Ekaterina Makarova (1996) and Simona Waltert will clash against each other in the 1st round of the UniCredit Iasi Open for the 2nd time in their career. They are scheduled to play on Monday at 1:00 pm on COURT 6. In this post, we analyze their head to head performance and 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 -> 1.23
Ekaterina Makarova (1996) -> 4.2

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Prediction and head to head Ekaterina Makarova (1996) vs. Simona Waltert

This will be the 2nd time that Ekaterina Makarova (1996) and Simona Waltert play each other. The head to head is 1-0 for Waltert (see full H2H stats), 1-0 on clay.

The last time that they competed against each other, Waltert won 6-3 6-2 in the 1st round in the W100 Wiesbaden back in April 2024.

Ekaterina Makarova (1996)

Ekaterina Makarova (1996)

15 - 24win/loss

Hard
2-7
I Hard
0-0
Clay
13-15
Grass
0-2
Rank
183
High
158
LWWLLLLLWL
Year Total Hard Clay I.hard Grass Carpet
2024 15-24 2-7 13-15 0-0 0-2 0-0
2023 57-37 14-8 38-24 5-4 0-1 0-0
2022 45-32 9-7 31-14 5-9 0-1 0-1
2021 38-31 6-3 22-19 8-8 0-0 2-1
2020 4-2 0-0 1-1 3-1 0-0 0-0

Ranked no. 183, Makarova (1996) will start her run in Iasi after she played her last match in Budapest where she lost 6-3 6-3 to Shnaider in the 2nd round on the 18th of July.

Makarova (1996) has an overall 15-24 win-loss record in 2024, 13-15 on clay (See FULL STATS).

The Russian’s best result of the year was getting to the final in W15 Campinas.

Talking about her overall career, Makarova (1996) has an overall 220-170 record. She has a positive 137-102 record on clay.

Previously in Iasi

Makarova (1996) has never competed in this tournament before.

Iasi
Makarova (1996)'s Record

Simona Waltert

Simona Waltert

21 - 21win/loss

Hard
3-2
I Hard
4-6
Clay
13-11
Grass
1-2
Rank
248
High
107
WWLWWLLWLL
Year Total Hard Clay I.hard Grass Carpet
2024 21-21 3-2 13-11 4-6 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, the Swiss got to the 1st round after defeating Dalila Jakupovic 6-4 6-1 and Maria Sara Popa 6-0 6-4.

In the qualifications, Waltert had a good straight sets win against Sara Popa (6-0 6-4). During the match Waltert scored 56 points vs Sara Popa’s 29. Waltert was exceptionally aggressive to blast 19 winners.

Talking about serving, Waltert scored just 1 ace during the entire match and she committed only 1 double fault for the entire match. Overall, Simona Waltert was exceptionally efficient on serve to win 73% (19/26) of her 1st serve and 71% (12/17) on the second serve. However, this didn’t prevent her to concede the serve once. Simona broke Sara Popa 5 times after converting 83% of her break points (5/6).

Overall Performance in this tournament

The Swiss started her run at this tournament from the qualifications. In the main draw, she hasn’t lost yet a set in this competition to conquer 65% of the points she played.

Simona’s best result of the year was getting to the semifinal in the Antalya.

Simona has an overall 21-21 win-loss record in 2024, 13-11 on clay (See FULL STATS)

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Previously in Iasi

Simona has never competed in this tournament before.

Iasi
Waltert's Record

Tennis Scores in Iasi

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