Tennis forecast: Elena Rybakina - Petra Kvitova

Elena Rybakina from Kazakhstan will play against Petra Kvitova from the Czech Republic in the quarterfinals of the WTA tournament in the Czech Republic.

Elena Rybakina

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Elena RybakinaThe 23-year-old representative of Kazakhstan played another difficult match at the tournament in Ostrava the day before yesterday.

In the 1/8 finals, Rybakina met our expectations, in a stubborn struggle, Elena won a strong-willed victory over Alexandra Sasnovich from Belarus – 6:7 (5:7); 6:4; 7:5. In the first set, in the middle of the game, the tennis players exchanged breaks. Then Rybakina and Sasnovich competently began to work on their serves, as a result they reached the tie-break, where Alexandra was a little stronger. At the start of the second set, Rybakina could have immediately made a break, but Sasnovich showed character and pulled the game from the score at 15:40. However, on the second attempt, Elena still made a break and came out on the score of 3:2 in games. After that, the representative of Kazakhstan worked competently on her serve, which allowed her to calmly pick up the set and even the score in the match. In the decisive game, Rybakina and Sasnovich worked for a long time on their serves without mistakes. However, with the score 4:3 in games in her favor, Alexandra made a break, but she immediately faltered and could not submit for the match. And then at the score of 5:5 according to the games, Rybakina made a second break in a row and after that Elena competently submitted for the match. The tennis players spent two hours and thirty-five minutes on the court.

Petra KvitovaThe 32-year-old representative of the Czech Republic, in turn, the day before yesterday also met our expectations.

In the 1/8 finals, Kvitova beat the Spaniard Hebert-Paula Badosa in two sets – 7:6 (7:4); 6:4. In the first set, Petra did not play very steadily and at the start of the match she almost lost a game on her serve, but she showed character and pulled the game from the score of 15:40. As a result, the tennis players competently played a set on their serves, it came to a tie-break, where Petra was already stronger. In the second set, the tennis players exchanged breaks fairly quickly. And in the middle of the game, with the score 3:3 on games, Kvitova made the second break. After that, with the score 5:3 in games, Petra could make a third break, but the Czech missed her advantage from the score of 40:0. Then Kvitova is not without difficulty, but still filed for the match. The girls spent two hours and five minutes on the court.

ForecastIn this match, Elena Rybakina is considered a small favorite among bookmakers.

However, here, first of all, you expect a hard fight, and therefore we suggest that you put more than 21.5 games on the total.