Simona Halep and Harriet Dart will fight against each other in the 2nd round of the Viking Classic for the 2nd time in their career. They are scheduled to play on Wednesday at 4:00 pm on Court Ann Jones Centre Court1. In the following paragraphs, you can find the head to head analysis and prediction.
Prediction, odds and live streaming
The pick for Tennis Tonic is Simona Halep who should win in 2 sets.
Simona Halep -> 1.149
Harriet Dart -> 5.8
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Prediction and head to head Simona Halep vs. Harriet Dart
This will be the 2nd time that Simona Halep and Harriet Dart clash against each other. The head to head is 1-0 for Halep (see full H2H stats), but they have never played each other on grass.
The last time that they played, Halep won 6-2 6-4 in the 2nd round in at the Australian Open back in 2020.
Simona Halep
| Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 0-1 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-1 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2024 | 1-4 | 1-3 | 0-1 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2023 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2022 | 39-11 | 23-6 | 5-3 | 0-0 | 11-2 | 0-0 |
| 2021 | 24-10 | 12-5 | 4-3 | 8-2 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
Ranked no. 20, Simona reached the 2nd round after defeating Lesya Tsurenko 6-1 6-4
.In the 1st round, The Romanian had a good straight sets win against Tsurenko (6-1 6-4). During the match, Halep scored 62 points vs Tsurenko’s 41. Halep was extremely aggressive to blast 25 winners.
Talking about the service games, Halep made 4 aces and she committed only 2 double faults. Simona Halep lost the serve twice and she saved 7 break points. Furthermore, Halep put 62% of her first serves in, winning 74% (25/34) of the points behind her 1st serve and 48% (10/21) on the 2nd serve. Halep broke Tsurenko 5 times after converting 71% of her break points (5/7).
Halep has an extraordinary win-loss record in the last 10 years having won 75% of her matches (400-135). 1-0 on grass in 2022. In connection with her performance on the same surface of this competition, Halep has an overall 36-10 match record in the last years on grass.
Her best result of the season was winning the title in in Melbourne where she overcame Veronika Kudermetova in the final 6-2 6-3.
Simona has an aggregate 21-7 win-loss record in 2022, 1-0 on grass (See FULL STATS).
Previously in Birmingham
Harriet Dart
| Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 24-22 | 14-11 | 0-5 | 9-2 | 1-4 | 0-0 |
| 2024 | 26-27 | 12-12 | 3-7 | 5-3 | 6-5 | 0-0 |
| 2023 | 42-32 | 27-19 | 1-3 | 6-5 | 8-5 | 0-0 |
| 2022 | 29-29 | 17-15 | 1-5 | 4-4 | 7-5 | 0-0 |
| 2021 | 27-23 | 17-12 | 8-4 | 1-3 | 1-4 | 0-0 |
Ranked no. 106, Harriet reached the 2nd round after beating Maria Camila Osorio Serrano 6-2 6-0.
In the 1st round, Dart had a good straight sets win against Camila Osorio Serrano (6-2 6-0). During the match Dart scored 64 points vs Camila Osorio Serrano’s 39. Harriet was quite aggressive to blast 18 winners.
Talking about serving, Dart wasn’t able to score even 1 ace for the entire match and she committed only 2 double faults. Harriet Dart lost the serve once and she saved 1 break points. Furthermore, Dart put 52% of her first serves in, winning 64% (18/28) of the points behind her 1st serve and 58% (15/26) on the 2nd serve. Harriet broke Camila Osorio Serrano 6 times after converting 67% of her break points (6/9).
Harriet has a composed 16-15 win-loss record in 2022, 3-2 on grass (See FULL STATS).
Previously in Birmingham
Previously, her best result was reaching the 1st round in 2019 and 2021. See her history.
H2H Performance in the tournament
Matches, sets, games and points
| Points | Halep | Dart |
|---|---|---|
| Match played | 1 | 1 |
| Tot Set | 2 | 2 |
| Tot Games | 17 | 14 |
| Pts | 62-41 | 64-39 |
| Total Points | 103 | 103 |
| Winners | 25 | 18 |
| %Winners | 40% | 28% |
Both Halep and Dart played 1 match. Both players have not dropped a single set in this event so far. Talking about their workload, Halep and Dart have played the same amount of sets 2. However, Halep played 3 games more than Dart. Halep scored 25 winners (40% of the total points). On the other side, Dart blasted 18 winners (28%).
