Iga Swiatek and Sorana Cirstea will play each other in the 2^nd round of the Korea Open for the 6^th time in their career. They are scheduled to play on Thursday at 4:30 pm on CENTRE COURT. 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 Iga Swiatek who should win in 2 sets.

As per the initial odds, Iga Swiatek is the pick to win this match.
Iga Swiatek -> 1.105
Sorana Cirstea -> 6.75

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Prediction and head to head Iga Swiatek vs. Sorana Cirstea

This will be the 6^th time that Iga Swiatek and Sorana Cirstea fight against each other. The head to head is 5-0 for Swiatek (see full H2H stats), 4-0 on hard.

The last time that they squared off, Swiatek won 6-4 6-3 in the 4^th round in Cincinnati back in August 2025.

Highlights Iga Swiatek vs Sorana Cirstea – Cincinnati 13-August-2025

Iga Swiatek

Ranked no. 2, Iga will start her run in Seoul after she played her last match at the New York where she lost 6-4 6-3 to Anisimova in the quarter on the 3^rd of September.

The Pole has a composed 53-13 win-loss record in 2025, 32-8 on hard (See FULL STATS).

Her best result of the current year was conquering the title at the Wimbledon where she beat Amanda Anisimova in the final 6-0 6-0 and in Cincinnati where she overcame Jasmine Paolini in the final 7-5 6-4.

Talking about her overall career, The Pole has an overall 402-89 record. She has a positive 194-50 record on hard.

Previously in Seoul

The Pole has never competed in this tournament before.

Sorana Cirstea

Ranked no. 66, the Romanian got to the 2^nd round after defeating Anastasia Zakharova 6-3 6-1.

In the 1^st round, Sorana had a good straight sets win against Zakharova (6-3 6-1). During the match Cirstea scored 59 points vs Zakharova’s 38. Sorana was pretty aggressive to blast 24 winners.

Talking about serving, Cirstea bagged 2 aces and she committed only 1 double fault for the entire match. Sorana Cirstea lost the serve once and she saved 3 break points. Furthermore, Cirstea put 64% of her first serves in, winning 75% (24/32) of the points behind her 1st serve and 50% (9/18) on the 2nd serve. The Romanian broke Zakharova 5 times after converting 45% of her break points (5/11).

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

The Romanian has an aggregate 23-15 win-loss record in 2025, 19-9 on hard (See FULL STATS).

Tennis Scores in Seoul

• Gianluigi QuinziQuinzi – Marco BortolottiBortolotti (6-1 6-3) – Stats, scores, rankings
• Martin CuevasCuevas – Andrea ArnaboldiArnaboldi (6-7⁴ 7-6⁴ 6-4) – Stats, scores, rankings
• Julian LenzLenz – Alessandro GiannessiGiannessi (6-1 6-4) – Stats, scores, rankings
• Raul BrancaccioBrancaccio – Daniel Gimeno-TraverGimeno-Traver (7-6⁴ 6-3) – Stats, scores, rankings
• Federico GaioGaio – Alessandro BegaBega (6-4 6-7⁵ 6-4) – Stats, scores, rankings
• Filip PeliwoPeliwo – Gianluca Di NicolaDi Nicola (6-3 6-3) – Stats, scores, rankings
• Maverick BanesBanes – Andrea BassoBasso (6-1 7-6³) – Stats, scores, rankings
• Tommy RobredoRobredo – Sandro EhratEhrat (7-5 6-3) – Stats, scores, rankings
• Andrea PellegrinoPellegrino – Guilherme ClezarClezar (5-7 7-6⁵ 6-4) – Stats, scores, rankings
• Stefano TravagliaTravaglia – Dimitar KuzmanovKuzmanov (7-5 6-4) – Stats, scores, rankings
• Jacob GrillsGrills – Taro DanielDaniel (4-6 6-3 6-4) – Stats, scores, rankings
• Nerman FaticFatic – Stephane RobertRobert (6-2 6-3) – Stats, scores, rankings
• Andrea CollariniCollarini – Laurynas GrigelisGrigelis (6-3 6-3) – Stats, scores, rankings
• Giulio ZeppieriZeppieri – Paolo LorenziLorenzi (6-3 1-6 6-4) – Stats, scores, rankings
• Andrea VavassoriVavassori – Hugo DellienDellien (6-1 6-1) – Stats, scores, rankings
• Jacopo BerrettiniBerrettini – Danilo PetrovicPetrovic (6-4 7-5) – Stats, scores, rankings

Upcoming matches in the draw

• Jaqueline CristianCristian – Emma RaducanuRaducanu (0-0) – H2H and prediction
• Beatriz Haddad MaiaHaddad Maia – Dayeon BackBack (0-0) – H2H and prediction
• Iga SwiatekSwiatek – Sorana CirsteaCirstea (5-0) – H2H and prediction
• Clara TausonTauson – Eva LysLys (0-0) – H2H and prediction
• Katerina SiniakovaSiniakova – Darya KasatkinaKasatkina (1-6) – H2H and prediction