Karolina Pliskova and Sinja Kraus will play each other in the 1st round of the Transylvania Open for the 1st time in their career. They are scheduled to play on Tuesday at 8:00 pm on Center Court. In the following paragraphs, you can find the head to head analysis and prediction.
Prediction, odds and live streaming
The pick for Tennis Tonic is Karolina Pliskova who should win in 2 sets.
As per the initial odds, Karolina Pliskova is the pick to win this match.
Karolina Pliskova -> 1.21
Sinja Kraus -> 4.45
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Prediction and head to head Karolina Pliskova vs. Sinja Kraus
There is no head to head record between Karolina Pliskova and Sinja Kraus since this will be the first time that they will face off in the main tour.
Karolina Pliskova
| Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 20-16 | 10-10 | 1-3 | 5-0 | 4-3 | 0-0 |
| 2023 | 22-19 | 19-13 | 2-3 | 0-0 | 1-3 | 0-0 |
| 2022 | 21-21 | 12-9 | 6-6 | 0-3 | 3-3 | 0-0 |
| 2021 | 37-19 | 23-12 | 8-4 | 0-0 | 6-3 | 0-0 |
| 2020 | 14-8 | 9-5 | 5-2 | 0-1 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
Ranked no. 78, Pliskova will start her run in Cluj-Napoca after she played her last match at the Melbourne where she lost 7-6(6) 6-4 to Rybakina in the 1st round on the 16th of January.
Karolina has a composed 1-3 win-loss record in 2024, 0-0 on indoor hard courts (See FULL STATS).
This will be the first match of the season on indoor hard courts.
Talking about her overall career, Pliskova has an overall 604-335 record. She has a positive 68-44 record on indoor hard courts.
Previously in Cluj-Napoca
Pliskova has never competed in this tournament before.
Sinja Kraus
| Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 43-24 | 3-2 | 27-12 | 11-9 | 0-0 | 2-1 |
| 2023 | 31-31 | 1-8 | 26-16 | 1-4 | 3-2 | 0-1 |
| 2022 | 51-33 | 2-9 | 46-20 | 2-3 | 0-0 | 1-1 |
| 2021 | 43-27 | 7-6 | 31-14 | 5-6 | 0-0 | 0-1 |
| 2020 | 10-8 | 2-2 | 3-3 | 3-2 | 0-0 | 2-1 |
Ranked no. 188, Kraus got to the 1st round after beating Viktoria Hruncakova 6-4 3-6 6-3 and Marina Bassols Ribera 7-64 6-3.
In the qualifications, Kraus had a good straight sets win against Bassols Ribera (7-64 6-3). During the match Kraus scored 93 points vs Bassols Ribera’s 80. Kraus was extremely aggressive to blast 34 winners.
Talking about serving, Kraus struck 6 aces and she committed only 5 double faults. Sinja Kraus lost the serve 4 times and she saved 4 break points. Furthermore, Kraus put 52% of her first serves in, winning 67% (34/51) of the points behind her 1st serve and 38% (18/47) on the 2nd serve. Sinja broke Bassols Ribera 5 times after converting 50% of her break points (5/10).
Overall Performance in this tournament
The Austrian started her run at this tournament from the qualifications. In the main draw, she has conceded 1 set in the tournament to win 52% of the points she played.
Kraus’s best result of the year was reaching the semifinal in the W75+H Porto.
Sinja has an aggregate 6-3 win-loss record in 2024, 6-2 on indoor hard courts (See FULL STATS).
Head 2 Head
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- Maria Camila Osorio SerranoCamila Osorio Serrano – Viktoriya TomovaTomova (6-2 6-4) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Arantxa RusRus – Greetje MinnenMinnen (7-5 6-1) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Nuria Parrizas-DiazParrizas-Diaz – Laura SiegemundSiegemund (6-4 6-4) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Maxime HamouHamou – Matteo MartineauMartineau (3-6 6-4 6-4) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Lucas BouquetBouquet – Ulises BlanchBlanch (6-1 4-6 6-4) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Fabien ReboulReboul – Florent BaxBax (6-76 6-4 7-5) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Juan Pablo VarillasPablo Varillas – Benjamin PietriPietri (2-6 7-63 6-4) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Corentin DenollyDenolly – Gonzalo VillanuevaVillanueva (6-1 6-4) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Ugo HumbertHumbert – Jakub PaulPaul (7-5 6-1) – Stats, scores, rankings
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- Tak Khunn WangKhunn Wang – Dan AddedAdded (6-2 6-2) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Tomas Lipovsek PuchesLipovsek Puches – Alexis MusialekMusialek (6-1 6-4) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Maxime ChazalChazal – Ronan JoncourJoncour (7-64 7-5) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Nino PortalesPortales – Louis TessaTessa (6-2 6-3) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Joffrey De SchepperDe Schepper – Emilien VoisinVoisin (6-1 6-4) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Yann MartiMarti – Alexis BoureauBoureau (6-3 7-62) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Antoine Cornut-ChauvincCornut-Chauvinc – Sadio DoumbiaDoumbia (4-6 6-2 6-2) – Stats, scores, rankings
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- Anastasija SevastovaSevastova – Andreea MituMitu (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Tamara KorpatschKorpatsch – Elina AvanesyanAvanesyan (1-2) – H2H and prediction
- Elisabetta CocciarettoCocciaretto – Emiliana ArangoArango (1-0) – H2H and prediction
- Harriet DartDart – Anna BondarBondar (0-1) – H2H and prediction
- Karolina PliskovaPliskova – Sinja KrausKraus (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Sara ErraniErrani – Caty McNallyMcNally (2-0) – H2H and prediction
- Nuria Parrizas-DiazParrizas-Diaz – Anna BlinkovaBlinkova (1-0) – H2H and prediction
