Karolina Pliskova and Sorana Cirstea will play each other in the 1st round of the Abu Dhabi Tennis Open for the 3rd time of their career. They are scheduled to play on Thursday at 8:00 pm on Centre Court. In the following lines you can find the head to head analysis and the prediction.
Prediction, odds and live streaming
The pick for Tennis Tonic is Karolina Pliskova who should win in 2 sets.
As per the initial odds, Karolina Pliskova is the pick to win this match.
Karolina Pliskova -> 1.39
Sorana Cirstea -> 3.1
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Prediction and head to head Karolina Pliskova vs. Sorana Cirstea
This will be the 3rd time that Karolina Pliskova and Sorana Cirstea face off. The head to head is 1-1 for Pliskova and Cirstea (see full H2H stats),but they are 1-1 on hard.
The last time that they played each other, Pliskova won 1-6 7-63 6-0 in the quarter in Pattaya city back in 2014.
Karolina Pliskova
Ranked no. 6, Karolina will start her run in Abu Dhabi after she played her last match in Ostrava where she lost 4-6 6-4 6-3 to Kudermetova in the 2nd round on the 22nd of October.
This will be the first match of the year on hard.
Talking about her overall career, Karolina has an overall 525-274 record. She has a positive 266-133 record on hard.
Last year in Abu Dhabi
The Czech didn’t compete in Abu Dhabi in 2020.
Sorana Cirstea
Ranked no. 71, will start her run in Abu Dhabi after she won the title in the W100+H Dubai after beating 4-6 6-3 6-3 Siniakova in the final.
This will be the first match of the season on hard.
Sorana won her last 5 matches.
In terms of her career, Sorana has an overall 452-351 record. She has a positive 202-159 record on hard.
Head 2 Head
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- Veronika KudermetovaKudermetova – Anett KontaveitKontaveit (7-5 6-1) – Stats, scores, rankings
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