Ekaterina Alexandrova and Alize Cornet will face off in the 2nd round of the Mutua Madrid Open for the 2nd time in their career. They are scheduled to compete on Friday at 4:00 pm on COURT 4. In the following paragraphs, you can find the head to head analysis and prediction.
Prediction, odds and live streaming
The pick for Tennis Tonic is Ekaterina Alexandrova who should win in 3 sets.
Ekaterina Alexandrova -> 1.56
Alize Cornet -> 2.43
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Prediction and head to head Ekaterina Alexandrova vs. Alize Cornet
This will be the 2nd time that Ekaterina Alexandrova and Alize Cornet face off. The head to head is 1-0 for Alexandrova (see full H2H stats), but they have never competed against each other on clay.
The last time that they played, Alexandrova won 3-6 6-2 6-0 in the semifinal in the Limoges back in 2016.
Ekaterina Alexandrova
| Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 47-25 | 22-16 | 13-5 | 4-1 | 8-3 | 0-0 |
| 2024 | 26-25 | 17-13 | 1-7 | 3-2 | 5-3 | 0-0 |
| 2023 | 33-21 | 17-13 | 6-5 | 0-1 | 10-2 | 0-0 |
| 2022 | 35-18 | 12-10 | 13-5 | 4-2 | 6-1 | 0-0 |
| 2021 | 26-23 | 10-9 | 6-5 | 7-7 | 3-2 | 0-0 |
Ranked no. 17, Alexandrova will start her run in Madrid after she played her last match in Stuttgart where she lost 7-6(7) 7-6(5) to Vekic
in the 1st round on the 17th of April.Alexandrova has an overall 9-8 win-loss record in 2023, 2-2 on clay (See FULL STATS).
Talking about her overall career, Alexandrova has an overall 277-179 record. She has a positive 82-59 record on clay.
Previously in Madrid
Previously, her best result was reaching the semifinal in 2022. See her history.
Alize Cornet
| Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 4-7 | 0-0 | 2-4 | 0-1 | 2-2 | 0-0 |
| 2024 | 8-13 | 0-5 | 5-7 | 3-1 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2023 | 29-29 | 5-11 | 10-9 | 9-5 | 5-4 | 0-0 |
| 2022 | 27-25 | 16-15 | 4-4 | 1-3 | 6-3 | 0-0 |
| 2021 | 27-27 | 13-12 | 5-8 | 4-4 | 5-3 | 0-0 |
Ranked no. 71, Cornet reached the 2nd round after defeating Elena Gabriela Ruse 6-76 6-4 6-3.
In the 1st round against Gabriela Ruse, Cornet recovered from a 1-set down deficit before winning (6-76 6-4 6-3). During the match Cornet and Gabriela Ruse scored the same amount of points (114). However, the world no. 17 was stronger during the important points and that was the most significant difference in the match. Cornet was very aggressive to blast 53 winners.
About the serving games, Cornet bagged 3 aces and she was not very steady on her 2nd serve to score 11 double faults. Alize Cornet lost the serve twice and she saved 10 break points. Furthermore, Cornet put 63% of her first serves in, winning 66% (53/80) of the points behind her 1st serve and 47% (22/47) on the 2nd serve. Alize broke Gabriela Ruse 5 times after converting 71% of her break points (5/7).
The French player has a compiled 4-7 win-loss record in 2023, 2-1 on clay (See FULL STATS).
Previously in Madrid
Previously, her best result was reaching the 2nd round in 2013, 2015, 2016 and 2019. See her history.
