Sorana Cirstea and Shuai Zhang will face off in the 2^nd round of the Miami Open for the 3^rd 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 3^rd 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 2^nd round in Strasbourg back in 2021.

Sorana Cirstea

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 4^th round on the 15^th 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 4^th round in 2013. See her history.

Shuai Zhang

Ranked no. 43, Zhang got to the 2^nd round after defeating Clara Tauson 6-4 4-6 2-1 ret..

In the 1^st 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 3^rd round in 2017. See her history.

Tennis Scores in Miami

• Aliaksandra SasnovichSasnovich – Daria KasatkinaKasatkina (7-6⁵ 6-4) – Stats, scores, rankings
• Kaia KanepiKanepi – Sara Sorribes TormoSorribes Tormo (3-6 7-5 6-0) – Stats, scores, rankings
• Naomi OsakaOsaka – Angelique KerberKerber (6-2 6-3) – Stats, scores, rankings
• Heather WatsonWatson – Elina Svitolina
  Svitolina (4-6 6-3 7-6⁴) – Stats, scores, rankings
• Anna KalinskayaKalinskaya – Karolina PliskovaPliskova (6-3 6-3) – Stats, scores, rankings
• Vera ZvonarevaZvonareva – Tamara ZidansekZidansek (6-3 6-2) – Stats, scores, rankings
• Irina-Camelia BeguBegu – Aryna SabalenkaSabalenka (6-4 6-4) – Stats, scores, rankings
• Alison RiskeRiske – Alize CornetCornet (6-2 6-2) – Stats, scores, rankings
• Danielle Rose CollinsRose Collins – Anna BondarBondar (6-3 3-6 6-4) – Stats, scores, rankings
• Belinda BencicBencic – Marta KostyukKostyuk (6-3 6-1) – Stats, scores, rankings
• Karolina MuchovaMuchova – Leylah Annie FernandezAnnie Fernandez (6-4 7-6³) – Stats, scores, rankings
• Ann LiLi – Anett KontaveitKontaveit (6-0 3-6 6-4) – Stats, scores, rankings
• Katerina SiniakovaSiniakova – Emma RaducanuRaducanu (3-6 6-4 7-5) – Stats, scores, rankings
• Ons JabeurJabeur – Magda LinetteLinette (7-6¹ 6-2) – Stats, scores, rankings
• Matthew EbdenEbden – Lukas LackoLacko (6-1 7-6²) – Stats, scores, rankings
• Peter GojowczykGojowczyk – Konstantin KravchukKravchuk (2-6 6-4 6-4) – Stats, scores, rankings
• Bjorn FratangeloFratangelo – Akira SantillanSantillan (7-6³ 3-6 6-1) – Stats, scores, rankings
• Pierre-Hugues HerbertHerbert – Adrian Menendez-MaceirasMenendez-Maceiras (7-5 2-6 6-3) – Stats, scores, rankings
• Ivo KarlovicKarlovic – Denis KudlaKudla (6-4 6-4) – Stats, scores, rankings
• Dennis NovikovNovikov – Frank DancevicDancevic (6-3 6-2) – Stats, scores, rankings
• Tobias KamkeKamke – Adrian MannarinoMannarino (7-6⁵ 7-5) – Stats, scores, rankings
• John IsnerIsner – Samuel GrothGroth (6-2 6-4) – Stats, scores, rankings

Upcoming matches in the draw

• Daria GavrilovaGavrilova – Simona HalepHalep (1-3) – H2H and prediction
• Camila GiorgiGiorgi – Lucia BronzettiBronzetti (0-0) – H2H and prediction
• Paula Badosa GibertBadosa Gibert – Marie BouzkovaBouzkova (1-0) – H2H and prediction
• Yulia PutintsevaPutintseva – Marketa VondrousovaVondrousova (0-3) – H2H and prediction
• Elise MertensMertens – (0-0) – H2H and prediction
• Ekaterina AlexandrovaAlexandrova – Victoria AzarenkaAzarenka (0-2) – H2H and prediction
• Jessica PegulaPegula – Sloane StephensStephens (1-0) – H2H and prediction
• Elena Gabriela RuseGabriela Ruse – Elena RybakinaRybakina (0-0) – H2H and prediction
• Madison KeysKeys – Anhelina KalininaKalinina (0-0) – H2H and prediction
• Beatriz Haddad MaiaHaddad Maia – Maria SakkariSakkari (1-0) – H2H and prediction
• Garbine MuguruzaMuguruza – Lauren DavisDavis (2-0) – H2H and prediction
• Clara BurelBurel – Petra KvitovaKvitova (0-0) – H2H and prediction
• Veronika KudermetovaKudermetova – Dalma GalfiGalfi (0-2) – H2H and prediction
• Shelby RogersRogers – Jelena OstapenkoOstapenko (1-3) – H2H and prediction
• Cori GauffGauff – Qiang WangWang (2-1) – H2H and prediction
• Shuai ZhangZhang – Sorana CirsteaCirstea (0-2) – H2H and prediction
• Ludmilla SamsonovaSamsonova – Madison BrengleBrengle (0-0) – H2H and prediction
• Viktorija GolubicGolubic – Iga SwiatekSwiatek (1-1) – H2H and prediction
• Irina-Camelia BeguBegu – Aliaksandra SasnovichSasnovich (3-0) – H2H and prediction
• Belinda BencicBencic – Heather WatsonWatson (0-1) – H2H and prediction
• Ann LiLi – Alison RiskeRiske (1-1) – H2H and prediction
• Karolina MuchovaMuchova – Naomi OsakaOsaka (1-1) – H2H and prediction
• Danielle Rose CollinsRose Collins – Vera ZvonarevaZvonareva (2-0) – H2H and prediction
• Kaia KanepiKanepi – Ons JabeurJabeur (0-2) – H2H and prediction