Daria Kasatkina and Sorana Cirstea will square off in the quarter of the Mubadala Abu Dhabi Open for the 3rd time in their career. They are scheduled to play on Friday at 7:00 pm on Stadium Court. Here the head to head stats and relative prediction.
Prediction, odds and live streaming
The pick for Tennis Tonic is Daria Kasatkina who should win in 3 sets.
As per the initial odds, Daria Kasatkina is the pick to win this match.
Daria Kasatkina -> 1.64
Sorana Cirstea -> 2.26
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Prediction and head to head Daria Kasatkina vs. Sorana Cirstea
This will be the 3rd time that Daria Kasatkina and Sorana Cirstea clash against each other. The head to head is 1-1 for Kasatkina and Cirstea (see full H2H stats), but they have never competed against each other on hard.
The last time that they competed against each other, Cirstea won 6-3 6-2 in the 3rd round in at the French Open back in 2021.
Daria Kasatkina
| Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 33-19 | 17-13 | 8-4 | 0-0 | 8-2 | 0-0 |
| 2023 | 39-25 | 19-15 | 12-6 | 2-1 | 6-3 | 0-0 |
| 2022 | 41-22 | 24-14 | 12-5 | 1-1 | 4-2 | 0-0 |
| 2021 | 38-19 | 19-10 | 5-5 | 7-1 | 7-3 | 0-0 |
| 2020 | 18-14 | 7-8 | 5-3 | 6-3 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
Ranked no. 14, Kasatkina reached the quarter after beating Diane Parry 6-4 5-7 6-4 and Ashlyn Krueger 6-3 7-5.
In the 2nd round, Kasatkina had a good straight sets win against Krueger (6-3 7-5). During the match, Kasatkina scored 72 points vs Krueger’s 65. Darya was pretty aggressive to blast 31 winners.
Regarding the service games, Kasatkina couldn’t to score even 1 ace throughout the encounter and she committed only 3 double faults. Daria Kasatkina lost the serve once and she saved 2 break points. Furthermore, Kasatkina put 76% of her first serves in, winning 65% (31/48) of the points behind her 1st serve and 60% (9/15) on the 2nd serve. The Russian broke Krueger 4 times after converting 50% of her break points (4/8).
Overall Performance in this tournament
Kasatkina has dropped 1 set in this event to win 51% of the points she played.
Kasatkina has a solid record in the last 10 years having won 63% of her matches (324-187). 7-3 on hard in 2024. Regarding her performance on the same surface of this event, Kasatkina has an overall 142-106 match record in the last years on hard.
Darya’s best result of the current year was getting to the final in Adelaide.
Kasatkina has an overall 7-3 win-loss record in 2024, 7-3 on hard (See FULL STATS).
Previously in Abu Dhabi
Sorana Cirstea
| Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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 |
| 2020 | 15-10 | 14-6 | 0-2 | 1-2 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
Ranked no. 26, Sorana got to the quarter after beating Caroline Garcia 6-74 6-4 6-4 and Maria Sakkari 6-2 6-1.
In the 2nd round, Cirstea had a good straight sets win against Sakkari (6-2 6-1). During the match Cirstea scored 66 points vs Sakkari’s 46. Cirstea was extremely aggressive to blast 24 winners.
Talking about serving, Cirstea scored just 1 ace during the entire match and she committed only 1 double fault for the entire match. Sorana Cirstea was pretty effective on serve to win 75% (24/32) of her 1st serve and 56% (9/16) on the second serve. This was the main reason for not conceding a single break during the match. Cirstea broke Sakkari 5 times after converting 31% of her break points (5/16).
Overall Performance in this tournament
Cirstea has conceded 1 set in the tournament to win 54% of the points she played.
The Romanian has an overall 2-3 win-loss record in 2024, 2-3 on hard (See FULL STATS).
Previously in Abu Dhabi
Previously, her best result was reaching the 1st round in 2023. See her history.
H2H Performance in the tournament (main draw)
Matches, sets, games and points
| Points | Kasatkina | Cirstea |
|---|---|---|
| Match played | 2 | 2 |
| Tot Set | 5 | 5 |
| Tot Games | 53 | 48 |
| Pts | 172-168 | 178-152 |
| Total Points | 340 | 330 |
| Winners | 78 | 77 |
| %Winners | 45% | 43% |
Both Kasatkina and Cirstea played 2 matches. Both players lost a set in the event. Daria Kasatkina surrendered 1 set, while Sorana Cirstea lost 1 set. Talking about their workload, Kasatkina and Cirstea have played the same amount of sets 5. However, Kasatkina played 5 games more than Cirstea. Darya scored 78 winners (45% of the total points). On the other side, Cirstea fired 77 winners (43%).
