Karolina Muchova and Irina-Camelia Begu will play each other in the 2nd round of the Bad Homburg Open for the 5th time in their career. They are scheduled to play on Wednesday at 5:00 pm on CENTRE COURT. In the following lines you can find the head to head analysis and prediction.
Prediction, odds and live streaming
The pick for Tennis Tonic is Karolina Muchova who should win in 2 sets.
As per the initial odds, Karolina Muchova is the pick to win this match.
Karolina Muchova -> 1.159
Irina-Camelia Begu -> 5.2
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Prediction and head to head Karolina Muchova vs. Irina-Camelia Begu
This will be the 5th time that Karolina Muchova and Irina-Camelia Begu square off. The head to head is 2-2 for Muchova and Begu (see full H2H stats), but they have never played each other on grass.
The last time that they locked horns, Muchova won 6-1 6-1 in the semifinal in Palermo back in 2024.
Highlights Karolina Muchova vs Irina-Camelia Begu – Palermo 20-July-2024
Karolina Muchova
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LWWLWWWWWW | Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | 37-10 | 20-5 | 6-3 | 0-0 | 11-2 | 0-0 |
| 2025 | 26-17 | 23-13 | 0-1 | 2-1 | 1-2 | 0-0 |
| 2024 | 21-7 | 15-4 | 4-2 | 0-0 | 2-1 | 0-0 |
| 2023 | 38-13 | 28-9 | 10-3 | 0-0 | 0-1 | 0-0 |
| 2022 | 11-12 | 3-2 | 3-3 | 5-5 | 0-2 | 0-0 |
Ranked no. 11, Karolina will start her run in Bad Homburg after she played her last match in Berlin where she lost 6-4 7-5 to Keys in the 2nd round on the 18th of June.
Muchova has an overall 25-8 win-loss record in 2026, 1-1 on grass (See FULL STATS).
Her best result of the season was winning the title in Doha where she defeated Victoria Mboko in the final 6-4 7-5.
Talking about her overall career, Muchova has an overall 277-133 record. She has a positive 21-16 record on grass.
Previously in Bad Homburg
The Czech has never competed in this tournament before.
Irina-Camelia Begu
| Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | 4-5 | 0-0 | 1-3 | 0-0 | 3-2 | 0-0 |
| 2025 | 14-12 | 5-5 | 8-5 | 0-1 | 1-1 | 0-0 |
| 2024 | 30-13 | 1-2 | 29-10 | 0-0 | 0-1 | 0-0 |
| 2023 | 17-14 | 5-7 | 11-5 | 0-1 | 1-1 | 0-0 |
| 2022 | 32-17 | 7-9 | 20-5 | 3-2 | 2-1 | 0-0 |
Ranked no. 211, Begu reached the 2nd round after defeating Tamara Korpatsch 6-1 6-4, Diane Parry 6-4 7-6(5) and Venus Williams 6-2 4-6 7-6(6).
In the 1st round, The Romanian defeated Williams (6-2 4-6 7-66). During the match Begu scored 117 points vs Williams’s 115. Begu was extremely aggressive to blast 49 winners.
Talking about serving, Begu made 3 aces and she committed only 5 double faults. Irina-Camelia Begu lost the serve 3 times and she saved 7 break points. Furthermore, Begu put 68% of her first serves in, winning 65% (49/75) of the points behind her 1st serve and 49% (17/35) on the 2nd serve. The Romanian broke Williams 4 times after converting 25% of her break points (4/16).
Irina-Camelia has a composed 4-3 win-loss record in 2026, 3-0 on grass (See FULL STATS).
Head 2 Head
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- Anna KalinskayaKalinskaya – Elena Gabriela RuseGabriela Ruse (1-1) – H2H and prediction
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