Sorana Cirstea and Kristina Kucova will fight against each other in the 2nd round of the Australian Open for the 2nd time in their career. They are scheduled to compete on Thursday at 1:00 pm on Court 5. 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 2 sets.
As per the initial odds, Sorana Cirstea is the pick to win this match.
Sorana Cirstea -> 1.333
Kristina Kucova -> 3.42
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Prediction and head to head Sorana Cirstea vs. Kristina Kucova
This will be the 2nd time that Sorana Cirstea and Kristina Kucova face off. The head to head is 1-0 for Cirstea (see full H2H stats), 1-0 on hard.
The last time that they played each other, Cirstea won 6-3 4-6 6-4 in the 1st round in Shenzhen back in 2017.
Sorana Cirstea
| Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 12-16 | 9-8 | 3-5 | 0-0 | 0-3 | 0-0 |
| 2023 | 31-22 | 21-14 | 7-4 | 0-1 | 3-3 | 0-0 |
| 2022 | 22-21 | 10-10 | 4-6 | 4-2 | 4-3 | 0-0 |
| 2021 | 24-18 | 11-10 | 11-3 | 0-2 | 2-3 | 0-0 |
| 2020 | 15-10 | 14-6 | 0-2 | 1-2 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
Ranked no. 38, Cirstea reached the 2nd round after beating Petra Kvitova 6-2 6-2.
In the 1st round, Cirstea had a good straight sets win against Kvitova (6-2 6-2). During the match, Cirstea scored 60 points vs Kvitova’s 41. Cirstea was exceptionally aggressive to blast 22 winners.
Talking about the service games, Cirstea bagged 2 aces and she committed only 1 double fault. Sorana Cirstea was quite efficient on serve to win 73% (22/30) of her 1st serve and 64% (14/22) on the second serve. This was the main reason for not conceding a single break during the match. Sorana broke Kvitova 4 times after converting 57% of her break points (4/7).
Cirstea has a positive win-loss record in the last 10 years having won 53% of her matches (217-195). 2-2 on hard in 2022. Regarding her performance on the same surface of this tournament, Cirstea has an aggregate 112-95 record in the last years on hard.
The Romanian has a compiled 2-2 win-loss record in 2022, 2-2 on hard (See FULL STATS).
Previously at the Australian Open
Kristina Kucova
| Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2023 | 6-11 | 2-6 | 1-4 | 3-1 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2022 | 8-15 | 4-7 | 3-5 | 0-2 | 1-1 | 0-0 |
| 2021 | 36-29 | 19-16 | 15-11 | 1-1 | 1-1 | 0-0 |
| 2020 | 16-11 | 7-8 | 7-2 | 2-1 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2019 | 25-20 | 6-7 | 14-10 | 5-2 | 0-1 | 0-0 |
Ranked no. 96, Kristina reached the 2nd round after defeating Misaki Doi 6-3 7-5.
In the 1st round, Kristina had a good straight sets win against Doi (6-3 7-5). During the match Kucova scored 65 points vs Doi’s 57. The Slovakian was extremely aggressive to blast 31 winners.
Talking about serving, Kucova scored just 1 ace during the entire match and she was extremely consistent in conceding no double faults for the entire match. Kristina Kucova lost the serve twice. Furthermore, Kucova put 83% of her first serves in, winning 69% (31/45) of the points behind her 1st serve and 33% (3/9) on the 2nd serve. The Slovakian broke Doi 5 times after converting 38% of her break points (5/13).
The Slovakian has an aggregate 2-2 win-loss record in 2022, 2-2 on hard (See FULL STATS).
Previously at the Australian Open
Previously, her best result was reaching the 2nd round in 2017. See her history.
