Elina Svitolina and Sorana Cirstea will clash against each other in the 3rd round of the BNP Paribas Open for the 3rd time in their career. They are scheduled to compete on Sunday at 1:30 pm on STADIUM 1. In the following lines you can find the head to head analysis and prediction.

Prediction, odds and live streaming

The pick for Tennis Tonic is Elina Svitolina who should win in 2 sets.

As per the initial odds, Elina Svitolina is the pick to win this match.
Elina Svitolina -> 1.24
Sorana Cirstea -> 4.25

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Prediction and head to head Elina Svitolina vs. Sorana Cirstea

This will be the 3rd time that Elina Svitolina and Sorana Cirstea square off. The head to head is 2-0 for Svitolina (see full H2H stats), but they have never competed against each other on hard.

The last time that they played, Svitolina won 6-4 6-4 in the quarter in Istanbul back in 2017.

Elina Svitolina

Ranked no. 7, Elina reached the 3rd round after beating Tereza Martincova 6-2 7-5.

In the 2nd round, Svitolina had a good straight sets win against Martincova (6-2 7-5). During the match, Svitolina scored 67 points vs Martincova’s 47. Elina was pretty aggressive to blast 25 winners.

Regarding the service games, Svitolina scored just 1 ace in the match and she committed only 4 double faults. Elina Svitolina lost the serve twice and she saved 1 break points. Furthermore, Svitolina put 63% of her first serves in, winning 81% (25/31) of the points behind her 1st serve and 50% (9/18) on the 2nd serve. Svitolina broke Martincova 5 times after converting 42% of her break points (5/12).

Svitolina has a solid record in the last 10 years having won 66% of her matches (387-195). 30-11 on hard in 2021. In connection with her performance on the same surface of this tournament, Svitolina has an aggregate 237-107 win-loss record in the last years on hard.

Her best result of the season was conquering the title in in Chicago where she beat Alize Cornet in the final 7-5 6-4.

The Ukrainian has an aggregate 40-18 win-loss record in 2021, 30-11 on hard (See FULL STATS).

Previously in Indian Wells

Previously, her best result was reaching the semifinal in 2019. See her history.

Indian Wells
Svitolina's Record

Sorana Cirstea

Ranked no. 40, the Romanian reached the 3rd round after defeating Misaki Doi 6-2 6-3.

In the 2nd round, Cirstea had a good straight sets win against Doi (6-2 6-3). During the match Cirstea scored 58 points vs Doi’s 37. Sorana was exceptionally aggressive to blast 25 winners.

Talking about serving, Cirstea bagged 2 aces and she committed only 3 double faults. Overall, Sorana Cirstea was exceptionally efficient on serve to win 76% (25/33) of her 1st serve and 65% (13/20) on the second serve. However, this didn’t prevent her to concede the serve once. Sorana was clinical in her return game without wasting any break point and break Doi 4 times.

Her best result of the year was conquering the title in in Istanbul where she defeated Elise Mertens in the final 6-1 7-6(3).

Cirstea has a compiled 24-17 win-loss record in 2021, 11-9 on hard (See FULL STATS).

Indian Wells
Cirstea's Record

H2H Performance in the tournament (main draw)

E.Svitolina
S.Cirstea
1h:08
1h:08
Time on court​
1h:04
1h:04
1h:08
1h:08
Last match​
1h:04
1h:04
1
1
Match played
1
1
20
20
Games Played​
17
17
2
2
Set played​​
2
2
67
67
Total points​
58
58
67
67
Avg point​
58
58
25
25
Winners
25
25
25
25
Avg Winners​
25
25
37%
37%
Ratio winners
43%
43%
-- Serve --
1
1
Aces
2
2
1
1
Avg Aces
2
2
4
4
Double Faults
3
3
4
4
Avg Double Faults
3
3
25/31
25/31
1st won total​
25/33
25/33
!
81%
81%
1st won %
!
76%
76%
9/18
9/18
2nd won total​
13/20
13/20
50%
50%
2nd won %
!
65%
65%
-- Break Points --
5/12
5/12
BP won
4/4
4/4
5/12
5/12
Avg BP won
4/4
4/4
42%
42%
Won
!
100%
100%
3
3
Conceded
2
2
3
3
Avg Conceded
2
2
2
2
Broken
1
1
2
2
Avg Broken
1
1
1
1
Saved
1
1
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Matches, sets, games and points

Points Svitolina Cirstea
Match played 1 1
Tot Set 2 2
Tot Games 20 17
Pts 67-47 58-37
Total Points 114 95
Winners 25 25
%Winners 37% 43%

Both Svitolina and Cirstea played 1 match. Both players have not surrendered a single set in this event so far. Talking about their workload, Svitolina and Cirstea have played the same amount of sets 2. However, Svitolina played 3 games more than Cirstea. Elina scored 25 winners (37% of the total points). On the other side, The Romanian fired 25 winners (43%).

Serve Performance

Serve Svitolina Cirstea
Aces 1 2
Avg per match 1 2
1st in 31/49 33/53
%1st in 63% 62%
1st pts 25/31 25/33
%1st pts 81% 76%
2nd pts 9/18 13/20
%2nd pts 50% 65%

Svitolina fired 1 ace . Cirstea also bagged 2 aces . Svitolina won 81% points behind her first serve. She had a solid display on her second serve to win 50% of the points. On the other side, Cirstea won 76% of the points behind her first serve. She had a solid display on her second serve to win 65% of the points.

How they played the important points

Breaks Svitolina Cirstea
Won 5 4
Converted 5/12 4/4
% Converted 42% 100%
Conceded 3 2
Saved 1 1
% Saved 33% 50%
Times Broken 2 1

Elina broke her opponent 5 times with a 42% conversion rate. The Ukrainian surrendered her serve twice and she saved 33% of the break points that she conceded. Cirstea broke her opponent 4 times with a 100% conversion rate. Sorana conceded her serve once and she saved 50% of the break points that she conceded.

Svitolina
R2
Martincova		 Total
Score 6-2 7-5
Tot Set 2 2
Tot Games 20 20
pts 67-47 67-47
Total points 114 114
Winners 25 25
%Winners 37% 37%
SERVE
Aces 1 1
Double Faults 4 4
1st in 31/49 31/49
% 1st in 63% 63%
1st pts 25/31 25/31
% 1st pts 81% 81%
2nd pts 9/18 9/18
% 2nd pts 50% 50%
Breaks
Won 5 5
Converted 5/12 5/12
Converted % 42% 42%
Conceded 3 3
Saved 1/3 1
Saved % 33% 33%
Times Broken 2 2
Cirstea
R2
Doi		 Total
Score 6-2 6-3
Tot Set 2 2
Tot Games 17 17
pts 58-37 58-37
Total points 95 95
Winners 25 25
%Winners 43% 43%
SERVE
Aces 2 2
Double Faults 3 3
1st in 33/53 33/53
% 1st in 62% 62%
1st pts 25/33 25/33
% 1st pts 76% 76%
2nd pts 13/20 13/20
% 2nd pts 65% 65%
Breaks
Won 4 4
Converted 4/4 4/4
Converted % 100% 100%
Conceded 2 2
Saved 1/2 1
Saved % 50% 50%
Times Broken 1 1

Tennis Scores in Indian Wells

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