Simona Waltert and Maria Sara Popa will square off in the qualifications of the UniCredit Iasi Open for the 1st time in their career. They are scheduled to compete on Sunday at 10:30 am on Center Court. Here the head to head stats and relative prediction.
Prediction, odds and live streaming
The pick for Tennis Tonic is Simona Waltert who should win in 2 sets.
As per the initial odds, Simona Waltert is the pick to win this match.
Simona Waltert -> 1.32
Maria Sara Popa -> 3.2
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Prediction and head to head Simona Waltert vs. Maria Sara Popa
There is no head to head record between Simona Waltert and Maria Sara Popa since this will be the first time that they will play each other in the main tour.
Simona Waltert
21 - 21win/loss
174
107
LWWWWWLWWW | Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 34-29 | 5-4 | 16-15 | 12-8 | 1-2 | 0-0 |
| 2023 | 30-28 | 4-10 | 12-8 | 11-7 | 3-3 | 0-0 |
| 2022 | 35-27 | 9-8 | 23-12 | 1-4 | 2-2 | 0-1 |
| 2021 | 44-24 | 13-5 | 19-14 | 5-3 | 1-1 | 6-1 |
| 2020 | 7-8 | 5-3 | 1-4 | 1-1 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
Ranked no. 248, Simona reached the qualifications after beating Dalila Jakupovic 6-4 6-1.
In the qualifications, The Swiss had a good straight sets win against Jakupovic (6-4 6-1). During the match, Waltert scored 60 points vs Jakupovic’s 34. The Swiss was extremely aggressive to blast 21 winners.
Regarding the service games, Waltert scored just 1 ace throughout the match and she committed only 2 double faults. Overall, Simona Waltert was exceptionally efficient on serve to win 72% (21/29) of her 1st serve and 67% (8/12) on the second serve. However, this didn’t prevent her to concede the serve once. Simona broke Jakupovic 5 times after converting 56% of her break points (5/9).
Waltert has a winning win-loss record in the last 9 years having won 59% of her matches (239-166). 12-11 on clay in 2024. Talking about her performance on the same surface of this competition, Waltert has an overall109-78 match record in the last 9 years on clay.
The Swiss’s best result of the season was reaching the semifinal in the Antalya.
Waltert has an aggregate 20-21 win-loss record in 2024, 12-11 on clay (See FULL STATS).
Previously in Iasi
Simona has never competed in this tournament before.
Maria Sara Popa
23 - 16win/loss
444
395
LLLLWWLWLW | Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 31-30 | 6-7 | 25-22 | 0-1 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2023 | 35-19 | 0-2 | 35-16 | 0-1 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2022 | 19-20 | 2-4 | 17-16 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2021 | 25-20 | 0-0 | 25-20 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2020 | 6-6 | 0-0 | 6-6 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
Ranked no. 410 (career-high), Sara got to the qualifications after beating Xiaodi You 6-3 6-2.
In the qualifications, The Romanian had a good straight sets win against You (6-3 6-2). During the match Sara scored 69 points vs You’s 52. The Romanian was pretty aggressive to blast 30 winners.
About the serving games, Sara was unable to score even 1 ace for the entire match and she committed only 3 double faults. Maria Sara Popa lost the serve once and she saved 2 break points. Furthermore, Sara put 79% of her first serves in, winning 68% (30/44) of the points behind her 1st serve and 50% (6/12) on the 2nd serve. Sara broke You 4 times after converting 44% of her break points (4/9).
Her best result of the current season was winning the title the W35 Buenos Aires where she beat Ylena In-Albon in the final 6-2 6-0.
The Romanian has a compiled 23-15 win-loss record in 2024, 18-11 on clay (See FULL STATS).
Previously in Iasi
Sara has never competed in this tournament before.