Serve Performance
| Serve | Kasatkina | Cirstea |
|---|---|---|
| Aces | 4 | 5 |
| Avg per match | 2 | 2.5 |
| 1st in | 124/177 | 103/155 |
| %1st in | 70% | 66% |
| 1st pts | 78/124 | 77/103 |
| %1st pts | 63% | 75% |
| 2nd pts | 29/53 | 28/52 |
| %2nd pts | 55% | 54% |
Kasatkina bagged 4 aces (2 per match). Cirstea made 5 aces (2.5 per match). Kasatkina won 63% points on her first serve. She quite strong on her second serve to win 55% of the points. On the other side, Cirstea won 75% of the points behind her first serve. She had a solid display on her second serve to win 54% of the points.
How they played the important points
| Breaks | Kasatkina | Cirstea |
|---|---|---|
| Won | 9 | 8 |
| Converted | 9/14 | 8/22 |
| % Converted | 64% | 36% |
| Conceded | 13 | 14 |
| Saved | 8 | 13 |
| % Saved | 62% | 93% |
| Times Broken | 5 | 1 |
Kasatkina broke her opponents 9 times with a 64% conversion rate. The Russian conceded her serve 5 times and she saved 62% of the break points that she conceded. Cirstea broke her opponents 8 times with a 36% conversion rate. Cirstea conceded her serve once and she saved 93% of the break points that she conceded.
| Kasatkina | ||||
| R1 Parry |
R2 Krueger |
Total | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Score | 6-4 5-7 6-4 | 6-3 7-5 | ||
| Tot Set | 3 | 2 | 5 | |
| Tot Games | 32 | 21 | 53 | |
| pts | 100-103 | 72-65 | 172-168 | |
| Total points | 203 | 137 | 340 | |
| Winners | 47 | 31 | 78 | |
| %Winners | 47% | 43% | 45% | |
| SERVE | ||||
| Aces | 4 | 0 | 4 | |
| Double Faults | 4 | 3 | 7 | |
| 1st in | 76/114 | 48/63 | 124/177 | |
| % 1st in | 67% | 76% | 70% | |
| 1st pts | 47/76 | 31/48 | 78/124 | |
| % 1st pts | 62% | 65% | 63% | |
| 2nd pts | 20/38 | 9/15 | 29/53 | |
| % 2nd pts | 53% | 60% | 55% | |
| Breaks | ||||
| Won | 5 | 4 | 9 | |
| Converted | 5/6 | 4/8 | 9/14 | |
| Converted % | 83% | 50% | 64% | |
| Conceded | 10 | 3 | 13 | |
| Saved | 6/10 | 2/3 | 8 | |
| Saved % | 60% | 67% | 64% | |
| Times Broken | 4 | 1 | 5 | |
| Cirstea | ||||
| R1 Garcia |
R2 Sakkari |
Total | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Score | 6-74 6-4 6-4 | 6-2 6-1 | ||
| Tot Set | 3 | 2 | 5 | |
| Tot Games | 33 | 15 | 48 | |
| pts | 112-106 | 66-46 | 178-152 | |
| Total points | 218 | 112 | 330 | |
| Winners | 53 | 24 | 77 | |
| %Winners | 47% | 36% | 43% | |
| SERVE | ||||
| Aces | 4 | 1 | 5 | |
| Double Faults | 2 | 1 | 3 | |
| 1st in | 71/107 | 32/48 | 103/155 | |
| % 1st in | 66% | 67% | 66% | |
| 1st pts | 53/71 | 24/32 | 77/103 | |
| % 1st pts | 75% | 75% | 75% | |
| 2nd pts | 19/36 | 9/16 | 28/52 | |
| % 2nd pts | 53% | 56% | 54% | |
| Breaks | ||||
| Won | 3 | 5 | 8 | |
| Converted | 3/6 | 5/16 | 8/22 | |
| Converted % | 50% | 31% | 36% | |
| Conceded | 8 | 6 | 14 | |
| Saved | 7/8 | 6/6 | 13 | |
| Saved % | 88% | 100% | 94% | |
| Times Broken | 1 | 0 | 1 | |
Head 2 Head
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