Irina-Camelia Begu and Kamilla Rakhimova will face off in the qualifications of the Mutua Madrid Open for the 1st time in their career. They are scheduled to compete on Wednesday at 1:00 pm on Arantxa Sanchez Stadium. In the following lines you can find the head to head analysis and prediction.
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The pick for Tennis Tonic is Irina-Camelia Begu who should win in 2 sets.
Irina-Camelia Begu -> 1.39
Kamilla Rakhimova -> 3
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Prediction and head to head Irina-Camelia Begu vs. Kamilla Rakhimova
There is no head to head record between Irina-Camelia Begu and Kamilla Rakhimova since this will be the first time that they will face off in the main tour.
Irina-Camelia Begu
| Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 14-12 | 5-5 | 8-5 | 0-1 | 1-1 | 0-0 |
| 2024 | 30-13 | 1-2 | 29-10 | 0-0 | 0-1 | 0-0 |
| 2023 | 17-14 | 5-7 | 11-5 | 0-1 | 1-1 | 0-0 |
| 2022 | 32-17 | 7-9 | 20-5 | 3-2 | 2-1 | 0-0 |
| 2021 | 21-17 | 16-10 | 3-5 | 0-1 | 2-1 | 0-0 |
Ranked no. 62, Begu got to the qualifications after beating Ekaterine Gorgodze 6-2 6-4.
In the qualifications, The Romanian had a good straight sets win against Gorgodze (6-2 6-4). During the match, Begu scored 74 points vs Gorgodze’s 60. The Romanian was exceptionally aggressive to blast 28 winners.
Talking about the service games, Begu blasted 6 aces and she committed only 8 double faults. Irina-Camelia Begu lost the serve once and she saved 4 break points. Furthermore, Begu put 63% of her first serves in, winning 74% (28/38) of the points behind her 1st serve and 50% (11/22) on the 2nd serve. Irina-Camelia broke Gorgodze 4 times after converting 36% of her break points (4/11).
Begu has a favorable win-loss record in the last 10 years having won 55% of her matches (245-201). 3-1 on clay in 2022. In connection with her performance on the same surface of this event, Begu has an overall 112-61 record in the last years on clay.
The Romanian’s best result of the current year was getting to the semifinal in St. Petersburg.
Irina-Camelia has a compiled 11-9 win-loss record in 2022, 3-1 on clay (See FULL STATS).
Previously in Madrid
Kamilla Rakhimova
| Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 27-33 | 12-21 | 7-8 | 0-0 | 8-4 | 0-0 |
| 2024 | 38-34 | 26-23 | 9-9 | 0-0 | 3-2 | 0-0 |
| 2023 | 32-30 | 20-14 | 11-11 | 1-2 | 0-3 | 0-0 |
| 2022 | 33-27 | 14-12 | 6-10 | 10-3 | 3-2 | 0-0 |
| 2021 | 25-22 | 9-7 | 10-7 | 5-6 | 1-2 | 0-0 |
Ranked no. 96, the Russian reached the qualifications after defeating Magdalena Frech 6-1 6-4.
In the qualifications, Rakhimova had a good straight sets win against Frech (6-1 6-4). During the match Rakhimova scored 69 points vs Frech’s 51. Rakhimova was exceptionally aggressive to blast 26 winners.
Talking about serving, Rakhimova couldn’t to score even 1 ace for the entire match and she committed only 1 double fault for the entire match. Kamilla Rakhimova lost the serve once and she saved 2 break points. Furthermore, Rakhimova put 67% of her first serves in, winning 70% (26/37) of the points behind her 1st serve and 61% (11/18) on the 2nd serve. Kamilla broke Frech 4 times after converting 40% of her break points (4/10).
Rakhimova’s best result of the current season was reaching the semifinal in Bogota.
Kamilla has an overall 11-10 win-loss record in 2022, 5-3 on clay (See FULL STATS).
Previously in Madrid
Kamilla has never competed in this tournament before.
