Sara Bejlek and Karolina Pliskova will square off in the 1st round of the Cincinnati Open for the 2nd time in their career. They are scheduled to compete on Friday at 11:00 AM on P&G STADIUM 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 Sara Bejlek who should win in 3 sets.
As per the initial odds, Sara Bejlek is the pick to win this match.
Sara Bejlek -> 1.74
Karolina Pliskova -> 2.09
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Prediction and head to head Sara Bejlek vs. Karolina Pliskova
This will be the 2nd time that Sara Bejlek and Karolina Pliskova play each other. The head to head is 1-0 for Pliskova (see full H2H stats), but they have never competed against each other on hard.
The last time that they fought against each other, Pliskova won 2-6 7-6(3) 6-2 in the 1st round in Nottingham back in June 2026.
Highlights Karolina Pliskova vs Sara Bejlek – Nottingham 16-June-2026
Sara Bejlek
18 - 14win/loss
29
28
LWLLWWWWWL | Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | 23-17 | 20-9 | 2-5 | 0-0 | 1-3 | 0-0 |
| 2025 | 41-17 | 10-7 | 31-10 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2024 | 25-13 | 5-3 | 19-8 | 0-0 | 1-2 | 0-0 |
| 2023 | 42-19 | 6-5 | 36-13 | 0-0 | 0-1 | 0-0 |
| 2022 | 34-15 | 7-5 | 27-9 | 0-0 | 0-1 | 0-0 |
Ranked no. 38, the Czech will start her run in Cincinnati after she played her last match in Toronto where she lost 6-0 6-3 to Swiatek in the 2nd round on the 4th of August.
Bejlek has an aggregate 17-14 win-loss record in 2026, 14-6 on hard (See FULL STATS).
Her best result of the year was winning the title in Abu Dhabi where she beat Ekaterina Alexandrova in the final 7-6(5) 6-1.
Talking about her overall career, Sara has an overall 177-87 record. She has a positive 42-26 record on hard.
Previously in Cincinnati
Bejlek has never competed in this tournament before.
Karolina Pliskova
21 - 12win/loss
51
1
LWLLWLWLWW | Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | 22-13 | 6-5 | 10-4 | 0-1 | 6-3 | 0-0 |
| 2025 | 1-2 | 1-2 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 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 |
Ranked no. 66, the Czech will start her run in Cincinnati after she played her last match in Toronto where she lost 6-0 6-2 to Andreeva in the 2nd round on the 5th of August.
Pliskova has a composed 21-11 win-loss record in 2026, 5-3 on hard (See FULL STATS).
In terms of her career, The Czech has an overall 645-361 record. She has a positive 334-181 record on hard.
Head 2 Head
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WWWWWWWWWW Tennis Scores in Cincinnati
- Caty McNallyMcNally – Mccartney KesslerKessler (6-3 6-4) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Cristina BucsaBucsa – Panna UdvardyUdvardy (6-2 1-6 7-5) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Tatjana MariaMaria – Dayana YastremskaYastremska (6-1 6-2) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Katie BoulterBoulter – Katie VolynetsVolynets (7-5 0-6 6-4) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Simona WaltertWaltert – Petra MarcinkoMarcinko (5-7 6-4 6-2) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Lois BoissonBoisson – Ashlyn KruegerKrueger (6-3 6-2) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Anhelina KalininaKalinina – Darja VidmanovaVidmanova (4-6 6-4 6-2) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Zeynep SonmezSonmez – Daria KasatkinaKasatkina (2-6 7-64 6-3) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Elena Gabriela RuseGabriela Ruse – Magda LinetteLinette (6-0 6-3) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Magdalena FrechFrech – Antonia RuzicRuzic (6-2 7-5) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Kamilla RakhimovaRakhimova – Kimberly BirrellBirrell (6-2 6-2) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Taylor TownsendTownsend – Maria Camila Osorio SerranoCamila Osorio Serrano (3-6 6-3 6-3) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Diane ParryParry – Caroline DolehideDolehide (6-4 7-67) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Filip KolasinskiKolasinski – Pawel JuszczakJuszczak (6-2 0-6 6-3) – Stats, scores, rankings
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- Daria SnigurSnigur – Yulia StarodubtsewaStarodubtsewa (1-0) – H2H and prediction
- Yulia PutintsevaPutintseva – Ludmilla SamsonovaSamsonova (1-0) – H2H and prediction
- Alycia ParksParks – Viktorija GolubicGolubic (1-1) – H2H and prediction
- Elvina KalievaKalieva – Oleksandra OliynykovaOliynykova (1-0) – H2H and prediction
- Caty McNallyMcNally – Mccartney KesslerKessler (0-1) – H2H and prediction
- Zeynep SonmezSonmez – Amanda AnisimovaAnisimova (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Emma NavarroNavarro – Anhelina KalininaKalinina (1-0) – H2H and prediction
- Simona WaltertWaltert – Jessica PegulaPegula (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Kamilla RakhimovaRakhimova – Maria SakkariSakkari (0-3) – H2H and prediction
- Elise MertensMertens – Diane ParryParry (1-0) – H2H and prediction
- Cristina BucsaBucsa – Maja ChwalinskaChwalinska (2-0) – H2H and prediction
- Jelena OstapenkoOstapenko – Magdalena FrechFrech (2-0) – H2H and prediction
- Taylor TownsendTownsend – Elena RybakinaRybakina (0-1) – H2H and prediction