Serve Performance
| Serve | Halep | Dart |
|---|---|---|
| Aces | 4 | 0 |
| Avg per match | 4 | 0 |
| 1st in | 34/55 | 28/54 |
| %1st in | 62% | 52% |
| 1st pts | 25/34 | 18/28 |
| %1st pts | 74% | 64% |
| 2nd pts | 10/21 | 15/26 |
| %2nd pts | 48% | 58% |
Halep made 4 aces . Dart didn’t manage to fire a single ace to far. Halep won 74% points behind her first serve. She very solid her second serve to win 48% of the points. On the other side, Dart won 64% of the points on her first serve. She had a solid display on her second serve to win 58% of the points.
How they played the important points
| Breaks | Halep | Dart |
|---|---|---|
| Won | 5 | 6 |
| Converted | 5/7 | 6/9 |
| % Converted | 71% | 67% |
| Conceded | 9 | 2 |
| Saved | 7 | 1 |
| % Saved | 78% | 50% |
| Times Broken | 2 | 1 |
The Romanian broke her opponent 5 times with a 71% conversion rate. Simona dropped her serve twice and she saved 78% of the break points that she conceded. The Brit broke her opponent 6 times with a 67% conversion rate. The Brit conceded her serve once and she saved 50% of the break points that she conceded.
| Halep | |||
| R1 Tsurenko | Total | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Score | 6-1 6-4 | ||
| Tot Set | 2 | 2 | |
| Tot Games | 17 | 17 | |
| pts | 62-41 | 62-41 | |
| Total points | 103 | 103 | |
| Winners | 25 | 25 | |
| %Winners | 40% | 40% | |
| SERVE | |||
| Aces | 4 | 4 | |
| Double Faults | 2 | 2 | |
| 1st in | 34/55 | 34/55 | |
| % 1st in | 62% | 62% | |
| 1st pts | 25/34 | 25/34 | |
| % 1st pts | 74% | 74% | |
| 2nd pts | 10/21 | 10/21 | |
| % 2nd pts | 48% | 48% | |
| Breaks | |||
| Won | 5 | 5 | |
| Converted | 5/7 | 5/7 | |
| Converted % | 71% | 71% | |
| Conceded | 9 | 9 | |
| Saved | 7/9 | 7 | |
| Saved % | 78% | 78% | |
| Times Broken | 2 | 2 | |
| Dart | |||
| R1 Camila Osorio Serrano | Total | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Score | 6-2 6-0 | ||
| Tot Set | 2 | 2 | |
| Tot Games | 14 | 14 | |
| pts | 64-39 | 64-39 | |
| Total points | 103 | 103 | |
| Winners | 18 | 18 | |
| %Winners | 28% | 28% | |
| SERVE | |||
| Aces | 0 | 0 | |
| Double Faults | 2 | 2 | |
| 1st in | 28/54 | 28/54 | |
| % 1st in | 52% | 52% | |
| 1st pts | 18/28 | 18/28 | |
| % 1st pts | 64% | 64% | |
| 2nd pts | 15/26 | 15/26 | |
| % 2nd pts | 58% | 58% | |
| Breaks | |||
| Won | 6 | 6 | |
| Converted | 6/9 | 6/9 | |
| Converted % | 67% | 67% | |
| Conceded | 2 | 2 | |
| Saved | 1/2 | 1 | |
| Saved % | 50% | 50% | |
| Times Broken | 1 | 1 | |
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- Alexander ZverevZverev – Steve DarcisDarcis (4-6 7-65 7-65) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Dudi SelaSela – Mischa ZverevZverev (6-3 5-7 6-2) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Donald YoungYoung – Jeremy ChardyChardy (7-65 6-4) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Henri LaaksonenLaaksonen – Marius CopilCopil (4-6 6-4 6-3) – Stats, scores, rankings
- David GoffinGoffin – Evgeny DonskoyDonskoy (7-65 6-3) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Zhizhen ZhangZhang – Paolo LorenziLorenzi (4-6 6-3 7-64) – Stats, scores, rankings
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- Tereza MartincovaMartincova – Camila GiorgiGiorgi (0-1) – H2H and prediction
- Jelena OstapenkoOstapenko – Dayana YastremskaYastremska (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Caty McNallyMcNally – Donna VekicVekic (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Aleksandra KrunicKrunic – Sorana CirsteaCirstea (1-2) – H2H and prediction
- Beatriz Haddad MaiaHaddad Maia – Magdalena FrechFrech (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Katie BoulterBoulter – Caroline GarciaGarcia (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Harriet DartDart – Simona HalepHalep (0-1) – H2H and prediction