Sorana Cirstea and Tereza Martincova will play each other in the 2nd round of the Zavarovalnica Sava Portoroz for the 3rd time in their career. They are scheduled to compete on Thursday at 1:00 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 -> 1.65
Tereza Martincova -> 2.3
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Prediction and head to head Sorana Cirstea vs. Tereza Martincova
This will be the 3rd time that Sorana Cirstea and Tereza Martincova fight against each other. The head to head is 1-1 (see full H2H stats), 1-0 on hard.
The last time that they competed against each other, Martincova won 3-6 6-3 6-2 in the 1st round in Chicago back in August 2021.
Sorana Cirstea
Ranked no. 40, Sorana got to the 2nd round after defeating Heather Watson 6-1 6-3.
In the 1st round, Sorana had a good straight sets win against Watson (6-1 6-3). During the match, Cirstea scored 58 points vs Watson’s 32. The Romanian was pretty aggressive to blast 25 winners.
Regarding the service games, Cirstea scored just 1 ace during the match and she committed only 4 double faults. Sorana Cirstea lost the serve once and she saved 3 break points. Furthermore, Cirstea put 63% of her first serves in, winning 93% (25/27) of the points behind her 1st serve and 44% (7/16) on the 2nd serve. The Romanian broke Watson 5 times after converting 45% of her break points (5/11).
Cirstea has a good win-loss record in the last 10 years having won 53% of her matches (243-218). 9-8 on hard in 2021. Talking about her performance on the same surface of this event, Cirstea has an overall 129-107 record in the last years on hard.
Her best result of the current season was winning the title in in Istanbul where she defeated Elise Mertens in the final 6-1 7-6(3).
Cirstea has a composed 22-15 win-loss record in 2021, 9-8 on hard (See FULL STATS).
Previously in Portoroz
The Romanian has never competed in this tournament before.
Tereza Martincova
Ranked no. 61, Tereza got to the 2nd round after defeating Kristina Kucova 6-4 6-1.
In the 1st round, Martincova had a good straight sets win against Kucova (6-4 6-1). During the match Martincova scored 63 points vs Kucova’s 45. Tereza was extremely aggressive to blast 23 winners.
About the serving games, Martincova was unable to score even 1 ace for the entire match and she committed only 2 double faults. Tereza Martincova lost the serve twice and she saved 4 break points. Furthermore, Martincova put 60% of her first serves in, winning 62% (23/37) of the points behind her 1st serve and 56% (14/25) on the 2nd serve. Tereza broke Kucova 5 times after converting 71% of her break points (5/7).
Martincova’s best result of the current season was getting to the final in Prague.
The Czech has an aggregate 34-21 win-loss record in 2021, 17-8 on hard (See FULL STATS).
H2H Performance in the tournament
Matches, sets, games and points
| Points | Cirstea | Martincova |
|---|---|---|
| Match played | 1 | 1 |
| Tot Set | 2 | 2 |
| Tot Games | 16 | 17 |
| Pts | 58-32 | 63-45 |
| Total Points | 90 | 108 |
| Winners | 25 | 23 |
| %Winners | 43% | 37% |
Both Cirstea and Martincova played 1 match. Both players have not surrendered a single set in this event so far. Talking about their workload, Cirstea and Martincova have played the same amount of sets 2. However, Cirstea played 1 game less than Martincova. Sorana scored 25 winners (43% of the total points). On the other side, The Czech fired 23 winners (37%).
Serve Performance
| Serve | Cirstea | Martincova |
|---|---|---|
| Aces | 1 | 0 |
| Avg per match | 1 | 0 |
| 1st in | 27/43 | 37/62 |
| %1st in | 63% | 60% |
| 1st pts | 25/27 | 23/37 |
| %1st pts | 93% | 62% |
| 2nd pts | 7/16 | 14/25 |
| %2nd pts | 44% | 56% |
Cirstea bagged 1 ace . Martincova didn’t manage to fire a single ace to far. Cirstea won 93% points behind her first serve. She very solid her second serve to win 44% of the points. On the other side, Martincova won 62% of the points behind her first serve. She had a solid display on her second serve to win 56% of the points.
How they played the important points
| Breaks | Cirstea | Martincova |
|---|---|---|
| Won | 5 | 5 |
| Converted | 5/11 | 5/7 |
| % Converted | 45% | 71% |
| Conceded | 4 | 6 |
| Saved | 3 | 4 |
| % Saved | 75% | 67% |
| Times Broken | 1 | 2 |
Cirstea broke her opponent 5 times with a 45% conversion rate. Sorana lost her serve once and she saved 75% of the break points that she conceded. Tereza broke her opponent 5 times with a 71% conversion rate. Martincova conceded her serve twice and she saved 67% of the break points that she conceded.
| Cirstea | |||
| R1 Watson |
Total | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Score | 6-1 6-3 | ||
| Tot Set | 2 | 2 | |
| Tot Games | 16 | 16 | |
| pts | 58-32 | 58-32 | |
| Total points | 90 | 90 | |
| Winners | 25 | 25 | |
| %Winners | 43% | 43% | |
| SERVE | |||
| Aces | 1 | 1 | |
| Double Faults | 4 | 4 | |
| 1st in | 27/43 | 27/43 | |
| % 1st in | 63% | 63% | |
| 1st pts | 25/27 | 25/27 | |
| % 1st pts | 93% | 93% | |
| 2nd pts | 7/16 | 7/16 | |
| % 2nd pts | 44% | 44% | |
| Breaks | |||
| Won | 5 | 5 | |
| Converted | 5/11 | 5/11 | |
| Converted % | 45% | 45% | |
| Conceded | 4 | 4 | |
| Saved | 3/4 | 3 | |
| Saved % | 75% | 75% | |
| Times Broken | 1 | 1 | |
| Martincova | |||
| R1 Kucova |
Total | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Score | 6-4 6-1 | ||
| Tot Set | 2 | 2 | |
| Tot Games | 17 | 17 | |
| pts | 63-45 | 63-45 | |
| Total points | 108 | 108 | |
| Winners | 23 | 23 | |
| %Winners | 37% | 37% | |
| SERVE | |||
| Aces | 0 | 0 | |
| Double Faults | 2 | 2 | |
| 1st in | 37/62 | 37/62 | |
| % 1st in | 60% | 60% | |
| 1st pts | 23/37 | 23/37 | |
| % 1st pts | 62% | 62% | |
| 2nd pts | 14/25 | 14/25 | |
| % 2nd pts | 56% | 56% | |
| Breaks | |||
| Won | 5 | 5 | |
| Converted | 5/7 | 5/7 | |
| Converted % | 71% | 71% | |
| Conceded | 6 | 6 | |
| Saved | 4/6 | 4 | |
| Saved % | 67% | 67% | |
| Times Broken | 2 | 2 | |
Head 2 Head
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