Elisabetta Cocciaretto and Lucrezia Stefanini will play each other in the 1st round of the Cincinnati Open for the 3rd time in their career. They are scheduled to compete on Friday at 11:00 am on COURT 4. In this post, we analyze their head to head performance and prediction.
Prediction, odds and live streaming
The pick for Tennis Tonic is Elisabetta Cocciaretto who should win in 2 sets.
As per the initial odds, Elisabetta Cocciaretto is the pick to win this match.
Elisabetta Cocciaretto -> 1.42
Lucrezia Stefanini -> 2.85
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Prediction and head to head Elisabetta Cocciaretto vs. Lucrezia Stefanini
This will be the 3rd time that Elisabetta Cocciaretto and Lucrezia Stefanini play each other. The head to head is 2-0 for Cocciaretto (see full H2H stats), but they have never played each other on hard.
The last time that they squared off, Cocciaretto won 6-2 6-0 in the 1st round in Linz back in 2024.
Elisabetta Cocciaretto
22 - 15win/loss
71
29
LLLLLWWLLL | Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | 22-17 | 17-9 | 5-5 | 0-1 | 0-2 | 0-0 |
| 2025 | 31-28 | 10-14 | 10-8 | 4-3 | 7-3 | 0-0 |
| 2024 | 27-25 | 12-13 | 10-8 | 2-3 | 3-1 | 0-0 |
| 2023 | 28-19 | 8-10 | 14-4 | 4-3 | 2-2 | 0-0 |
| 2022 | 45-23 | 12-5 | 32-14 | 0-3 | 1-1 | 0-0 |
Ranked no. 59, Elisabetta will start her run in Cincinnati after she played her last match in Toronto where she lost 6-2 3-2 ret. to Gibson in the 1st round on the 3rd of August.
Cocciaretto has a composed 22-14 win-loss record in 2026, 17-7 on hard (See FULL STATS).
Her best result of the current season was winning the title in Hobart where she defeated Iva Jovic in the final 6-4 6-4.
Talking about her overall career, Cocciaretto has an overall 242-157 record. She has a positive 77-63 record on hard.
Previously in Cincinnati
Previously, her best result was reaching the 2nd round in 2024. See her history.
Lucrezia Stefanini
25 - 20win/loss
125
99
WLWWLLWWWW | Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | 32-24 | 21-12 | 1-5 | 6-4 | 4-3 | 0-0 |
| 2025 | 38-30 | 21-16 | 5-4 | 7-6 | 5-4 | 0-0 |
| 2024 | 35-26 | 19-10 | 6-8 | 7-6 | 3-2 | 0-0 |
| 2023 | 37-23 | 22-12 | 6-6 | 4-2 | 5-3 | 0-0 |
| 2022 | 36-30 | 16-7 | 13-13 | 5-6 | 2-4 | 0-0 |
Ranked no. 147, Lucrezia reached the 1st round after beating Anastasia Zakharova 6-4 6-2 and Leolia Jeanjean 6-2 6-4.
In the qualifications, Lucrezia had a good straight sets win against Jeanjean (6-2 6-4). During the match Stefanini scored 65 points vs Jeanjean’s 52. Lucrezia was pretty aggressive to blast 20 winners.
Talking about serving, Stefanini scored just 1 ace during the entire match and she committed only 3 double faults. Lucrezia Stefanini lost the serve 3 times and she saved 5 break points. Furthermore, Stefanini put 68% of her first serves in, winning 53% (20/38) of the points behind her 1st serve and 56% (10/18) on the 2nd serve. Lucrezia broke Jeanjean 6 times after converting 60% of her break points (6/10).
Overall Performance in this tournament
Lucrezia started her run at this tournament from the qualifications. In the main draw, she hasn’t dropped yet a set in this tournament to win 55% of the points she played.
WTA Cincinnati - Lucrezia Stefanini's projected path
Her best result of the season was winning the title the W100 Cary where she beat Savannah Broadus in the final 6-3 6-2.
The Italian has a composed 24-20 win-loss record in 2026, 13-8 on hard (See FULL STATS).
Previously in Cincinnati
The Italian has never competed in this tournament before.
Head 2 Head
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WWWWWWWWWW Tennis Scores in Cincinnati
- Tatjana MariaMaria – Dayana YastremskaYastremska (6-1 6-2) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Simona WaltertWaltert – Petra MarcinkoMarcinko (5-7 6-4 6-2) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Anhelina KalininaKalinina – Darja VidmanovaVidmanova (4-6 6-4 6-2) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Kamilla RakhimovaRakhimova – Kimberly BirrellBirrell (6-2 6-2) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Elena Gabriela RuseGabriela Ruse – Magda LinetteLinette (6-0 6-3) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Katie BoulterBoulter – Katie VolynetsVolynets (7-5 0-6 6-4) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Lois BoissonBoisson – Ashlyn KruegerKrueger (6-3 6-2) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Caty McNallyMcNally – Mccartney KesslerKessler (6-3 6-4) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Magdalena FrechFrech – Antonia RuzicRuzic (6-2 7-5) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Taylor TownsendTownsend – Maria Camila Osorio SerranoCamila Osorio Serrano (3-6 6-3 6-3) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Cristina BucsaBucsa – Panna UdvardyUdvardy (6-2 1-6 7-5) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Zeynep SonmezSonmez – Daria KasatkinaKasatkina (2-6 7-64 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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