Simona Halep and Donna Vekic will face off in the 1st round of the National Bank Open for the 3rd time in their career. They are scheduled to compete on Monday at 11:00 am on Centre Court. In the following lines 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.

As per the initial odds, Simona Halep is the pick to win this match.
Simona Halep -> 1.26
Donna Vekic -> 3.85

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Prediction and head to head Simona Halep vs. Donna Vekic

This will be the 3rd time that Simona Halep and Donna Vekic square off. The head to head is 2-0 for Halep (see full H2H stats), 2-0 on hard.

The last time that they played, Halep won 6-4 6-1 in the 2nd round in Indian Wells back in 2017.

Simona Halep

Simona Halep

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Rank
859
High
1
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. 15, Simona will start her run in Montreal after she played her last match in Washington where she lost 7-5 2-0 ret. to Kalinskaya in the 2nd round on the 3rd of August.

Halep has an overall 32-10 win-loss record in 2022, 16-5 on hard (See FULL STATS).

Her best result of the year was winning the title in in Melbourne where she beat Veronika Kudermetova in the final 6-2 6-3.

Talking about her overall career, Simona has an overall 582-239 record. She has a positive 258-114 record on hard.

Previously in Montreal

Previously, she won this tournament twice in 2016 and 2018. See her history.

Toronto
Halep's Record

Donna Vekic

Donna Vekic

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Rank
70
High
17
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Year Total Hard Clay I.hard Grass Carpet
2025 14-23 9-15 3-4 0-0 2-4 0-0
2024 32-20 12-10 8-5 2-1 10-4 0-0
2023 29-20 16-9 4-5 2-3 7-3 0-0
2022 28-20 10-9 9-6 2-1 7-4 0-0
2021 19-16 10-12 0-1 5-0 4-3 0-0

Ranked no. 82, the Croatian got to the 1st round after defeating Lina Glushko 6-4 6-2.

The Croatian has a composed 18-13 win-loss record in 2022, 2-3 on hard (See FULL STATS).

Previously in Montreal

Previously, her best result was reaching the 2nd round in 2017, 2019 and 2021. See her history.

Toronto
Vekic's Record

Tennis Scores in Toronto

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