Tennis Scores in Madrid
- Liudmila SamsonovaSamsonova – Maryna ZanevskaZanevska (6-2 6-3) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Caroline GarciaGarcia – Yulia PutintsevaPutintseva (6-3 6-4) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Mirra AndreevaAndreeva – Beatriz Haddad MaiaHaddad Maia (7-66 6-3) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Jelena OstapenkoOstapenko – Linda FruhvirtovaFruhvirtova (6-0 6-3) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Elise MertensMertens – Rebecca MarinoMarino (6-3 6-1) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Maria SakkariSakkari – Arantxa RusRus (6-4 6-4) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Paula Badosa GibertBadosa Gibert – Elisabetta CocciarettoCocciaretto (6-3 4-6 6-4) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Magda LinetteLinette – Marketa VondrousovaVondrousova (7-61 4-6 6-4) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Mayar SherifSherif – Anhelina KalininaKalinina (6-2 7-63) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Jule NiemeierNiemeier – Petra KvitovaKvitova (7-69 6-1) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Maria Camila Osorio SerranoCamila Osorio Serrano – Marta KostyukKostyuk (3-6 6-4 6-3) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Rebeka MasarovaMasarova – Donna VekicVekic (6-1 7-65) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Cori GauffGauff – Irene Burillo EscorihuelaBurillo Escorihuela (6-4 6-1) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Makoto OchiOchi – Samuel MonetteMonette (6-4 6-4) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Benjamin SigouinSigouin – Ante PavicPavic (6-4 7-65) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Daniel NguyenNguyen – Jonathan ChangChang (6-4 6-4) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Kevin KingKing – Deiton BaughmanBaughman (6-2 6-2) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Dennis NevoloNevolo – Evan ZhuZhu (6-1 7-67) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Jorge MonteroMontero – Takanyi GarangangaGaranganga (7-63 6-3) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Liam CaruanaCaruana – Boris AriasArias (6-2 6-1) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Roberto Cid SuberviCid Subervi – Kaichi UchidaUchida (4-6 6-3 6-2) – Stats, scores, rankings
Upcoming matches in the draw
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- Tatjana MariaMaria – Bernarda PeraPera (1-0) – H2H and prediction
- Qinwen ZhengZheng – Caty McNallyMcNally (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Alize CornetCornet – Ekaterina AlexandrovaAlexandrova (0-1) – H2H and prediction
- Barbora KrejcikovaKrejcikova – Danka KovinicKovinic (1-0) – H2H and prediction
- Xiyu WangWang – Bianca Vanessa AndreescuVanessa Andreescu (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Petra MarticMartic – Laura SiegemundSiegemund (1-1) – H2H and prediction
- Anna KalinskayaKalinskaya – Elena RybakinaRybakina (1-1) – H2H and prediction
- Jessica PegulaPegula – Magdalena FrechFrech (1-0) – H2H and prediction
- Aliaksandra SasnovichSasnovich – Marie BouzkovaBouzkova (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Martina TrevisanTrevisan – Eugenie BouchardBouchard (1-0) – H2H and prediction
- Alycia ParksParks – Victoria AzarenkaAzarenka (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Veronika KudermetovaKudermetova – Nuria Parrizas-DiazParrizas-Diaz (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Jaqueline CristianCristian – Anastasia PotapovaPotapova (0-1) – H2H and prediction
- Jil TeichmannTeichmann – Lesya TsurenkoTsurenko (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Anastasia PavlyuchenkovaPavlyuchenkova – Darya KasatkinaKasatkina (1-3) – H2H and prediction
- Irina-Camelia BeguBegu – Karolina MuchovaMuchova (1-0) – H2H and prediction
- Ana BogdanBogdan – Shelby RogersRogers (1-0) – H2H and prediction
- Sorana CirsteaCirstea – Aryna SabalenkaSabalenka (1-0) – H2H and prediction
- Cori GauffGauff – Paula Badosa GibertBadosa Gibert (1-2) – H2H and prediction
- Rebeka MasarovaMasarova – Maria SakkariSakkari (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Ludmilla SamsonovaSamsonova – Jelena OstapenkoOstapenko (0-2) – H2H and prediction
- Caroline GarciaGarcia – Mayar SherifSherif (1-0) – H2H and prediction
- Elise MertensMertens – Jule NiemeierNiemeier (0-0) – H2H and prediction