LiontipsSamantha Stosur vs Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova. Predictions and Betting Tips for WTA Australian Open
Command Analysis
Samantha Stosur announced her retirement, so the Australian Open will be the last tournament in her career. Since the start of the year 37-year old athlete played two matches. At pre-Slam Melbourne tournament she failed to beat Zhu Lin (6:7, 6:7). But in the first round of the Grand Slam tournament Stosur recorded a victory over Anderson (6:7, 6:3, 6:3).
Obviously we shouldn't expect overwhelming result from aging player. Best years of her career are far behind her. As we see, even in matches against weaker opponents Stosur failed to impress.
After her arrival to Australia Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova was tested positive for coronavirus, so she failed to prepare for Australian Open properly. There were concerns about the start of Russian player at Melbourne tournament.
But Pavlyuchenkova dismissed all these concerns in the first match. A Hungarian player, Bondar, failed to put up a fight and won only three games in the match (2:6, 1:6). Without a doubt, World No. 11 player will put up a great performance at Australian Open, plus she got a very easy draw.
Trends
СтавкаSets performance: 2>1
This bet played in each of three most recent head-to-head matches
Ставка1st set: total under 9.5
In three out of five most recent head-to-head matches no more than nine games were played in the first set
Tip and bets
At the start of the season Samantha Stosur played only two matches, both of them were against weaker opponents and in both of them she failed to put up a confident performance. Pavlyuchenkova, on the other hand, proved that even despite a lack of match practice she is able to put up a high-class performance. We think that Pavlyuchenkova will record a confident victory.
Our prediction - Pavlyuchenkova to win with a handicap of (-5,5) games
Stosur might be able to put up a fight to Pavlyuchenkova, but only for a short amount of time. But it will be hard for the Australian player to keep the high level of performance for the whole match. We offer to place a bet on total under.
Our second bet is on total under 19 games
