Sorana Cirstea and Sara Bejlek will clash against each other in the 2nd round of the Ningbo Open for the 2nd time in their career. They are scheduled to compete on Wednesday at 6:00 pm on Center Court. 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 -> 1.58
Sara Bejlek -> 2.36
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Prediction and head to head Sorana Cirstea vs. Sara Bejlek
This will be the 2nd time that Sorana Cirstea and Sara Bejlek face off. The head to head is 1-0 for Cirstea (see full H2H stats), but they have never competed against each other on hard.
The last time that they played, Cirstea won 6-1 7-6(6) in the 1st round in at the Wimbledon back in June 2026.
Sorana Cirstea
40 - 15win/loss
17
15
WLLWWWLWWL | Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | 40-15 | 18-9 | 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. 17, Sorana reached the 2nd round after defeating Han Shi 6-3 6-2.
In the 1st round, The Romanian had a good straight sets win against Shi (6-3 6-2). During the match, Cirstea scored 60 points vs Shi’s 43. Sorana was extremely aggressive to blast 21 winners.
Regarding the service games, Cirstea was unable to score even 1 ace during the encounter and she committed only 3 double faults. Sorana Cirstea lost the serve twice and she saved 2 break points. Furthermore, Cirstea put 50% of her first serves in, winning 84% (21/25) of the points behind her 1st serve and 40% (10/25) on the 2nd serve. Sorana broke Shi 5 times after converting 50% of her break points (5/10).
Cirstea has winning win-loss record in the last 10 years having won 56% of her matches (242-194). 18-9 on hard in 2026. In connection with her performance on the same surface of this tournament, Cirstea has an overall 143-103 win-loss record in the last years on hard.
Her best result of the current season was winning the title in Napoca where she beat Emma Raducanu in the final 6-0 6-2.
The Romanian has an aggregate 40-15 win-loss record in 2026, 18-9 on hard (See FULL STATS).
Previously in Ningbo
Previously, her best result was reaching the 2nd round in 2023. See her history.
Sara Bejlek
25 - 19win/loss
32
28
WLLWLWLLWW | Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | 25-19 | 22-11 | 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. 32, Bejlek reached the 2nd round after defeating Alycia Parks 4-6 6-3 6-3.
In the 1st round against Parks, The Czech recovered from a 1-set down deficit before winning (4-6 6-3 6-3). During the match Bejlek scored 103 points vs Parks’s 97. Bejlek was quite aggressive to blast 38 winners.
Talking about serving, Bejlek wasn’t able to score even 1 ace for the entire match and she committed only 6 double faults. Sara Bejlek lost the serve 3 times and she saved 11 break points. Furthermore, Bejlek put 55% of her first serves in, winning 68% (38/56) of the points behind her 1st serve and 47% (21/45) on the 2nd serve. The Czech broke Parks 5 times after converting 38% of her break points (5/13).
Her best result of the season was winning the title in Abu Dhabi where she beat Ekaterina Alexandrova in the final 7-6(5) 6-1.
Bejlek has an aggregate 25-19 win-loss record in 2026, 22-11 on hard (See FULL STATS).
H2H Performance in the tournament
Matches, sets, games and points
| Points | Cirstea | Bejlek |
|---|---|---|
| Match played | 1 | 1 |
| Tot Set | 2 | 3 |
| Tot Games | 17 | 28 |
| Pts | 60-43 | 103-97 |
| Total Points | 103 | 200 |
| Winners | 21 | 38 |
| %Winners | 35% | 37% |
Both Cirstea and Bejlek played 1 match. At the moment, Sara Bejlek surrendered 1 set while Sorana Cirstea hasn’t dropped a set so far. Cirstea has played 1 set(s) less than Bejlek (2 vs 3). Therefore, Cirstea played 11 games less than Bejlek. Sorana scored 21 winners (35% of the total points). On the other side, Sara blasted 38 winners (37%).
Serve Performance
| Serve | Cirstea | Bejlek |
|---|---|---|
| Aces | 0 | 0 |
| Avg per match | 0 | 0 |
| 1st in | 25/50 | 56/101 |
| %1st in | 50% | 55% |
| 1st pts | 21/25 | 38/56 |
| %1st pts | 84% | 68% |
| 2nd pts | 10/25 | 21/45 |
| %2nd pts | 40% | 47% |
Cirstea didn’t manage to fire a single ace to far. Bejlek also didn’t manage to fire a single ace to far. Cirstea won 84% points behind her first serve. She was rock solid on her second serve to win 40% of the points. On the other side, Bejlek won 68% of the points on her first serve. She had a solid display on her second serve to win 47% of the points.
