Sorana Cirstea and Nikola Bartunkova will clash against each other in the 2nd round of the Cincinnati Open for the 1st time in their career. They are scheduled to play on Saturday at 1:00 PM on Court 10. In this post, we analyze their head to head performance and prediction.
Prediction, odds and live streaming
The pick for Tennis Tonic is Sorana Cirstea who should win in 3 sets.
As per the initial odds, Sorana Cirstea is the pick to win this match.
Sorana Cirstea -> 1.5
Nikola Bartunkova -> 2.58
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Prediction and head to head Sorana Cirstea vs. Nikola Bartunkova
There is no head to head record between Sorana Cirstea and Nikola Bartunkova since this will be the first time that they will play each other in the main tour.
Sorana Cirstea
35 - 12win/loss
16
15
LWWWLWWLLW | Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | 39-14 | 17-8 | 14-4 | 5-0 | 3-2 | 0-0 |
| 2025 | 30-20 | 26-14 | 3-2 | 1-2 | 0-2 | 0-0 |
| 2024 | 12-16 | 9-8 | 3-5 | 0-0 | 0-3 | 0-0 |
| 2023 | 31-22 | 21-14 | 7-4 | 0-1 | 3-3 | 0-0 |
| 2022 | 22-21 | 10-10 | 4-6 | 4-2 | 4-3 | 0-0 |
Ranked no. 19, the Romanian will start her run in Cincinnati after she played her last match in Toronto where she lost 6-4 6-4 to Joint in the 2nd round on the 5th of August.
Cirstea has an aggregate 34-12 win-loss record in 2026, 12-6 on hard (See FULL STATS).
Her best result of the current year was winning the title in Napoca where she beat Emma Raducanu in the final 6-0 6-2.
Talking about her overall career, Sorana has an overall 605-460 record. She has a positive 291-221 record on hard.
Previously in Cincinnati
Previously, her best result was reaching the 4th round in 2025. See her history.
Nikola Bartunkova
29 - 18win/loss
34
34
WWWWLWWLWW | Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | 38-20 | 23-10 | 5-5 | 2-1 | 8-4 | 0-0 |
| 2025 | 54-19 | 8-5 | 26-8 | 20-6 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2024 | 19-11 | 0-0 | 1-2 | 18-9 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2023 | 24-10 | 0-1 | 21-5 | 3-4 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2022 | 33-15 | 14-4 | 13-6 | 5-4 | 0-0 | 1-1 |
Ranked no. 39 (career-high), Bartunkova got to the 2nd round after beating Alina Charaeva 4-6 6-4 6-3.
In the 1st round against Charaeva, Bartunkova recovered from a 1-set down deficit before winning (4-6 6-4 6-3). During the match Bartunkova scored 107 points vs Charaeva’s 100. Nikola was exceptionally aggressive to blast 37 winners.
About the serving games, Bartunkova made 6 aces and she committed only 7 double faults. Nikola Bartunkova lost the serve 4 times and she saved 10 break points. Furthermore, Bartunkova put 48% of her first serves in, winning 67% (37/55) of the points behind her 1st serve and 50% (30/60) on the 2nd serve. Nikola broke Charaeva 5 times after converting 38% of her break points (5/13).
Nikola’s best result of the season was getting to the semifinal in the Birmingham.
Nikola has a compiled 29-17 win-loss record in 2026, 14-7 on hard (See FULL STATS).
Previously in Cincinnati
Nikola has never competed in this tournament before.
Head 2 Head
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WWWWWWWWWW Tennis Scores in Cincinnati
- Nikola BartunkovaBartunkova – Alina CharaevaCharaeva (4-6 6-4 6-3) – See score progression
- Daria SnigurSnigur – Yuliia StarodubtsevaStarodubtseva (6-4 6-3) – See score progression
- Tamara KorpatschKorpatsch – Maya JointJoint (0-6 6-3 6-4) – See score progression
- Sofia KeninKenin – Eva LysLys (1-6 6-3 6-3) – See score progression
- Anna BlinkovaBlinkova – Mananchaya SawangkaewSawangkaew (1-6 6-2 6-3) – See score progression
- Emiliana ArangoArango – Venus WilliamsWilliams (6-2 6-2) – See score progression
- Jessica Bouzas ManeiroBouzas Maneiro – Anna BondarBondar (6-3 7-65) – See score progression
- Sara BejlekBejlek – Karolina PliskovaPliskova (6-0 6-2) – See score progression
- Xiyu WangWang – Maria TimofeevaTimofeeva (6-0 3-0 ret.) – See score progression
- Sloane StephensStephens – Sinja KrausKraus (7-5 6-3) – See score progression
- Liudmila SamsonovaSamsonova – Yulia PutintsevaPutintseva (7-65 5-7 7-5) – See score progression
- Talia GibsonGibson – Lilli TaggerTagger (4-6 6-1 7-5) – See score progression
- Oleksandra OliynykovaOliynykova – Elvina KalievaKalieva (6-4 6-1) – See score progression
- Xinyu WangWang – Hanne VandewinkelVandewinkel (6-4 6-3) – See score progression
- Lucrezia StefaniniStefanini – Elisabetta CocciarettoCocciaretto (5-3 ret.) – See score progression
- Viktorija GolubicGolubic – Alycia ParksParks (6-2 6-2) – See score progression
- Tereza ValentovaValentova – Mary StoianaStoiana (6-2 7-64) – See score progression
- Peyton StearnsStearns – Harriet DartDart (6-1 7-66) – See score progression
- Magdalena FrechFrech – Antonia RuzicRuzic (6-2 7-5) – See score progression
- Katie BoulterBoulter – Katie VolynetsVolynets (7-5 0-6 6-4) – See score progression
- Zeynep SonmezSonmez – Daria KasatkinaKasatkina (2-6 7-64 6-3) – See score progression
- Simona WaltertWaltert – Petra MarcinkoMarcinko (5-7 6-4 6-2) – See score progression
- Taylor TownsendTownsend – Maria Camila Osorio SerranoCamila Osorio Serrano (3-6 6-3 6-3) – See score progression
- Elena Gabriela RuseGabriela Ruse – Magda LinetteLinette (6-0 6-3) – See score progression
- Kamilla RakhimovaRakhimova – Kimberly BirrellBirrell (6-2 6-2) – See score progression
- Diane ParryParry – Caroline DolehideDolehide (6-4 7-67) – See score progression
- Lois BoissonBoisson – Ashlyn KruegerKrueger (6-3 6-2) – See score progression
- Tatjana MariaMaria – Dayana YastremskaYastremska (6-1 6-2) – See score progression
- Cristina BucsaBucsa – Panna UdvardyUdvardy (6-2 1-6 7-5) – See score progression
- Caty McNallyMcNally – Mccartney KesslerKessler (6-3 6-4) – See score progression
- Anhelina KalininaKalinina – Darja VidmanovaVidmanova (4-6 6-4 6-2) – See score progression
- Filip KolasinskiKolasinski – Pawel JuszczakJuszczak (6-2 0-6 6-3) – See score progression
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