Sorana Cirstea and Magda Linette will face off in the 2nd round of the Tennis in the Land for the 5th time in their career. They are scheduled to play on Tuesday at 8:30 pm on Motorola Edge Stadium. 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 Magda Linette who should win in 3 sets.
As per the initial odds, Magda Linette is the pick to win this match.
Magda Linette -> 1.86
Sorana Cirstea -> 1.94
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Prediction and head to head Sorana Cirstea vs. Magda Linette
This will be the 5th time that Sorana Cirstea and Magda Linette clash against each other. The head to head is 3-1 for Cirstea (see full H2H stats), 2-0 on hard.
The last time that they played each other, Cirstea won 3-6 6-4 6-2 in the semifinal in Strasbourg back in 2021.
Highlights Sorana Cirstea vs Magda Linette – Strasbourg 28-May-2021
Sorana Cirstea
| Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 7-7 | 6-5 | 0-0 | 1-2 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2024 | 12-16 | 9-8 | 3-5 | 0-0 | 0-3 | 0-0 |
| 2023 | 31-22 | 21-14 | 7-4 | 0-1 | 3-3 | 0-0 |
| 2022 | 22-21 | 10-10 | 4-6 | 4-2 | 4-3 | 0-0 |
| 2021 | 24-18 | 11-10 | 11-3 | 0-2 | 2-3 | 0-0 |
Ranked no. 38, the Romanian reached the 2nd round after beating Marcela Zacarias 6-2 6-3.
In the 1st round, Cirstea had a good straight sets win against Zacarias (6-2 6-3). During the match, Cirstea scored 68 points vs Zacarias’s 48. The Romanian was pretty aggressive to blast 26 winners.
Regarding the service games, Cirstea recorded 5 aces and she committed only 1 double fault. Sorana Cirstea was pretty efficient on serve to win 81% (26/32) of her 1st serve and 67% (12/18) on the second serve. This was the main reason for not conceding a single break during the match. Sorana broke Zacarias 3 times after converting 33% of her break points (3/9).
Cirstea has a winning match record in the last 10 years having won 53% of her matches (236-211). 9-8 on hard in 2022. Talking about her performance on the same surface of this competition, Cirstea has an aggregate 119-101 record in the last years on hard.
Cirstea’s best result of the current season was reaching the semifinal in Lyon, Istanbul and Birmingham.
Sorana has an overall 21-18 win-loss record in 2022, 9-8 on hard (See FULL STATS).
Previously in Cleveland
The Romanian has never competed in this tournament before.
Magda Linette
| Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 7-8 | 7-8 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2024 | 31-27 | 11-16 | 16-7 | 1-1 | 3-3 | 0-0 |
| 2023 | 27-29 | 19-15 | 4-7 | 0-4 | 4-3 | 0-0 |
| 2022 | 40-29 | 23-16 | 10-7 | 3-2 | 4-4 | 0-0 |
| 2021 | 18-18 | 8-9 | 5-6 | 3-1 | 2-2 | 0-0 |
Ranked no. 67, the Pole got to the 2nd round after defeating Yulia Putintseva 6-4 6-2.
In the 1st round, The Pole had a good straight sets win against Putintseva (6-4 6-2). During the match Linette scored 64 points vs Putintseva’s 49. The Pole was quite aggressive to blast 26 winners.
Talking about serving, Linette managed to score 2 aces and she was extremely consistent in conceding no double faults for the entire match. Magda Linette lost the serve twice and she saved 2 break points. Furthermore, Linette put 71% of her first serves in, winning 67% (26/39) of the points behind her 1st serve and 56% (9/16) on the 2nd serve. Linette broke Putintseva 5 times after converting 63% of her break points (5/8).
Linette’s best result of the current season was getting to the final in the W100 Grodzisk Mazowiecki.
Magda has an aggregate 27-21 win-loss record in 2022, 12-9 on hard (See FULL STATS).
Previously in Cleveland
Previously, her best result was reaching the semifinal in 2021. See her history.
