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It’s quarterfinal day at WTA Open Monastir and there are some great matches in store for fans in Tunisia with all eight players still in contention no doubt determined to go all the way. As always, we here at LWOT will be offering our predictions for every match on the slate, but who will book […] READ MORE
The 2022 Jasmin Open continues with four second-round matches that all look fairly lop-sided on paper. But are they? Home crowd favorite Ons Jabeur plays Evgeniya Rodina. Who do you think will advance? Anastasia Potapova vs Tamara Zidansek Head-to-head: Potapova 2-0 Embed from Getty Images Tamara Zidansek hasn’t had a great campaign in 2022, falling […] READ MORE
It will be a full house on Day 2 of the WTA Jasmin Open in Monastir, Tunisia. The top seed and world #2 Ons Jabeur makes her tournament debut. The Tunisian trailblazer will be cheered every step of the way. It will be her first match since losing the US Open final to Iga Swiatek. […] READ MORE
Liudmila Samsonova is in the form of her life, winning 18 of her last 19 matches. She has collected three WTA titles along the way, in Washington, Cleveland and Tokyo, rising to a career high ranking of #23. The hard-hitting Russian capped off her sensational run in the Japanese capital last week, where she did […] READ MORE
All four Grand Slams in 2022 have come and gone, crowning World No. 1 Iga Swiatek champion of the most recent US Open. With that said, we still have very meaningful tennis down the stretch run of this season. Players are looking to finish their season in strong form while a select few women at the […] READ MORE
Iga Swiatek dismissed Ons Jabeur to win her third Grand Slam title and end any suggestion that the Pole is a clay-court specialist. There were points during this year’s US Open where the Pole looked less than comfortable, but she never really looked like a losing match. She started her campaign with comprehensive wins over […] READ MORE
We are in for a blockbuster women’s final at the US Open as the top two women in the world battle for a Major trophy. These will be the top two ranked women on Monday. The only reason they aren’t already is because Wimbledon didn’t get ranking points this year. As always, our writers share […] READ MORE
“Fly With Caro” has been an almost ubiquitous phrase (not to mention hashtag, meme and GIF) in women’s tennis this summer. That is because Caroline Garcia, the supremely talented French woman who Andy Murray first tipped for greatness over a decade ago finally seemed to be delivering on his prediction that she would one day […] READ MORE
A blockbuster semifinal matchup at the US Open in Flushing Meadows sees fifth-seeded Ons Jabeur come up against seventeenth-seeded Caroline Garcia in the first of Thursday night’s matches on Arthur Ashe Stadium. Jabeur will be playing to reach her second Grand Slam final–her second in a row, having succumbed to Elena Rybakina in three sets […] READ MORE
Tuesday at the US Open will see two of the women’s quarterfinal matches. As always, LWOT writers will share their thoughts on both of them with you. Who do you think will win? Predicting these matches are Jakub Bobro, Jack Edward, Damian Kust, and Johnny Connell. US Open Women’s Quarterfinal Predictions Ons Jabeur vs Ajla […] READ MORE