Marta Kostyuk and Lulu Sun will fight against each other in the 2nd round of the Western & Southern Open for the 2nd time in their career. They are scheduled to play on Wednesday at 9:00 pm on COURT 10. Here the head to head stats and relative prediction.
Prediction, odds and live streaming
The pick for Tennis Tonic is Marta Kostyuk who should win in 2 sets.
As per the initial odds, Marta Kostyuk is the pick to win this match.
Marta Kostyuk -> 1.39
Lulu Sun -> 3.02
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Prediction and head to head Marta Kostyuk vs. Lulu Sun
This will be the 2nd time that Marta Kostyuk and Lulu Sun clash against each other. The head to head is 1-0 for Kostyuk (see full H2H stats), but they have never played each other on hard.
The last time that they fought against each other, Kostyuk won 6-4 6-3 in the 1st round in Paris back in July 2024.
Marta Kostyuk
| Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 14-10 | 10-8 | 4-2 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2024 | 34-22 | 24-14 | 8-5 | 0-0 | 2-3 | 0-0 |
| 2023 | 26-22 | 22-16 | 2-4 | 0-0 | 2-2 | 0-0 |
| 2022 | 28-20 | 18-11 | 3-4 | 4-3 | 3-2 | 0-0 |
| 2021 | 25-17 | 8-9 | 10-4 | 3-1 | 4-3 | 0-0 |
Ranked no. 21, the Ukrainian got to the 2nd round after beating Elise Mertens 6-4 2-6 6-4.
In the 1st round, Marta defeated Mertens (6-4 2-6 6-4).During the match, Kostyuk scored less points (6) than Mertens. In fact, the world no. 21 won 88 points vs Mertens’s. That means that Kostyuk was more focused during the important points. Kostyuk was pretty aggressive to blast 37 winners.
Talking about the service games, Kostyuk managed to score 4 aces and she was not very consistent on her 2nd serve to score 12 double faults. Marta Kostyuk lost the serve 3 times and she saved 7 break points. Furthermore, Kostyuk put 57% of her first serves in, winning 64% (37/58) of the points behind her 1st serve and 50% (22/44) on the 2nd serve. Kostyuk broke Mertens 3 times after converting 33% of her break points (3/9).
Kostyuk has a solid match record in the last 9 years having won 63% of her matches (212-123). 18-7 on hard in 2024. In connection with her performance on the same surface of this tournament, Kostyuk has an aggregate109-61 win-loss record in the last 9 years on hard.
Kostyuk’s best result of the current year was reaching the final in San Diego and Stuttgart.
Marta has a compiled 28-15 win-loss record in 2024, 18-7 on hard (See FULL STATS).
Previously in Cincinnati
Lulu Sun
| Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 10-12 | 7-9 | 3-2 | 0-1 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2024 | 41-21 | 17-10 | 10-5 | 6-3 | 8-3 | 0-0 |
| 2023 | 39-20 | 23-10 | 4-4 | 12-6 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2022 | 32-24 | 16-12 | 7-6 | 1-1 | 6-4 | 2-1 |
| 2021 | 27-13 | 19-9 | 8-4 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
Ranked no. 64, LuluAnke reached the 2nd round after defeating Shelby Rogers 6-3 6-0, Lucia Bronzetti 7-6(4) 6-3 and Linda Noskova 6-4 7-6(4).
In the 1st round, Sun had a good straight sets win against Noskova (6-4 7-64). During the match Sun scored 76 points vs Noskova’s 70. The Kiwi was quite aggressive to blast 32 winners.
About the serving games, Sun recorded 8 aces and she committed only 5 double faults. Overall, Lulu Sun was quite effective on serve to win 74% (32/43) of her 1st serve and 51% (18/35) on the second serve. However, this didn’t prevent her to concede the serve once. Sun broke Noskova twice after converting 33% of her break points (2/6).
Her best result of the year was winning the title the W50 Roehampton where she overcame Heather Watson in the final 7-5 7-5 and the W100 Bonita Springs where she overcame Maya Joint in the final 6-1 6-3.
The Kiwi has a compiled 37-17 win-loss record in 2024, 13-6 on hard (See FULL STATS).
Previously in Cincinnati
The Kiwi has never competed in this tournament before.
