Giulia Safina Popa vs Valeria GarnevskaPrediction, Head-to-Head Results, and Stats
🇷🇴Giulia Safina Popa
#620 · 16 yrs · Left-Handed
Title1 meeting · sets 2–1
🇧🇬Valeria Garnevska
Unranked
Giulia Safina Popa and Valeria Garnevska have met 1 time since 2026; Giulia Safina Popa leads 1–0. Across all meetings Popa has taken 2 sets to Garnevska's 1. Their most recent meeting: Giulia Safina Popa won at W15 Campulung (2026).
Spread & Straight-Sets Form
Completed best-of-3 matches · Last 12 months
| Indicator | Safina Popa | Garnevska | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Indicator | Giulia Safina Popa | Valeria Garnevska | ||
| Wins in straight sets | 72% | 21/29 | 73% | 8/11 |
| Wins a set when losing | 29% | 2/7 | 14% | 1/7 |
| Goes to a deciding set | 28% | 10/36 | 22% | 4/18 |
| Covers −1.5 sets as favorite | 50% | 9/18 | 80% | 4/5 |
| Covers +1.5 sets as underdog | 100% | 4/4 | 14% | 1/7 |
| Tiebreak sets won | 50% | 3/6 | 67% | 2/3 |
| Wins after taking set 1 | 96% | 26/27 | 100% | 10/10 |
| Wins 2-0 after taking set 1 | 78% | 21/27 | 80% | 8/10 |
Colored rows are higher-is-better: green above 50%, red below. Favorite/underdog set by book odds; cover rows count only matches with odds on record. Head-to-head: 0 of 1 completed meetings ended in straight sets (Safina Popa 0, Garnevska 0).
Style Matchup
Playing styles and historical archetype record
Popa
⚔️ The Gladiator
Garnevska
⚔️ The Gladiator
Matchup analysis
Both Giulia Safina Popa and Valeria Garnevska are ⚔️ The Gladiator types. Mirror matchups usually come down to execution, fitness, and surface fit, across 4,502 matches in our dataset the historical split is about even.
Previous meetings
1 career meeting, newest first
Sep 11, 2026
W15 Campulung
C Clay · Quarterfinals
Prop Research
Hit rates on common betting markets · Last 90 days
| Outcome | Popa | Garnevska | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Outcome | Giulia Safina Popa | Valeria Garnevska | ||
| 1 or more | 52% | 12/23 | 33% | 4/12 |
| 3 or more | 4% | 1/23 | 0% | 0/12 |
| 5 or more | 0% | 0/23 | 0% | 0/12 |
| 10 or more | 0% | 0/23 | 0% | 0/12 |
| 15 or more | 0% | 0/23 | 0% | 0/12 |
| 20 or more | 0% | 0/23 | 0% | 0/12 |
Player ROI
Hypothetical if you put 1u on each player to win every one of their matches · Last 90 days
| Metric | Popa | Garnevska |
|---|---|---|
| W-L | 15–2 | 4–5 |
| Avg odds | 1.50 | 3.32 |
| ROI % | +17.4% | -41.0% |
| Units P/L | +2.97u | -3.69u |
Small sample: ROI stabilizes with more matches; fewer than 10 in the window is noisy.
Travel
Last 30 days
| Metric | Popa | Garnevska |
|---|---|---|
| Countries | 4 | 3 |
| Events | 4 | 3 |
| Matches | 13 | 6 |
| Distance | — | — |
| Route | GER → USA → FRA → AUT → FRA → AUT | ESP → FRA → AUT |
Host country from each tournament in the last 30 days, including the current event even when a player arrived on a bye. Route is the order of countries visited; consecutive stops in the same country are shown once. Distance is the great-circle total between host cities, shown only when every stop in the window is geocoded. A rough fatigue signal, not a headline stat.
Common opponents
Results vs. opponents both players faced · Last 12 months
Popa has a higher win rate against shared opponents (100% vs Garnevska's 50%).
| Opponent | Popa | Garnevska |
|---|---|---|
| Maria Herazo | W 64 62 | W 60 61 |
| Sonja Zhenikhova | W 62 63 | L 67 36 |
| Sapfo Sakellaridi | W 75 36 61 | L 57 26 |
| Bianca Elena Barbulescu | W 76 61 | W 63 76 |
Recent Form
Last five matches per player
Elizara Yaneva
W50 Burgas · 1st Round
Oct 7
Anna Ozerova
W50 Burgas · 3rd Round Qualifying
Oct 5
Julia Hofmann
W50 Burgas · 1st Round Qualifying
Oct 4
Sonja Zhenikhova
W15 Varna · Final
Oct 4
Sapfo Sakellaridi
W15 Varna · Semifinals
Oct 3
Oana Georgeta Simion
W15 Varna · Quarterfinals
Oct 2
Beatris Spasova
W15 Varna · 2nd Round
Oct 1
Iulia Maria Buculei
W15 Varna · 1st Round
Sep 29
Monika Gospodinova
W50 Stara Zagora · 1st Round Qualifying
Oct 11
Sonja Zhenikhova
W50 Burgas · 1st Round
Oct 6
Sapfo Sakellaridi
W15 Varna · Quarterfinals
Oct 2
Adriana Tkachenko
W15 Varna · 2nd Round
Oct 1
Bianca Elena Barbulescu
W15 Varna · 1st Round
Sep 30
Anja Stankovic
W50 Plovdiv · 2nd Round
Sep 24
Julia Stamatova
W50 Plovdiv · 1st Round
Sep 23
Giulia Safina Popa
W15 Campulung · Quarterfinals
Sep 11
Win rate
Matches, sets and games won · Last 12 months · 18–36 matches
| Metric | Popa | Garnevska |
|---|---|---|
| Matches won | 78% | 61% |
| Sets won | 73% | 57% |
| Games won | 60% | 51% |
Record by tier
Head-to-head record by tournament tier
| Stage | Popa | Garnevska |
|---|---|---|
| ITF W15 | 1 | 0 |
By surface
Head-to-head record per surface
| Surface | Popa | Garnevska |
|---|---|---|
| Clay | 1 | 0 |
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