Irina-Camelia Begu and Sofia Kenin will play each other in the 2nd round of the Tennis in the Land for the 1st time in their career. They are scheduled to compete on Tuesday at 6:30 pm on Motorola Edge Stadium. In this post, we analyze their head to head performance and prediction.
Prediction, odds and live streaming
The pick for Tennis Tonic is Irina-Camelia Begu who should win in 3 sets.
As per the initial odds, Irina-Camelia Begu is the pick to win this match.
Irina-Camelia Begu -> 1.58
Sofia Kenin -> 2.38
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Prediction and head to head Irina-Camelia Begu vs. Sofia Kenin
There is no head to head record between Irina-Camelia Begu and Sofia Kenin since this will be the first time that they will fight against each other in the main tour.
Irina-Camelia Begu
| Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 15-7 | 0-0 | 15-6 | 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 |
| 2020 | 23-11 | 15-5 | 7-4 | 1-2 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
Ranked no. 34, Irina-Camelia reached the 2nd round after defeating Peyton Stearns 6-4 6-3.
In the 1st round, Begu had a good straight sets win against Stearns (6-4 6-3). During the match, Begu scored 64 points vs Stearns’s 53. Irina-Camelia was extremely aggressive to blast 27 winners.
Regarding the service games, Begu blasted 9 aces and she was pretty steady in conceding no double faults. Overall, Irina-Camelia Begu was quite efficient on serve to win 71% (27/38) of her 1st serve and 55% (11/20) on the second serve. However, this didn’t prevent her to concede the serve once. Begu broke Stearns 4 times after converting 67% of her break points (4/6).
Begu has a favorable win-loss record in the last 10 years having won 56% of her matches (258-206). 6-7 on hard in 2022. Talking about her performance on the same surface of this competition, Begu has a composed 103-105 win-loss record in the last years on hard.
Her best result of the year was conquering the title in in Palermo where she overcame Lucia Bronzetti in the final 6-2 6-2.
Begu has a composed 24-14 win-loss record in 2022, 6-7 on hard (See FULL STATS).
Previously in Cleveland
Sofia Kenin
| Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 7-17 | 1-8 | 5-6 | 0-0 | 1-3 | 0-0 |
| 2023 | 27-21 | 17-12 | 3-4 | 1-2 | 6-3 | 0-0 |
| 2022 | 10-17 | 7-14 | 0-0 | 3-3 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2021 | 11-10 | 7-5 | 3-4 | 0-0 | 1-1 | 0-0 |
| 2020 | 24-9 | 12-6 | 6-2 | 6-1 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
Ranked no. 415, the American got to the 2nd round after beating Dalayna Hewitt 6-4 6-3.
In the 1st round, The American had a good straight sets win against Hewitt (6-4 6-3). During the match Kenin scored 59 points vs Hewitt’s 42. Kenin was quite aggressive to blast 21 winners.
Talking about serving, Kenin fired 3 aces and she committed only 2 double faults. Sofia Kenin was extremely efficient on serve to win 84% (21/25) of her 1st serve and 79% (15/19) on the second serve. This was the main reason for not conceding a single break during the match. Kenin broke Hewitt 3 times after converting 75% of her break points (3/4).
The American has an overall 3-9 win-loss record in 2022, 3-9 on hard (See FULL STATS).
Previously in Cleveland
The American has never competed in this tournament before.
H2H Performance in the tournament
Matches, sets, games and points
| Points | Begu | Kenin |
|---|---|---|
| Match played | 1 | 1 |
| Tot Set | 2 | 2 |
| Tot Games | 19 | 19 |
| Pts | 64-53 | 59-42 |
| Total Points | 117 | 101 |
| Winners | 27 | 21 |
| %Winners | 42% | 36% |
Both Begu and Kenin played 1 match. Both players have not dropped a single set in this event so far. Talking about their workload, Begu and Kenin have played the same amount of sets 2. They also played the same amount of games (19). The Romanian scored 27 winners (42% of the total points). On the other side, Sofia recorded 21 winners (36%).
Serve Performance
| Serve | Begu | Kenin |
|---|---|---|
| Aces | 9 | 3 |
| Avg per match | 9 | 3 |
| 1st in | 38/58 | 25/44 |
| %1st in | 66% | 57% |
| 1st pts | 27/38 | 21/25 |
| %1st pts | 71% | 84% |
| 2nd pts | 11/20 | 15/19 |
| %2nd pts | 55% | 79% |
Begu managed to score 9 aces . Kenin scored 3 aces . Begu won 71% points on her first serve. She very solid her second serve to win 55% of the points. On the other side, Kenin won 84% of the points behind her first serve. She had a solid display on her second serve to win 79% of the points.
How they played the important points
| Breaks | Begu | Kenin |
|---|---|---|
| Won | 4 | 3 |
| Converted | 4/6 | 3/4 |
| % Converted | 67% | 75% |
| Conceded | 1 | 0 |
| Saved | 0 | 0 |
| % Saved | 0% | 0% |
| Times Broken | 1 | 0 |
Begu broke her opponent 4 times with a 67% conversion rate. The Romanian dropped her serve once and she saved 0% of the break points that she conceded. The American broke her opponent 3 times with a 75% conversion rate. The American was rock solid on her serve as she has never conceded a single service game after saving 0 break points.
| Begu | |||
| R1 Stearns |
Total | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Score | 6-4 6-3 | ||
| Tot Set | 2 | 2 | |
| Tot Games | 19 | 19 | |
| pts | 64-53 | 64-53 | |
| Total points | 117 | 117 | |
| Winners | 27 | 27 | |
| %Winners | 42% | 42% | |
| SERVE | |||
| Aces | 9 | 9 | |
| Double Faults | 0 | 0 | |
| 1st in | 38/58 | 38/58 | |
| % 1st in | 66% | 66% | |
| 1st pts | 27/38 | 27/38 | |
| % 1st pts | 71% | 71% | |
| 2nd pts | 11/20 | 11/20 | |
| % 2nd pts | 55% | 55% | |
| Breaks | |||
| Won | 4 | 4 | |
| Converted | 4/6 | 4/6 | |
| Converted % | 67% | 67% | |
| Conceded | 1 | 1 | |
| Saved | 0/1 | 0 | |
| Saved % | 0% | 0% | |
| Times Broken | 1 | 1 | |
| Kenin | |||
| R1 Hewitt |
Total | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Score | 6-4 6-3 | ||
| Tot Set | 2 | 2 | |
| Tot Games | 19 | 19 | |
| pts | 59-42 | 59-42 | |
| Total points | 101 | 101 | |
| Winners | 21 | 21 | |
| %Winners | 36% | 36% | |
| SERVE | |||
| Aces | 3 | 3 | |
| Double Faults | 2 | 2 | |
| 1st in | 25/44 | 25/44 | |
| % 1st in | 57% | 57% | |
| 1st pts | 21/25 | 21/25 | |
| % 1st pts | 84% | 84% | |
| 2nd pts | 15/19 | 15/19 | |
| % 2nd pts | 79% | 79% | |
| Breaks | |||
| Won | 3 | 3 | |
| Converted | 3/4 | 3/4 | |
| Converted % | 75% | 75% | |
| Conceded | 0 | 0 | |
| Saved | 0/0 | 0 | |
| Saved % | – | 0% | |
| Times Broken | 0 | 0 | |
Head 2 Head
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