{"id":35020,"date":"2021-04-18T11:11:28","date_gmt":"2021-04-18T15:11:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/tennis\/?p=35020"},"modified":"2021-04-18T12:32:39","modified_gmt":"2021-04-18T16:32:39","slug":"wta-istanbul-day-1-predictions-pavlyuchenkova-potapova","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/tennis\/2021\/04\/18\/wta-istanbul-day-1-predictions-pavlyuchenkova-potapova\/","title":{"rendered":"WTA Istanbul Day 1 Predictions Including Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova vs Anastasia Potapova"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Day 1 of the WTA TEB BNP Paribas Tennis Championships in Istanbul, Turkey, features eight first-round matches. As always, we predict the matches for you. We have four of the matches in this article, and the <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/tennis\/2021\/04\/18\/wta-istanbul-day-1-predictions-ferro-vs-martic\/\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_self\">other four in a second article<\/a>.<\/p>\n<h2>WTA Istanbul Day 1 Predictions<\/h2>\n<h4>Katerina Siniakova vs Cristina Busca<\/h4>\n<p>Busca is a 23-year-old Spaniard who is steadily improving and finding her place on Tour. She is likely shortly a future Top 100 player, and I expect her to make a few deep runs in bigger tournaments in the next few years. Right now, though, she isn&#8217;t quite there yet. Then again, Siniakova is not much better than a Spaniard, and she hasn&#8217;t been playing her best recently. I think Busca can pull this off.<br \/>\n<em>Prediction: Busca in 3<\/em><\/p>\n<h4>Sara Errani vs Ana Konjuh<\/h4>\n<p>Errani is a former Top 5 player who is in the <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/tennis\/2020\/05\/14\/sara-errani-moving-mountains\/\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_self\">twilight of her career<\/a>. She still has something to say, though, and <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/tennis\/2021\/02\/08\/sara-errani-proves-not-done-yet\/\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_self\">isn&#8217;t a pushover<\/a> in matches, especially on clay. Konjuh is still trying to make her way back from elbow surgery. This match will depend on Errani&#8217;s level, as she&#8217;s not so consistent anymore. Still, based on her level of play in Bogota, I think she can win this.<br \/>\n<em>Prediction: Errani in 3<\/em><\/p>\n<p><a id=\"QkJ2ER9cTiFuSb_5lFwRDg\" class=\"gie-single\" style=\"color: #a7a7a7; text-decoration: none; font-weight: normal !important; border: none; display: inline-block;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.gettyimages.com\/detail\/1231110416\" 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:'QkJ2ER9cTiFuSb_5lFwRDg',sig:'K5tPlnRNSUqD-PmC6ipj9RR6yvBmKwmDMJ3KqZUnFn8=',w:'594px',h:'396px',items:'1231110416',caption: true ,tld:'com',is360: false })});<\/script><script src='\/\/embed-cdn.gettyimages.com\/widgets.js' charset='utf-8' async><\/script><\/p>\n<h4>Daria Kasatkina vs Tereza Mrdeza<\/h4>\n<p>There&#8217;s not much to say about this match. Mrdeza is not a Tour-level player, and Kasatkina is, at absolute worst, a Top 30-level player right now. This should be an easy one.<br \/>\n<em>Prediction: Kasatkina in 2<\/em><\/p>\n<p><a id=\"DCxLMjULR1BGwHIo4Db3XQ\" class=\"gie-single\" style=\"color: #a7a7a7; text-decoration: none; font-weight: normal !important; border: none; display: inline-block;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.gettyimages.com\/detail\/1272960320\" 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:'DCxLMjULR1BGwHIo4Db3XQ',sig:'V_5rl0y5xcTwqUGMfLEkFV4bviZCS3P8kRYCTHr7U7w=',w:'530px',h:'594px',items:'1272960320',caption: true ,tld:'com',is360: false })});<\/script><script src='\/\/embed-cdn.gettyimages.com\/widgets.js' charset='utf-8' async><\/script><\/p>\n<h4>Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova vs Anastasija Potapova<\/h4>\n<p>Two weeks ago, Potapova met fellow Anastajia and lost to Sevastova in straight sets in Charleston. For the second consecutive match, the young Russian will face an opponent who shares a first name with her (though not the spelling). Pavlyuchenkova, though, has not played in over a month and hasn&#8217;t competed on clay yet this year. Also, she has not played so well this year. I expect her to fall to her compatriot.<br \/>\n<em>Prediction: Potapova in 2<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Main Photo from Getty.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Day 1 of the WTA TEB BNP Paribas Tennis Championships in Istanbul, Turkey, features eight first-round matches. As always, we predict the matches for you. We have four of the matches in this article, and the other four in a second article. WTA Istanbul Day 1 Predictions Katerina Siniakova vs Cristina Busca Busca is a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1601,"featured_media":9045,"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],"tags":[140,15434,269,15428,1526,15429,15430,15432,416,15436,2254,15431,475,15433,2373,2369,15435,15437,5546],"class_list":["post-35020","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-predictions","tag-ana-konjuh","tag-ana-konjuh-predictions","tag-anastasia-pavlyuchenkova","tag-anastasia-pavlyuchenkova-predictions","tag-anastasia-potapova","tag-anastasia-potapova-predictions","tag-cristina-busca","tag-cristina-busca-predictions","tag-daria-kasatkina","tag-daria-kasatkina-predictions","tag-katerina-siniakova","tag-katerina-siniakova-predictions","tag-sara-errani","tag-sara-errani-predictions","tag-tennis-picks","tag-tennis-predictions","tag-tereza-mrdeza","tag-tereza-mrdeza-predictions","tag-wta-istanbul-predictions"],"modified_by":"Yesh Ginsburg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/tennis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35020","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\/1601"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/tennis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=35020"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/tennis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35020\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/tennis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9045"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/tennis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=35020"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/tennis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=35020"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/tennis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=35020"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}