maybe lacked the single-minded focus crucial to achieve the very prime of the ladies’s sport.

She memorably upset Karolina Pliskova en path to final 12 months’s Wimbledon third spherical. However there have been sings of life within the Boulter sport this 12 months. This began on the lower-tier, the place she gained the season-opening Canberra Worldwide. She had some stable ITF showings earlier than the tour switched to grass.

And that’s the place her season actually got here to life. She turned the British Quantity One after a semi-final displaying on the Surbiton Trophy (which might be extra an indictment of Emma Radacanu than anything). She then gained her maiden WTA title on the Nottingham Open.

She would lose her subsequent two grass-court matches however she appears to have rediscovered that Nottingham type at SW19. She eased previous Gavrilova within the first match earlier than a topsy-turvy win over Tomova. However this subsequent problem will probably be a big step up at school for the Brit.

Verdict: Rybakina to win in straight units at 51/100

This would be the first aggressive match between these two. There’s simply no manner I can envisage this match going another manner: this might truly be a massacre. Rybakina is serving brilliantly and will steamroll the Brit.