Elena Rybakina v Barbora Krejcikova | Wimbledon Semi-Final preview, betting tips and H2H

Elena Rybakina locks horns with Barbora Krejcikova in the second women’s singles semi-final at Wimbledon on Thursday.

Centre Court will be treated to a battle of the former grand slam champions; Rybakina triumphing here in 2022, a year after Krejcikova won the French Open.

Both players have enjoyed fairly dominant runs to the semi-finals, having each dropped just a single set in their five matches thus far.

Following victories over the likes of Caroline Wozniacki and Elina Svitolina, Rybakina has now won 19 of her first 21 matches at Wimbledon, and is now into a joint-leading seventh WTA semi-final of the season (level with world number one Iga Swiatek).

Krejcikova, who arrived at SW19 with just three wins in five months having struggled with a back injury, is fresh from beating top-15 opponents successively for the first time in a major, after beating Danielle Collins and Jelena Ostapenko.

The winner of this clash will play either Jasmine Paolini or Donna Vekic in Saturday’s final.

The match gets under way at around 3.30pm BST on Thursday and will be contested over the best of three sets on Centre Court.

Elena Rybakina v Barbora Krejcikova prediction

Rybakina finds herself in strong company with her Wimbledon statistics.

Only Monica Seles, Margaret Court and Chris Evert have won more of their first 21 matches at a single grand slam in the Open Era.

Meanwhile, Krejcikova becomes the seventh Czech woman to reach the Wimbledon semi-finals – and it is her first such appearance in a major since her 2021 French Open triumph.

In fact, only Sloane Stephens (16) made more grand slam appearances between reaching her first two major semi-finals than the 31st seed (13).

Krejcikova boasts an impressive record against former major champions at slams, winning five of her seven previous such matches, though Rybakina at Wimbledon is a tough proposition.

The Kazakh’s strong service game may prove crucial to determining the outcome of this contest, with her tally of 31 aces in five matches the most of this year’s four semi-finalists.

Elena Rybakina v Barbora Krejcikova betting tip

Elena Rybakina over 7.5 aces @ 10/11 with Bet365

Elena Rybakina v Barbora Krejcikova match odds

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Elena Rybakina v Barbora Krejcikova head-to-head

This will be the third meeting between the players on the WTA Tour. Krejcikova has won both previous meetings in three sets, most recently in Ostrava two years ago.