Simona Halep and Margarita Gasparyan are going to play each other in the 1st round of the Madrid Open on Sunday as the 3rd match of the day session.
Simona Halep
Ranked no.3, Simona is chasing her 1st title of the season and the 19th of her career in Madrid where she won the tournament in 2016 and 2017.
The Romanian has a 14-6 win loss-record in 2019, and this will be her first match on clay during this season since Simona had to withdraw from Stuttgart because of a hip injury. However, it seems as the Romanian has fully recovered and ready to go.
Her best result of the season was reaching the final in Doha where she lost 3-6 6-4 6-3 to Elise Mertens.
Margarita Gasparyan
The world no.65 had to qualify for the main draw after beating Mona Barthel 3-6 6-1 6-1 and Jennifer Brady 6-4 7-6 (5).
Margarita has a 10-6 win-loss record in 2019 (5-2 on clay). Her best result of the season was reaching the semifinal in Istanbul before retiring when she was 1-6 down against Petra Martic.
Head to head
There is no head to head record between Simona and Margarita since this will be the first match that they are going to play against each other.
Prediction, odds and live streaming
The pick for Tennis Tonic is Simona Halep who should win in 3 sets.
As per the initial odds, Halep is the pick to win this match.
Halep -> 1.12
Gasparyan -> 6
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