Friday's Cincinnati first round pits Alycia Parks against Viktorija Golubic on hard. Viktorija Golubic is 6-4 across recent matches. Alycia Parks comes in at 4 wins from the last ten.
Viktorija Golubic leads the head-to-head 1-0, and history has a way of mattering in matchups like this one.
Neither the serve numbers nor the ratings separate these two by much, which is why our number stays close to even. A tiebreak or two would surprise nobody, with Golubic fractionally more likely to land the big points.