Julia Riera and Miriam Bianca Bulgaru will face off in the qualifications of the Australian Open for the 2^nd time in their career. They are scheduled to play on Wednesday at 11:30 am on 1573 Arena. In the following lines you can find the head to head analysis and prediction.

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The pick for Tennis Tonic is Julia Riera who should win in 3 sets.

As per the initial odds, Julia Riera is the pick to win this match.
Julia Riera -> 1.615
Miriam Bianca Bulgaru -> 2.25

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Prediction and head to head Julia Riera vs. Miriam Bianca Bulgaru

This will be the 2^nd time that Julia Riera and Miriam Bianca Bulgaru play each other. The head to head is 1-0 for Riera (see full H2H stats), but they have never competed against each other on hard.

The last time that they played each other, Riera won 6-2 6-3 in the 2^nd round in the Buenos Aires back in 2023.

Julia Riera

Ranked no. 147, Julia reached the qualifications after beating Lea Boskovic 4-6 6-1 6-2.

In the qualifications against Boskovic, The Argentine recovered from a 1-set down deficit before winning (4-6 6-1 6-2). During the match, Riera scored 110 points vs Boskovic’s 94. Julia was extremely aggressive to blast 46 winners.

Talking about the service games, Riera blasted 5 aces and she committed only 3 double faults. Julia Riera lost the serve twice and she saved 13 break points. Furthermore, Riera put 69% of her first serves in, winning 62% (46/74) of the points behind her 1st serve and 56% (19/34) on the 2nd serve. Riera broke Boskovic 5 times after converting 50% of her break points (5/10).

Riera has a solid record in the last 7 years having won 65% of her matches (198-107). 1-0 on hard in 2025. Talking about her performance on the same surface of this competition, Riera has a compiled42-28 match record in the last 7 years on hard.

The Argentine has a compiled 1-0 win-loss record in 2025, 1-0 on hard (See FULL STATS).

Previously at the Australian Open

Miriam Bianca Bulgaru

Ranked no. 217, Miriam reached the qualifications after defeating Georgia Pedone 6-2 6-3.

In the qualifications, Bianca had a good straight sets win against Pedone (6-2 6-3). During the match Bianca scored 67 points vs Pedone’s 46. Bianca was quite aggressive to blast 23 winners.

Talking about serving, Bianca wasn’t able to score even 1 ace for the entire match and she committed only 2 double faults. Miriam Bianca Bulgaru was very effective on serve to win 85% (23/27) of her 1st serve and 61% (11/18) on the second serve. This was the main reason for not conceding a single break during the match. Miriam broke Pedone 4 times after converting 67% of her break points (4/6).

The Romanian has a composed 1-1 win-loss record in 2025, 1-1 on hard (See FULL STATS).

Previously at the Australian Open

Previously, her best result was reaching the qualifications in 2024. See her history.

H2H Performance in the tournament

Matches, sets, games and points

Points	Riera	Bianca
Match played	1	1
Tot Set	3	2
Tot Games	25	17
Pts	110-94	67-46
Total Points	204	113
Winners	46	23
%Winners	42%	34%

Both Riera and Bianca played 1 match. Also both players started their run from the qualifications.At the moment, Julia Riera lost 1 set while Miriam Bianca Bulgaru hasn’t surrendered a set so far. Riera has played 1 set more than Bianca (3 vs 2). Therefore, Riera played 8 games more than Bianca. Riera scored 46 winners (42% of the total points). On the other side, The Romanian made 23 winners (34%).

Serve Performance

Serve	Riera	Bianca
Aces	5	0
Avg per match	5	0
1st in	74/108	27/45
%1st in	69%	60%
1st pts	46/74	23/27
%1st pts	62%	85%
2nd pts	19/34	11/18
%2nd pts	56%	61%

Riera managed to score 5 aces . Bianca didn’t manage to fire a single ace to far. Riera won 62% points on her first serve. She pretty effective on her second serve to win 56% of the points. On the other side, Bianca won 85% of the points behind her first serve. She had a solid display on her second serve to win 61% of the points.

How they played the important points

Breaks	Riera	Bianca
Won	5	4
Converted	5/10	4/6
% Converted	50%	67%
Conceded	15	1
Saved	13	1
% Saved	87%	100%
Times Broken	2	0

The Argentine broke her opponent 5 times with a 50% conversion rate. The Argentine surrendered her serve twice and she saved 87% of the break points that she conceded. The Romanian broke her opponent 4 times with a 67% conversion rate. Miriam was rock solid on her serve as she has never conceded a single service game after saving 1 break points.

Riera
	Q1 Boskovic	Total
Score	4-6 6-1 6-2
Tot Set	3	3
Tot Games	25	25
pts	110-94	110-94
Total points	204	204
Winners	46	46
%Winners	42%	42%
SERVE
Aces	5	5
Double Faults	3	3
1st in	74/108	74/108
% 1st in	69%	69%
1st pts	46/74	46/74
% 1st pts	62%	62%
2nd pts	19/34	19/34
% 2nd pts	56%	56%
Breaks
Won	5	5
Converted	5/10	5/10
Converted %	50%	50%
Conceded	15	15
Saved	13/15	13
Saved %	87%	87%
Times Broken	2	2

Bianca
	Q1 Pedone	Total
Score	6-2 6-3
Tot Set	2	2
Tot Games	17	17
pts	67-46	67-46
Total points	113	113
Winners	23	23
%Winners	34%	34%
SERVE
Aces	0	0
Double Faults	2	2
1st in	27/45	27/45
% 1st in	60%	60%
1st pts	23/27	23/27
% 1st pts	85%	85%
2nd pts	11/18	11/18
% 2nd pts	61%	61%
Breaks
Won	4	4
Converted	4/6	4/6
Converted %	67%	67%
Conceded	1	1
Saved	1/1	1
Saved %	100%	100%
Times Broken	0	0

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