{"id":76729,"date":"2025-08-17T16:25:11","date_gmt":"2025-08-17T16:25:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/76729\/"},"modified":"2025-08-17T16:25:11","modified_gmt":"2025-08-17T16:25:11","slug":"tennis-wta-cleveland-2025-sonay-kartal-moves-on-to-cleveland-where-she-faces-solana-sierra-in-the-first-round","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/76729\/","title":{"rendered":"Tennis | WTA Cleveland 2025 | Sonay Kartal moves on to Cleveland, where she faces Solana Sierra in the first round"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\nBy Ros Satar<\/p>\n<p>Sonay Kartal [6] v Solana Sierra<br \/>\nH2H: First meeting<\/p>\n<p>CLEVELAND, USA \u2013 Sonay Kartal will be hoping for some more USA court time in Cleveland, ahead of the US Open.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Sonay Kartal v Solana Sierra | H2H &amp; Match Fundamentals<\/p>\n<p>Sonay Kartal [6] v Solana Sierra<br \/>\nH2H: First meeting<\/p>\n<p>WTA Cleveland<br \/>\nUSA<\/p>\n<p>Hard (O)<br \/>\nPrize Money: $2,585<\/p>\n<p>Third on Court 1, not before 1pm (6pm BST)<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nowtv.com\/watch-sky-sports-online\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Sky\/Now TV<\/a> &lt;- Subscription Required<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/britwatchsports.com\/sonay-kartal\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Sonay Kartal<\/a> continues her hard court swing in Cleveland where she faces <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tennisabstract.com\/cgi-bin\/wplayer.cgi?p=SolanaSierra\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Solana Sierra<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Tale of the Tape \u2013 Key Stats (Hard 2025)<\/p>\n<p>H2H:<br \/>\nSonay Kartal (WR 48)<br \/>\nSolana Sierra (WR 72)<\/p>\n<p>Tournament Previous Best<br \/>\nDebut<br \/>\nDebut<\/p>\n<p>1st Serve Return Points Won %<br \/>\n37.1<br \/>\n37.3<\/p>\n<p>Return Points Won %<br \/>\n43.4<br \/>\n43.9<\/p>\n<p>Break Point Conversion %<br \/>\n45.9<br \/>\n40.5<\/p>\n<p>Break Points Saved %<br \/>\n58.6<br \/>\n54.5<\/p>\n<p>Overall Service Points Won %<br \/>\n58.9<br \/>\n54.5<\/p>\n<p>The pair are pretty evenly matched in terms of return stats bit from that point Kartal edges Sierra.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\t<a href=\"https:\/\/www.connectedclubs.co.uk\/?wpam_id=24\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-56592 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/Connected-Clubs-Graphic.png\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Playing Styles &amp; Prediction<\/p>\n<p>Sierra pulled off the surprise and dumped then British No. 1 Katie Boulter out of Wimbledon, so is not to be underestimated when she has a free hit. With Kartal seeded, she will come out as the underdog.<\/p>\n<p>Kartal plays a disruptive style of tennis with a lot of variety and Sierra will look to come in. She is not a typical Argentine in her style of play but can sometimes fall foul of her shot selection.<\/p>\n<p>Kartal has yet to set the USA alight in this autumn swing and will want to get some solid wins ahead of the US Open.<\/p>\n<p>Prediction: Kartal in three sets.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>How to Watch\/Follow WTA Cleveland<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"By Ros Satar Sonay Kartal [6] v Solana Sierra H2H: First meeting CLEVELAND, USA \u2013 Sonay Kartal will&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":76730,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[442],"tags":[49,48,46801,23042,82,593,46802],"class_list":{"0":"post-76729","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-tennis","8":"tag-ca","9":"tag-canada","10":"tag-solana-sierra","11":"tag-sonay-kartal","12":"tag-sports","13":"tag-tennis","14":"tag-wta-cleveland"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76729","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=76729"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76729\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/76730"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=76729"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=76729"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=76729"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}