Simona Halep and Veronika Kudermetova will play each other in the 2nd round of the Western & Southern Open for the 4th time in their career. They are scheduled to compete on Wednesday at 7:00 pm on Stadium 3. Here the head to head stats and relative prediction.
Prediction, odds and live streaming
The pick for Tennis Tonic is Simona Halep who should win in 3 sets.
As per the initial odds, Simona Halep is the pick to win this match.
Simona Halep -> 1.44
Veronika Kudermetova -> 2.75
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Prediction and head to head Simona Halep vs. Veronika Kudermetova
This will be the 4th time that Simona Halep and Veronika Kudermetova square off. The head to head is 3-0 for Halep (see full H2H stats), 2-0 on hard.
The last time that they fought against each other, Halep won 6-2 6-3 in the final in Melbourne back in January 2022.
Highlights Simona Halep vs Veronika Kudermetova – Melbourne 09-January-2022
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. 6, the Romanian got to the 2nd round after beating Anastasia Potapova 6-4 3-6 6-3.
In the 1st round, Halep defeated Potapova (6-4 3-6 6-3). During the match, Halep scored 99 points vs Potapova’s 96. Simona was quite aggressive to blast 37 winners.
Regarding the service games, Halep scored just 1 ace throughout the match and she committed only 4 double faults. Simona Halep lost the serve 6 times and she saved 6 break points. Furthermore, Halep put 62% of her first serves in, winning 64% (37/58) of the points behind her 1st serve and 34% (12/35) on the 2nd serve. The Romanian broke Potapova 7 times after converting 39% of her break points (7/18).
Halep has a solid record in the last 10 years having won 75% of her matches (418-138). 23-5 on hard in 2022. Talking about her performance on the same surface of this tournament, Halep has a composed 215-76 record in the last years on hard.
Her best result of the current year was winning the title in in Melbourne where she defeated Veronika Kudermetova in the final 6-2 6-3 and in in Toronto where she overcame Beatriz Haddad Maia in the final 6-3 2-6 6-3.
The Romanian has a composed 39-10 win-loss record in 2022, 23-5 on hard (See FULL STATS).
Previously in Cincinnati
Veronika Kudermetova
| Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 35-25 | 22-16 | 9-5 | 0-0 | 4-4 | 0-0 |
| 2024 | 18-25 | 10-16 | 3-5 | 0-0 | 5-4 | 0-0 |
| 2023 | 34-22 | 18-14 | 8-5 | 1-1 | 7-2 | 0-0 |
| 2022 | 39-20 | 27-13 | 7-4 | 0-1 | 5-2 | 0-0 |
| 2021 | 33-24 | 15-13 | 14-4 | 3-4 | 1-3 | 0-0 |
Ranked no. 20, Veronika reached the 2nd round after defeating Barbora Krejcikova 6-3 6-3.
In the 1st round, Veronika had a good straight sets win against Krejcikova (6-3 6-3). During the match Kudermetova scored 62 points vs Krejcikova’s 38. Veronika was exceptionally aggressive to blast 20 winners.
Talking about serving, Kudermetova recorded 3 aces and she committed only 1 double fault for the entire match. Overall, Veronika Kudermetova was pretty efficient on serve to win 71% (20/28) of her 1st serve and 69% (11/16) on the second serve. However, this didn’t prevent her to concede the serve twice. Veronika broke Krejcikova 5 times after converting 56% of her break points (5/9).
The Russian’s best result of the season was getting to the final in Melbourne, Dubai and Istanbul.
Kudermetova has a compiled 29-15 win-loss record in 2022, 17-8 on hard (See FULL STATS).
Previously in Cincinnati
Previously, her best result was reaching the 3rd round in 2020. See her history.