H2H Performance in the tournament
Matches, sets, games and points
| Points | Kostyuk | Sun |
|---|---|---|
| Match played | 1 | 3 |
| Tot Set | 3 | 6 |
| Tot Games | 28 | 60 |
| Pts | 88-94 | 212-171 |
| Total Points | 182 | 383 |
| Winners | 37 | 80 |
| %Winners | 42% | 38% |
Kostyuk played 1 match while Sun competed in 3 matches. Sun started her run from the qualifications while Kostyuk had a direct access to the main draw. At the moment, Marta Kostyuk lost 1 set while Lulu Sun hasn’t surrendered a set so far. Kostyuk has played 3 set(s) less than Sun (3 vs 6). Therefore, Kostyuk played 32 games less than Sun. Kostyuk scored 37 winners (42% of the total points). On the other side, LuluAnke blasted 80 winners (38%).
Serve Performance
| Serve | Kostyuk | Sun |
|---|---|---|
| Aces | 4 | 21 |
| Avg per match | 4 | 7 |
| 1st in | 58/102 | 105/192 |
| %1st in | 57% | 55% |
| 1st pts | 37/58 | 80/105 |
| %1st pts | 64% | 76% |
| 2nd pts | 22/44 | 43/87 |
| %2nd pts | 50% | 49% |
Kostyuk managed to score 4 aces . Sun made 21 aces (7 per match). Kostyuk won 64% points behind her first serve. She extremely effective on her second serve to win 50% of the points. On the other side, Sun won 76% of the points behind her first serve. She had a solid display on her second serve to win 49% of the points.
How they played the important points
| Breaks | Kostyuk | Sun |
|---|---|---|
| Won | 3 | 11 |
| Converted | 3/9 | 11/21 |
| % Converted | 33% | 52% |
| Conceded | 10 | 11 |
| Saved | 7 | 6 |
| % Saved | 70% | 55% |
| Times Broken | 3 | 5 |
Marta broke her opponent 3 times with a 33% conversion rate. The Ukrainian lost her serve 3 times and she saved 70% of the break points that she conceded. Sun broke her opponents 11 times with a 52% conversion rate. LuluAnke conceded her serve 5 times and she saved 55% of the break points that she conceded.
| Kostyuk | |||
| R1 Mertens |
Total | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Score | 6-4 2-6 6-4 | ||
| Tot Set | 3 | 3 | |
| Tot Games | 28 | 28 | |
| pts | 88-94 | 88-94 | |
| Total points | 182 | 182 | |
| Winners | 37 | 37 | |
| %Winners | 42% | 42% | |
| SERVE | |||
| Aces | 4 | 4 | |
| Double Faults | 12 | 12 | |
| 1st in | 58/102 | 58/102 | |
| % 1st in | 57% | 57% | |
| 1st pts | 37/58 | 37/58 | |
| % 1st pts | 64% | 64% | |
| 2nd pts | 22/44 | 22/44 | |
| % 2nd pts | 50% | 50% | |
| Breaks | |||
| Won | 3 | 3 | |
| Converted | 3/9 | 3/9 | |
| Converted % | 33% | 33% | |
| Conceded | 10 | 10 | |
| Saved | 7/10 | 7 | |
| Saved % | 70% | 70% | |
| Times Broken | 3 | 3 | |
| Sun | |||||
| Q1 Rogers |
Q3 Bronzetti |
R1 Noskova |
Total | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Score | 6-3 6-0 | 7-64 6-3 | 6-4 7-64 | ||
| Tot Set | 2 | 2 | 2 | 6 | |
| Tot Games | 15 | 22 | 23 | 60 | |
| pts | 63-40 | 73-61 | 76-70 | 212-171 | |
| Total points | 103 | 134 | 146 | 383 | |
| Winners | 19 | 29 | 32 | 80 | |
| %Winners | 30% | 40% | 42% | 38% | |
| SERVE | |||||
| Aces | 6 | 7 | 8 | 21 | |
| Double Faults | 2 | 8 | 5 | 15 | |
| 1st in | 26/44 | 36/70 | 43/78 | 105/192 | |
| % 1st in | 59% | 51% | 55% | 55% | |
| 1st pts | 19/26 | 29/36 | 32/43 | 80/105 | |
| % 1st pts | 73% | 81% | 74% | 76% | |
| 2nd pts | 11/18 | 14/34 | 18/35 | 43/87 | |
| % 2nd pts | 61% | 41% | 51% | 49% | |
| Breaks | |||||
| Won | 5 | 4 | 2 | 11 | |
| Converted | 5/10 | 4/5 | 2/6 | 11/21 | |
| Converted % | 50% | 80% | 33% | 52% | |
| Conceded | 4 | 5 | 2 | 11 | |
| Saved | 3/4 | 2/5 | 1/2 | 6 | |
| Saved % | 75% | 40% | 50% | 165% | |
| Times Broken | 1 | 3 | 1 | 5 | |
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