Alycia Parks and Sorana Cirstea will clash against each other in the 2^nd round of the Dubai Duty Free Championships for the 1^st time in their career. They are scheduled to play on Wednesday at 11:00 am on COURT 2. In the following paragraphs, you can find the head to head analysis and prediction.

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The pick for Tennis Tonic is Alycia Parks who should win in 3 sets.

As per the initial odds, Alycia Parks is the pick to win this match.
Alycia Parks -> 1.83
Sorana Cirstea -> 1.98

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Prediction and head to head Alycia Parks vs. Sorana Cirstea

There is no head to head record between Alycia Parks and Sorana Cirstea since this will be the first time that they will clash against each other in the main tour.

Alycia Parks

Ranked no. 74, Alycia got to the 2^nd round after defeating Polina Kudermetova 7-5 6-3, Bernarda Pera 6-3 7-5 and Xinyu Wang 6-3 6-3.

In the 1^st round, Alycia had a good straight sets win against Wang (6-3 6-3). During the match, Parks scored 65 points vs Wang’s 52. Alycia was extremely aggressive to blast 25 winners.

Regarding the service games, Parks managed to score 9 aces and she committed only 4 double faults. Alycia Parks was exceptionally efficient on serve to win 74% (25/34) of her 1st serve and 65% (15/23) on the second serve. This was the main reason for not conceding a single break during the match. The American broke Wang 3 times after converting 43% of her break points (3/7).

Parks has a winning match record in the last 8 years having won 51% of her matches (186-177). 9-3 on hard in 2025. In connection with her performance on the same surface of this tournament, Parks has an overall90-89 match record in the last 8 years on hard.

Parks’s best result of the current year was reaching the semifinal in Auckland.

Parks has an aggregate 9-5 win-loss record in 2025, 9-3 on hard (See FULL STATS).

Previously in Dubai

Sorana Cirstea

Ranked no. 89, the Romanian reached the 2^nd round after beating Daria Kasatkina 6-1 6-4.

In the 1^st round, Sorana had a good straight sets win against Kasatkina (6-1 6-4). During the match Cirstea scored 60 points vs Kasatkina’s 45. Cirstea was pretty aggressive to blast 24 winners.

Talking about serving, Cirstea fired 9 aces and she committed only 3 double faults. Sorana Cirstea lost the serve 3 times and she saved 5 break points. Furthermore, Cirstea put 60% of her first serves in, winning 63% (24/38) of the points behind her 1st serve and 48% (12/25) on the 2nd serve. Cirstea was clinical in her return game without wasting any break point and break Kasatkina 6 times.

Sorana has a composed 2-4 win-loss record in 2025, 1-2 on hard (See FULL STATS).

Previously in Dubai

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

H2H Performance in the tournament

Matches, sets, games and points

Points	Parks	Cirstea
Match played	3	1
Tot Set	6	2
Tot Games	60	17
Pts	204-167	60-45
Total Points	371	105
Winners	86	24
%Winners	42%	40%

Parks played 3 matches while Cirstea competed in 1 match. Parks started her run from the qualifications while Cirstea had a direct access to the main draw. Both players have not surrendered a single set in this event so far. Parks has played 4 sets more than Cirstea (6 vs 2). Therefore, Parks played 43 games more than Cirstea. Alycia scored 86 winners (42% of the total points). On the other side, The Romanian managed to score 24 winners (40%).

Serve Performance

Serve	Parks	Cirstea
Aces	27	9
Avg per match	9	9
1st in	113/182	38/63
%1st in	62%	60%
1st pts	86/113	24/38
%1st pts	76%	63%
2nd pts	42/69	12/25
%2nd pts	61%	48%

Parks scored 27 aces (9 per match). Cirstea struck 9 aces . Parks won 76% points on her first serve. She extremely effective on her second serve to win 61% of the points. On the other side, Cirstea won 63% of the points behind her first serve. She had a solid display on her second serve to win 48% of the points.

How they played the important points

Breaks	Parks	Cirstea
Won	9	6
Converted	9/19	6/6
% Converted	47%	100%
Conceded	10	8
Saved	8	5
% Saved	80%	63%
Times Broken	2	3

Parks broke her opponents 9 times with a 47% conversion rate. Parks surrendered her serve twice and she saved 80% of the break points that she conceded. The Romanian broke her opponent 6 times with a 100% conversion rate. Sorana conceded her serve 3 times and she saved 63% of the break points that she conceded.

