Anastasia Zakharova and Sorana Cirstea will play each other in the semifinal of the Tennis in the Land for the 1^st time in their career. They are scheduled to compete on Friday at 5:30 pm on STADIUM. Here the head to head stats and relative prediction.

Prediction, odds and live streaming

The pick for Tennis Tonic is Sorana Cirstea who should win in 2 sets.

As per the initial odds, Sorana Cirstea is the pick to win this match.
Sorana Cirstea -> 1.333
Anastasia Zakharova -> 3.3

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Prediction and head to head Anastasia Zakharova vs. Sorana Cirstea

There is no head to head record between Anastasia Zakharova and Sorana Cirstea since this will be the first time that they will face off in the main tour.

Anastasia Zakharova

Ranked no. 100, Zakharova got to the semifinal after defeating Kimberly Birrell 5-7 6-4 6-3, Hailey Baptiste 6-4 6-3 and Eva Lys w/o.

In the quarter, The Russian defeated Lys (w/o). During the match, Zakharova and Lys scored the same amount of points (). However, the world no. 100 was stronger during the important points and that was the most significant difference in the match. Anastasia was not very aggressive to strike just winners.

Talking about the service games, Zakharova couldn’t to score even 1 ace during the match and she was extremely consistent in conceding no double faults. Anastasia Zakharova conceded no breaks for the entire match to put 0% of her first serves in, win 0% (0) of the points behind her 1st serve and 0% (0) on the 2nd serve.

Overall Performance in this tournament

The Russian has dropped 1 set in this event to win 53% of the points she played.

Zakharova has a solid win-loss record in the last 8 years having won 65% of her matches (270-144). 8-9 on hard in 2025. Talking about her performance on the same surface of this event, Zakharova has an aggregate133-60 win-loss record in the last 8 years on hard.

Her best result of the season was winning the title the W100 Zaragoza where she beat Kaitlin Quevedo in the final 6-3 6-1.

Anastasia has an overall 25-21 win-loss record in 2025, 8-9 on hard (See FULL STATS).

Previously in Cleveland

Zakharova has never competed in this tournament before.

Sorana Cirstea

Ranked no. 112, Cirstea reached the semifinal after beating Anna Frey 6-1 6-0

, Rebeka Masarova 6-2 6-2, Moyuka Uchijima 6-4 6-1, Jil Teichmann 6-1 6-1 and Liudmila Samsonova 6-4 6-1.

In the quarter, The Romanian had a good straight sets win against Samsonova (6-4 6-1). During the match Cirstea scored 65 points vs Samsonova’s 43. Sorana was exceptionally aggressive to blast 25 winners.

Talking about serving, Cirstea struck 7 aces and she committed only 2 double faults. Sorana Cirstea was quite effective on serve to win 78% (25/32) of her 1st serve and 59% (16/27) on the second serve. This was the main reason for not conceding a single break during the match. Cirstea broke Samsonova 3 times after converting 43% of her break points (3/7).

Overall Performance in this tournament

The Romanian started her run at this tournament from the qualifications. In the main draw, she hasn’t lost yet a set in this competition to win 64% of the points she played.

The Romanian’s best result of the current season was reaching the semifinal in Iasi.

Sorana has a composed 19-14 win-loss record in 2025, 15-8 on hard (See FULL STATS).

H2H Performance in the tournament (main draw)

Matches, sets, games and points

Points	Zakharova	Cirstea
Match played	2	5
Tot Set	5	10
Tot Games	50	77
Pts	168-152	302-170
Total Points	320	472
Winners	51	105
%Winners	30%	35%

Zakharova played 2 matches while Cirstea competed in 5 matches. Cirstea started her run from the qualifications while Zakharova had a direct access to the main draw. At the moment, Anastasia Zakharova conceded 1 set while Sorana Cirstea hasn’t lost a set so far. Zakharova has played 5 set(s) less than Cirstea (5 vs 10). Therefore, Zakharova played 27 games less than Cirstea. The Russian scored 51 winners (30% of the total points). On the other side, Sorana recorded 105 winners (35%).

Serve Performance

Serve	Zakharova	Cirstea
Aces	6	16
Avg per match	3	3.2
1st in	76/150	146/244
%1st in	51%	60%
1st pts	51/76	105/146
%1st pts	67%	72%
2nd pts	36/74	58/98
%2nd pts	49%	59%

Zakharova recorded 6 aces (3 per match). Cirstea bagged 16 aces (3.2 per match). Zakharova won 67% points on her first serve. She very solid her second serve to win 49% of the points. On the other side, Cirstea won 72% of the points behind her first serve. She had a solid display on her second serve to win 59% of the points.

How they played the important points

Breaks	Zakharova	Cirstea
Won	12	26
Converted	12/27	26/46
% Converted	44%	57%
Conceded	15	16
Saved	8	11
% Saved	53%	69%
Times Broken	7	5

Anastasia broke her opponents 12 times with a 44% conversion rate. Anastasia conceded her serve 7 times and she saved 53% of the break points that she conceded. Cirstea broke her opponents 26 times with a 57% conversion rate. Cirstea conceded her serve 5 times and she saved 69% of the break points that she conceded.

Zakharova
	R1 Birrell	R2 Baptiste	1/4 Lys	Total
Score	5-7 6-4 6-3	6-4 6-3	w/o
Tot Set	3	2	–	5
Tot Games	31	19	–	50
pts	105-99	63-53	–	168-152
Total points	204	116	–	320
Winners	28	23	–	51
%Winners	27%	37%	–	30%
SERVE
Aces	6	0	–	6
Double Faults	8	4	–	12
1st in	44/99	32/51	–	76/150
% 1st in	44%	63%	–	51%
1st pts	28/44	23/32	–	51/76
% 1st pts	64%	72%	–	67%
2nd pts	25/55	11/19	–	36/74
% 2nd pts	45%	58%	–	49%
Breaks
Won	8	4	–	12
Converted	8/20	4/7	–	12/27
Converted %	40%	57%	–	44%
Conceded	11	4	–	15
Saved	5/11	3/4	–	8
Saved %	45%	75%	–	40%
Times Broken	6	1	–	7

Cirstea
	Q1 Frey	Q3 Masarova	R1 Uchijima	R2 Belen Teichmann	1/4 Samsonova	Total
Score	6-1 6-0	6-2 6-2	6-4 6-1	6-1 6-1	6-4 6-1
Tot Set	2	2	2	2	2	10
Tot Games	13	16	17	14	17	77
pts	53-22	60-33	67-46	57-26	65-43	302-170
Total points	75	93	113	83	108	472
Winners	19	20	21	20	25	105
%Winners	36%	33%	31%	35%	38%	35%
SERVE
Aces	4	1	1	3	7	16
Double Faults	3	1	2	0	2	8
1st in	24/39	32/48	31/56	27/42	32/59	146/244
% 1st in	62%	67%	55%	64%	54%	60%
1st pts	19/24	20/32	21/31	20/27	25/32	105/146
% 1st pts	79%	63%	68%	74%	78%	72%
2nd pts	8/15	11/16	14/25	9/15	16/27	58/98
% 2nd pts	53%	69%	56%	60%	59%	59%
Breaks
Won	6	6	5	6	3	26
Converted	6/7	6/10	5/11	6/11	3/7	26/46
Converted %	86%	60%	45%	55%	43%	57%
Conceded	1	2	7	5	1	16
Saved	1/1	0/2	5/7	4/5	1/1	11
Saved %	100%	0%	71%	80%	100%	117%
Times Broken	0	2	2	1	0	5

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