Sorana Cirstea and Anastasia Zakharova will face off in the 1^st round of the Korea Open for the 2^nd time in their career. They are scheduled to play on Wednesday at 12:00 pm on CENTRE COURT. 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 -> 1.27
Anastasia Zakharova -> 3.76

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Prediction and head to head Sorana Cirstea vs. Anastasia Zakharova

This will be the 2^nd time that Sorana Cirstea and Anastasia Zakharova fight against each other. The head to head is 1-0 for Cirstea (see full H2H stats), 1-0 on hard.

The last time that they squared off, Cirstea won 6-1 7-5 in the semifinal in Cleveland back in August 2025.

Sorana Cirstea

Ranked no. 66, Cirstea will start her run in Seoul after she played her last match at the New York where she lost 7-6(0) 6-7(3) 6-4 to Muchova in the 2^nd round on the 28^th of August.

Sorana has an aggregate 22-15 win-loss record in 2025, 18-9 on hard (See FULL STATS).

Her best result of the current year was winning the title in Cleveland where she defeated Ann Li in the final 6-2 6-4.

Talking about her overall career, Cirstea has an overall 563-443 record. She has a positive 271-210 record on hard.

Previously in Seoul

Sorana has never competed in this tournament before.

Anastasia Zakharova

Ranked no. 79 (career-high), Zakharova got to the 1^st round after beating Gaeul Jang 6-3 7-5 and Ella Seidel 3-6 6-3 6-3.

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 27-24 win-loss record in 2025, 10-12 on hard (See FULL STATS).

Tennis Scores in Seoul

• Barbora KrejcikovaKrejcikova – Tatiana ProzorovaProzorova (6-1 6-2) – Stats, scores, rankings
• Katerina SiniakovaSiniakova – Sohyun ParkPark (6-2 6-2) – Stats, scores, rankings
• Lois BoissonBoisson – Yeon Woo KuWoo Ku (6-2 6-1) – Stats, scores, rankings
• Ella SeidelSeidel – Jessika PonchetPonchet (5-7 6-4 6-2) – Stats, scores, rankings
• Eva LysLys – Ashlyn KruegerKrueger (6-3 6-4) – Stats, scores, rankings
• Sofia KeninKenin – Laura SiegemundSiegemund (2-6 6-3 7-5) – Stats, scores, rankings
• Maya JointJoint – Linda FruhvirtovaFruhvirtova (6-4 7-6⁴) – Stats, scores, rankings
• Gianluca Di NicolaDi Nicola – Antoine EscoffierEscoffier (7-5 6-2) – Stats, scores, rankings
• Julian Lenz
  Lenz – Riccardo BonadioBonadio (7-6¹ 6-2) – Stats, scores, rankings
• Andrea BassoBasso – Francesco FortiForti (6-1 5-7 6-3) – Stats, scores, rankings
• Marco BortolottiBortolotti – Emiliano MaggioliMaggioli (6-1 2-6 6-2) – Stats, scores, rankings
• Ariel Behar/Gonzalo EscobarBehar/Gonzalo Escobar – Marco Bortolotti/Scott PuodziunasBortolotti/Scott Puodziunas (6-1 7-6⁵) – Stats, scores, rankings
• Andrea PellegrinoPellegrino – Julian OcleppoOcleppo (6-4 6-0) – Stats, scores, rankings
• Martin CuevasCuevas – Jan SatralSatral (6-3 7-6¹) – Stats, scores, rankings
• Jacob GrillsGrills – Christopher HeymanHeyman (7-6³ 6-1) – Stats, scores, rankings
• Andrea VavassoriVavassori – Adelchi VirgiliVirgili (7-6⁷ 7-6⁵) – Stats, scores, rankings
• Dimitar KuzmanovKuzmanov – Alen AvidzbaAvidzba (6-4 4-6 6-2) – Stats, scores, rankings
• Jacopo BerrettiniBerrettini – Lorenzo MusettiMusetti (6-4 7-5) – Stats, scores, rankings
• Raul BrancaccioBrancaccio – Fabrizio OrnagoOrnago (6-4 6-3) – Stats, scores, rankings
• Andrea CollariniCollarini – Carlos Boluda-PurkissBoluda-Purkiss (6-3 6-0) – Stats, scores, rankings
• Giulio ZeppieriZeppieri – Enrico Dalla ValleDalla Valle (6-4 ret.) – Stats, scores, rankings
• Sandro EhratEhrat – Johannes HaerteisHaerteis (6-2 2-1 ret.) – Stats, scores, rankings
• Nerman FaticFatic – Matias Franco DescotteFranco Descotte (6-3 5-2 ret.) – Stats, scores, rankings
• Alessandro BegaBega – Gonzalo EscobarEscobar (6-4 6-3) – Stats, scores, rankings

Upcoming matches in the draw

• Anastasia ZakharovaZakharova – Sorana CirsteaCirstea (0-1) – H2H and prediction
• Jaqueline CristianCristian – Emma RaducanuRaducanu (0-0) – H2H and prediction
• Suzan LamensLamens – Tatjana MariaMaria (1-1) – H2H and prediction
• Beatriz Haddad MaiaHaddad Maia – Dayeon BackBack (0-0) – H2H and prediction
• Clara TausonTauson – Eva LysLys (0-0) – H2H and prediction
• Katerina SiniakovaSiniakova – Darya KasatkinaKasatkina (1-6) – H2H and prediction