Parks
	Q1 Kudermetova	Q3 Pera	R1 Wang	Total
Score	7-5 6-3	6-3 7-5	6-3 6-3
Tot Set	2	2	2	6
Tot Games	21	21	18	60
pts	72-64	67-51	65-52	204-167
Total points	136	118	117	371
Winners	28	33	25	86
%Winners	39%	49%	38%	42%
SERVE
Aces	9	9	9	27
Double Faults	3	2	4	9
1st in	38/62	41/63	34/57	113/182
% 1st in	61%	65%	60%	62%
1st pts	28/38	33/41	25/34	86/113
% 1st pts	74%	80%	74%	76%
2nd pts	13/24	14/22	15/23	42/69
% 2nd pts	54%	64%	65%	61%
Breaks
Won	4	2	3	9
Converted	4/9	2/3	3/7	9/19
Converted %	44%	67%	43%	47%
Conceded	4	2	4	10
Saved	2/4	2/2	4/4	8
Saved %	50%	100%	100%	83%
Times Broken	2	0	0	2

Cirstea
	R1 Kasatkina	Total
Score	6-1 6-4
Tot Set	2	2
Tot Games	17	17
pts	60-45	60-45
Total points	105	105
Winners	24	24
%Winners	40%	40%
SERVE
Aces	9	9
Double Faults	3	3
1st in	38/63	38/63
% 1st in	60%	60%
1st pts	24/38	24/38
% 1st pts	63%	63%
2nd pts	12/25	12/25
% 2nd pts	48%	48%
Breaks
Won	6	6
Converted	6/6	6/6
Converted %	100%	100%
Conceded	8	8
Saved	5/8	5
Saved %	63%	21%
Times Broken	3	3

Tennis Scores in Dubai

• Linda NoskovaNoskova – Diana ShnaiderShnaider (7-6⁸ 4-6 6-3) – Stats, scores, rankings
• Jasmine PaoliniPaolini – Eva LysLys (6-2 7-5) – Stats, scores, rankings
• Elena RybakinaRybakina – Moyuka UchijimaUchijima (6-3 6-2) – Stats, scores, rankings
• Paula BadosaBadosa – Elise MertensMertens (6-2 6-1) – Stats, scores, rankings
• Artem DubrivnyyDubrivnyy – Sebastian PrechtelPrechtel (6-4 6-4) – Stats, scores, rankings
• Gonzalo VillanuevaVillanueva – Kenneth RaismaRaisma (7-5 1-6 6-2) – Stats, scores, rankings
• Francisco CerundoloCerundolo – Stefan MicovMicov (2-6 6-4 6-1) – Stats, scores, rankings
• David PichlerPichler – Maxime TchoutakianTchoutakian (6-0 6-4) – Stats, scores, rankings
• Christopher O ConnellO Connell – Maxim RatniukRatniuk (6-1 6-1) – Stats, scores, rankings
• Ljubomir CelebicCelebic – Martins PodzusPodzus (6-4 6-4) – Stats, scores, rankings
• Juan Pablo FicovichPablo Ficovich – Maxim KrapivinKrapivin (6-1 6-3) – Stats, scores, rankings
• Pierre FaivreFaivre – Duje AjdukovicAjdukovic (6-3 6-2) – Stats, scores, rankings

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• Ludmilla SamsonovaSamsonova – Jessica PegulaPegula (1-3) – H2H and prediction
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• Emma RaducanuRaducanu – Karolina MuchovaMuchova (0-0) – H2H and prediction
• Sorana CirsteaCirstea – Alycia ParksParks (0-0) – H2H and prediction
• Belinda BencicBencic – Emma NavarroNavarro (0-0) – H2H and prediction
• Sofia KeninKenin – Marta KostyukKostyuk (0-0) – H2H and prediction
• Qinwen ZhengZheng – Peyton StearnsStearns (0-0) – H2H and prediction
• Marketa VondrousovaVondrousova – (0-1) – H2H and prediction
• Anastasia PotapovaPotapova – Dayana YastremskaYastremska (1-1) – H2H and prediction
• Victoria AzarenkaAzarenka – Iga SwiatekSwiatek (1-3) – H2H and prediction
• Elena RybakinaRybakina – Paula Badosa GibertBadosa Gibert (3-4) – H2H and prediction