Sara Sorribes Tormo and Varvara Gracheva will face off in the 2nd round of the TEB BNP Paribas Tennis Championship for the 2nd time in their career. They are scheduled to compete on Thursday at 1:00 pm on Can Uner Court. In the following lines you can find the head to head analysis and prediction.
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The pick for Tennis Tonic is Sara Sorribes Tormo who should win in 2 sets.
Sara Sorribes Tormo -> 1.42
Varvara Gracheva -> 2.96
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Prediction and head to head Sara Sorribes Tormo vs. Varvara Gracheva
This will be the 2nd time that Sara Sorribes Tormo and Varvara Gracheva square off. The head to head is 1-0 for Gracheva (see full H2H stats), but they have never played each other on clay.
The last time that they fought against each other, Gracheva won 6-4 5-7 7-6(4) in the 1st round in Tenerife back in 2021.
Sara Sorribes Tormo
| Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 14-9 | 5-5 | 3-2 | 6-2 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2024 | 23-28 | 14-15 | 9-9 | 0-1 | 0-3 | 0-0 |
| 2023 | 29-17 | 10-6 | 17-9 | 1-1 | 1-1 | 0-0 |
| 2022 | 24-18 | 9-10 | 13-6 | 0-0 | 2-2 | 0-0 |
| 2021 | 31-20 | 24-11 | 2-5 | 2-2 | 3-2 | 0-0 |
Ranked no. 47, Sara reached the 2nd round after defeating Qiang Wang 6-3 6-2.
In the 1st round, Sorribes Tormo had a good straight sets win against Wang (6-3 6-2). During the match, Sorribes Tormo scored 61 points vs Wang’s 40. Sorribes Tormo was quite aggressive to blast 31 winners.
Regarding the service games, Sorribes Tormo was unable to score even 1 ace throughout the encounter and she committed only 2 double faults. Sara Sorribes Tormo lost the serve once and she saved 3 break points. Furthermore, Sorribes Tormo put 75% of her first serves in, winning 79% (31/39) of the points behind her 1st serve and 38% (5/13) on the 2nd serve. Sorribes Tormo broke Wang 4 times after converting 50% of her break points (4/8).
Sorribes Tormo has a winning win-loss record in the last 9 years having won 59% of her matches (298-207). 3-0 on clay in 2022. Regarding her performance on the same surface of this tournament, Sorribes Tormo has an aggregate161-88 match record in the last 9 years on clay.
Sorribes Tormo has an overall 10-6 win-loss record in 2022, 3-0 on clay (See FULL STATS).
Previously in Istanbul
Varvara Gracheva
| Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 34-28 | 20-14 | 9-8 | 1-3 | 4-3 | 0-0 |
| 2024 | 29-28 | 13-15 | 15-10 | 0-1 | 1-2 | 0-0 |
| 2023 | 36-30 | 23-18 | 7-6 | 3-3 | 3-3 | 0-0 |
| 2022 | 29-32 | 7-11 | 12-14 | 10-7 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2021 | 27-31 | 11-10 | 7-10 | 9-9 | 0-2 | 0-0 |
Ranked no. 73, Gracheva reached the 2nd round after defeating Marie Bouzkova 6-3 7-5.
In the 1st round, Gracheva had a good straight sets win against Bouzkova (6-3 7-5). During the match Gracheva scored 66 points vs Bouzkova’s 52. Varvara was quite aggressive to blast 34 winners.
About the serving games, Gracheva scored just 1 ace during the entire match and she committed only 1 double fault for the entire match. Varvara Gracheva lost the serve twice and she saved 2 break points. Furthermore, Gracheva put 73% of her first serves in, winning 74% (34/46) of the points behind her 1st serve and 41% (7/17) on the 2nd serve. Varvara broke Bouzkova 4 times after converting 80% of her break points (4/5).
Varvara has a composed 11-7 win-loss record in 2022, 3-2 on clay (See FULL STATS).
H2H Performance in the tournament
Matches, sets, games and points
| Points | Sorribes Tormo | Gracheva |
|---|---|---|
| Match played | 1 | 1 |
| Tot Set | 2 | 2 |
| Tot Games | 17 | 21 |
| Pts | 61-40 | 66-52 |
| Total Points | 101 | 118 |
| Winners | 31 | 34 |
| %Winners | 51% | 52% |
Both Sorribes Tormo and Gracheva played 1 match. Both players have not dropped a single set in this event so far. Talking about their workload, Sorribes Tormo and Gracheva have played the same amount of sets 2. However, Sorribes Tormo played 4 games less than Gracheva. Sara scored 31 winners (51% of the total points). On the other side, Varvara recorded 34 winners (52%).