H2H Performance in the tournament
Matches, sets, games and points
| Points | Begu | Rakhimova |
|---|---|---|
| Match played | 1 | 1 |
| Tot Set | 2 | 2 |
| Tot Games | 18 | 17 |
| Pts | 74-60 | 69-51 |
| Total Points | 134 | 120 |
| Winners | 28 | 26 |
| %Winners | 38% | 38% |
Both Begu and Rakhimova played 1 match. Also both players started their run from the qualifications.Both players have not conceded a single set in this event so far. Talking about their workload, Begu and Rakhimova have played the same amount of sets 2. However, Begu played 1 game more than Rakhimova. Irina-Camelia scored 28 winners (38% of the total points). On the other side, Rakhimova struck 26 winners (38%).
Serve Performance
| Serve | Begu | Rakhimova |
|---|---|---|
| Aces | 6 | 0 |
| Avg per match | 6 | 0 |
| 1st in | 38/60 | 37/55 |
| %1st in | 63% | 67% |
| 1st pts | 28/38 | 26/37 |
| %1st pts | 74% | 70% |
| 2nd pts | 11/22 | 11/18 |
| %2nd pts | 50% | 61% |
Begu scored 6 aces . Rakhimova didn’t manage to fire a single ace to far. Begu won 74% points behind her first serve. She very solid her second serve to win 50% of the points. On the other side, Rakhimova won 70% of the points behind her first serve. She had a solid display on her second serve to win 61% of the points.
How they played the important points
| Breaks | Begu | Rakhimova |
|---|---|---|
| Won | 4 | 4 |
| Converted | 4/11 | 4/10 |
| % Converted | 36% | 40% |
| Conceded | 5 | 3 |
| Saved | 4 | 2 |
| % Saved | 80% | 67% |
| Times Broken | 1 | 1 |
Begu broke her opponent 4 times with a 36% conversion rate. The Romanian conceded her serve once and she saved 80% of the break points that she conceded. Kamilla broke her opponent 4 times with a 40% conversion rate. Rakhimova conceded her serve once and she saved 67% of the break points that she conceded.
| Begu | |||
| Q1 Gorgodze | Total | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Score | 6-2 6-4 | ||
| Tot Set | 2 | 2 | |
| Tot Games | 18 | 18 | |
| pts | 74-60 | 74-60 | |
| Total points | 134 | 134 | |
| Winners | 28 | 28 | |
| %Winners | 38% | 38% | |
| SERVE | |||
| Aces | 6 | 6 | |
| Double Faults | 8 | 8 | |
| 1st in | 38/60 | 38/60 | |
| % 1st in | 63% | 63% | |
| 1st pts | 28/38 | 28/38 | |
| % 1st pts | 74% | 74% | |
| 2nd pts | 11/22 | 11/22 | |
| % 2nd pts | 50% | 50% | |
| Breaks | |||
| Won | 4 | 4 | |
| Converted | 4/11 | 4/11 | |
| Converted % | 36% | 36% | |
| Conceded | 5 | 5 | |
| Saved | 4/5 | 4 | |
| Saved % | 80% | 80% | |
| Times Broken | 1 | 1 | |
| Rakhimova | |||
| Q1 Frech | Total | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Score | 6-1 6-4 | ||
| Tot Set | 2 | 2 | |
| Tot Games | 17 | 17 | |
| pts | 69-51 | 69-51 | |
| Total points | 120 | 120 | |
| Winners | 26 | 26 | |
| %Winners | 38% | 38% | |
| SERVE | |||
| Aces | 0 | 0 | |
| Double Faults | 1 | 1 | |
| 1st in | 37/55 | 37/55 | |
| % 1st in | 67% | 67% | |
| 1st pts | 26/37 | 26/37 | |
| % 1st pts | 70% | 70% | |
| 2nd pts | 11/18 | 11/18 | |
| % 2nd pts | 61% | 61% | |
| Breaks | |||
| Won | 4 | 4 | |
| Converted | 4/10 | 4/10 | |
| Converted % | 40% | 40% | |
| Conceded | 3 | 3 | |
| Saved | 2/3 | 2 | |
| Saved % | 67% | 67% | |
| Times Broken | 1 | 1 | |
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