Sorana Cirstea and Shuai Zhang will face off in the 2nd round of the Miami Open for the 3rd time in their career. They are scheduled to compete on Friday at 11:00 am on COURT 7. 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 -> 1.43
Shuai Zhang -> 2.92
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Prediction and head to head Sorana Cirstea vs. Shuai Zhang
This will be the 3rd time that Sorana Cirstea and Shuai Zhang fight against each other. The head to head is 2-0 for Cirstea (see full H2H stats), but they have never played each other on hard.
The last time that they squared off, Cirstea won 6-2 6-1 in the 2nd round in Strasbourg back in 2021.
Sorana Cirstea
| Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 30-20 | 26-14 | 3-2 | 1-2 | 0-2 | 0-0 |
| 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 |
Ranked no. 27, Sorana will start her run in Miami after she played her last match in Indian Wells where she lost 6-1 6-4 to Halep in the 4th round on the 15th of March.
Sorana has a composed 11-7 win-loss record in 2022, 7-5 on hard (See FULL STATS).
Sorana’s best result of the current year was reaching the semifinal in Lyon.
Talking about her overall career, The Romanian has an overall 487-376 record. She has a positive 220-174 record on hard.
Previously in Miami
Previously, her best result was reaching the 4th round in 2013. See her history.
Shuai Zhang
| Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 41-17 | 31-9 | 4-4 | 2-2 | 4-2 | 0-0 |
| 2024 | 6-14 | 6-12 | 0-1 | 0-0 | 0-1 | 0-0 |
| 2023 | 4-19 | 3-10 | 0-4 | 1-1 | 0-4 | 0-0 |
| 2022 | 39-31 | 17-14 | 4-7 | 10-7 | 8-3 | 0-0 |
| 2021 | 23-28 | 8-11 | 4-8 | 5-5 | 6-4 | 0-0 |
Ranked no. 43, Zhang got to the 2nd round after defeating Clara Tauson 6-4 4-6 2-1 ret..
In the 1st round, The Chinese defeated Tauson (6-4 4-6 2-1 ret.). During the match Zhang scored 86 points vs Tauson’s 78. Zhang was quite aggressive to blast 33 winners.
Talking about serving, Zhang wasn’t able to score even 1 ace for the entire match and she committed only 2 double faults. Shuai Zhang lost the serve 4 times and she saved 9 break points. Furthermore, Zhang put 61% of her first serves in, winning 62% (33/53) of the points behind her 1st serve and 53% (18/34) on the 2nd serve. Zhang broke Tauson 4 times after converting 24% of her break points (4/17).
Her best result of the year was conquering the title in in Lyon where she overcame Dayana Yastremska in the final 3-6 6-3 6-4.
The Chinese has a composed 10-7 win-loss record in 2022, 5-6 on hard (See FULL STATS).
Previously in Miami
Previously, her best result was reaching the 3rd round in 2017. See her history.
Head 2 Head
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- Heather WatsonWatson – Elina SvitolinaSvitolina (4-6 6-3 7-64) – Stats, scores, rankings
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