H2H Performance in the tournament
Matches, sets, games and points
| Points | Cirstea | Kucova |
|---|---|---|
| Match played | 1 | 1 |
| Tot Set | 2 | 2 |
| Tot Games | 16 | 21 |
| Pts | 60-41 | 65-57 |
| Total Points | 101 | 122 |
| Winners | 22 | 31 |
| %Winners | 37% | 48% |
Both Cirstea and Kucova played 1 match. Both players have not conceded a single set in this event so far. Talking about their workload, Cirstea and Kucova have played the same amount of sets 2. However, Cirstea played 5 games less than Kucova. The Romanian scored 22 winners (37% of the total points). On the other side, Kristina struck 31 winners (48%).
Serve Performance
| Serve | Cirstea | Kucova |
|---|---|---|
| Aces | 2 | 1 |
| Avg per match | 2 | 1 |
| 1st in | 30/52 | 45/54 |
| %1st in | 58% | 83% |
| 1st pts | 22/30 | 31/45 |
| %1st pts | 73% | 69% |
| 2nd pts | 14/22 | 3/9 |
| %2nd pts | 64% | 33% |
Cirstea recorded 2 aces . Kucova made 1 ace . Cirstea won 73% points on her first serve. She very solid her second serve to win 64% of the points. On the other side, Kucova won 69% of the points on her first serve. She had a solid display on her second serve to win 33% of the points.
How they played the important points
| Breaks | Cirstea | Kucova |
|---|---|---|
| Won | 4 | 5 |
| Converted | 4/7 | 5/13 |
| % Converted | 57% | 38% |
| Conceded | 2 | 2 |
| Saved | 2 | 0 |
| % Saved | 100% | 0% |
| Times Broken | 0 | 2 |
Sorana broke her opponent 4 times with a 57% conversion rate. Sorana extremely effective on her serve as she has never conceded a single service game after saving 2 break points. Kucova broke her opponent 5 times with a 38% conversion rate. Kristina conceded her serve twice and she saved 0% of the break points that she conceded.
| Cirstea | |||
| R1 Kvitova |
Total | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Score | 6-2 6-2 | ||
| Tot Set | 2 | 2 | |
| Tot Games | 16 | 16 | |
| pts | 60-41 | 60-41 | |
| Total points | 101 | 101 | |
| Winners | 22 | 22 | |
| %Winners | 37% | 37% | |
| SERVE | |||
| Aces | 2 | 2 | |
| Double Faults | 1 | 1 | |
| 1st in | 30/52 | 30/52 | |
| % 1st in | 58% | 58% | |
| 1st pts | 22/30 | 22/30 | |
| % 1st pts | 73% | 73% | |
| 2nd pts | 14/22 | 14/22 | |
| % 2nd pts | 64% | 64% | |
| Breaks | |||
| Won | 4 | 4 | |
| Converted | 4/7 | 4/7 | |
| Converted % | 57% | 57% | |
| Conceded | 2 | 2 | |
| Saved | 2/2 | 2 | |
| Saved % | 100% | 100% | |
| Times Broken | 0 | 0 | |
| Kucova | |||
| R1 Doi |
Total | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Score | 6-3 7-5 | ||
| Tot Set | 2 | 2 | |
| Tot Games | 21 | 21 | |
| pts | 65-57 | 65-57 | |
| Total points | 122 | 122 | |
| Winners | 31 | 31 | |
| %Winners | 48% | 48% | |
| SERVE | |||
| Aces | 1 | 1 | |
| Double Faults | 0 | 0 | |
| 1st in | 45/54 | 45/54 | |
| % 1st in | 83% | 83% | |
| 1st pts | 31/45 | 31/45 | |
| % 1st pts | 69% | 69% | |
| 2nd pts | 3/9 | 3/9 | |
| % 2nd pts | 33% | 33% | |
| Breaks | |||
| Won | 5 | 5 | |
| Converted | 5/13 | 5/13 | |
| Converted % | 38% | 38% | |
| Conceded | 2 | 2 | |
| Saved | 0/2 | 0 | |
| Saved % | 0% | 0% | |
| Times Broken | 2 | 2 | |
Head 2 Head
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