H2H Performance in the tournament
Matches, sets, games and points
| Points | Waltert | Sara |
|---|---|---|
| Match played | 1 | 1 |
| Tot Set | 2 | 2 |
| Tot Games | 17 | 17 |
| Pts | 60-34 | 69-52 |
| Total Points | 94 | 121 |
| Winners | 21 | 30 |
| %Winners | 35% | 43% |
Both Waltert and Sara played 1 match. Also both players started their run from the qualifications.Both players have not surrendered a single set in this event so far. Talking about their workload, Waltert and Sara have played the same amount of sets 2. They also played the same amount of games (17). The Swiss scored 21 winners (35% of the total points). On the other side, Maria recorded 30 winners (43%).
Serve Performance
| Serve | Waltert | Sara |
|---|---|---|
| Aces | 1 | 0 |
| Avg per match | 1 | 0 |
| 1st in | 29/41 | 44/56 |
| %1st in | 71% | 79% |
| 1st pts | 21/29 | 30/44 |
| %1st pts | 72% | 68% |
| 2nd pts | 8/12 | 6/12 |
| %2nd pts | 67% | 50% |
Waltert struck 1 ace . Sara didn’t manage to fire a single ace to far. Waltert won 72% points behind her first serve. She quite strong on her second serve to win 67% of the points. On the other side, Sara won 68% of the points behind her first serve. She had a solid display on her second serve to win 50% of the points.
How they played the important points
| Breaks | Waltert | Sara |
|---|---|---|
| Won | 5 | 4 |
| Converted | 5/9 | 4/9 |
| % Converted | 56% | 44% |
| Conceded | 1 | 3 |
| Saved | 0 | 2 |
| % Saved | 0% | 67% |
| Times Broken | 1 | 1 |
Simona broke her opponent 5 times with a 56% conversion rate. Simona lost her serve once and she saved 0% of the break points that she conceded. Maria broke her opponent 4 times with a 44% conversion rate. The Romanian conceded her serve once and she saved 67% of the break points that she conceded.
| Waltert | |||
| Q1 Jakupovic |
Total | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Score | 6-4 6-1 | ||
| Tot Set | 2 | 2 | |
| Tot Games | 17 | 17 | |
| pts | 60-34 | 60-34 | |
| Total points | 94 | 94 | |
| Winners | 21 | 21 | |
| %Winners | 35% | 35% | |
| SERVE | |||
| Aces | 1 | 1 | |
| Double Faults | 2 | 2 | |
| 1st in | 29/41 | 29/41 | |
| % 1st in | 71% | 71% | |
| 1st pts | 21/29 | 21/29 | |
| % 1st pts | 72% | 72% | |
| 2nd pts | 8/12 | 8/12 | |
| % 2nd pts | 67% | 67% | |
| Breaks | |||
| Won | 5 | 5 | |
| Converted | 5/9 | 5/9 | |
| Converted % | 56% | 56% | |
| Conceded | 1 | 1 | |
| Saved | 0/1 | 0 | |
| Saved % | 0% | 0% | |
| Times Broken | 1 | 1 | |
| Sara | |||
| Q1 You |
Total | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Score | 6-3 6-2 | ||
| Tot Set | 2 | 2 | |
| Tot Games | 17 | 17 | |
| pts | 69-52 | 69-52 | |
| Total points | 121 | 121 | |
| Winners | 30 | 30 | |
| %Winners | 43% | 43% | |
| SERVE | |||
| Aces | 0 | 0 | |
| Double Faults | 3 | 3 | |
| 1st in | 44/56 | 44/56 | |
| % 1st in | 79% | 79% | |
| 1st pts | 30/44 | 30/44 | |
| % 1st pts | 68% | 68% | |
| 2nd pts | 6/12 | 6/12 | |
| % 2nd pts | 50% | 50% | |
| Breaks | |||
| Won | 4 | 4 | |
| Converted | 4/9 | 4/9 | |
| Converted % | 44% | 44% | |
| Conceded | 3 | 3 | |
| Saved | 2/3 | 2 | |
| Saved % | 67% | 67% | |
| Times Broken | 1 | 1 | |
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