{"id":28504,"date":"2020-09-24T14:16:20","date_gmt":"2020-09-24T18:16:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/tennis\/?p=28504"},"modified":"2020-09-24T14:16:20","modified_gmt":"2020-09-24T18:16:20","slug":"wta-strasbourg-semifinal-prediction-hibino-rybakina","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/tennis\/2020\/09\/24\/wta-strasbourg-semifinal-prediction-hibino-rybakina\/","title":{"rendered":"WTA Strasbourg Semifinal Prediction: Nao Hibino vs Elena Rybakina"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Our first semifinal at the WTA Internationaux de Strasbourg is set! It&#8217;s been an incredible week of tennis in Strasbourg, and while the second semifinal is not finalized yet due to rain, we still have a prediction here for the other semifinal. Nao Hibino and Elena Rybakina have been playing high-quality tennis. Who will come one step closer to lifting the trophy and who will fall short?<\/p>\n<h2>WTA Strasbourg Semifinal Predictions<\/h2>\n<h4>Nao Hibino vs Elena Rybakina<\/h4>\n<p>Head to Head: 1-0 Rybakina<\/p>\n<p>Nao Hibino is having a dream week, defeating two grand slam champions on her way to the semifinals. In the quarterfinals, Hibino beat former <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/tennis\/2017\/06\/11\/after-boom-boom-becker-its-omg-ostapenko\/\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_self\">French Open champion Jelena Ostapenko<\/a> in two tiebreaks to advance. Hibino showed great mental fortitude, especially in the second set, recovering from a two-break deficit to take the set and the match. Elena Rybakina has not dropped a set so far this tournament. In the quarterfinals, she comfortably beat Shuai Zhang in straight sets. Rybakina&#8217;s depth and controlled aggression have been very tough to handle this week.<\/p>\n<p><a id=\"Oi8KL8L4SWdPQF9Z91ePSA\" class=\"gie-single\" href=\"http:\/\/www.gettyimages.com\/detail\/1195277895\" target=\"_blank\" style=\"color:#a7a7a7;text-decoration:none;font-weight:normal !important;border:none;display:inline-block;\" 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:'Oi8KL8L4SWdPQF9Z91ePSA',sig:'vuTKvNJIu7XJXh1hV5RQpJiGMgJpeUTEURVJGvu8vvc=',w:'594px',h:'396px',items:'1195277895',caption: true ,tld:'com',is360: false })});<\/script><script src='\/\/embed-cdn.gettyimages.com\/widgets.js' charset='utf-8' async><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Rybakina leads the head to head 1-0, having beaten Hibino at the French Open last season. She won that match in a close straight sets encounter. Rybakina&#8217;s power and control of her groundstrokes are going to make this a very tough matchup from Hibino. Hibino will not be able to dictate and Rybakina won&#8217;t give away as many free points as Ostapenko did. Rybakina&#8217;s serve is also much better than Hibino&#8217;s. Rybakina should win this match comfortably and reach her 7th WTA final.<br \/>\n<em>Prediction: Rybakina in 2<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Main Photo from Getty.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Our first semifinal at the WTA Internationaux de Strasbourg is set! It&#8217;s been an incredible week of tennis in Strasbourg, and while the second semifinal is not finalized yet due to rain, we still have a prediction here for the other semifinal. Nao Hibino and Elena Rybakina have been playing high-quality tennis. Who will come [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2983,"featured_media":17659,"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":[5595,826,12505,2373,2369,6014],"class_list":["post-28504","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-predictions","category-wta","tag-elena-rybakina","tag-nao-hibino","tag-nao-hibino-vs-elena-rybakina-prediction","tag-tennis-picks","tag-tennis-predictions","tag-wta-strasbourg-predictions"],"modified_by":"Yesh Ginsburg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/tennis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28504","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\/2983"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/tennis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=28504"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/tennis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28504\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/tennis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/17659"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/tennis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28504"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/tennis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28504"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/tennis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28504"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}