H2H Performance in the tournament
Matches, sets, games and points
| Points | Cirstea | Linette |
|---|---|---|
| Match played | 1 | 1 |
| Tot Set | 2 | 2 |
| Tot Games | 17 | 18 |
| Pts | 68-48 | 64-49 |
| Total Points | 116 | 113 |
| Winners | 26 | 26 |
| %Winners | 38% | 41% |
Both Cirstea and Linette played 1 match. Both players have not conceded a single set in this event so far. Talking about their workload, Cirstea and Linette have played the same amount of sets 2. However, Cirstea played 1 game less than Linette. Sorana scored 26 winners (38% of the total points). On the other side, Linette recorded 26 winners (41%).
Serve Performance
| Serve | Cirstea | Linette |
|---|---|---|
| Aces | 5 | 2 |
| Avg per match | 5 | 2 |
| 1st in | 32/50 | 39/55 |
| %1st in | 64% | 71% |
| 1st pts | 26/32 | 26/39 |
| %1st pts | 81% | 67% |
| 2nd pts | 12/18 | 9/16 |
| %2nd pts | 67% | 56% |
Cirstea managed to score 5 aces . Linette made 2 aces . Cirstea won 81% points behind her first serve. She had a solid display on her second serve to win 67% of the points. On the other side, Linette won 67% of the points behind her first serve. She had a solid display on her second serve to win 56% of the points.
How they played the important points
| Breaks | Cirstea | Linette |
|---|---|---|
| Won | 3 | 5 |
| Converted | 3/9 | 5/8 |
| % Converted | 33% | 63% |
| Conceded | 0 | 4 |
| Saved | 0 | 2 |
| % Saved | 0% | 50% |
| Times Broken | 0 | 2 |
The Romanian broke her opponent 3 times with a 33% conversion rate. Sorana had a solid display on her serve as she has never dropped a single service game after saving 0 break points. Magda broke her opponent 5 times with a 63% conversion rate. Magda conceded her serve twice and she saved 50% of the break points that she conceded.
| Cirstea | |||
| R1 Zacarias |
Total | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Score | 6-2 6-3 | ||
| Tot Set | 2 | 2 | |
| Tot Games | 17 | 17 | |
| pts | 68-48 | 68-48 | |
| Total points | 116 | 116 | |
| Winners | 26 | 26 | |
| %Winners | 38% | 38% | |
| SERVE | |||
| Aces | 5 | 5 | |
| Double Faults | 1 | 1 | |
| 1st in | 32/50 | 32/50 | |
| % 1st in | 64% | 64% | |
| 1st pts | 26/32 | 26/32 | |
| % 1st pts | 81% | 81% | |
| 2nd pts | 12/18 | 12/18 | |
| % 2nd pts | 67% | 67% | |
| Breaks | |||
| Won | 3 | 3 | |
| Converted | 3/9 | 3/9 | |
| Converted % | 33% | 33% | |
| Conceded | 0 | 0 | |
| Saved | 0/0 | 0 | |
| Saved % | – | 0% | |
| Times Broken | 0 | 0 | |
| Linette | |||
| R1 Putintseva |
Total | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Score | 6-4 6-2 | ||
| Tot Set | 2 | 2 | |
| Tot Games | 18 | 18 | |
| pts | 64-49 | 64-49 | |
| Total points | 113 | 113 | |
| Winners | 26 | 26 | |
| %Winners | 41% | 41% | |
| SERVE | |||
| Aces | 2 | 2 | |
| Double Faults | 0 | 0 | |
| 1st in | 39/55 | 39/55 | |
| % 1st in | 71% | 71% | |
| 1st pts | 26/39 | 26/39 | |
| % 1st pts | 67% | 67% | |
| 2nd pts | 9/16 | 9/16 | |
| % 2nd pts | 56% | 56% | |
| Breaks | |||
| Won | 5 | 5 | |
| Converted | 5/8 | 5/8 | |
| Converted % | 63% | 63% | |
| Conceded | 4 | 4 | |
| Saved | 2/4 | 2 | |
| Saved % | 50% | 50% | |
| Times Broken | 2 | 2 | |
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