{"id":100287,"date":"2026-03-25T00:11:38","date_gmt":"2026-03-25T04:11:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/tennis\/?p=100287"},"modified":"2026-03-25T00:11:38","modified_gmt":"2026-03-25T04:11:38","slug":"wta-miami-best-bets-rybakina-vs-pegula","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/tennis\/2026\/03\/25\/wta-miami-best-bets-rybakina-vs-pegula\/","title":{"rendered":"WTA Miami Best Bets Including Elena Rybakina vs Jessica Pegula"},"content":{"rendered":"

WTA Miami is at the end of the quarterfinal stage, and one of the matches is guaranteed to be a treat. Elena Rybakina and Jessica Pegula will add the next chapter to their rivalry, while Hailey Baptiste hopes to continue a spectacular run against Aryna Sabalenka. The semifinals are halfway complete, and it all ends here. Let us know if you agree with our picks for these matches.\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

WTA Miami Quarterfinals<\/b><\/h2>\n

Sabalenka <\/b>\u2013 Baptiste<\/b>: Time 15:00<\/b><\/h4>\n

H2H: 0-0<\/b>\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Aryna Sabalenka will meet Hailey Baptiste for the first time in the quarterfinals. Sabalenka is looking to make her third final in a row, having gone 1-1 in the previous two. She will still have to get past either Rybakina or Pegula to get there, and that’s no small task, but Baptiste is neither of them. She is 7-3 in her last ten matches, but she is just 11-7 on the year, though she did make the semifinals at WTA Abu Dhabi.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Best Bet to Make<\/b><\/p>\n

There’s a reason that Sabalenka is a dominant favorite in this match. The average odds are 8.5-1 in favor of the World No. 1, but some books are as high as 11-1. Making money on this match is going to require betting on the total number of games played. At 2.9 on Unibet, the under on 17.5 games is mighty tempting, though discretion might suggest taking the under on 19 at 2.0 on 10Bet.\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

That being said, Under 19 games<\/b>\u00a0<\/strong><\/b><\/span>is a value bet for sure.<\/b><\/p>\n

Value bet\/the best odds: Under 19 games\u00a0<\/strong><\/span>@2.0 <\/b>@10Bet<\/b><\/p>\n

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Rybakina <\/b>\u2013 <\/b>Pegula<\/b>: Time 09:00<\/b><\/h4>\n

H2H: 5-3<\/b><\/p>\n

Elena Rybakina has been absolutely aces against Jessica Pegula, and that includes two wins this year already. She beat Pegula in the semifinals of the WTA Australian Open en route to winning the Major, and she thumped Pegula again at WTA Indian Wells in the quarterfinals. Then there’s the little matter of Rybakina also having two wins against Pegula in 2025, as well. One of those was the semis of the WTA Finals, which Rybakina would also win.\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Best Bet to Make<\/b><\/p>\n

Rybakina is the favorite in this match, and I’ve already laid out why the books think that. She’s on the verge of potentially becoming the World No. 1 at the end of this year, and she’s off to a fantastic start if that’s her goal. While I do think Pegula will keep the match entertaining, I still think it doesn’t go to a third set. Pegula has only managed that twice in their entire rivalry, and only once at the WTA level.<\/p>\n

That being said, Rybakina winning <\/strong><\/b><\/span>is a value bet for sure.<\/b><\/p>\n

Value bet\/the best odds: Rybakina\u00a0winning<\/strong><\/span>\u00a0<\/strong><\/span>@2.2 <\/b>@Interwetten<\/b><\/p>\n

Main Photo Credit: Mike Frey–USA TODAY Sports<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

WTA Miami is at the end of the quarterfinal stage, and one of the matches is guaranteed to be a treat. Elena Rybakina and Jessica Pegula will add the next chapter to their rivalry, while Hailey Baptiste hopes to continue a spectacular run against Aryna Sabalenka. The semifinals are halfway complete, and it all ends […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5481,"featured_media":97142,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","sfio_featured_image":false,"sfio_embed_code":"","_ef_editorial_meta_date_first-draft-date":"","_ef_editorial_meta_paragraph_assignment":"","_ef_editorial_meta_checkbox_needs-photo":"","_ef_editorial_meta_number_word-count":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[17400,4],"tags":[43603,1766,17399,5595,7684,3535,15,2768],"class_list":["post-100287","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-best-bets","category-wta","tag-2026-wta-miami","tag-aryna-sabalenka","tag-best-bets","tag-elena-rybakina","tag-hailey-baptiste","tag-jessica-pegula","tag-wta","tag-wta-miami"],"modified_by":"Kane Webb","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/tennis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/100287","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/tennis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/tennis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/tennis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5481"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/tennis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=100287"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/tennis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/100287\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":100293,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/tennis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/100287\/revisions\/100293"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/tennis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/97142"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/tennis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=100287"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/tennis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=100287"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/tennis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=100287"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}