{"id":19948,"date":"2019-09-15T08:14:09","date_gmt":"2019-09-15T12:14:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lastwordontennis.com\/?p=19948"},"modified":"2019-09-15T08:14:09","modified_gmt":"2019-09-15T12:14:09","slug":"wta-osaka-day-1-predictions-mertens-sevastova","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/tennis\/2019\/09\/15\/wta-osaka-day-1-predictions-mertens-sevastova\/","title":{"rendered":"WTA Osaka Day 1 Predictions Including Elise Mertens vs Anastasija Sevastova"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Toray Pan Pacific Open has moved from Tokyo to Osaka this year. Yes, Naomi Osaka is in the draw and take a guess which she city she was born in. The first four seeds have a first-round bye.<\/p>\n<h2>WTA Osaka Day 1 Predictions<\/h2>\n<h4><strong>Zarina Diyas vs Monica Puig<\/strong><\/h4>\n<p><strong>Head-to-head:\u00a0<\/strong>Puig 2-0<\/p>\n<p>The Puerto Rican has an obvious advantage of power, but she hasn&#8217;t played well in weeks now. Diyas usually performs her best in the Asian swing and showed some premise in her first round US Open loss to Barty. This might be a good chance for the Kazakh to get her first head-to-head win over Puig.<br \/>\n<em>Prediction: Diyas in 3<\/em><\/p>\n<p><a id=\"f0GbHQ05RgNXketZxbX_vA\" class=\"gie-single\" style=\"color: #a7a7a7; text-decoration: none; font-weight: normal !important; border: none; display: inline-block;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.gettyimages.com\/detail\/1170353312\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Embed from Getty Images<\/a><script>window.gie=window.gie||function(c){(gie.q=gie.q||[]).push(c)};gie(function(){gie.widgets.load({id:'f0GbHQ05RgNXketZxbX_vA',sig:'7F8ky5WlPfopi6mcHzyd67YOh9_vKpIhWBzACkfluwQ=',w:'594px',h:'396px',items:'1170353312',caption: true ,tld:'com',is360: false })});<\/script><script src='\/\/embed-cdn.gettyimages.com\/widgets.js' charset='utf-8' async><\/script><\/p>\n<h4><strong>Camila Giorgi vs Xinyun Han<\/strong><\/h4>\n<p><strong>Head-to-head:\u00a0<\/strong>First meeting<\/p>\n<p>The Italian is a ballbasher of the highest sort, but when she&#8217;s on, Giorgi is a nightmare to play against. Aside from two terrible losses to Maria Sakkari, she has been playing well in recent months (reached the finals in Washington and the Bronx). The Chinese qualifier is a player of a slightly lower calibre and shouldn&#8217;t be able to hurt Giorgi in any way.<br \/>\n<em>Prediction: Giorgi in 2<\/em><\/p>\n<p><a id=\"al8x4ds6QVlL9ev8m59nlg\" class=\"gie-single\" style=\"color: #a7a7a7; text-decoration: none; font-weight: normal !important; border: none; display: inline-block;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.gettyimages.com\/detail\/1160068796\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Embed from Getty Images<\/a><script>window.gie=window.gie||function(c){(gie.q=gie.q||[]).push(c)};gie(function(){gie.widgets.load({id:'al8x4ds6QVlL9ev8m59nlg',sig:'siNLeao_3eBKz7otX8rSu2U6VLo7aJZbcwC8_jeKPX4=',w:'594px',h:'413px',items:'1160068796',caption: true ,tld:'com',is360: false })});<\/script><script src='\/\/embed-cdn.gettyimages.com\/widgets.js' charset='utf-8' async><\/script><\/p>\n<h4><strong>Dayana Yastremska vs Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova<\/strong><\/h4>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><strong>Head-to-head:<\/strong> First meeting<\/p>\n<p>One thing is certain in this first time clash between <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordontennis.com\/2018\/10\/21\/18-year-old-ukrainian-dayana-yastremska-is-one-to-look-out-for-in-2019\/\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Yastremska<\/a> and Pavlyuchenkova. Balls will be hit hard. The Russian has been slowly regaining confidence after some health issues she&#8217;s been through, but it&#8217;s Yastremska who&#8217;s been playing superior tennis this season and should be ready this challenge.