{"id":49001,"date":"2022-04-28T14:10:29","date_gmt":"2022-04-28T18:10:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/tennis\/?p=49001"},"modified":"2022-04-28T21:11:49","modified_gmt":"2022-04-29T01:11:49","slug":"wta-madrid-day-2-picks-keys-sakkari","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/tennis\/2022\/04\/28\/wta-madrid-day-2-picks-keys-sakkari\/","title":{"rendered":"WTA Madrid Day 2 Predictions Including Maria Sakkari vs Madison Keys"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Friday is Day 2 at the WTA Madrid Open. There are 16 first-round matches on the schedule for Friday. Who do you think wins? We also have predictions for matches featuring <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/tennis\/2022\/04\/28\/wta-madrid-day-2-predictions-osaka-potapova\/\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_self\">Naomi Osaka<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/tennis\/2022\/04\/28\/wta-madrid-day-2-predictions-puig-vs-collins\/\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_self\">Monica Puig<\/a>.<\/p>\n<h2>WTA Madrid Day 2 Predictions<\/h2>\n<h4>Oceane Dodin vs Elena Rybakina<\/h4>\n<p>Head-to-head: Rybakina leads 1-0<\/p>\n<p>Both players are coming in with similar form. But with Dodin coming in as a qualifier, she already has had a &#8216;feel&#8217; of the conditions here in Madrid and could use this experience to beat Rybakina. This will be a good match to watch, and perhaps Dodin, the qualifier, coming through.<br \/>\n<em>Prediction: Dodin in 2<\/em><\/p>\n<p><a id=\"PuhNfzXASGtc2wcjlIMJdg\" class=\"gie-single\" style=\"color: #a7a7a7; text-decoration: none; font-weight: normal !important; border: none; display: inline-block;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.gettyimages.com\/detail\/1238677357\" 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:'PuhNfzXASGtc2wcjlIMJdg',sig:'e5AzfoKUDdHOjo5Ymcil6r_fJJMxZYmCAwpf9vOGjz0=',w:'594px',h:'362px',items:'1238677357',caption: true ,tld:'com',is360: false })});<\/script><script src='\/\/embed-cdn.gettyimages.com\/widgets.js' charset='utf-8' async><\/script><\/p>\n<h4>Sloane Stephens vs Anhelina Kalinina<\/h4>\n<p>Head-to-head: Stephens leads 1-0<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/tennis\/2021\/06\/04\/sloane-stephens-roland-garros\/\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_self\">Stephens has struggled<\/a> the last few months, she did win a title earlier this year but has failed to gain any further ground after that. On the other hand, Kalinina has made some good progress recently, so expect a close match between the pair. Maybe Kalinina causes an upset set.<br \/>\n<em>Prediction: Kalinina in 3<\/em><\/p>\n<p><a id=\"fM2Uj-3KTYxcbPdTT0ZFMg\" class=\"gie-single\" style=\"color: #a7a7a7; text-decoration: none; font-weight: normal !important; border: none; display: inline-block;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.gettyimages.com\/detail\/1390362034\" 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:'fM2Uj-3KTYxcbPdTT0ZFMg',sig:'GLS52eqkz4ARaHNx0FAIhq5cG3X1W43swVLsWALgKdw=',w:'594px',h:'396px',items:'1390362034',caption: true ,tld:'com',is360: false })});<\/script><script src='\/\/embed-cdn.gettyimages.com\/widgets.js' charset='utf-8' async><\/script><\/p>\n<h4>Sara Sorribes Tormo vs Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova<\/h4>\n<p>Head-to-head: Pavlyuchenkova leads 3-1<\/p>\n<p>Pavlyuchenkova has yet to play a match since the Australian Open in January and could be rusty coming in to Madrid. This will be a close battle as Sorribes Tormo has had matches on clay already this year which will be prove to be advantageous. Maybe another upset here.<br \/>\n<em>Prediction: Sorribes Tormo in 3<\/em><\/p>\n<p><a id=\"OyvvpF4ZQjdd3SOFPqaSbg\" class=\"gie-single\" style=\"color: #a7a7a7; text-decoration: none; font-weight: normal !important; border: none; display: inline-block;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.gettyimages.com\/detail\/1385279811\" 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:'OyvvpF4ZQjdd3SOFPqaSbg',sig:'Vj7M3dKwup-IuF9kTyCh1GeDEUqT82PH0sGF69ay3bo=',w:'468px',h:'594px',items:'1385279811',caption: true ,tld:'com',is360: false })});<\/script><script src='\/\/embed-cdn.gettyimages.com\/widgets.js' charset='utf-8' async><\/script><\/p>\n<h4>Maria Sakkari vs Madison Keys<\/h4>\n<p>Head-to-head: Sakkari leads 2-0<\/p>\n<p>Keys has yet to win a set off <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/tennis\/2021\/02\/01\/2021-wta-tour-players-to-watch-maria-sakkari\/\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_self\">Sakkari<\/a> in their last two appearances, so there is something about Sakkari&#8217;s game that the American does not seem to like. But this will be their first meeting on clay, and given Keys is a decent player on clay, this could be a great three set match with Keys taking it out this time round.<br \/>\n<em>Prediction: Keys in 3<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Main Photo from Getty.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Friday is Day 2 at the WTA Madrid Open. There are 16 first-round matches on the schedule for Friday. Who do you think wins? We also have predictions for matches featuring Naomi Osaka and Monica Puig. WTA Madrid Day 2 Predictions Oceane Dodin vs Elena Rybakina Head-to-head: Rybakina leads 1-0 Both players are coming in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2661,"featured_media":44722,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","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":[269,15428,7418,15925,5595,15653,63,15645,305,15468,5748,247,15691,4122,15734,463,3168,2373,2369,15637,5796,2374,4935],"class_list":["post-49001","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-predictions","tag-anastasia-pavlyuchenkova","tag-anastasia-pavlyuchenkova-predictions","tag-anhelina-kalinina","tag-anhelina-kalinina-predictions","tag-elena-rybakina","tag-elena-rybakina-predictions","tag-madison-keys","tag-madison-keys-predictions","tag-maria-sakkari","tag-maria-sakkari-predictions","tag-mutua-madrid-open-predictions","tag-oceane-dodin","tag-oceane-dodin-predictions","tag-sara-sorribes-tormo","tag-sara-sorribes-tormo-predictions","tag-sloane-stephens","tag-sloane-stephens-predictions","tag-tennis-picks","tag-tennis-predictions","tag-wta-madrid","tag-wta-madrid-predictions","tag-wta-picks","tag-wta-predictions"],"modified_by":"Steen Kirby","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/tennis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49001","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\/2661"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/tennis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=49001"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/tennis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49001\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/tennis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/44722"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/tennis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=49001"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/tennis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=49001"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/tennis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=49001"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}