{"id":39809,"date":"2021-07-27T18:51:06","date_gmt":"2021-07-27T22:51:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/tennis\/?p=39809"},"modified":"2021-07-27T19:55:34","modified_gmt":"2021-07-27T23:55:34","slug":"wta-belgrade-day-3-predictions-petkovic-ponchet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/tennis\/2021\/07\/27\/wta-belgrade-day-3-predictions-petkovic-ponchet\/","title":{"rendered":"WTA Belgrade Day 3 Predictions Including Andrea Petkovic vs Jessika Ponchet"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Eight singles matches are on the schedule for the third day of the 2021 WTA Belgrade Ladies Open. Hamburg runner-up Andrea Petkovic will take on Jessika Ponchet. Who do you think will prevail? We predict all eight matches, split between this and <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/tennis\/2021\/07\/27\/wta-belgrade-day-3-predictions-rus-danilovic\/\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_self\">a separate article<\/a>.<\/p>\n<h4>Irina Maria Bara vs Tara Wurth<\/h4>\n<p><strong>Head-to-head:<\/strong> First meeting<\/p>\n<p>18-year-old Tara Wurth is enjoying a great season on the ITF circuit, and will finally get a chance to test herself against a much higher-ranked opponent. Irina Maria Bara hasn&#8217;t quite had a run like at the last year&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/tennis\/french-open\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_self\">French Open<\/a> (when she reached the third-round), but the Romanian is regularly playing against opponents of much higher quality than the Croatian. Wurth can test her, but the experience should prevail.<br \/>\n<em>Prediction: Bara in 3<\/em><\/p>\n<p><a id=\"cJAqk4WERLhYd3fofCQsKQ\" class=\"gie-single\" href=\"http:\/\/www.gettyimages.com\/detail\/1321103754\" 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:'cJAqk4WERLhYd3fofCQsKQ',sig:'P1wJP9-WNGE9nXBzFO-Y7-IykkuBisNzEku-U-i_DOE=',w:'428px',h:'594px',items:'1321103754',caption: true ,tld:'com',is360: false })});<\/script><script src='\/\/embed-cdn.gettyimages.com\/widgets.js' charset='utf-8' async><\/script><\/p>\n<h4>Martina Trevisan vs Ulrike Eikkeri<\/h4>\n<p><strong>Head-to-head:<\/strong> 1-1<\/p>\n<p>This really hasn&#8217;t been a great season for either of them. Ulrike Eikkeri won just two matches in her last eight events and it came to a point where her opening win over Lesia Tsurenko has to be regarded as a bit of a shock. Martina Trevisan is doing even worse, with only five match wins in the whole season. However, she&#8217;s been playing against better opposition in bigger events, and also scored two wins in the Bundesliga recently, which should let her rebuild some of the lost confidence.<br \/>\n<em>Prediction: Trevisan in 3<\/em><\/p>\n<p><a id=\"4CMd-pijSf5wyzs2mrFu3w\" class=\"gie-single\" href=\"http:\/\/www.gettyimages.com\/detail\/1232351960\" 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:'4CMd-pijSf5wyzs2mrFu3w',sig:'jbQgj9Q4vlkeQT_CFJEqpGTRrTNcRYoSWWHIXgU7yo0=',w:'396px',h:'594px',items:'1232351960',caption: true ,tld:'com',is360: false })});<\/script><script src='\/\/embed-cdn.gettyimages.com\/widgets.js' charset='utf-8' async><\/script><\/p>\n<h4>Anna Karolina Schmiedlova vs Jule Niemeier<\/h4>\n<p><strong>Head-to-head:<\/strong> First meeting<\/p>\n<p>Jule Niemeier is looking like the real deal this season, with a 24-6 win\/loss record on clay and main tour semifinals at Hamburg and Strasbourg. The young German is flying right now and proved it in a win over Viktoriya Tomova in the opening round. While Anna Karolina Schmiedlova has a lot more experience, her very indifferent form of late doesn&#8217;t bode well against a player who&#8217;s been winning so much in the past few months.<br \/>\n<em>Prediction: Niemeier in 3<\/em><\/p>\n<p><a id=\"0gNFaIjRQgxEyA-V2gh0TA\" class=\"gie-single\" href=\"http:\/\/www.gettyimages.com\/detail\/1323517991\" 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:'0gNFaIjRQgxEyA-V2gh0TA',sig:'uZsfOvX_TbI3_5kfElPD8hSnPizPswy52RqJB72_B0M=',w:'594px',h:'394px',items:'1323517991',caption: true ,tld:'com',is360: false })});<\/script><script src='\/\/embed-cdn.gettyimages.com\/widgets.js' charset='utf-8' async><\/script><\/p>\n<h4>Jessika Ponchet vs Andrea Petkovic<\/h4>\n<p><strong>Head-to-head:<\/strong> First meeting<\/p>\n<p>Andrea Petkovic is coming off one of her best runs in a while at Hamburg, where she eliminated Yulia Putinsteva and lost in the finals to Elena-Gabriela Ruse. The German&#8217;s still wildly inconsistent in terms of her level, which was evident in her opener against 16-year-old Lola Radivojevic. But Jessika Ponchet has mostly been competing in hard court ITFs recently and hasn&#8217;t faced a tough opponent in Belgrade yet. If Petkovic can bring her level from Hamburg, she should take it comfortably.<br \/>\n<em>Prediction: Petkovic in 2<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Main Photo from Getty.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Eight singles matches are on the schedule for the third day of the 2021 WTA Belgrade Ladies Open. Hamburg runner-up Andrea Petkovic will take on Jessika Ponchet. Who do you think will prevail? We predict all eight matches, split between this and a separate article. Irina Maria Bara vs Tara Wurth Head-to-head: First meeting 18-year-old [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2968,"featured_media":14511,"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":[593,15469,5320,15686,5540,16351,6124,16488,6009,15889,7253,15697,16486,16485,2373,2369,16496,16495,15819],"class_list":["post-39809","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-predictions","tag-andrea-petkovic","tag-andrea-petkovic-predictions","tag-anna-karolina-schmiedlova","tag-anna-karolina-schmiedlova-predictions","tag-irina-maria-bara","tag-irina-maria-bara-predictions","tag-jessika-ponchet","tag-jessika-ponchet-predictions","tag-jule-niemeier","tag-jule-niemeier-predictions","tag-martina-trevisan","tag-martina-trevisan-predictions","tag-tara-wurth","tag-tara-wurth-predictions","tag-tennis-picks","tag-tennis-predictions","tag-ulrike-eikkeri","tag-ulrike-eikkeri-predictions","tag-wta-belgrade-predictions"],"modified_by":"Yesh Ginsburg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/tennis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39809","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=39809"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/tennis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39809\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/tennis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/14511"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/tennis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=39809"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/tennis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=39809"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/tennis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=39809"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}