Sorana Cirstea and Yulia Putintseva will square off in the 1st round of the Australian Open for the 6th time in their career. They are scheduled to compete on Tuesday at 4:00 pm on Court 16. Here the head to head stats and relative prediction.

Prediction, odds and live streaming

The pick for Tennis Tonic is Sorana Cirstea who should win in 3 sets.

As per the initial odds, Sorana Cirstea is the pick to win this match.
Sorana Cirstea -> 1.76
Yulia Putintseva -> 2.07

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Prediction and head to head Sorana Cirstea vs. Yulia Putintseva

This will be the 6th time that Sorana Cirstea and Yulia Putintseva fight against each other. The head to head is 3-2 for Putintseva (see full H2H stats), but they have never played each other on hard.

The last time that they locked horns, Putintseva won 6-4 7-5 in the semifinal in Nurnberg back in 2019.

Sorana Cirstea

Sorana Cirstea

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Rank
44
High
21
LWWLWWWLWL
Year Total Hard Clay I.hard Grass Carpet
2025 30-20 26-14 3-2 1-2 0-2 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. 42, Sorana will start her run at the Australian Open after she played her last match in Adelaide where she lost 7-6(5) 6-1 to Haddad Maia in the 1st round on the 9th of January.

The Romanian has a compiled 3-2 win-loss record in 2023, 3-2 on hard (See FULL STATS).

Talking about her overall career, Sorana has an overall 501-392 record. She has a positive 226-181 record on hard.

Previously at the Australian Open

Previously, her best result was reaching the 4th round in 2017 and 2022. See her history.

Australian Open
Cirstea's Record

Yulia Putintseva

Yulia Putintseva

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Rank
73
High
20
LWWLWLWWLW
Year Total Hard Clay I.hard Grass Carpet
2025 25-27 17-17 5-5 2-1 1-4 0-0
2024 40-22 22-15 9-4 1-2 8-1 0-0
2023 34-27 19-17 13-8 2-0 0-2 0-0
2022 26-21 9-11 15-7 1-1 1-2 0-0
2021 32-24 14-12 12-8 5-2 1-2 0-0

Ranked no. 47, Putintseva will start her run at the Melbourne after she played her last match in Hobart where she lost 6-3 6-4 to Blinkova in the quarter on the 12th of January.

Putintseva has an overall 2-3 win-loss record in 2023, 2-3 on hard (See FULL STATS).

In terms of her career, Yulia has an overall 380-288 record. She has a positive 177-157 record on hard.

Previously at the Australian Open

Previously, her best result was reaching the 3rd round in 2016, 2020 and 2021. See her history.

Australian Open
Putintseva's Record

Tennis Scores – Australian Open

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