<br \/>\n<em>Prediction: Yastremska in 3<\/em><\/p>\n<p><a id=\"ElzOCjm7Q9Vqcgqh5E6nkg\" class=\"gie-single\" style=\"color: #a7a7a7; text-decoration: none; font-weight: normal !important; border: none; display: inline-block;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.gettyimages.com\/detail\/1159898684\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Embed from Getty Images<\/a><script>window.gie=window.gie||function(c){(gie.q=gie.q||[]).push(c)};gie(function(){gie.widgets.load({id:'ElzOCjm7Q9Vqcgqh5E6nkg',sig:'YKNQM3QTD-n3-s9GfXeRYzTRaeqlkijPZ9CK6q17ikA=',w:'594px',h:'448px',items:'1159898684',caption: true ,tld:'com',is360: false })});<\/script><script src='\/\/embed-cdn.gettyimages.com\/widgets.js' charset='utf-8' async><\/script><\/p>\n<h4><strong>Anastasija Sevastova vs Elise Mertens<\/strong><\/h4>\n<p><strong>Head-to-head:<\/strong> Sevastova 2-0<\/p>\n<p>These women have already played two highly interesting matches between them. None of them was on hard courts though, which is arguably the best surface for both. Sevastova failed to defend her <a href=\"http:\/\/lastwordontennis.com\/us-open\/\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">US Open<\/a> semifinal points and with the confidence advantage over Mertens, she will be hungry for a good result. It&#8217;s a must watch for any fans of clean baseline ball-striking.<br \/>\n<em>Prediction: Sevastova in 3<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Main Photo:<br \/>\n<a id=\"RM5NQGy0S3hXhk3UGUKR0w\" class=\"gie-single\" style=\"color: #a7a7a7; text-decoration: none; font-weight: normal !important; border: none; display: inline-block;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.gettyimages.com\/detail\/1170334997\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Embed from Getty Images<\/a><script>window.gie=window.gie||function(c){(gie.q=gie.q||[]).push(c)};gie(function(){gie.widgets.load({id:'RM5NQGy0S3hXhk3UGUKR0w',sig:'CQ2Bxcj7xctM-kfX5Tul53Z1IyOmzYc3w_QnOmqITSQ=',w:'594px',h:'396px',items:'1170334997',caption: true ,tld:'com',is360: false })});<\/script><script src='\/\/embed-cdn.gettyimages.com\/widgets.js' charset='utf-8' async><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Toray Pan Pacific Open has moved from Tokyo to Osaka this year. Yes, Naomi Osaka is in the draw and take a guess which she city she was born in. The first four seeds have a first-round bye. WTA Osaka Day 1 Predictions Zarina Diyas vs Monica Puig Head-to-head:\u00a0Puig 2-0 The Puerto Rican has [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2968,"featured_media":19956,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","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":[69,4],"tags":[8670,269,8673,119,8672,251,8674,3193,1412,461,2373,2369,8671,7277,3119,8675],"class_list":["post-19948","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-predictions","category-wta","tag-2019-toray-pan-pacific-open","tag-anastasia-pavlyuchenkova","tag-anastasia-pavlyuchenkova-vs-dayana-yastremska-prediction","tag-anastasija-sevastova","tag-anastasija-sevastova-vs-elise-mertens-prediction","tag-camila-giorgi","tag-camila-giorgi-vs-xinyun-han-prediction","tag-dayana-yastremska","tag-elise-mertens","tag-monica-puig","tag-tennis-picks","tag-tennis-predictions","tag-wta-osaka-predictions","tag-xinyun-han","tag-zarina-diyas","tag-zarina-diyas-vs-monica-puig-prediction"],"modified_by":"Yesh Ginsburg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/tennis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19948","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\/2968"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/tennis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19948"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/tennis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19948\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/tennis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/19956"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/tennis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19948"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/tennis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19948"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/tennis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19948"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}