Polina Kudermetova and Ella Seidel will fight against each other in the 1^st round of the Cincinnati Open for the 3^rd time in their career. They are scheduled to play on Friday at 1:30 pm on COURT 9. 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 Ella Seidel who should win in 3 sets.

As per the initial odds, Ella Seidel is the pick to win this match.
Ella Seidel -> 1.67
Polina Kudermetova -> 2.2

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Prediction and head to head Polina Kudermetova vs. Ella Seidel

This will be the 3^rd time that Polina Kudermetova and Ella Seidel fight against each other. The head to head is 2-0 for Kudermetova (see full H2H stats), but they have never competed against each other on hard.

The last time that they fought against each other, Kudermetova won 6-2 6-1 in the quarter in the W75 Brescia back in 2024.

Polina Kudermetova

Ranked no. 56, Polina will start her run in Cincinnati after she played her last match in Montreal where she lost 6-3 4-6 6-2 to Lamens in the 1^st round on the 27^th of July.

Kudermetova has an aggregate 14-17 win-loss record in 2025, 13-9 on hard (See FULL STATS).

The Russian’s best result of the current year was getting to the final in Brisbane.

Talking about her overall career, The Russian has an overall 194-118 record. She has a positive 86-46 record on hard.

Previously in Cincinnati

Kudermetova has never competed in this tournament before.

Ella Seidel

Ranked no. 127, the German reached the 1^st round after defeating Varvara Lepchenko 6-2 6-1 and Priscilla Hon 5-7 6-3 6-4.

In the qualifications against Hon, Seidel recovered from a 1-set down deficit before winning (5-7 6-3 6-4). During the match Seidel scored 110 points vs Hon’s 101. Ella was exceptionally aggressive to blast 48 winners.

Talking about serving, Seidel struck 10 aces and she was not very consistent on her 2nd serve to score 11 double faults. Ella Seidel lost the serve 4 times and she saved 11 break points. Furthermore, Seidel put 54% of her first serves in, winning 76% (48/63) of the points behind her 1st serve and 43% (23/53) on the 2nd serve. Seidel broke Hon 5 times after converting 45% of her break points (5/11).

Overall Performance in this tournament

Seidel started her run at this tournament from the qualifications. In the main draw, she has conceded 1 set in the tournament to win 56% of the points she played.

Seidel’s best result of the year was reaching the semifinal in the W75 Prague.

The German has a composed 29-21 win-loss record in 2025, 5-3 on hard (See FULL STATS).

Tennis Scores in Cincinnati

• Marketa VondrousovaVondrousova – Jaqueline CristianCristian (6-3 6-1) – Stats, scores, rankings
• Maya JointJoint – Greetje MinnenMinnen (6-2 6-3) – Stats, scores, rankings
• Sorana CirsteaCirstea – Donna VekicVekic (6-1 4-6 6-3) – Stats, scores, rankings
• Anastasia PotapovaPotapova – Laura SiegemundSiegemund (6-4 6-4) – Stats, scores, rankings
• Enrique Lopez-Perez/David MarreroLopez-Perez/David Marrero – Sander Gille/Joran VliegenGille/Joran Vliegen (7-6⁵ 2-6 10-7) – Stats, scores, rankings
• Mathias BourgueBourgue – Daniel MasurMasur (6-4 6-7⁵ 6-2) – Stats, scores, rankings
• Federico GaioGaio – Borna GojoGojo (6-3 7-5) – Stats, scores, rankings
• Alexey VatutinVatutin – Oriol Roca BatallaRoca Batalla (6-2 6-4) – Stats, scores, rankings
• Antoine Cornut-ChauvincCornut-Chauvinc – Adam PavlasekPavlasek (6-3 6-4) – Stats, scores, rankings
• Benjamin BonziBonzi – Alessandro BegaBega (7-6⁴ 6-1) – Stats, scores, rankings
• Steve DarcisDarcis – Norbert GombosGombos (6-4 6-1) – Stats, scores, rankings
• Manuel GuinardGuinard – Peter HellerHeller (7-6³ 1-6 6-3) – Stats, scores, rankings
• Sumit NagalNagal – Hugo NysNys (6-4 6-2) – Stats, scores, rankings
• Elliot BenchetritBenchetrit – Roberto Ortega-OlmedoOrtega-Olmedo (6-1 7-5) – Stats, scores, rankings
• Mohamed SafwatSafwat – Tim Van RijthovenVan Rijthoven (7-5 5-7 7-6¹) – Stats, scores, rankings
• Pedro CachinCachin – Matteo MartineauMartineau (6-1 6-3) – Stats, scores, rankings
• Tristan LamasineLamasine – Jose Hernandez-FernandezHernandez-Fernandez (6-4 6-0) – Stats, scores, rankings
• Johan Sebastien TatlotSebastien Tatlot – Zdenek KolarKolar (7-5 6-4) – Stats, scores, rankings
• Uladzimir IgnatikIgnatik – Eduard Esteve LobatoEsteve Lobato (6-1 ret.) – Stats, scores, rankings
• Facundo ArguelloArguello – Corentin DenollyDenolly (6-4 6-4) – Stats, scores, rankings
• Hugo GastonGaston – Bernabe Zapata MirallesZapata Miralles (6-1 6-3) – Stats, scores, rankings

