Polona Hercog vs Simona HalepPrediction, Head-to-Head Results, and Stats
🇸🇮Polona Hercog
#224 · 35 yrs · Right-Handed
3 meetings · sets 3–6
🇷🇴Simona Halep
Unranked · 34 yrs · Right-Handed
88wPolona Hercog and Simona Halep have met 3 times since 2019; Simona Halep leads 3–0. Their first meeting came at Miami in 2019 on hard. Halep has won the last 3 meetings. Across all meetings Hercog has taken 3 sets to Halep's 6. Their most recent meeting: Simona Halep won at Prague Open - Prague (2020).
Spread & Straight-Sets Form
Completed best-of-3 matches · Last 12 months
| Indicator | Hercog | Halep | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Indicator | Polona Hercog | Simona Halep | ||
| Wins in straight sets | 68% | 23/34 | — | |
| Wins a set when losing | 36% | 8/22 | — | |
| Goes to a deciding set | 34% | 19/56 | — | |
| Covers −1.5 sets as favorite | 49% | 19/39 | — | |
| Covers +1.5 sets as underdog | 69% | 11/16 | — | |
| Tiebreak sets won | 56% | 9/16 | — | |
| Wins after taking set 1 | 90% | 28/31 | — | |
| Wins 2-0 after taking set 1 | 74% | 23/31 | — | |
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. Small sample — read with care. Head-to-head: 0 of 3 completed meetings ended in straight sets (Hercog 0, Halep 0).
Style Matchup
Playing styles and historical archetype record
Hercog
👑 The Complete Package
Halep
👑 The Complete Package
Matchup analysis
Both Polona Hercog and Simona Halep are 👑 The Complete Package types. Mirror matchups usually come down to execution, fitness, and surface fit, across 4,208 matches in our dataset the historical split is about even.
Previous meetings
3 career meetings, newest first
Aug 11, 2020
Prague Open - Prague
C Clay · 1st Round
Jun 27, 2019
Eastbourne
G Grass · Round of 16
Mar 20, 2019
Miami
H Hard · Round of 32
Player ROI
Hypothetical if you put 1u on each player to win every one of their matches · Last 90 days
| Metric | Hercog | Halep |
|---|---|---|
| W-L | 2–6 | - |
| Avg odds | 2.38 | - |
| ROI % | -47.9% | - |
| Units P/L | -3.83u | - |
Small sample: ROI stabilizes with more matches; fewer than 10 in the window is noisy.
Travel
Last 30 days
| Metric | Hercog | Halep |
|---|---|---|
| Countries | 4 | — |
| Events | 4 | — |
| Matches | 6 | — |
| Distance | — | — |
| Route | ESP → SRB → ECU → 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.
Recent Form
Last five matches per player
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W50 Burgas · 1st Round
Oct 6
Lisa Pigato
W75 Quinta do Lago · Quarterfinals
Oct 2
Naiktha Bains
W75 Quinta do Lago · 2nd Round
Oct 1
Ayana Akli
W75 Quinta do Lago · 1st Round
Sep 30
Leyre Romero Gormaz
Tolentino Open - Tolentino · 1st Round
Sep 21
Julie Struplova
Zavarovalnica Triglav - Ljubljana · 1st Round
Sep 14
Moyuka Uchijima
U.S. Open - New York · 1st Round Qualifying
Aug 25
Laura Pigossi
W100 Gran Canaria-Maspalomas · 1st Round
Jul 29
Lucia Bronzetti
Transylvania Open - Cluj-Napoca · 1st Round
Feb 4
Yue Yuan
Hong Kong Tennis Open - Hong Kong · 1st Round
Oct 28
Anna Blinkova
Hong Kong 125 Open - Hong Kong · 2nd Round
Oct 3
Arina Rodionova
Hong Kong 125 Open - Hong Kong · 1st Round
Oct 2
Paula Badosa
Miami Open - Miami · 1st Round
Mar 19
Daria Snigur
U.S. Open - New York · 1st Round
Aug 29
Anastasia Potapova
Western & Southern Open - Cincinnati · 1st Round
Aug 16
Beatriz Haddad Maia
National Bank Open - Toronto · Final
Aug 14
Rivalry momentum
Cumulative head-to-head lead over time
Win rate
Matches, sets and games won · Last 12 months · 56–56 matches
| Metric | Hercog | Halep |
|---|---|---|
| Matches won | 61% | - |
| Sets won | 58% | - |
| Games won | 54% | - |
Record by tier
Head-to-head record by tournament tier
| Stage | Hercog | Halep |
|---|---|---|
| WTA 500 | 0 | 1 |
| Other | 0 | 1 |
| WTA 1000 | 0 | 1 |
By surface
Head-to-head record per surface
| Surface | Hercog | Halep |
|---|---|---|
| Hard | 0 | 1 |
| Clay | 0 | 1 |
| Grass | 0 | 1 |
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