Sonay Kartal and Taylor Townsend will face off in the qualifications of the Miami Open for the 1st time in their career. They are scheduled to compete on Monday at 4:00 pm on GRANDSTAND. 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 Sonay Kartal who should win in 3 sets.
Sonay Kartal -> 1.53
Taylor Townsend -> 2.375
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Prediction and head to head Sonay Kartal vs. Taylor Townsend
There is no head to head record between Sonay Kartal and Taylor Townsend since this will be the first time that they will play each other in the main tour.
Sonay Kartal
| Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 24-20 | 12-10 | 6-5 | 1-1 | 5-4 | 0-0 |
| 2024 | 53-9 | 30-3 | 0-0 | 15-2 | 8-4 | 0-0 |
| 2023 | 32-18 | 7-3 | 11-6 | 8-4 | 6-5 | 0-0 |
| 2022 | 34-12 | 10-3 | 5-1 | 15-4 | 4-4 | 0-0 |
| 2021 | 15-1 | 5-0 | 10-1 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
Ranked no. 83, Kartal reached the qualifications after defeating Jodie Anna Burrage 6-7(5) 6-4 ret..
In the qualifications against Anna Burrage, the Brit had a free pass after Anna Burrage retired on a 6-75 6-4 . scoreline.
Kartal has a fantastic record in the last 7 years having won 75% of her matches (149-49). 8-5 on hard in 2025. Talking about her performance on the same surface of this tournament, Kartal has an overall62-16 win-loss record in the last 7 years on hard.
Kartal has an aggregate 8-5 win-loss record in 2025, 8-5 on hard (See FULL STATS).
Previously in Miami
The Brit has never competed in this tournament before.
Taylor Townsend
| Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 20-15 | 15-10 | 2-3 | 0-1 | 3-1 | 0-0 |
| 2024 | 24-20 | 21-13 | 2-4 | 1-0 | 0-3 | 0-0 |
| 2023 | 32-16 | 16-9 | 12-4 | 2-1 | 2-2 | 0-0 |
| 2022 | 23-8 | 14-5 | 9-3 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2021 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
Ranked no. 89, Taylor got to the qualifications after beating Carson Branstine 6-2 6-4.
In the qualifications, Taylor had a good straight sets win against Branstine (6-2 6-4). During the match Townsend scored 68 points vs Branstine’s 54. Townsend was extremely aggressive to blast 31 winners.
About the serving games, Townsend bagged 6 aces and she committed only 3 double faults. Taylor Townsend conceded no breaks for the entire match to save 2 break points. Furthermore, Townsend put 67% of her first serves in, winning 84% (31/37) of the points behind her 1st serve and 44% (8/18) on the 2nd serve. Taylor broke Branstine 3 times after converting 38% of her break points (3/8).
Townsend has a compiled 2-6 win-loss record in 2025, 2-5 on hard (See FULL STATS).
Previously in Miami
Previously, her best result was reaching the 3rd round in 2017 and 2024. See her history.
H2H Performance in the tournament
Matches, sets, games and points
| Points | Kartal | Townsend |
|---|---|---|
| Match played | 1 | 1 |
| Tot Set | 3 | 2 |
| Tot Games | 23 | 18 |
| Pts | 81-81 | 68-54 |
| Total Points | 162 | 122 |
| Winners | 30 | 31 |
| %Winners | 37% | 46% |
Both Kartal and Townsend played 1 match. Also both players started their run from the qualifications.At the moment, Sonay Kartal conceded 1 set while Taylor Townsend hasn’t surrendered a set so far. Kartal has played 1 set more than Townsend (3 vs 2). Therefore, Kartal played 5 games more than Townsend. Kartal scored 30 winners (37% of the total points). On the other side, The American recorded 31 winners (46%).
Serve Performance
| Serve | Kartal | Townsend |
|---|---|---|
| Aces | 2 | 6 |
| Avg per match | 2 | 6 |
| 1st in | 56/83 | 37/55 |
| %1st in | 67% | 67% |
| 1st pts | 30/56 | 31/37 |
| %1st pts | 54% | 84% |
| 2nd pts | 16/27 | 8/18 |
| %2nd pts | 59% | 44% |
Kartal blasted 2 aces . Townsend scored 6 aces . Kartal won 54% points behind her first serve. She extremely effective on her second serve to win 59% of the points. On the other side, Townsend won 84% of the points behind her first serve. She had a solid display on her second serve to win 44% of the points.
How they played the important points
| Breaks | Kartal | Townsend |
|---|---|---|
| Won | 4 | 3 |
| Converted | 4/9 | 3/8 |
| % Converted | 44% | 38% |
| Conceded | 5 | 2 |
| Saved | 2 | 2 |
| % Saved | 40% | 100% |
| Times Broken | 3 | 0 |
Kartal broke her opponent 4 times with a 44% conversion rate. The Brit conceded her serve 3 times and she saved 40% of the break points that she conceded. Taylor broke her opponent 3 times with a 38% conversion rate. Townsend was rock solid on her serve as she has never conceded a single service game after saving 2 break points.
| Kartal | |||
| Q1 Anna | Total | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Score | 6-75 6-4 ret. | ||
| Tot Set | 2 | 2 | |
| Tot Games | 23 | 23 | |
| pts | 81-81 | 81-81 | |
| Total points | 162 | 162 | |
| Winners | 30 | 30 | |
| %Winners | 37% | 37% | |
| SERVE | |||
| Aces | 2 | 2 | |
| Double Faults | 0 | 0 | |
| 1st in | 56/83 | 56/83 | |
| % 1st in | 67% | 67% | |
| 1st pts | 30/56 | 30/56 | |
| % 1st pts | 54% | 54% | |
| 2nd pts | 16/27 | 16/27 | |
| % 2nd pts | 59% | 59% | |
| Breaks | |||
| Won | 4 | 4 | |
| Converted | 4/9 | 4/9 | |
| Converted % | 44% | 44% | |
| Conceded | 5 | 5 | |
| Saved | 2/5 | 2 | |
| Saved % | 40% | 40% | |
| Times Broken | 3 | 3 | |
| Townsend | |||
| Q1 Branstine | Total | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Score | 6-2 6-4 | ||
| Tot Set | 2 | 2 | |
| Tot Games | 18 | 18 | |
| pts | 68-54 | 68-54 | |
| Total points | 122 | 122 | |
| Winners | 31 | 31 | |
| %Winners | 46% | 46% | |
| SERVE | |||
| Aces | 6 | 6 | |
| Double Faults | 3 | 3 | |
| 1st in | 37/55 | 37/55 | |
| % 1st in | 67% | 67% | |
| 1st pts | 31/37 | 31/37 | |
| % 1st pts | 84% | 84% | |
| 2nd pts | 8/18 | 8/18 | |
| % 2nd pts | 44% | 44% | |
| Breaks | |||
| Won | 3 | 3 | |
| Converted | 3/8 | 3/8 | |
| Converted % | 38% | 38% | |
| Conceded | 2 | 2 | |
| Saved | 2/2 | 2 | |
| Saved % | 100% | 100% | |
| Times Broken | 0 | 0 | |
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