{"id":45159,"date":"2022-01-11T14:47:15","date_gmt":"2022-01-11T19:47:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/tennis\/?p=45159"},"modified":"2022-01-11T14:47:15","modified_gmt":"2022-01-11T19:47:15","slug":"wta-sydney-day-3-predictions-badosa-tomljanovic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/tennis\/2022\/01\/11\/wta-sydney-day-3-predictions-badosa-tomljanovic\/","title":{"rendered":"WTA Sydney Day 3 Predictions Including Paula Badosa vs Ajla Tomljanovic"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>With such a great WTA field in Sydney this year, there\u2019s no wonder that we haven\u2019t even reached the quarterfinal stage yet still have \u00a0blockbuster matches on our hands with everyone trying to get themselves right into form for next week&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/tennis\/australian-open\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_self\">Australian Open<\/a>. We also predict the rest of Wednesday&#8217;s matches <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/tennis\/2022\/01\/11\/wta-sydney-day-3-predictions-jabeur-kvitova\/\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_self\">in a separate article<\/a>.<\/p>\n<h2>WTA Sydney Day 3 Predictions<\/h2>\n<h4>Belinda Bencic vs Oceane Dodin<\/h4>\n<h4><strong>Head-to-head: 0-0<\/strong><\/h4>\n<p>Things were going so right for Bencic around the end of summer last year <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/tennis\/2021\/07\/31\/bencic-wins-tennis-gold-for-switzerland\/\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_self\">with an Olympic Gold<\/a> immediately followed up with quarter-finals in both Cincinnatti and the US Open. Since then, the form has dropped off a cliff to a worrying amount where back-to-back wins have become a struggle. With a solid opening match under her belt with a routine win against Haddad Maia there\u2019s perhaps something to work with already and thankfully for the Swiss her opponent lacks any real weapons to hurt her. The Olympic Gold medalist just needs to play herself into form and with matches like that she can do exactly that.<br \/>\n<em>Prediction: Bencic in 2<\/em><\/p>\n<p><a id=\"PiAPSpaQRt50yuNWitS4Sg\" class=\"gie-single\" href=\"http:\/\/www.gettyimages.com\/detail\/1363924928\" 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:'PiAPSpaQRt50yuNWitS4Sg',sig:'PI_H5iXJhs_fCK-yYafjqclbcsovzl-V6uuCBttzjHY=',w:'594px',h:'396px',items:'1363924928',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 Elise Mertens<\/h4>\n<p><strong>Head-to-head: Kasatikina 2-1<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Whenever I watch Kasatkina play it makes me want to pull my hair out, and I mean that as a compliment. Now 24 years old and ranked #26 in the world I still believe there\u2019s so much skill we she possesses we haven\u2019t seen yet that just needs to be put together. Unfortunately for her we aren\u2019t even at the stage of having the last eight left here in Sydney and she\u2019s already having to play a top 20 player in Elise Mertens where you more or less know what you\u2019re going to get on her end of the court. Last August the pair met in San Jose also on a hardcourt and the Russian won routinely. What\u2019s worrying though is that Kasatkina may have had a very easy win against former Australian Open champion in the first round but the manner of her loss last week to Anisimova only raises more questions about how she\u2019s still so hot and cold.<br \/>\n<em>Prediction: Kasatkina in 3<\/em><\/p>\n<p><a id=\"Aus4OeXQQNJ090TXaoyiAg\" class=\"gie-single\" href=\"http:\/\/www.gettyimages.com\/detail\/1363764866\" 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:'Aus4OeXQQNJ090TXaoyiAg',sig:'NvDJFbSdFVVH1fQ8oE9CRtgW-DO1ja-G8nr8xI_4PTk=',w:'594px',h:'396px',items:'1363764866',caption: true ,tld:'com',is360: false })});<\/script><script src='\/\/embed-cdn.gettyimages.com\/widgets.js' charset='utf-8' async><\/script><\/p>\n<h4>Caroline Garcia vs Elena Rybakina<\/h4>\n<p><strong>Head-to-head: Rybakina 2-0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>I don\u2019t know where it all went wrong for Garcia, from being so good as a teenager to winning several titles and breaking the top 10 a few years ago, it\u2019s all fallen apart. On the other hand, her opponent has only gone from strength to strength and has already shown that in the tennis world she is a force to be reckoned with, no less than just dropping one game to reigning US Open champion Emma Raducanu in the first round. The 22 year old has too much game and power for almost everyone in the game right now and Garcia isn\u2019t one of the very few who can break her down when she\u2019s on.<br \/>\n<em>Prediction: Rybakina in 2<\/em><\/p>\n<p><a id=\"BYh3Wlz4R2B0xa_ms7z9VA\" class=\"gie-single\" href=\"http:\/\/www.gettyimages.com\/detail\/1363985080\" 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:'BYh3Wlz4R2B0xa_ms7z9VA',sig:'uq1ypt8zF_ZQ7Sq8z65lC2i3211HPbiNy_FKJhkTjhc=',w:'594px',h:'396px',items:'1363985080',caption: true ,tld:'com',is360: false })});<\/script><script src='\/\/embed-cdn.gettyimages.com\/widgets.js' charset='utf-8' async><\/script><\/p>\n<h4>Paula Badosa vs Ajla Tomljanovic<\/h4>\n<p><strong>Head-to-head: 0-0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>A first meeting between the pair and what a match this could be. Badosa, now in the top ten, <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/tennis\/2021\/06\/07\/paula-badosa-gibert-spain-grand-slam\/\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_self\">continues to impress<\/a> everyone in more ways than one whilst Tomljanovic has been stuck at somewhat the same stage of her career for quite a while now. In normal circumstances you probably couldn\u2019t see how the Spaniard loses this, she\u2019s better in almost every way, but with the Australian crowd behind their girl there\u2019s been times in the past where the home favourite has played out of her skin. Maybe this will be one of those matches?<br \/>\n<em>Prediction: Badosa in 3<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Main Photo from Getty.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>With such a great WTA field in Sydney this year, there\u2019s no wonder that we haven\u2019t even reached the quarterfinal stage yet still have \u00a0blockbuster matches on our hands with everyone trying to get themselves right into form for next week&#8217;s Australian Open. We also predict the rest of Wednesday&#8217;s matches in a separate article. 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