H2H Performance in the tournament
Matches, sets, games and points
| Points | Halep | Kudermetova |
|---|---|---|
| Match played | 1 | 1 |
| Tot Set | 3 | 2 |
| Tot Games | 28 | 18 |
| Pts | 99-96 | 62-38 |
| Total Points | 195 | 100 |
| Winners | 37 | 20 |
| %Winners | 37% | 32% |
Both Halep and Kudermetova played 1 match. At the moment, Simona Halep conceded 1 set while Veronika Kudermetova hasn’t lost a set so far. Halep has played 1 set more than Kudermetova (3 vs 2). Therefore, Halep played 10 games more than Kudermetova. The Romanian scored 37 winners (37% of the total points). On the other side, Kudermetova recorded 20 winners (32%).
Serve Performance
| Serve | Halep | Kudermetova |
|---|---|---|
| Aces | 1 | 3 |
| Avg per match | 1 | 3 |
| 1st in | 58/93 | 28/44 |
| %1st in | 62% | 64% |
| 1st pts | 37/58 | 20/28 |
| %1st pts | 64% | 71% |
| 2nd pts | 12/35 | 11/16 |
| %2nd pts | 34% | 69% |
Halep blasted 1 ace . Kudermetova also bagged 3 aces . Halep won 64% points on her first serve. She extremely effective on her second serve to win 34% of the points. On the other side, Kudermetova won 71% of the points on her first serve. She had a solid display on her second serve to win 69% of the points.
How they played the important points
| Breaks | Halep | Kudermetova |
|---|---|---|
| Won | 7 | 5 |
| Converted | 7/18 | 5/9 |
| % Converted | 39% | 56% |
| Conceded | 12 | 2 |
| Saved | 6 | 0 |
| % Saved | 50% | 0% |
| Times Broken | 6 | 2 |
The Romanian broke her opponent 7 times with a 39% conversion rate. The Romanian surrendered her serve 6 times and she saved 50% of the break points that she conceded. The Russian broke her opponent 5 times with a 56% conversion rate. The Russian conceded her serve twice and she saved 0% of the break points that she conceded.
| Halep | |||
| R1 Potapova |
Total | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Score | 6-4 3-6 6-3 | ||
| Tot Set | 3 | 3 | |
| Tot Games | 28 | 28 | |
| pts | 99-96 | 99-96 | |
| Total points | 195 | 195 | |
| Winners | 37 | 37 | |
| %Winners | 37% | 37% | |
| SERVE | |||
| Aces | 1 | 1 | |
| Double Faults | 4 | 4 | |
| 1st in | 58/93 | 58/93 | |
| % 1st in | 62% | 62% | |
| 1st pts | 37/58 | 37/58 | |
| % 1st pts | 64% | 64% | |
| 2nd pts | 12/35 | 12/35 | |
| % 2nd pts | 34% | 34% | |
| Breaks | |||
| Won | 7 | 7 | |
| Converted | 7/18 | 7/18 | |
| Converted % | 39% | 39% | |
| Conceded | 12 | 12 | |
| Saved | 6/12 | 6 | |
| Saved % | 50% | 50% | |
| Times Broken | 6 | 6 | |
| Kudermetova | |||
| R1 Krejcikova |
Total | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Score | 6-3 6-3 | ||
| Tot Set | 2 | 2 | |
| Tot Games | 18 | 18 | |
| pts | 62-38 | 62-38 | |
| Total points | 100 | 100 | |
| Winners | 20 | 20 | |
| %Winners | 32% | 32% | |
| SERVE | |||
| Aces | 3 | 3 | |
| Double Faults | 1 | 1 | |
| 1st in | 28/44 | 28/44 | |
| % 1st in | 64% | 64% | |
| 1st pts | 20/28 | 20/28 | |
| % 1st pts | 71% | 71% | |
| 2nd pts | 11/16 | 11/16 | |
| % 2nd pts | 69% | 69% | |
| Breaks | |||
| Won | 5 | 5 | |
| Converted | 5/9 | 5/9 | |
| Converted % | 56% | 56% | |
| Conceded | 2 | 2 | |
| Saved | 0/2 | 0 | |
| Saved % | 0% | 0% | |
| Times Broken | 2 | 2 | |
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