Raluka Serban vs Sarah Van EmstPrediction, Head-to-Head Results, and Stats
Upcoming match
- Tournament
- Lisboa Belem Open - Lisbon
- Level
- WTA 125
- Round
- 1st Round Qualifying
- Surface
- Clay
- Date & time
- October 11 · 9:00 AM ET
Book odds
Set spread
Game spread
Record at prices like this
At 1.82 or shorter, Raluka Serban has won 17 of 26 (65%). The price implied 59%, so Raluka Serban has beaten it by 6 points.
At 1.89 or longer, Sarah Van Emst has won 5 of 12 (42%). That is level with the 42% the price implied.
Book prices with the bookmaker margin removed, across every priced match we hold for each player. Green beats the price by 3 points or more, red falls that far short, grey is within 3 points. Samples under ten are not shown.
Raluka Serban and Sarah Van Emst meet next at the Lisboa Belem Open - Lisbon on October 11 on clay.
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Spread & Straight-Sets Form
Completed best-of-3 matches · Last 12 months
| Indicator | Serban | Van Emst | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Indicator | Raluka Serban | Sarah Van Emst | ||
| Wins in straight sets | 56% | 10/18 | 60% | 15/25 |
| Wins a set when losing | 38% | 12/32 | 43% | 10/23 |
| Goes to a deciding set | 40% | 20/50 | 42% | 20/48 |
| Covers −1.5 sets as favorite | 32% | 6/19 | 26% | 7/27 |
| Covers +1.5 sets as underdog | 55% | 16/29 | 65% | 11/17 |
| Tiebreak sets won | 50% | 6/12 | 55% | 6/11 |
| Wins after taking set 1 | 73% | 11/15 | 74% | 17/23 |
| Wins 2-0 after taking set 1 | 67% | 10/15 | 65% | 15/23 |
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.
Style Matchup
Playing styles and historical archetype record
Serban
🎾 All-Court
Emst
🪃 Counterpuncher
Matchup analysis
🎾 All-Court vs 🪃 Counterpuncher is historically tight (49% vs 51%, 1,490 matches). Neither style has a clear edge, so form, surface, and the head-to-head matter most.
Previous meetings
First career meeting
Serban and Emst have never faced each other on tour.
Prop Research
Hit rates on common betting markets · Last 90 days
| Outcome | Serban | Emst | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Outcome | Raluka Serban | Sarah Van Emst | ||
| 1 or more | 63% | 5/8 | 62% | 8/13 |
| 3 or more | 25% | 2/8 | 8% | 1/13 |
| 5 or more | 0% | 0/8 | 0% | 0/13 |
| 10 or more | 0% | 0/8 | 0% | 0/13 |
| 15 or more | 0% | 0/8 | 0% | 0/13 |
| 20 or more | 0% | 0/8 | 0% | 0/13 |
Player ROI
Hypothetical if you put 1u on each player to win every one of their matches · Last 90 days
| Metric | Serban | Emst |
|---|---|---|
| W-L | 1–7 | 8–6 |
| Avg odds | 3.28 | 2.33 |
| ROI % | -83.9% | -8.0% |
| Units P/L | -6.71u | -1.12u |
Small sample: ROI stabilizes with more matches; fewer than 10 in the window is noisy.
Travel
Last 30 days
| Metric | Serban | Emst |
|---|---|---|
| Countries | 3 | 4 |
| Events | 4 | 4 |
| Matches | 4 | 7 |
| Distance | — | — |
| Route | ESP → GER → SUI | ITA → ESP → AUT → SUI |
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
Across 2 shared opponents, both Serban and Emst posted a 100% win rate.
| Opponent | Serban | Emst |
|---|---|---|
| Sapfo Sakellaridi | W 63 60 | W 63 61 |
| Anouck Vrancken Peeters | W 63 64 | W 62 64 |
Recent Form
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W50 Burgas · 1st Round
Oct 6
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W50 Burgas · 3rd Round Qualifying
Oct 5
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W50 Burgas · 1st Round Qualifying
Oct 4
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W50 Plovdiv · 3rd Round Qualifying
Sep 21
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W50 Plovdiv · 1st Round Qualifying
Sep 20
Elizara Yaneva
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Sep 15
Clara Burel
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Sep 2
Win rate
Matches, sets and games won · Last 12 months · 48–50 matches
| Metric | Serban | Emst |
|---|---|---|
| Matches won | 36% | 52% |
| Sets won | 40% | 52% |
| Games won | 47% | 51% |