Clara Tauson and Sorana Cirstea will face off in the 2nd round of the Upper Austria Ladies Linz for the 1st time in their career. They are scheduled to play on Wednesday at 4:00 pm on CENTER COURT. In this post, we analyze their head to head performance and prediction.
Prediction, odds and live streaming
The pick for Tennis Tonic is Clara Tauson who should win in 2 sets.
As per the initial odds, Clara Tauson is the pick to win this match.
Clara Tauson -> 1.41
Sorana Cirstea -> 2.91
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Prediction and head to head Clara Tauson vs. Sorana Cirstea
There is no head to head record between Clara Tauson and Sorana Cirstea since this will be the first time that they will square off in the main tour.
Clara Tauson
Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
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2025 | 8-1 | 7-1 | 0-0 | 1-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
2024 | 38-28 | 19-16 | 14-5 | 5-3 | 0-3 | 0-1 |
2023 | 38-21 | 6-7 | 13-5 | 12-8 | 2-1 | 5-0 |
2022 | 26-18 | 10-12 | 0-1 | 16-4 | 0-1 | 0-0 |
2021 | 42-15 | 13-4 | 4-5 | 21-4 | 0-2 | 4-0 |
Ranked no. 39, Clara reached the 2nd round after defeating Anhelina Kalinina 6-3 6-3.
In the 1st round, Clara had a good straight sets win against Kalinina (6-3 6-3). During the match, Tauson scored 64 points vs Kalinina’s 47. The Dane was pretty aggressive to blast 28 winners.
Regarding the service games, Tauson managed to score 11 aces and she committed only 4 double faults. Clara Tauson was pretty effective on serve to win 88% (28/32) of her 1st serve and 55% (12/22) on the second serve. This was the main reason for not conceding a single break during the match. Tauson broke Kalinina 3 times after converting 60% of her break points (3/5).
Tauson has a solid match record in the last 9 years having won 69% of her matches (242-107). 1-0 on indoor hard courts in 2025. In connection with her performance on the same surface of this tournament, Tauson has an overall76-24 match record in the last 9 years on indoor hard courts.
Her best result of the season was conquering the title in Auckland where she beat Naomi Osaka in the final 4-6 ret..
Tauson has a composed 8-1 win-loss record in 2025, 1-0 on indoor hard courts (See FULL STATS).
Previously in Linz
Sorana Cirstea
Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
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2025 | 1-2 | 0-2 | 0-0 | 1-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
2024 | 12-16 | 9-8 | 3-5 | 0-0 | 0-3 | 0-0 |
2023 | 31-22 | 21-14 | 7-4 | 0-1 | 3-3 | 0-0 |
2022 | 22-21 | 10-10 | 4-6 | 4-2 | 4-3 | 0-0 |
2021 | 24-18 | 11-10 | 11-3 | 0-2 | 2-3 | 0-0 |
Ranked no. 70, Cirstea got to the 2nd round after defeating Arantxa Rus 5-7 6-2 6-3.
In the 1st round against Rus, Sorana recovered from a 1-set down deficit before winning (5-7 6-2 6-3). During the match Cirstea scored 103 points vs Rus’s 85. The Romanian was very aggressive to blast 39 winners.
Talking about serving, Cirstea was unable to score even 1 ace for the entire match and she committed only 2 double faults. Overall, Sorana Cirstea was pretty efficient on serve to win 75% (39/52) of her 1st serve and 59% (19/32) on the second serve. However, this didn’t prevent her to concede the serve twice. Cirstea broke Rus 4 times after converting 21% of her break points (4/19).
Cirstea has a composed 1-2 win-loss record in 2025, 1-0 on indoor hard courts (See FULL STATS).
Previously in Linz
Previously, her best result was reaching the quarter in 2011 and 2017. See her history.