Upcoming matches in the draw

• Olga DanilovicDanilovic – Katie BoulterBoulter (0-0) – H2H and prediction
• Venus WilliamsWilliams – Jessica Bouzas ManeiroBouzas Maneiro (0-0) – H2H and prediction
• Danielle Rose CollinsRose Collins – Taylor TownsendTownsend (1-2) – H2H and prediction
• Renata ZarazuaZarazua – Yulia PutintsevaPutintseva (0-0) – H2H and prediction
• Bernarda PeraPera – Eva LysLys (0-2) – H2H and prediction
• Whitney OsuigweOsuigwe – Tatjana MariaMaria (2-0) – H2H and prediction
• Lulu SunSun – (1-0) – H2H and prediction
• Peyton StearnsStearns – Yafan WangWang (1-0) – H2H and prediction
• Yulia StarodubtsewaStarodubtsewa – Leolia JeanjeanJeanjean (0-1) – H2H and prediction
• Caty McNallyMcNally – Maddison InglisInglis (1-0) – H2H and prediction
• Varvara GrachevaGracheva – Katie VolynetsVolynets (2-0) – H2H and prediction
• Anna BondarBondar – Ajla TomljanovicTomljanovic (1-0) – H2H and prediction
• Suzan LamensLamens – Veronika KudermetovaKudermetova (0-0) – H2H and prediction
• Caroline DolehideDolehide – Rebecca SramkovaSramkova (0-0) – H2H and prediction
• Anna BlinkovaBlinkova – Kimberly BirrellBirrell (0-0) – H2H and prediction
• Kamilla RakhimovaRakhimova – Maria SakkariSakkari (0-1) – H2H and prediction
• Anastasija SevastovaSevastova – Emina BektasBektas (0-0) – H2H and prediction
• Alycia ParksParks – Barbora KrejcikovaKrejcikova (0-1) – H2H and prediction
• Lin ZhuZhu – Lucia BronzettiBronzetti (1-0) – H2H and prediction
• Moyuka UchijimaUchijima – Maria Camila Osorio SerranoCamila Osorio Serrano (0-1) – H2H and prediction
• Ann LiLi – Viktoriya TomovaTomova (1-0) – H2H and prediction
• Xin Yu WangYu Wang – Emiliana ArangoArango (0-0) – H2H and prediction
• Aryna SabalenkaSabalenka – Marketa VondrousovaVondrousova (4-4) – H2H and prediction
• Iga SwiatekSwiatek – Anastasia PotapovaPotapova (1-0) – H2H and prediction
• Magdalena FrechFrech – Sorana CirsteaCirstea (1-0) – H2H and prediction