{"id":40204,"date":"2021-08-07T13:43:16","date_gmt":"2021-08-07T17:43:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/tennis\/?p=40204"},"modified":"2021-08-07T13:43:16","modified_gmt":"2021-08-07T17:43:16","slug":"wta-cluj-napoca-final-prediction-petkovic-vs-sherif","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/tennis\/2021\/08\/07\/wta-cluj-napoca-final-prediction-petkovic-vs-sherif\/","title":{"rendered":"WTA Cluj-Napoca Final Prediction Andrea Petkovic vs Mayar Sherif"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The final of the WTA Cluj-Napoca Winners Open is upon us. Mayar Sherif, playing in her first ever WTA final, vs Germany&#8217;s Andrea Petkovic, here is your preview and prediction.<\/p>\n<h3>Andrea Petkovic vs Mayar Sherif<\/h3>\n<div class=\"getty embed image\" style=\"background-color: #fff; display: inline-block; font-family: Roboto,sans-serif; color: #a7a7a7; font-size: 11px; width: 100%; max-width: 594px;\">\n<div style=\"padding: 0; margin: 0; text-align: left;\"><a style=\"color: #a7a7a7; text-decoration: none; font-weight: normal !important; border: none; display: inline-block;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.gettyimages.com\/detail\/1231093649\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Embed from Getty Images<\/a><\/div>\n<div style=\"overflow: hidden; position: relative; height: 0; padding: 66.66667% 0 0 0; width: 100%;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" style=\"display: inline-block; position: absolute; top: 0; left: 0; width: 100%; height: 100%; margin: 0;\" src=\"\/\/embed.gettyimages.com\/embed\/1231093649?et=_TKwVUcjSjx9SXVo5NW2bg&amp;tld=com&amp;sig=VKgfzhXPra9m2DHqjIBS8s4y3agO219rIlF4UmDBjko=&amp;caption=true&amp;ver=1\" width=\"594\" height=\"396\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>A pair of straight sets wins setup this final with Petkovic dispatching Aleksandra Krunic, and the Egyptian Sherif edging past Mihaela Buzarnescu in a pair of competitive sets. Sherif, a former NCAA player at Pepperdine University, has had the best week of her career, not dropping a set in four WTA main draw wins. Petkovic, is a former top 10 player experiencing a career resurgence in recent weeks, she reached the final in Hamburg not long ago, and has had a strong week, even though she needed three tough sets to beat Seone Mendez in the quarterfinals. Petkovic is in just her second WTA final since 2015, and has a chance to win her first title since that time, a fifth WTA title overall. Petkovic will be the favorite, Sherif is capable, but Petkovic looks set to add to her trophy case. <strong>Petkovic in 3<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em>Main Photo from Getty Images<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The final of the WTA Cluj-Napoca Winners Open is upon us. Mayar Sherif, playing in her first ever WTA final, vs Germany&#8217;s Andrea Petkovic, here is your preview and prediction. Andrea Petkovic vs Mayar Sherif Embed from Getty Images A pair of straight sets wins setup this final with Petkovic dispatching Aleksandra Krunic, and the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1442,"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":[69,4],"tags":[593,15469,11655,16294,2373,2369,16557,16558,16540,16541,2374,4935],"class_list":["post-40204","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-predictions","category-wta","tag-andrea-petkovic","tag-andrea-petkovic-predictions","tag-mayar-sherif","tag-mayar-sherif-predictions","tag-tennis-picks","tag-tennis-predictions","tag-wta-cluj","tag-wta-cluj-predictions","tag-wta-cluj-napoca","tag-wta-cluj-napoca-predictions","tag-wta-picks","tag-wta-predictions"],"modified_by":"Steen Kirby","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/tennis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40204","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\/1442"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/tennis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=40204"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/tennis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40204\/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=40204"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/tennis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=40204"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/tennis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=40204"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}