Sorana Cirstea vs Venus WilliamsPrediction, Head-to-Head Results, and Stats
🇷🇴Sorana Cirstea
#16 · 36 yrs · Right-Handed
5w3 meetings · sets 2–5
🇺🇸Venus Williams
#596 · 45 yrs · Right-Handed
6wSorana Cirstea and Venus Williams have met 3 times since 2018; Venus Williams leads 2–1. Their first meeting came at Indian Wells in 2018 on hard. On hard courts Williams leads 2–0. Across all meetings Cirstea has taken 2 sets to Williams's 5. Their most recent meeting: Sorana Cirstea won at Internationaux de Strasbourg - Strasbourg (2021).
Spread & Straight-Sets Form
Completed best-of-3 matches · Last 12 months
| Indicator | Cirstea | Williams | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Indicator | Sorana Cirstea | Venus Williams | ||
| Wins in straight sets | 78% | 32/41 | — | |
| Wins a set when losing | 50% | 8/16 | 33% | 4/12 |
| Goes to a deciding set | 30% | 17/57 | 33% | 4/12 |
| Covers −1.5 sets as favorite | 75% | 30/40 | — | |
| Covers +1.5 sets as underdog | 65% | 11/17 | 33% | 4/12 |
| Tiebreak sets won | 80% | 12/15 | 50% | 2/4 |
| Wins after taking set 1 | 93% | 37/40 | 0% | 0/1 |
| Wins 2-0 after taking set 1 | 80% | 32/40 | 0% | 0/1 |
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: 2 of 3 completed meetings ended in straight sets (Cirstea 0, Williams 2).
Style Matchup
Playing styles and historical archetype record
Cirstea
👑 The Complete Package
Williams
🤖 Servebot
Matchup analysis
The 👑 The Complete Package archetype wins about 54% vs 🤖 Servebot across 2,084 matches in our dataset: a stylistic lean toward Sorana Cirstea.
The Complete Package players often use elite serve & return and high bp conversion to pressure the servebot's high ace rate.
Previous meetings
3 career meetings, newest first
May 24, 2021
Internationaux de Strasbourg - Strasbourg
C Clay · 1st Round
Aug 8, 2018
Montreal
H Hard · Round of 32
Mar 7, 2018
Indian Wells
H Hard · Round of 64
Player ROI
Hypothetical if you put 1u on each player to win every one of their matches · Last 90 days
| Metric | Cirstea | Williams |
|---|---|---|
| W-L | 4–3 | 0–4 |
| Avg odds | 1.98 | 4.97 |
| ROI % | -20.0% | -100.0% |
| Units P/L | -1.40u | -4.00u |
Small sample: ROI stabilizes with more matches; fewer than 10 in the window is noisy.
Common opponents
Results vs. opponents both players faced · Last 12 months
Cirstea has a higher win rate against shared opponents (100% vs Williams's 0%).
| Opponent | Cirstea | Williams |
|---|---|---|
| Diane Parry | W 62 75 | L 36 76 16 |
| Kamilla Rakhimova | W 64 64 | L 46 16 |
| Anastasia Potapova | W 75 64 | L 36 36 |
| Tatjana Maria | W 62 60 | L 46 36 |
| Ajla Tomljanovic | W 46 64 63 | L 46 16 |
Recent Form
Last five matches per player
Jessica Pegula
U.S. Open - New York · 4th Round
Sep 7
Jasmine Paolini
U.S. Open - New York · 3rd Round
Sep 4
Diane Parry
U.S. Open - New York · 2nd Round
Sep 2
Julia Grabher
U.S. Open - New York · 1st Round
Aug 31
Jessica Pegula
Cincinnati Open - Cincinnati · 4th Round
Aug 19
Anna Kalinskaya
Cincinnati Open - Cincinnati · 3rd Round
Aug 17
Nikola Bartunkova
Cincinnati Open - Cincinnati · 2nd Round
Aug 15
Maya Joint
National Bank Open - Toronto · 2nd Round
Aug 6
Sofia Kenin
U.S. Open - New York · 1st Round
Aug 31
Emiliana Arango
Cincinnati Open - Cincinnati · 1st Round
Aug 14
Kamilla Rakhimova
National Bank Open - Toronto · 1st Round
Aug 2
Anastasia Potapova
Mubadala DC Open - Washington · 1st Round
Jul 29
Irina Camelia Begu
Bad Homburg Open - Bad Homburg · 1st Round
Jun 22
Kaitlin Quevedo
Mutua Madrid Open - Madrid · 1st Round
Apr 21
Francesca Jones
Miami Open - Miami · 1st Round
Mar 19
Diane Parry
BNP Paribas Open - Indian Wells · 1st Round
Mar 5
Rivalry momentum
Cumulative head-to-head lead over time
Win rate
Matches, sets and games won · Last 12 months · 12–57 matches
| Metric | Cirstea | Williams |
|---|---|---|
| Matches won | 72% | 0% |
| Sets won | 69% | 14% |
| Games won | 57% | 38% |
Record by tier
Head-to-head record by tournament tier
| Stage | Cirstea | Williams |
|---|---|---|
| WTA 250 | 1 | 0 |
| WTA 1000 | 0 | 2 |
By surface
Head-to-head record per surface
| Surface | Cirstea | Williams |
|---|---|---|
| Hard | 0 | 2 |
| Clay | 1 | 0 |
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