Maria Sakkari and Sorana Cirstea will square off in the 2nd round of the Western & Southern Open for the 3rd time in their career. They are scheduled to compete on Wednesday at 2:30 pm on PORSCHE COURT. In this post, we analyze their head to head performance and prediction.
Prediction, odds and live streaming
The pick for Tennis Tonic is Maria Sakkari who should win in 2 sets.
As per the initial odds, Maria Sakkari is the pick to win this match.
Maria Sakkari -> 1.44
Sorana Cirstea -> 2.79
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Prediction and head to head Maria Sakkari vs. Sorana Cirstea
This will be the 3rd time that Maria Sakkari and Sorana Cirstea play each other. The head to head is 2-0 for Cirstea (see full H2H stats), 1-0 on hard.
The last time that they competed against each other, Cirstea won 6-2 6-3 in the 1st round in Doha back in 2018.
Maria Sakkari
| Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 1-3 | 1-3 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2024 | 25-17 | 12-8 | 11-6 | 0-0 | 2-3 | 0-0 |
| 2023 | 38-25 | 26-17 | 5-4 | 3-1 | 4-3 | 0-0 |
| 2022 | 40-23 | 21-12 | 8-5 | 4-2 | 7-4 | 0-0 |
| 2021 | 38-20 | 23-13 | 9-4 | 5-2 | 1-1 | 0-0 |
Ranked no. 8, Maria will start her run in Cincinnati after she played her last match in Montreal where she lost 6-4 6-2 to Collins in the 2nd round on the 9th of August.
Sakkari has an aggregate 27-16 win-loss record in 2023, 15-8 on hard (See FULL STATS).
Sakkari’s best result of the season was getting to the final in Washington.
Talking about her overall career, Sakkari has an overall 419-270 record. She has a positive 201-135 record on hard.
Previously in Cincinnati
Previously, her best result was reaching the quarter in 2019 and 2020. See her history.
Sorana Cirstea
| Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 0-1 | 0-1 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 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. 31, Cirstea got to the 2nd round after defeating Ekaterina Alexandrova 6-0 6-2.
In the 1st round, Sorana had a good straight sets win against Alexandrova (6-0 6-2). During the match Cirstea scored 57 points vs Alexandrova’s 31. Sorana was quite aggressive to blast 20 winners.
About the serving games, Cirstea wasn’t able to score even 1 ace for the entire match and she committed only 1 double fault for the entire match. Sorana Cirstea lost the serve once and she saved 1 break points. Furthermore, Cirstea put 58% of her first serves in, winning 91% (20/22) of the points behind her 1st serve and 44% (7/16) on the 2nd serve. The Romanian broke Alexandrova 6 times after converting 43% of her break points (6/14).
Her best result of the current year was winning the title the Reus where she beat Elizabeth Mandlik in the final 6-1 4-6 7-6(1).
The Romanian has an aggregate 26-17 win-loss record in 2023, 16-10 on hard (See FULL STATS).
Previously in Cincinnati
Previously, her best result was reaching the 3rd round in 2009. See her history.
Head 2 Head
LWLL
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- Sloane StephensStephens – Caroline GarciaGarcia (4-6 6-4 6-4) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Ons JabeurJabeur – Anhelina KalininaKalinina (6-3 6-72 7-62) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Lucas PouillePouille – Karen KhachanovKhachanov (6-4 3-6 6-3) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Malek JaziriJaziri – Robin HaaseHaase (7-64 7-63) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Roberto Bautista AgutBautista Agut – Pierre-Hugues HerbertHerbert (6-4 6-72 6-1) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Evgeny DonskoyDonskoy – Damir DzumhurDzumhur (6-1 6-1) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Borna CoricCoric – Benoit PairePaire (6-1 6-4) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Filip KrajinovicKrajinovic – Marcos BaghdatisBaghdatis (7-62 6-4) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Yuichi SugitaSugita – Jan-Lennard StruffStruff (7-64 6-4) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Stefanos TsitsipasTsitsipas – Philipp KohlschreiberKohlschreiber (4-6 6-3 6-4) – Stats, scores, rankings
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- Jasmine PaoliniPaolini – Cristina BucsaBucsa (1-0) – H2H and prediction
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- Mayar SherifSherif – Cori GauffGauff (0-0) – H2H and prediction
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- Elise MertensMertens – Marie BouzkovaBouzkova (0-1) – H2H and prediction
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