Sorana Cirstea vs Yulia PutintsevaPrediction, Head-to-Head Results, and Stats
🇷🇴Sorana Cirstea
#16 · 36 yrs · Right-Handed
5w5 meetings · sets 6–7
🇰🇿Yulia Putintseva
#79 · 31 yrs · Right-Handed
3Sorana Cirstea and Yulia Putintseva have met 5 times since 2016; Yulia Putintseva leads 3–2. Their first meeting came at Mallorca in 2016 on grass. On clay courts Putintseva leads 2–1. Putintseva has won the last 3 meetings. Across all meetings Cirstea has taken 6 sets to Putintseva's 7. Their most recent meeting: Yulia Putintseva won at Australian Open - Melbourne (2023).
Spread & Straight-Sets Form
Completed best-of-3 matches · Last 12 months
| Indicator | Cirstea | Putintseva | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Indicator | Sorana Cirstea | Yulia Putintseva | ||
| Wins in straight sets | 78% | 32/41 | 74% | 23/31 |
| Wins a set when losing | 50% | 8/16 | 44% | 11/25 |
| Goes to a deciding set | 30% | 17/57 | 34% | 19/56 |
| Covers −1.5 sets as favorite | 75% | 30/40 | 53% | 18/34 |
| Covers +1.5 sets as underdog | 65% | 11/17 | 60% | 12/20 |
| Tiebreak sets won | 80% | 12/15 | 71% | 10/14 |
| Wins after taking set 1 | 93% | 37/40 | 87% | 27/31 |
| Wins 2-0 after taking set 1 | 80% | 32/40 | 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. Head-to-head: 2 of 5 completed meetings ended in straight sets (Cirstea 1, Putintseva 1).
Style Matchup
Playing styles and historical archetype record
Cirstea
👑 The Complete Package
Putintseva
🪃 Counterpuncher
Matchup analysis
The 👑 The Complete Package archetype wins about 54% vs 🪃 Counterpuncher across 7,583 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 counterpuncher's elite bp conversion.
Previous meetings
5 career meetings, newest first
Jan 17, 2023
Australian Open - Melbourne
H Hard · 1st Round
May 25, 2019
Nurnberg
C Clay · Semifinals
Apr 25, 2018
Istanbul
C Clay · Round of 32
May 26, 2017
Nurnberg
C Clay · Quarterfinals
Jun 15, 2016
Mallorca
G Grass · Round of 32
Prop Research
Hit rates on common betting markets · Last 90 days
| Outcome | Cirstea | Putintseva | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Outcome | Sorana Cirstea | Yulia Putintseva | ||
| 1 or more | 100% | 7/7 | 91% | 10/11 |
| 3 or more | 57% | 4/7 | 36% | 4/11 |
| 5 or more | 29% | 2/7 | 9% | 1/11 |
| 10 or more | 0% | 0/7 | 0% | 0/11 |
| 15 or more | 0% | 0/7 | 0% | 0/11 |
| 20 or more | 0% | 0/7 | 0% | 0/11 |
Player ROI
Hypothetical if you put 1u on each player to win every one of their matches · Last 90 days
| Metric | Cirstea | Putintseva |
|---|---|---|
| W-L | 4–3 | 6–6 |
| Avg odds | 1.98 | 2.07 |
| ROI % | -20.0% | +3.2% |
| Units P/L | -1.40u | +0.38u |
Small sample: ROI stabilizes with more matches; fewer than 10 in the window is noisy.
Travel
Last 30 days
| Metric | Cirstea | Putintseva |
|---|---|---|
| Countries | — | 1 |
| Events | — | 1 |
| Matches | — | 2 |
| Distance | — | 0 mi · 0 km |
| Route | — | CZE |
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
Cirstea has a higher win rate against shared opponents (71% vs Putintseva's 29%).
| Opponent | Cirstea | Putintseva |
|---|---|---|
| Jessica Pegula | L 36 46 | L 64 46 57 |
| Maya Joint | L 46 46 | L 60 36 16 |
| Shuai Zhang | W 63 64 | L 46 16 |
| Sinja Kraus | W 63 63 | W 62 63 |
| Tatjana Maria | W 62 60 | L 46 46 |
| Dalma Galfi | W | W 64 64 |
| Viktorija Golubic | W 62 26 62 | L 57 26 |
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
Ashlyn Krueger
Wuhan Open - Wuhan · 3rd Round Qualifying
Oct 11
Elena Gabriela Ruse
Wuhan Open - Wuhan · 1st Round Qualifying
Oct 10
Qinwen Zheng
U.S. Open - New York · 2nd Round
Sep 3
Belinda Bencic
U.S. Open - New York · 1st Round
Sep 1
Maya Joint
Abierto GNP Seguros - Monterrey · 3rd Round Qualifying
Aug 24
Victoria Rodriguez
Abierto GNP Seguros - Monterrey · 1st Round Qualifying
Aug 23
Liudmila Samsonova
Cincinnati Open - Cincinnati · 1st Round
Aug 14
Shuai Zhang
National Bank Open - Toronto · 1st Round
Aug 3
Rivalry momentum
Cumulative head-to-head lead over time
Win rate
Matches, sets and games won · Last 12 months · 56–57 matches
| Metric | Cirstea | Putintseva |
|---|---|---|
| Matches won | 72% | 55% |
| Sets won | 69% | 56% |
| Games won | 57% | 52% |
Record by tier
Head-to-head record by tournament tier
| Stage | Cirstea | Putintseva |
|---|---|---|
| Grand Slam | 0 | 1 |
| WTA 250 | 2 | 2 |
By surface
Head-to-head record per surface
| Surface | Cirstea | Putintseva |
|---|---|---|
| Hard | 0 | 1 |
| Clay | 1 | 2 |
| Grass | 1 | 0 |
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