Jelena Ostapenko and Sorana Cirstea will square off in the 2nd round of the Internazionali BNL d’Italia for the 3rd time in their career. They are scheduled to play on Friday at 4:00 pm on GRAND STAND ARENA. In this post, we analyze their head to head performance and prediction.
Prediction, odds and live streaming
The pick for Tennis Tonic is Jelena Ostapenko who should win in 3 sets.
As per the initial odds, Jelena Ostapenko is the pick to win this match.
Jelena Ostapenko -> 1.82
Sorana Cirstea -> 1.99
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Prediction and head to head Jelena Ostapenko vs. Sorana Cirstea
This will be the 3rd time that Jelena Ostapenko and Sorana Cirstea face off. The head to head is 2-0 for Ostapenko (see full H2H stats), but they have never played each other on clay.
The last time that they competed against each other, Ostapenko won 6-4 6-4 in the quarter in Beijing back in 2017.
Jelena Ostapenko
| Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 18-20 | 8-14 | 9-4 | 0-0 | 1-2 | 0-0 |
| 2024 | 31-19 | 14-10 | 8-6 | 4-0 | 5-3 | 0-0 |
| 2023 | 37-22 | 21-15 | 7-4 | 1-1 | 8-2 | 0-0 |
| 2022 | 33-19 | 19-10 | 3-3 | 3-3 | 8-3 | 0-0 |
| 2021 | 32-19 | 12-9 | 5-4 | 7-4 | 8-2 | 0-0 |
Ranked no. 20, Jelena will start her run in Rome after she played her last match in Madrid where she lost 6-2 6-0 to Samsonova in the 3rd round on the 29th of April.
Jelena has a composed 14-10 win-loss record in 2023, 2-2 on clay (See FULL STATS).
Talking about her overall career, The Latvian has an overall 337-208 record. She has a positive 95-46 record on clay.
Previously in Rome
Previously, her best result was reaching the quarter in 2018 and 2021. See her history.
Sorana Cirstea
| 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. 34, Sorana got to the 2nd round after defeating Katie Volynets 2-6 6-3 6-4.
In the 1st round against Volynets, The Romanian recovered from a 1-set down deficit before winning (2-6 6-3 6-4). During the match Cirstea scored 93 points vs Volynets’s 90. The Romanian was extremely aggressive to blast 40 winners.
Talking about serving, Cirstea struck 2 aces and she committed only 2 double faults. Sorana Cirstea lost the serve 4 times and she saved 4 break points. Furthermore, Cirstea put 66% of her first serves in, winning 61% (40/66) of the points behind her 1st serve and 50% (17/34) on the 2nd serve. Sorana broke Volynets 4 times after converting 31% of her break points (4/13).
Her best result of the season was conquering the title the Reus where she defeated Elizabeth Mandlik in the final 6-1 4-6 7-6(1).
Cirstea has a composed 20-9 win-loss record in 2023, 7-1 on clay (See FULL STATS).
Previously in Rome
Previously, her best result was reaching the 3rd round in 2012. See her history.
Head 2 Head
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- Anastasia PotapovaPotapova – Elisabetta CocciarettoCocciaretto (6-4 6-4) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Victoria AzarenkaAzarenka – Sloane StephensStephens (6-4 6-3) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Cori GauffGauff – Yulia PutintsevaPutintseva (6-0 6-1) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Veronika KudermetovaKudermetova – Nuria Parrizas-DiazParrizas-Diaz (7-5 6-2) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Taylor TownsendTownsend – Jessica PegulaPegula (6-2 3-6 6-3) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Anhelina KalininaKalinina – Anna BlinkovaBlinkova (6-2 6-2) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Anna BondarBondar – Karolina PliskovaPliskova (7-65 6-2) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Marie BouzkovaBouzkova – Caty McNallyMcNally (6-4 6-3) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Beatriz Haddad MaiaHaddad Maia – Elena Gabriela RuseGabriela Ruse (6-2 6-3) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Madison KeysKeys – Magdalena FrechFrech (6-3 6-2) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Magda LinetteLinette – Linda NoskovaNoskova (7-64 6-1) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Xiyu WangWang – Irina-Camelia BeguBegu (6-4 7-5) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Riccardo BalzeraniBalzerani – Andres Gabriel CiurlettiGabriel Ciurletti (6-4 6-4) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Roberto MarcoraMarcora – Wilson LeiteLeite (6-3 6-0) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Federico MaccariMaccari – Marco BortolottiBortolotti (7-62 6-1) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Adelchi VirgiliVirgili – Omar GiacaloneGiacalone (6-4 6-2) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Tobias SimonSimon – Luca GiacominiGiacomini (6-4 7-65) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Tomislav BrkicBrkic – Paul WoernerWoerner (6-0 6-1) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Jacopo StefaniniStefanini – Kirill KivattsevKivattsev (6-4 6-1) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Qinwen ZhengQinwen – Alize CornetAlize (6-3 7-6(2)) – See score progression
- Maria Camila Osorio SerranoMaria – Petra MarticPetra (6-4 6-2) – See score progression
- Sofia KeninSofia – Aryna SabalenkaAryna (7-6(4) 6-2) – See score progression
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- Jil TeichmannTeichmann – Julia GrabherGrabher (0-1) – H2H and prediction
- Lisa PigatoPigato – Darya KasatkinaKasatkina (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Caroline GarciaGarcia – Ana BogdanBogdan (2-0) – H2H and prediction
- Cori GauffGauff – Marie BouzkovaBouzkova (0-1) – H2H and prediction
- Anastasia PotapovaPotapova – Veronika KudermetovaKudermetova (1-2) – H2H and prediction
- Anna BondarBondar – Qinwen ZhengZheng (0-1) – H2H and prediction
- Xiyu WangWang – Taylor TownsendTownsend (1-1) – H2H and prediction
- Magda LinetteLinette – Beatriz Haddad MaiaHaddad Maia (0-0) – H2H and prediction
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