Tennis forecast: Ekaterina Gorgodze - Alyona Bolshova

In the 1/16 finals of the dirt challenger in Bucharest, Ekaterina Gorgodze from Georgia will play against the Spaniard Alena Bolshova.

Alyona BolshovaThe 24-year-old representative of Spain made her way to the challenger main draw through qualifying.

In the semifinals , Bolshova won a strong - willed victory over Georgia Crachun from Romania in three sets – 2:6; 6:4; 6:2. And the day before yesterday, in the final of the qualification, Alena won a strong-willed victory over Oz Ipek from Turkey in a very hard struggle – 6:7 (4:7); 6:4; 7:6 (7:4). At the very beginning of the match, the tennis players exchanged breaks, but then in the middle of the set Ipek made a second break. As a result, Oz reached the submission for the game, but then Bolshova was able to recoup. Then Alyona lost the game again on her serve, but after that she immediately made a return break. As a result, the tennis players reached the tie-break, where the Turkish woman was a little stronger. In the second set, the tennis players again exchanged breaks fairly quickly. In the middle of the set, Bolshova made the second break and then Alyona reached the set. The Spaniard had to try, but still she was able to close the game in her favor. In the third set, Alyona had big problems, she lost a game twice in a row on her serve, as a result, she came out on the score of 1:5. However, here Oz could not finish the job, and Bolshova was able to show character, Alyona made three breaks in a row and came out on the score of 6:5. Immediately after that, Bolshova could not submit for the match and in the end it came to a tie-break, where this time the Spaniard was a little stronger. The tennis players spent three and a half hours on the court.

Ekaterina GorgodzeThe 30-year-old representative of Georgia, in turn, last played in qualifying for the US Open.

Gorgodze played poorly in qualifying and lost to Maddison Inglis from Australia in the quarterfinals – 5:7; 6:3; 6:7 (8:10). This game was on August 23.

Ekaterina Gorgodze and Alyona Bolshova played together in 2020 at the ITF tournament in Cairo. Then Bolshova was stronger on the hard court in two sets – 6:2; 6:4.

ForecastIn this match, Alyona Bolshova is considered a small favorite among bookmakers.

At the same time, we see that the tennis player from Spain is playing quite unstable. Gorgodze, in turn, is in a weak form, but here we have the right to expect a stubborn struggle, and therefore we suggest that you put more than 20.5 games on the total.