Giulia Safina Popa and Victoria Jimenez Kasintseva will play each other in the 1^st round of the UniCredit Iasi Open for the 1^st time in their career. They are scheduled to play on Tuesday at 10:30 am on COURT 5. In this post, we analyze their head to head performance and prediction.

Prediction, odds and live streaming

The pick for Tennis Tonic is Victoria Jimenez Kasintseva who should win in 2 sets.

As per the initial odds, Victoria Jimenez Kasintseva is the pick to win this match.
Victoria Jimenez Kasintseva -> 1.103
Giulia Safina Popa -> 6.8

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Prediction and head to head Giulia Safina Popa vs. Victoria Jimenez Kasintseva

There is no head to head record between Giulia Safina Popa and Victoria Jimenez Kasintseva since this will be the first time that they will clash against each other in the main tour.

Giulia Safina Popa

Currently unranked, Safina Popa reached the 1^st round after beating Andrea Lazaro Garcia 7-6(10) 6-4 and Silvia Ambrosio 7-6(5) 1-6 6-3.

In the qualifications, Giulia defeated Ambrosio (7-6⁵ 1-6 6-3). During the match, Safina Popa and Ambrosio scored the same amount of points (103). However, the world no. was stronger during the important points and that was the most significant difference in the match. The Romanian was pretty aggressive to blast 41 winners.

Regarding the service games, Safina Popa couldn’t to score even 1 ace in the course of the match and she committed only 3 double faults. Giulia Safina Popa lost the serve 5 times and she saved 12 break points. Furthermore, Safina Popa put 62% of her first serves in, winning 64% (41/64) of the points behind her 1st serve and 49% (19/39) on the 2nd serve. The Romanian broke Ambrosio 4 times after converting 57% of her break points (4/7).

Overall Performance in this tournament

The Romanian started her run at this tournament from the qualifications. In the main draw, she has dropped 1 set in this tournament to conquer 51% of the points she played.

Safina Popa has a solid win-loss record in the last 2 years having won 64% of her matches (16-9). 3-2 on clay in 2025. Talking about her performance on the same surface of this competition, Safina Popa has a composed15-7 match record in the last 2 years on clay.

The Romanian has an aggregate 4-4 win-loss record in 2025, 3-2 on clay (See FULL STATS).

Previously in Iasi

The Romanian has never competed in this tournament before.

Victoria Jimenez Kasintseva

Ranked no. 130, Victoria will start her run in Iasi after she played her last match in the Contrexeville where she lost 7-5 6-4 to Marcinko in the 2^nd round on the 9^th of July.

Victoria has a compiled 20-17 win-loss record in 2025, 14-10 on clay (See FULL STATS).

Victoria’s best result of the current year was getting to the final in the Antalya and the Makarska.

In terms of her career, Jimenez Kasintseva has an overall 154-113 record. She has a positive 97-61 record on clay.

Tennis Scores in Iasi

• Maja ChwalinskaChwalinska – Iryna ShymanovichShymanovich (4-6 6-4 6-2) – Stats, scores, rankings
• Varvara GrachevaGracheva – Ana BogdanBogdan (7-5 6-2) – Stats, scores, rankings
• Jana FettFett – Veronika ErjavecErjavec (7-6⁶ 6-2) – Stats, scores, rankings
• Irina-Camelia BeguBegu – Nao Hibino
  Hibino (6-1 6-2) – Stats, scores, rankings
• Ann LiLi – Guiomar Zuleta De RealesZuleta De Reales (3-6 6-2 6-2) – Stats, scores, rankings
• Jil TeichmannTeichmann – Miriam Bianca BulgaruBianca Bulgaru (1-6 7-6² 6-1) – Stats, scores, rankings
• Hugo NysNys – Kenny de Schepperde Schepper (6-3 6-4) – Stats, scores, rankings
• Pavel NejedlyNejedly – Marek JaloviecJaloviec (6-2 6-2) – Stats, scores, rankings
• Jiri LeheckaLehecka – Jan SatralSatral (6-2 4-6 6-1) – Stats, scores, rankings
• Benjamin HassanHassan – Marco BortolottiBortolotti (6-7⁴ 6-0 6-2) – Stats, scores, rankings
• Vaclav SafranekSafranek – Roman JebavyJebavy (6-1 3-6 6-4) – Stats, scores, rankings
• Sandro EhratEhrat – Dragos DimaDima (3-6 6-3 7-5) – Stats, scores, rankings
• Vit KoprivaKopriva – Jaroslav PospisilPospisil (6-3 6-1) – Stats, scores, rankings
• Alex MolcanMolcan – David PoljakPoljak (6-2 6-1) – Stats, scores, rankings
• Peter TorebkoTorebko – Stephane RobertRobert (6-4 6-3) – Stats, scores, rankings
• Tak Khunn WangKhunn Wang – Daniel SiniakovSiniakov (6-4 6-1) – Stats, scores, rankings
• Arthur RinderknechRinderknech – Danilo PetrovicPetrovic (6-4 6-4) – Stats, scores, rankings
• Karim-Mohamed MaamounMaamoun – Adam PavlasekPavlasek (6-4 7-6⁰) – Stats, scores, rankings
• Marcelo ArevaloArevalo – Enrico Dalla ValleDalla Valle (7-6⁵ 6-2) – Stats, scores, rankings
• Corentin DenollyDenolly – Pedro SakamotoSakamoto (7-6⁵ 6-2) – Stats, scores, rankings
• Uladzimir IgnatikIgnatik – Ben PataelPatael (4-6 6-2 6-2) – Stats, scores, rankings
• Johannes HaerteisHaerteis – Benjamin LockLock (2-6 6-2 6-3) – Stats, scores, rankings

Upcoming matches in the draw

• Elina AvanesyanAvanesyan – Andreea PrisacariuPrisacariu (0-0) – H2H and prediction
• Patricia Maria TigMaria Tig – Maria Lourdes CarleLourdes Carle (0-1) – H2H and prediction
• Sorana CirsteaCirstea – Mihaela BuzarnescuBuzarnescu (1-0) – H2H and prediction
• Nuria Parrizas-DiazParrizas-Diaz – Irene Burillo EscorihuelaBurillo Escorihuela (3-2) – H2H and prediction
• Simona WaltertWaltert – Anastasija SevastovaSevastova (0-0) – H2H and prediction
• Katarzyna KawaKawa – Anna SiskovaSiskova (0-0) – H2H and prediction
• Francesca JonesJones – Alicia Herrero LinanaHerrero Linana (0-0) – H2H and prediction
• Margaux RouvroyRouvroy – Panna UdvardyUdvardy (0-0) – H2H and prediction
• Daria LodikovaLodikova – Jaqueline CristianCristian (0-1) – H2H and prediction
• Maja ChwalinskaChwalinska – Jil TeichmannTeichmann (0-0) – H2H and prediction