How they played the important points
| Breaks | Cirstea | Bejlek |
|---|---|---|
| Won | 5 | 5 |
| Converted | 5/10 | 5/13 |
| % Converted | 50% | 38% |
| Conceded | 4 | 14 |
| Saved | 2 | 11 |
| % Saved | 50% | 79% |
| Times Broken | 2 | 3 |
The Romanian broke her opponent 5 times with a 50% conversion rate. Sorana lost her serve twice and she saved 50% of the break points that she conceded. Sara broke her opponent 5 times with a 38% conversion rate. Bejlek conceded her serve 3 times and she saved 79% of the break points that she conceded.
| Cirstea | |||
| R1 Shi |
Total | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Score | 6-3 6-2 | ||
| Tot Set | 2 | 2 | |
| Tot Games | 17 | 17 | |
| pts | 60-43 | 60-43 | |
| Total points | 103 | 103 | |
| Winners | 21 | 21 | |
| %Winners | 35% | 35% | |
| SERVE | |||
| Aces | 0 | 0 | |
| Double Faults | 3 | 3 | |
| 1st in | 25/50 | 25/50 | |
| % 1st in | 50% | 50% | |
| 1st pts | 21/25 | 21/25 | |
| % 1st pts | 84% | 84% | |
| 2nd pts | 10/25 | 10/25 | |
| % 2nd pts | 40% | 40% | |
| Breaks | |||
| Won | 5 | 5 | |
| Converted | 5/10 | 5/10 | |
| Converted % | 50% | 50% | |
| Conceded | 4 | 4 | |
| Saved | 2/4 | 2 | |
| Saved % | 50% | 50% | |
| Times Broken | 2 | 2 | |
| Bejlek | |||
| R1 Parks |
Total | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Score | 4-6 6-3 6-3 | ||
| Tot Set | 3 | 3 | |
| Tot Games | 28 | 28 | |
| pts | 103-97 | 103-97 | |
| Total points | 200 | 200 | |
| Winners | 38 | 38 | |
| %Winners | 37% | 37% | |
| SERVE | |||
| Aces | 0 | 0 | |
| Double Faults | 6 | 6 | |
| 1st in | 56/101 | 56/101 | |
| % 1st in | 55% | 55% | |
| 1st pts | 38/56 | 38/56 | |
| % 1st pts | 68% | 68% | |
| 2nd pts | 21/45 | 21/45 | |
| % 2nd pts | 47% | 47% | |
| Breaks | |||
| Won | 5 | 5 | |
| Converted | 5/13 | 5/13 | |
| Converted % | 38% | 38% | |
| Conceded | 14 | 14 | |
| Saved | 11/14 | 11 | |
| Saved % | 79% | 79% | |
| Times Broken | 3 | 3 | |
Head 2 Head
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WWWWWWWWWW Tennis Scores in Ningbo
- Polina KudermetovaKudermetova – Cristina BucsaBucsa (7-65 6-2) – See score progression
- Sara BejlekBejlek – Alycia ParksParks (4-6 6-3 6-3) – See score progression
- Jasmine PaoliniPaolini – Anhelina KalininaKalinina (6-2 7-5) – See score progression
- Diana ShnaiderShnaider – Yulia PutintsevaPutintseva (7-5 7-64) – See score progression
- Marie BouzkovaBouzkova – Kamilla RakhimovaRakhimova (6-4 6-4) – See score progression
- Alexandra EalaEala – Diane ParryParry (6-3 6-1) – See score progression
- Leylah Annie FernandezAnnie Fernandez – Elise MertensMertens (2-6 6-3 7-5) – See score progression
- Maria Kozyreva/Maia LumsdenKozyreva/Maia Lumsden – Tereza Mihalikova/Olivia NichollsMihalikova/Olivia Nicholls (6-4 7-5) – See score progression
- Sorana CirsteaCirstea – Han ShiShi (6-3 6-2) – See score progression
- Hanyu Guo/Kristina MladenovicGuo/Kristina Mladenovic – Shuko Aoyama/En Shuo LiangAoyama/En Shuo Liang (6-1 6-1) – See score progression
- Aliaksandra SasnovichSasnovich – Daria KasatkinaKasatkina (6-4 6-2) – See score progression
- Ellen Perez/Demi SchuursPerez/Demi Schuurs – Yihan Qu/Yushan ShaoQu/Yushan Shao (6-1 6-1) – See score progression
- Polina KudermetovaKudermetova – Cristina BucsaBucsa (7-6(5) 6-2) – See score progression
- Jasmine PaoliniPaolini – Anhelina KalininaKalinina (6-2 7-5) – See score progression
- Diana ShnaiderShnaider – Yulia PutintsevaPutintseva (7-5 7-6(4)) – See score progression
- Sara BejlekBejlek – Alycia ParksParks (4-6 6-3 6-3) – See score progression
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