Sorana Cirstea and Sloane Stephens will clash against each other in the 2^nd round of the BNP Paribas Open for the 4^th time in their career. They are scheduled to play on Saturday at 4:00 pm on STADIUM 9. 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 Sorana Cirstea who should win in 3 sets.

As per the initial odds, Sorana Cirstea is the pick to win this match.
Sorana Cirstea -> 1.55
Sloane Stephens -> 2.46

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Prediction and head to head Sorana Cirstea vs. Sloane Stephens

This will be the 4^th time that Sorana Cirstea and Sloane Stephens square off. The head to head is 2-1 for Cirstea (see full H2H stats), 2-0 on hard.

The last time that they squared off, Cirstea won 6-3 6-2 in the 1^st round in Doha back in February 2024.

Sorana Cirstea

Ranked no. 22, the Romanian will start her run in Indian Wells after she played her last match in Dubai where she lost 6-2 7-6(6) to Paolini in the semifinal on the 23^rd of February.

Sorana has an overall 7-6 win-loss record in 2024, 7-6 on hard (See FULL STATS).

Sorana’s best result of the year was reaching the semifinal in Dubai.

Talking about her overall career, Cirstea has an overall 536-418 record. She has a positive 251-199 record on hard.

Previously in Indian Wells

Previously, her best result was reaching the quarter in 2023. See her history.

Sloane Stephens

Ranked no. 44, Stephens got to the 2^nd round after beating Mayar Sherif 7-5 6-3.

In the 1^st round, Stephens had a good straight sets win against Sherif (7-5 6-3). During the match Stephens scored 73 points vs Sherif’s 58. The American was pretty aggressive to blast 34 winners.

About the serving games, Stephens was unable to score even 1 ace for the entire match and she committed only 3 double faults. Sloane Stephens lost the serve twice. Furthermore, Stephens put 76% of her first serves in, winning 72% (34/47) of the points behind her 1st serve and 40% (6/15) on the 2nd serve. Stephens broke Sherif 4 times after converting 31% of her break points (4/13).

The American has an aggregate 6-6 win-loss record in 2024, 6-6 on hard (See FULL STATS).

Previously in Indian Wells

Previously, her best result was reaching the quarter in 2014. See her history.

Tennis Scores in Indian Wells

• Anastasia PotapovaPotapova – Marie BouzkovaBouzkova (7-5 6-1) – Stats, scores, rankings
• Jasmine PaoliniPaolini – Tatjana MariaMaria (6-3 6-3) – Stats, scores, rankings
• Marketa VondrousovaVondrousova – Bernarda PeraPera (6-0 6-2) – Stats, scores, rankings
• Angelique KerberKerber – Jelena OstapenkoOstapenko (5-7 6-3 6-3) – Stats, scores, rankings
• Marta KostyukKostyuk – Mai HontamaHontama (6-4 6-2) – Stats, scores, rankings
• Katie VolynetsVolynets – Ons JabeurJabeur (6-4 6-4) – Stats, scores, rankings
• Caroline WozniackiWozniacki – Donna VekicVekic (7-6⁵ 6-3) – Stats, scores, rankings
• Iga SwiatekSwiatek – Danielle Rose CollinsRose Collins (6-3 6-0) – Stats, scores, rankings
• Veronika KudermetovaKudermetova – Nao HibinoHibino (6-1 7-5) – Stats, scores, rankings
• Yulia PutintsevaPutintseva – Ekaterina AlexandrovaAlexandrova (7-5 6-1) – Stats, scores, rankings
• Anastasia PavlyuchenkovaPavlyuchenkova – Nuria Parrizas-DiazParrizas-Diaz (6-3 6-1) – Stats, scores, rankings
• Ugo HumbertHumbert – Joao MonteiroMonteiro (6-1 6-3) – Stats, scores, rankings
• Roberto QuirozQuiroz – Matteo ViolaViola (7-5 7-5) – Stats, scores, rankings
• Daniel BrandsBrands – Nam Hoang LyHoang Ly (6-2 6-4) – Stats, scores, rankings
• Andrea ArnaboldiArnaboldi – Aldin SetkicSetkic (6-3 6-3) – Stats, scores, rankings
• Andres Artunedo MartinavarrArtunedo Martinavarr – Maximilian NeuchristNeuchrist (6-1 5-2 ret.) – Stats, scores, rankings
• Gian Marco MoroniMarco Moroni – Ivan NedelkoNedelko (6-4 6-7¹ 6-3) – Stats, scores, rankings
• Luca VanniVanni – Filippo BaldiBaldi (6-4 3-6 6-4) – Stats, scores, rankings
• Adrian Menendez-MaceirasMenendez-Maceiras – Cem IlkelIlkel (6-0 6-2) – Stats, scores, rankings
• Anna KalinskayaAnna – Taylor TownsendTaylor (7-5 3-6 6-4) – See score progression
• Beatriz Haddad MaiaBeatriz – Rebecca SramkovaRebecca (7-5 6-2) – See score progression

Upcoming matches in the draw

• Camila GiorgiGiorgi – (0-0) – H2H and prediction
• Madison KeysKeys – Hailey BaptisteBaptiste (1-1) – H2H and prediction
• Elena RybakinaRybakina – Nadia PodoroskaPodoroska (1-0) – H2H and prediction
• Qinwen ZhengZheng – Yue YuanYuan (0-0) – H2H and prediction
• Caroline DolehideDolehide – Victoria AzarenkaAzarenka (0-0) – H2H and prediction
• Sorana CirsteaCirstea – Sloane StephensStephens (2-1) – H2H and prediction
• Oceane DodinDodin – Darya KasatkinaKasatkina (0-0) – H2H and prediction
• Ludmilla SamsonovaSamsonova – Naomi OsakaOsaka (0-0) – H2H and prediction
• Xin Yu WangYu Wang – Elise MertensMertens (1-0) – H2H and prediction
• Anhelina KalininaKalinina – Lucia BronzettiBronzetti (2-0) – H2H and prediction
• Clara BurelBurel – Cori GauffGauff (0-0) – H2H and prediction
• Jessica PegulaPegula – Anna BlinkovaBlinkova (3-0) – H2H and prediction
• Diane ParryParry – Leylah Annie FernandezAnnie Fernandez (0-0) – H2H and prediction
• Caroline GarciaGarcia – Viktoriya TomovaTomova (0-0) – H2H and prediction
• Elina SvitolinaSvitolina – Katerina SiniakovaSiniakova (3-0) – H2H and prediction
• Lesya TsurenkoTsurenko – Emma NavarroNavarro (0-0) – H2H and prediction
• Dayana YastremskaYastremska – Emma RaducanuRaducanu (0-1) – H2H and prediction
• Peyton StearnsStearns – Aryna SabalenkaSabalenka (0-0) – H2H and prediction
• Angelique KerberKerber – Veronika KudermetovaKudermetova (0-0) – H2H and prediction
• Caroline WozniackiWozniacki – Katie VolynetsVolynets (0-0) – H2H and prediction
• Anna KalinskayaKalinskaya – Jasmine PaoliniPaolini (1-2) – H2H and prediction
• Beatriz Haddad MaiaHaddad Maia – Anastasia PavlyuchenkovaPavlyuchenkova (0-2) – H2H and prediction
• Marta KostyukKostyuk – Marketa VondrousovaVondrousova (0-1) – H2H and prediction