Belinda Bencic and Sorana Cirstea will clash against each other in the 2nd round of the Grampians Trophy for the 1st time in their career. They are scheduled to play on Friday at 11 am on Court 7. Here the head to head stats and the relative prediction.
Prediction, odds and live streaming
The pick for Tennis Tonic is Belinda Bencic who should win in 3 sets.
As per the initial odds, Belinda Bencic is the pick to win this match.
Belinda Bencic -> 1.84
Sorana Cirstea -> 2.01
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Prediction and head to head Belinda Bencic vs. Sorana Cirstea
There is no head to head record between Belinda Bencic and Sorana Cirstea since this will be the first time that they will square off in the main tour.
Belinda Bencic
Ranked no. 12, Belinda will start her run in Melbourne after she played her last match in Rome where she lost 6-3 6-1 to Kovinic in the 2nd round on the 16th of September.
This will be the first match of the season on hard.
Talking about her overall career, Bencic has an overall 300-154 record. She has a positive 138-75 record on hard.
Last year in Melbourne
Belinda lost in the 3rd round to Anett Kontaveit.
Sorana Cirstea
Ranked no. 72, Cirstea reached the 2nd round after beating Oksana Kalashnikova 6-1 6-1.
In the 1st round, Cirstea had a good straight sets win against Kalashnikova (6-1 6-1). During the match Cirstea scored 65 points vs Kalashnikova’s 38. Sorana was very aggressive to blast 28 winners.
Talking about serving, Cirstea recorded 9 aces and she committed only 4 double faults. Sorana Cirstea conceded no breaks for the entire match to save 4 break points. Furthermore, Cirstea put 69% of her first serves in, winning 78% (28/36) of the points behind her 1st serve and 44% (7/16) on the 2nd serve. The Romanian broke Kalashnikova 5 times after converting 71% of her break points (5/7).
The Romanian has a 1-0 win-loss record in 2021, 1-0 on hard (See FULL STATS).
Last year in Melbourne
Sorana surrendered in the 2nd round to Cori Gauff.
Head 2 Head
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LLLLLLWWLW Tennis Scores in Melbourne
- Jennifer BradyBrady – Svetlana KuznetsovaKuznetsova (6-3 6-0) – See score progression
- Angelique KerberKerber – Katerina SiniakovaSiniakova (6-3 4-6 6-3) – See score progression
- Ons JabeurJabeur – Anna BlinkovaBlinkova (6-1 6-1) – See score progression
- Sorana CirsteaCirstea – Oksana KalashnikovaKalashnikova (6-1 6-1) – See score progression
- Anett KontaveitKontaveit – Christina MchaleMchale (6-1 6-3) – See score progression
- Veronika KudermetovaKudermetova – Heather WatsonWatson (6-2 6-2) – See score progression
- Ann LiLi – Ellen PerezPerez (5-3 ret.) – See score progression
- Yulia PutintsevaPutintseva – Georgina Garcia-PerezGarcia-Perez (7-61 6-4) – See score progression
- Barbora KrejcikovaKrejcikova – Lauren DavisDavis (6-4 4-6 6-4) – See score progression
- Leylah Annie FernandezAnnie Fernandez – Sloane StephensStephens (6-3 6-1) – See score progression
- Marta KostyukKostyuk – Gabriela DabrowskiDabrowski (6-0 6-3) – See score progression
- Bethanie Mattek-SandsMattek-Sands – Barbora StrycovaStrycova (7-63 6-2) – See score progression
- Corrado SummariaSummaria – Simone RoncalliRoncalli (4-6 6-1 7-5) – See score progression
Upcoming matches in the draw
- Maria SakkariSakkari – Leylah Annie FernandezAnnie Fernandez (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Ons JabeurJabeur – Angelique KerberKerber (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Victoria AzarenkaAzarenka – Yulia PutintsevaPutintseva (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Bethanie Mattek-SandsMattek-Sands – Anett KontaveitKontaveit (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Jennifer BradyBrady – Marta KostyukKostyuk (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Barbora KrejcikovaKrejcikova – Elena RybakinaRybakina (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Ann LiLi – Veronika KudermetovaKudermetova (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Sorana CirsteaCirstea – Belinda BencicBencic (0-0) – H2H and prediction
