Emma Navarro and Sorana Cirstea will fight against each other in the 2nd round of the BNP Paribas Open for the 2nd time in their career. They are scheduled to compete on Saturday at 8:00 pm on STADIUM 2. In the following lines you can find the head to head analysis and prediction.
Prediction, odds and live streaming
The pick for Tennis Tonic is Emma Navarro who should win in 3 sets.
As per the initial odds, Emma Navarro is the pick to win this match.
Emma Navarro -> 1.49
Sorana Cirstea -> 2.62
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Prediction and head to head Emma Navarro vs. Sorana Cirstea
This will be the 2nd time that Emma Navarro and Sorana Cirstea face off. The head to head is 1-0 for Cirstea (see full H2H stats), 1-0 on hard.
The last time that they locked horns, Cirstea won 7-6(5) 3-6 7-5 in the 3rd round in Dubai back in February 2025.
Emma Navarro
| Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 17-13 | 11-7 | 6-6 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2024 | 54-24 | 33-14 | 14-7 | 0-0 | 7-3 | 0-0 |
| 2023 | 64-24 | 17-9 | 37-11 | 3-1 | 7-3 | 0-0 |
| 2022 | 31-18 | 8-8 | 23-10 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2021 | 19-13 | 6-6 | 13-7 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
Ranked no. 8 (career-high), Emma will start her run in Indian Wells after she won the title in Merida after beating 6-0 6-0 Arango in the final.
The American has an overall 10-5 win-loss record in 2025, 10-5 on hard (See FULL STATS).
Her best result of the season was winning the title in Merida where she overcame Emiliana Arango in the final 6-0 6-0.
Talking about her overall career, Navarro has an overall 213-116 record. She has a positive 81-55 record on hard.
Previously in Indian Wells
Previously, her best result was reaching the quarter in 2024. See her history.
Sorana Cirstea
| Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 8-9 | 7-6 | 0-1 | 1-2 | 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. 111, Cirstea got to the 2nd round after defeating Maya Joint 6-2 7-5.
In the 1st round, Cirstea had a good straight sets win against Joint (6-2 7-5). During the match Cirstea scored 73 points vs Joint’s 60. Cirstea was extremely aggressive to blast 21 winners.
Talking about serving, Cirstea scored just 1 ace during the entire match and she was extremely steady in conceding no double faults for the entire match. Sorana Cirstea lost the serve 3 times and she saved 7 break points. Furthermore, Cirstea put 53% of her first serves in, winning 58% (21/36) of the points behind her 1st serve and 56% (18/32) on the 2nd serve. The Romanian broke Joint 6 times after converting 40% of her break points (6/15).
Sorana has an aggregate 7-6 win-loss record in 2025, 6-4 on hard (See FULL STATS).
Previously in Indian Wells
Previously, her best result was reaching the quarter in 2023. See her history.
Head 2 Head
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- Clara TausonTauson – Maria Camila Osorio SerranoCamila Osorio Serrano (7-63 7-5) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Katerina SiniakovaSiniakova – Yulia PutintsevaPutintseva (6-2 6-2) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Karolina MuchovaMuchova – Elisabetta CocciarettoCocciaretto (6-4 6-3) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Xinyu WangWang – Jelena OstapenkoOstapenko (6-4 6-4) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Katie BoulterBoulter – Irina-Camelia BeguBegu (6-72 6-3 6-0) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Elena RybakinaRybakina – Suzan LamensLamens (6-3 6-3) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Lulu SunSun – Linda NoskovaNoskova (6-1 6-4) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Dayana YastremskaYastremska – Ons JabeurJabeur (6-3 6-1) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Marta KostyukKostyuk – Robin MontgomeryMontgomery (6-1 6-3) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Giovanni FonioFonio – Justin ButschButsch (6-74 7-64 6-3) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Matheus Pucinelle De AlmeidaPucinelle De Almeida – Tomas Lipovsek PuchesLipovsek Puches (6-1 0-6 6-0) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Bogdan Ionut ApostolIonut Apostol – Calin MandaManda (6-4 6-2) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Albert Alcaraz IvorraAlcaraz Ivorra – Nicolae FrunzaFrunza (6-4 6-3) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Alexander IgoshinIgoshin – Joao Lucas Reis Da SilvaLucas Reis Da Silva (7-5 7-5) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Maxime ChazalChazal – Matvey MininMinin (6-4 6-3) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Alexandar LazarovLazarov – Mats RosenkranzRosenkranz (6-1 6-2) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Thomas FancuttFancutt – Alexandru Vasile ManoleVasile Manole (6-4 6-3) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Caroline DolehideCaroline – Eva LysEva (7-6(3) 6-4) – See score progression
- Iga SwiatekIga – Caroline GarciaCaroline (6-2 6-0) – See score progression
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- Amanda AnisimovaAnisimova – Belinda BencicBencic (2-1) – H2H and prediction
- Alycia ParksParks – (1-1) – H2H and prediction
- Emma NavarroNavarro – Sorana CirsteaCirstea (0-1) – H2H and prediction
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- Qinwen ZhengZheng – Victoria AzarenkaAzarenka (0-2) – H2H and prediction
- Elena RybakinaRybakina – Katie BoulterBoulter (1-0) – H2H and prediction
- Marta KostyukKostyuk – Caroline DolehideDolehide (1-0) – H2H and prediction
- Karolina MuchovaMuchova – Katerina SiniakovaSiniakova (0-1) – H2H and prediction
- Dayana YastremskaYastremska – Iga SwiatekSwiatek (1-1) – H2H and prediction
