Madison Keys and Irina-Camelia Begu will play each other in the 2nd round of the Mutua Madrid Open for the 2nd time in their career. They are scheduled to compete on Thursday at 11:00 am on COURT 7. In this post, we analyze their head to head performance and prediction.
Prediction, odds and live streaming
The pick for Tennis Tonic is Madison Keys who should win in 3 sets.
Madison Keys -> 1.59
Irina-Camelia Begu -> 2.375
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Prediction and head to head Madison Keys vs. Irina-Camelia Begu
This will be the 2nd time that Madison Keys and Irina-Camelia Begu fight against each other. The head to head is 1-0 for Keys (see full H2H stats), but they have never competed against each other on clay.
The last time that they played each other, Keys won 6-3 6-1 in the 4th round in Miami back in 2016.
Madison Keys
| Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 7-4 | 3-2 | 4-2 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2023 | 33-15 | 19-9 | 5-3 | 0-2 | 9-1 | 0-0 |
| 2022 | 30-20 | 25-12 | 4-4 | 0-3 | 1-1 | 0-0 |
| 2021 | 11-15 | 3-9 | 3-4 | 0-0 | 5-2 | 0-0 |
| 2020 | 8-5 | 8-4 | 0-1 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
Ranked no. 20, the American will start her run in Madrid after she played her last match in Charleston where she lost 3-6 6-3 6-3 to Cristian in the 2nd round on the 2nd of April.
Madison has an aggregate 3-3 win-loss record in 2024, 0-1 on clay (See FULL STATS).
Talking about her overall career, Madison has an overall 364-212 record. She has a positive 76-47 record on clay.
Previously in Madrid
Previously, her best result was reaching the 3rd round in 2016. See her history.
Irina-Camelia Begu
| Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 8-3 | 0-0 | 8-3 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2023 | 17-14 | 5-7 | 11-5 | 0-1 | 1-1 | 0-0 |
| 2022 | 32-17 | 7-9 | 20-5 | 3-2 | 2-1 | 0-0 |
| 2021 | 21-17 | 16-10 | 3-5 | 0-1 | 2-1 | 0-0 |
| 2020 | 23-11 | 15-5 | 7-4 | 1-2 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
Ranked no. 128, the Romanian reached the 2nd round after defeating Linda Fruhvirtova 6-4 7-60.
In the 1st round, Irina-Camelia had a good straight sets win against Fruhvirtova (6-4 7-60). During the match Begu scored 81 points vs Fruhvirtova’s 65. The Romanian was extremely aggressive to blast 33 winners.
Talking about serving, Begu scored just 1 ace during the entire match and she committed only 3 double faults. Irina-Camelia Begu lost the serve 4 times and she saved 7 break points. Furthermore, Begu put 67% of her first serves in, winning 65% (33/51) of the points behind her 1st serve and 52% (13/25) on the 2nd serve. Irina-Camelia broke Fruhvirtova 5 times after converting 56% of her break points (5/9).
Irina-Camelia’s best result of the year was reaching the final in the Antalya.
The Romanian has an aggregate 5-1 win-loss record in 2024, 5-1 on clay (See FULL STATS).
Previously in Madrid
Previously, her best result was reaching the quarter in 2015, 2016 and 2023. See her history.
Tennis Scores in Madrid
- Zihao XiaXia – Di WuWu (6-4 6-2) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Ze ZhangZhang – Yusuke TakahashiTakahashi (6-4 6-3) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Denis YevseyevYevseyev – Harri HeliovaaraHeliovaara (6-2 6-4) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Alexei PopyrinPopyrin – Tsung-Hua YangYang (4-6 7-64 7-5) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Roman SafiullinSafiullin – Tatsuma ItoIto (7-67 7-5) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Duckhee LeeLee – Yibing WuWu (6-0 6-3) – Stats, scores, rankings
- James WardWard – Arjun KadheKadhe (6-3 6-1) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Zhizhen ZhangZhang – Zhe LiLi (4-6 6-3 6-4) – Stats, scores, rankings
Upcoming matches in the draw
- Sara ErraniErrani – Caroline WozniackiWozniacki (1-4) – H2H and prediction
- Yafan WangWang – Caroline DolehideDolehide (0-1) – H2H and prediction
- Hailey BaptisteBaptiste – Daria GavrilovaGavrilova (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Nao HibinoHibino – (1-0) – H2H and prediction
- Lucia BronzettiBronzetti – Varvara GrachevaGracheva (2-0) – H2H and prediction
- Xin Yu WangYu Wang – Viktoriya TomovaTomova (1-1) – H2H and prediction
- Clara BurelBurel – Olga DanilovicDanilovic (2-0) – H2H and prediction
- Magdalena FrechFrech – Jaqueline CristianCristian (1-0) – H2H and prediction
- Magda LinetteLinette – Elisabetta CocciarettoCocciaretto (0-1) – H2H and prediction
- Iga SwiatekSwiatek – Xiyu WangWang (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Victoria AzarenkaAzarenka – Tatjana MariaMaria (1-0) – H2H and prediction
- Sara Sorribes TormoSorribes Tormo – Elina SvitolinaSvitolina (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Nadia PodoroskaPodoroska – Emma NavarroNavarro (0-1) – H2H and prediction
- Elise MertensMertens – Sloane StephensStephens (2-2) – H2H and prediction
- Donna VekicVekic – Maria SakkariSakkari (6-3) – H2H and prediction
- Cori GauffGauff – Arantxa RusRus (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Emiliana ArangoArango – Dayana YastremskaYastremska (1-1) – H2H and prediction
- Madison KeysKeys – Irina-Camelia BeguBegu (1-0) – H2H and prediction
- Naomi OsakaOsaka – Ludmilla SamsonovaSamsonova (1-0) – H2H and prediction
- Jelena OstapenkoOstapenko – Jessica Bouzas ManeiroBouzas Maneiro (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Maria Lourdes CarleLourdes Carle – Veronika KudermetovaKudermetova (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Leylah Annie FernandezAnnie Fernandez – Anastasia PotapovaPotapova (2-0) – H2H and prediction
- Anna SchmiedlovaSchmiedlova – Ons JabeurJabeur (0-1) – H2H and prediction
- Qinwen ZhengZheng – Yulia PutintsevaPutintseva (0-1) – H2H and prediction
- Cristina BucsaBucsa – Darya KasatkinaKasatkina (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Marta KostyukKostyuk – Mayar SherifSherif (2-1) – H2H and prediction
- Marketa VondrousovaVondrousova – Shelby RogersRogers (0-1) – H2H and prediction