Tennis forecast: Anna Blinkova - Clara Towson

In the 1/8 finals of the challenger in Angers, Russian tennis player Anna Blinkova will play against Clara Towson from Denmark.

Clara TowsonThe 19-year-old representative of Denmark is in very good shape and so far it is very difficult to stop her.

Towson scored a very good move and has already won six consecutive matches with a score of 2-0 in sets. Last week, Clara won the ITF tournament in Italy. In the final of the tournament, Towson confidently beat Emina Bektas from the USA – 6:3; 7:5.

On the challenger in Angers, Towson started the day before yesterday. In the 1/16 finals, Clara played a very strong match and defeated the experienced Sabine Lisicki from Germany – 6:1; 6:1. From the very beginning of the match, Towson began to dominate the court and could instantly make a break, but the representative of Denmark in the first game missed her advantage on the opponent's serve from the score of 40:0. However, Towson has already played out further and eventually made three consecutive breaks, even though Clara was acting a little heavy on her serve. In the second set, Towson already began to work more competently on her serve, and from the score of 2:1 in games, Clara made two consecutive games and then confidently served for the match. The tennis players spent one hour and ten minutes on the court.

Anna BlinkovaThe 24-year-old Russian tennis player also started the challenger in France the day before yesterday.

In the 1/16 finals, Blinkova played a much harder match, but still in three sets Blinkova was able to beat Joanna Zuger from Switzerland – 6:4; 6:7 (4:7); 6:3. From the very beginning of the match, both tennis players played unstable. Blinkova and Zuger immediately exchanged breaks, then Anna and Joanna played correctly on their serve once and then the tennis players exchanged breaks again. Soon, with the score 4:4 in games, Blinkova almost lost the game again on her serve, but Anna showed character and pulled the game from the score 15:40. And immediately after that, Blinkova already made a break herself and eventually took the set. In the second set, the tennis players played a little steadily on their serves, but from the score 2:1 in favor of Anna Blinkova and Zuger exchanged breaks again. Then Anna and Joanna already worked competently on their serves until the count of 5:4. At that moment, Blinkova had a great chance to make a second break in the set and win the match, but Anna missed the advantage in the game with a score of 40:15. As a result, it came to a tie-break, where the representative of Switzerland was already stronger. But in the decisive set, Blinkova had already gathered herself and acted much more stably on the court. With the score 2:2, Anna made a break and as a result she came out on the score of 4:2. And with the score 5:3, Blinkova made the second break and eventually won the match. The tennis players spent two hours and twenty minutes on the court.

Anna Blinkova and Clara Towson played together last June at the WTA tournament in Germany. Then, in the 1/16 finals of the tournament on grass, the Russian tennis player made a sensation and won in three sets – 7:6 (7:4); 4:6; 6:2.

ForecastIn this match, Clara Towson is considered by the bookmakers to be a pretty clear favorite.

However, Blinkova is quite capable of imposing at least a good fight, and therefore we suggest that you put more than 20.5 games on the total.