H2H Performance in the tournament
Matches, sets, games and points
Points | Tauson | Cirstea |
---|---|---|
Match played | 1 | 1 |
Tot Set | 2 | 3 |
Tot Games | 18 | 29 |
Pts | 64-47 | 103-85 |
Total Points | 111 | 188 |
Winners | 28 | 39 |
%Winners | 44% | 38% |
Both Tauson and Cirstea played 1 match. At the moment, Sorana Cirstea dropped 1 set while Clara Tauson hasn’t surrendered a set so far. Tauson has played 1 set(s) less than Cirstea (2 vs 3). Therefore, Tauson played 11 games less than Cirstea. The Dane scored 28 winners (44% of the total points). On the other side, Sorana managed to score 39 winners (38%).
Serve Performance
Serve | Tauson | Cirstea |
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Aces | 11 | 0 |
Avg per match | 11 | 0 |
1st in | 32/54 | 52/84 |
%1st in | 59% | 62% |
1st pts | 28/32 | 39/52 |
%1st pts | 88% | 75% |
2nd pts | 12/22 | 19/32 |
%2nd pts | 55% | 59% |
Tauson scored 11 aces . Cirstea didn’t manage to fire a single ace to far. Tauson won 88% points on her first serve. She was rock solid on her second serve to win 55% of the points. On the other side, Cirstea won 75% of the points on her first serve. She had a solid display on her second serve to win 59% of the points.
How they played the important points
Breaks | Tauson | Cirstea |
---|---|---|
Won | 3 | 4 |
Converted | 3/5 | 4/19 |
% Converted | 60% | 21% |
Conceded | 5 | 2 |
Saved | 5 | 0 |
% Saved | 100% | 0% |
Times Broken | 0 | 2 |
The Dane broke her opponent 3 times with a 60% conversion rate. Tauson pretty solid on her serve as she has never dropped a single service game after saving 5 break points. Cirstea broke her opponent 4 times with a 21% conversion rate. The Romanian conceded her serve twice and she saved 0% of the break points that she conceded.
Tauson | |||
R1 Kalinina |
Total | ||
---|---|---|---|
Score | 6-3 6-3 | ||
Tot Set | 2 | 2 | |
Tot Games | 18 | 18 | |
pts | 64-47 | 64-47 | |
Total points | 111 | 111 | |
Winners | 28 | 28 | |
%Winners | 44% | 44% | |
SERVE | |||
Aces | 11 | 11 | |
Double Faults | 4 | 4 | |
1st in | 32/54 | 32/54 | |
% 1st in | 59% | 59% | |
1st pts | 28/32 | 28/32 | |
% 1st pts | 88% | 88% | |
2nd pts | 12/22 | 12/22 | |
% 2nd pts | 55% | 55% | |
Breaks | |||
Won | 3 | 3 | |
Converted | 3/5 | 3/5 | |
Converted % | 60% | 60% | |
Conceded | 5 | 5 | |
Saved | 5/5 | 5 | |
Saved % | 100% | 100% | |
Times Broken | 0 | 0 |
Cirstea | |||
R1 Rus |
Total | ||
---|---|---|---|
Score | 5-7 6-2 6-3 | ||
Tot Set | 3 | 3 | |
Tot Games | 29 | 29 | |
pts | 103-85 | 103-85 | |
Total points | 188 | 188 | |
Winners | 39 | 39 | |
%Winners | 38% | 38% | |
SERVE | |||
Aces | 0 | 0 | |
Double Faults | 2 | 2 | |
1st in | 52/84 | 52/84 | |
% 1st in | 62% | 62% | |
1st pts | 39/52 | 39/52 | |
% 1st pts | 75% | 75% | |
2nd pts | 19/32 | 19/32 | |
% 2nd pts | 59% | 59% | |
Breaks | |||
Won | 4 | 4 | |
Converted | 4/19 | 4/19 | |
Converted % | 21% | 21% | |
Conceded | 2 | 2 | |
Saved | 0/2 | 0 | |
Saved % | 0% | 0% | |
Times Broken | 2 | 2 |
Head 2 Head
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