Emina Bektas and Anastasija Sevastova will square off in the 1st round of the Cincinnati Open for the 1st time in their career. They are scheduled to compete on Friday at 6:30 pm on COURT 3. Here the head to head stats and relative prediction.

Prediction, odds and live streaming

The pick for Tennis Tonic is Anastasija Sevastova who should win in 3 sets.

As per the initial odds, Anastasija Sevastova is the pick to win this match.
Anastasija Sevastova -> 1.59
Emina Bektas -> 2.36

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Prediction and head to head Emina Bektas vs. Anastasija Sevastova

There is no head to head record between Emina Bektas and Anastasija Sevastova since this will be the first time that they will play each other in the main tour.

Emina Bektas

Emina Bektas

17 - 16win/loss

Hard
16-13
I Hard
0-0
Clay
1-2
Grass
0-1
Rank
300
High
82
LWWLWWWLLL
Year Total Hard Clay I.hard Grass Carpet
2025 22-21 21-18 1-2 0-0 0-1 0-0
2024 22-26 10-19 0-1 1-1 2-4 9-1
2023 55-20 38-15 0-0 2-1 12-3 3-1
2022 27-23 17-9 1-5 6-6 3-3 0-0
2021 28-20 23-15 3-3 2-2 0-0 0-0

Ranked no. 299, Emina got to the 1st round after defeating Katarzyna Kawa 6-1 6-1 and Solana Sierra 6-3 7-5.

In the qualifications, Bektas had a good straight sets win against Sierra (6-3 7-5). During the match, Bektas scored 69 points vs Sierra’s 54. The American was very aggressive to blast 29 winners.

Regarding the service games, Bektas struck 3 aces and she was pretty consistent in conceding no double faults. Emina Bektas lost the serve twice and she saved 2 break points. Furthermore, Bektas put 67% of her first serves in, winning 69% (29/42) of the points behind her 1st serve and 67% (14/21) on the 2nd serve. Emina broke Sierra 4 times after converting 57% of her break points (4/7).

Overall Performance in this tournament

The American started her run at this tournament from the qualifications. In the main draw, she hasn’t surrendered yet a set in this tournament to conquer 61% of the points she played.

Bektas has positive win-loss record in the last 10 years having won 58% of her matches (268-198). 16-13 on hard in 2025. In connection with her performance on the same surface of this event, Bektas has a compiled 188-128 match record in the last years on hard.

Bektas’s best result of the season was getting to the semifinal in the W75 Luan.

Emina has an aggregate 17-16 win-loss record in 2025, 16-13 on hard (See FULL STATS).

Previously in Cincinnati

Emina has never competed in this tournament before.

Cincinnati
Bektas's Record

Anastasija Sevastova

Anastasija Sevastova

8 - 8win/loss

Hard
3-1
I Hard
0-0
Clay
5-5
Grass
0-2
Rank
209
High
11
LLWLLWLWWW
Year Total Hard Clay I.hard Grass Carpet
2025 10-12 5-5 5-5 0-0 0-2 0-0
2024 4-2 2-1 0-0 2-1 0-0 0-0
2023 4-2 0-0 0-0 4-2 0-0 0-0
2022 1-2 1-2 0-0 0-0 0-0 0-0
2021 21-20 8-13 6-4 2-0 5-3 0-0

Ranked no. 386, Sevastova will start her run in Cincinnati after she played her last match in Montreal where she lost 6-1 6-0 to Osaka in the 4th round on the 3rd of August.

Sevastova has an overall 8-8 win-loss record in 2025, 3-1 on hard (See FULL STATS).

In terms of her career, Sevastova has an overall 425-265 record. She has a positive 166-120 record on hard.

Cincinnati
Sevastova's Record

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