All eyes at the 2023 WTA Ladies Open Lausanne will be on the 16-year-old wunderkind Mirra Andreeva. The sky is the limit for her and it’s time to see how she’ll fare on the main tour week-in week-out (spoiler: probably extremely well). For now, she gets to play Diane Parry in the opening round. Who do you think will come out on top? We also look at the rest of the day’s matches in a separate article.
WTA Lausanne Day 1 Predictions
Aliona Bolsova vs Anna Bondar
Head-to-head: First meeting
It’s been a very weird season for Anna Bondar with one of the best runs of her career (third round in Rome, beat Tatjana Maria and Karolina Pliskova), but also many opening round losses. Budapest last week wasn’t one of them, but only managing three games against Elina Avanesyan wasn’t great. Feels like Aliona Bolsova is bringing her best level a bit more consistently and she had a nice quarterfinal showing at the WTA 125K in Bastad recently.
Prediction: Bolsova in 3
Julia Riera vs Patricia Maria Tig
Head-to-head: First meeting
Julia Riera is enjoying the best campaign of her life with back-to-back ITF titles in Guayaquil and especially a main tour semifinal in Rabat. The Argentinian lost in the first round at her last two events, but faced some really tough opposition. Now she gets to face the former top 60 player Patricia Maria Tig. Constantly struggling with her health the last couple of years, the Romanian had to withdraw from a match the last time we saw her on court about ten days ago. With her fitness still in question and Riera’s amazing match rhythm this year, Tig would have to produce something special to win.
Prediction: Riera in 2
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Mirra Andreeva vs Diane Parry
Head-to-head: Andreeva 1-0
Talents like Mirra Andreeva don’t show up on the tour every day. The 16-year-old owns a ridiculous 28-4 win/loss record in the pros this year and that includes a third-round showing at the French Open and making the second week at Wimbledon. She looks so much more complete than most of the young breakthrough players we’ve seen of late too. In Paris two months ago, she completely took apart Diane Parry. Maybe the scoreline won’t be this lopsided, but she should beat her again.
Prediction: Andreeva in 2
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