Daria Kasatkina and Irina-Camelia Begu will square off in the 1st round of the Mutua Madrid Open for the 9th time of their career. They are scheduled to play on Friday at 11:00 am on Court 4. Here you can find the head to head analysis and the prediction.
Prediction, odds and live streaming
The pick for Tennis Tonic is Daria Kasatkina who should win in 3 sets.
As per the initial odds, Daria Kasatkina is the pick to win this match.
Daria Kasatkina -> 1.56
Irina-Camelia Begu -> 2.49
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Prediction and head to head Daria Kasatkina vs. Irina-Camelia Begu
This will be the 9th time that Daria Kasatkina and Irina-Camelia Begu face off. The head to head is 7-1 for Kasatkina (see full H2H stats), 3-1 on clay.
The last time that they played, Kasatkina won 6-2 7-6(5) in the 1st round in Rome back in 2019.
Daria Kasatkina
Ranked no. 37, Kasatkina will start her run in Madrid after she played her last match in Istanbul where she lost 6-3 6-4 to Kostyuk in the 2nd round on the 21st of April.
The Russian has a 16-5 win-loss record in 2021, 1-1 on clay (See FULL STATS).
Her best result of the year was winning the title in in Melbourne where she beat Marie Bouzkova in the final 4-6 6-2 6-2 and in in St. Petersburg where she beat Margarita Gasparyan in the final 6-3 2-1 ret..
Talking about her overall career, Kasatkina has an overall 243-133 record. She has a positive 95-36 record on clay.
Previously in Madrid
Previously, her best result was reaching the quarter in 2018. See her history.
Irina-Camelia Begu
Ranked no. 75, Irina-Camelia got to the 1st round after beating Anna Kalinskaya 4-6 7-64 6-0 and Stefanie Voegele 6-3 6-3.
In the qualifications, Irina-Camelia had a good straight sets win against Voegele (6-3 6-3). During the match Begu scored 69 points vs Voegele’s 51. Irina-Camelia was quite aggressive to blast 21 winners.
Talking about serving, Begu scored 3 aces and she was exceptionally consistent in conceding no double faults for the entire match. Irina-Camelia Begu lost the serve twice and she saved 3 break points. Furthermore, Begu put 64% of her first serves in, winning 60% (21/35) of the points behind her 1st serve and 70% (14/20) on the 2nd serve. The Romanian broke Voegele 5 times after converting 63% of her break points (5/8).
Overall Performance in this tournament
Irina-Camelia started her run at this tournament from the qualifications. In the main draw, she has conceded 1 set in the tournament to win 55% of the points she played.
Irina-Camelia has a 10-5 win-loss record in 2021, 2-0 on clay (See FULL STATS).
Head 2 Head
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- Irina-Camelia BeguBegu – Darya KasatkinaKasatkina (1-7) – H2H and prediction
- Jessica PegulaPegula – Sorana CirsteaCirstea (1-1) – H2H and prediction
- Ekaterina AlexandrovaAlexandrova – Victoria AzarenkaAzarenka (0-1) – H2H and prediction
- Elise MertensMertens – Shuai ZhangZhang (1-1) – H2H and prediction
- Ajla TomljanovicTomljanovic – Elena RybakinaRybakina (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Magda LinetteLinette – Saisai ZhengZheng (1-0) – H2H and prediction
- Sara Sorribes TormoSorribes Tormo – Simona HalepHalep (0-1) – H2H and prediction
- Karolina PliskovaPliskova – Cori GauffGauff (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Anastasia PavlyuchenkovaPavlyuchenkova – Madison KeysKeys (1-2) – H2H and prediction
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- Maria SakkariSakkari – Amanda AnisimovaAnisimova (1-0) – H2H and prediction
- Nina StojanovicStojanovic – Anett KontaveitKontaveit (0-1) – H2H and prediction
- Qiang WangWang – Karolina MuchovaMuchova (0-0) – H2H and prediction
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- Anastasija SevastovaSevastova – Johanna KontaKonta (2-2) – H2H and prediction
- Sloane StephensStephens – Ons JabeurJabeur (1-1) – H2H and prediction
- Bernarda PeraPera – Belinda BencicBencic (0-0) – H2H and prediction