Serve Performance
| Serve | Sorribes Tormo | Gracheva |
|---|---|---|
| Aces | 0 | 1 |
| Avg per match | 0 | 1 |
| 1st in | 39/52 | 46/63 |
| %1st in | 75% | 73% |
| 1st pts | 31/39 | 34/46 |
| %1st pts | 79% | 74% |
| 2nd pts | 5/13 | 7/17 |
| %2nd pts | 38% | 41% |
Sorribes Tormo didn’t manage to fire a single ace to far. Gracheva struck 1 ace . Sorribes Tormo won 79% points behind her first serve. She was rock solid on her second serve to win 38% of the points. On the other side, Gracheva won 74% of the points on her first serve. She had a solid display on her second serve to win 41% of the points.
How they played the important points
| Breaks | Sorribes Tormo | Gracheva |
|---|---|---|
| Won | 4 | 4 |
| Converted | 4/8 | 4/5 |
| % Converted | 50% | 80% |
| Conceded | 4 | 4 |
| Saved | 3 | 2 |
| % Saved | 75% | 50% |
| Times Broken | 1 | 2 |
The Spaniard broke her opponent 4 times with a 50% conversion rate. Sorribes Tormo conceded her serve once and she saved 75% of the break points that she conceded. Varvara broke her opponent 4 times with a 80% conversion rate. The Russian conceded her serve twice and she saved 50% of the break points that she conceded.
| Sorribes Tormo | |||
| R1 Wang | Total | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Score | 6-3 6-2 | ||
| Tot Set | 2 | 2 | |
| Tot Games | 17 | 17 | |
| pts | 61-40 | 61-40 | |
| Total points | 101 | 101 | |
| Winners | 31 | 31 | |
| %Winners | 51% | 51% | |
| SERVE | |||
| Aces | 0 | 0 | |
| Double Faults | 2 | 2 | |
| 1st in | 39/52 | 39/52 | |
| % 1st in | 75% | 75% | |
| 1st pts | 31/39 | 31/39 | |
| % 1st pts | 79% | 79% | |
| 2nd pts | 5/13 | 5/13 | |
| % 2nd pts | 38% | 38% | |
| Breaks | |||
| Won | 4 | 4 | |
| Converted | 4/8 | 4/8 | |
| Converted % | 50% | 50% | |
| Conceded | 4 | 4 | |
| Saved | 3/4 | 3 | |
| Saved % | 75% | 75% | |
| Times Broken | 1 | 1 | |
| Gracheva | |||
| R1 Bouzkova | Total | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Score | 6-3 7-5 | ||
| Tot Set | 2 | 2 | |
| Tot Games | 21 | 21 | |
| pts | 66-52 | 66-52 | |
| Total points | 118 | 118 | |
| Winners | 34 | 34 | |
| %Winners | 52% | 52% | |
| SERVE | |||
| Aces | 1 | 1 | |
| Double Faults | 1 | 1 | |
| 1st in | 46/63 | 46/63 | |
| % 1st in | 73% | 73% | |
| 1st pts | 34/46 | 34/46 | |
| % 1st pts | 74% | 74% | |
| 2nd pts | 7/17 | 7/17 | |
| % 2nd pts | 41% | 41% | |
| Breaks | |||
| Won | 4 | 4 | |
| Converted | 4/5 | 4/5 | |
| Converted % | 80% | 80% | |
| Conceded | 4 | 4 | |
| Saved | 2/4 | 2 | |
| Saved % | 50% | 50% | |
| Times Broken | 2 | 2 | |
Tennis Scores in Istanbul
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- Anna BondarBondar – Nuria Parrizas-DiazParrizas-Diaz (6-4 6-2) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Sorana CirsteaCirstea – Arantxa RusRus (3-6 6-1 7-5) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Yannick HanfmannHanfmann – Feliciano LopezLopez (7-65 3-6 6-1) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Fabio FogniniFognini – Norbert GombosGombos (1-6 6-4 6-3) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Ernests GulbisGulbis – Paolo LorenziLorenzi (7-610 3-6 6-4) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Joao SousaSousa – Henri LaaksonenLaaksonen (6-1 6-2) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Robin HaaseHaase – Thiago Moura MonteiroMoura Monteiro (7-5 7-5) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Denis IstominIstomin – Dustin BrownBrown (6-3 6-1) – Stats, scores, rankings
- David GoffinGoffin – Radu AlbotAlbot (2-6 7-67 7-67) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Roberto Bautista AgutBautista Agut – Gleb SakharovSakharov (6-4 6-3) – Stats, scores, rankings
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- Petra MarticMartic – Anastasia PotapovaPotapova (1-0) – H2H and prediction
- Varvara GrachevaGracheva – Sara Sorribes TormoSorribes Tormo (1-0) – H2H and prediction
- Ana BogdanBogdan – Veronika KudermetovaKudermetova (3-1) – H2H and prediction
- Julia GrabherGrabher – Sorana CirsteaCirstea (0-1) – H2H and prediction