Elina Svitolina and Tereza Valentova will clash against each other in the 2nd round of the Cincinnati Open for the 1st time in their career. They are scheduled to compete on Sunday at 8:30 PM on P&G STADIUM COURT. In this post, we analyze their head to head performance and prediction.
Prediction, odds and live streaming
The pick for Tennis Tonic is Elina Svitolina who should win in 2 sets.
As per the initial odds, Elina Svitolina is the pick to win this match.
Elina Svitolina -> 1.34
Tereza Valentova -> 3.24
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Prediction and head to head Elina Svitolina vs. Tereza Valentova
There is no head to head record between Elina Svitolina and Tereza Valentova since this will be the first time that they will play each other in the main tour.
Elina Svitolina
41 - 12win/loss
7
3
LWWWLWLLWW | Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | 48-16 | 31-9 | 13-3 | 1-2 | 3-2 | 0-0 |
| 2025 | 36-15 | 14-8 | 18-3 | 1-2 | 3-2 | 0-0 |
| 2024 | 30-18 | 16-9 | 10-7 | 0-0 | 4-2 | 0-0 |
| 2023 | 21-12 | 4-3 | 12-7 | 0-0 | 5-2 | 0-0 |
| 2022 | 5-8 | 5-8 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
Ranked no. 9, Elina will start her run in Cincinnati after she played her last match in Toronto where she lost 6-3 1-6 6-3 to Swiatek in the semifinal on the 12th of August.
Elina has a compiled 41-12 win-loss record in 2026, 25-7 on hard (See FULL STATS).
Her best result of the season was winning the title in Auckland where she overcame Xinyu Wang in the final 6-3 7-6(6) and in Rome where she beat Cori Gauff in the final 6-4 6-7(3) 6-2.
Talking about her overall career, Svitolina has an overall 577-287 record. She has a positive 322-150 record on hard.
Previously in Cincinnati
Previously, her best result was reaching the semifinal in 2015. See her history.
Tereza Valentova
22 - 17win/loss
65
42
LWWWWLWLLW | Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | 26-19 | 19-12 | 5-4 | 0-0 | 2-3 | 0-0 |
| 2025 | 49-12 | 18-4 | 11-3 | 18-4 | 2-1 | 0-0 |
| 2024 | 38-5 | 17-1 | 12-2 | 9-2 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2023 | 8-4 | 0-1 | 8-3 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2022 | 0-2 | 0-0 | 0-1 | 0-1 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
Ranked no. 64, Valentova got to the 2nd round after defeating Mary Stoiana 6-2 7-6(4).
In the 1st round, Valentova had a good straight sets win against Stoiana (6-2 7-64). During the match Valentova scored 67 points vs Stoiana’s 58. Valentova was exceptionally aggressive to blast 27 winners.
About the serving games, Valentova blasted 3 aces and she committed only 5 double faults. Tereza Valentova lost the serve 3 times and she saved 1 break points. Furthermore, Valentova put 60% of her first serves in, winning 75% (27/36) of the points behind her 1st serve and 42% (10/24) on the 2nd serve. Tereza broke Stoiana 5 times after converting 42% of her break points (5/12).
The Czech’s best result of the current year was getting to the semifinal in the Malo.
The Czech has a composed 22-17 win-loss record in 2026, 15-10 on hard (See FULL STATS).
Previously in Cincinnati
Tereza has never competed in this tournament before.
Head 2 Head
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- Amanda AnisimovaAnisimova – Zeynep SonmezSonmez (6-2 6-3) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Magdalena FrechFrech – Jelena OstapenkoOstapenko (6-1 6-3) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Diana ShnaiderShnaider – Tatjana MariaMaria (6-2 7-5) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Anna KalinskayaKalinskaya – Caty McNallyMcNally (6-3 6-4) – Stats, scores, rankings
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