{"id":50286,"date":"2022-06-19T17:35:47","date_gmt":"2022-06-19T21:35:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/tennis\/?p=50286"},"modified":"2022-06-19T17:35:47","modified_gmt":"2022-06-19T21:35:47","slug":"wta-eastbourne-day-2-predictions-kostyuk-krejcikova","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/tennis\/2022\/06\/19\/wta-eastbourne-day-2-predictions-kostyuk-krejcikova\/","title":{"rendered":"WTA Eastbourne Day 2 Predictions Including Marta Kostyuk vs Barbora Krejcikova"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The 2022 WTA Eastbourne International continues with a mixture of first and second-round matches on Monday, Day 2 of the event. One of the most interesting storylines is the return of <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/tennis\/2021\/12\/17\/10-terrific-things-in-tennis-in-2021\/\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_self\">Barbora Krejcikova<\/a>, who only got one match in at <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/tennis\/french-open\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_self\">Roland Garros<\/a> before suffering another setback. Marta Kostyuk is a nasty opening draw for the Czech. Who do you think will prevail?<\/p>\n<h4>Maryna Zanevska vs Kirsten Flipkens<\/h4>\n<p><strong>Head-to-head:<\/strong> Zanevska 1-0<\/p>\n<p>Kirsten Flipkens is planning to retire at <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/tennis\/wimbledon\/\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_self\">Wimbledon<\/a>, but the Belgian is still keeping a pretty competitive level, especially on grass. She made the quarterfinals at &#8216;s-Hertogenbosch and now got through the qualifying here. The 36-year-old was a phenomenal grass-courter back in the day, making the semifinals at Wimbledon nine years ago. She could still slice her way to victory against her compatriot Maryna Zanevska, who&#8217;s much less experienced on the lawn.<br \/>\n<em>Prediction: Flipkens in 2<\/em><\/p>\n<p><a id=\"ekn_LALBRhF7dO76K_MNuQ\" class=\"gie-single\" href=\"http:\/\/www.gettyimages.com\/detail\/1239456219\" 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:'ekn_LALBRhF7dO76K_MNuQ',sig:'Yqbyjur9Z78v8wG4O1NJN9Z6tR_UAAyJMObULtFpBjE=',w:'594px',h:'396px',items:'1239456219',caption: true ,tld:'com',is360: false })});<\/script><script src='\/\/embed-cdn.gettyimages.com\/widgets.js' charset='utf-8' async><\/script><\/p>\n<h4>Alexandra Krunic vs Ajla Tomljanovic<\/h4>\n<p><strong>Head-to-head:<\/strong> 1-1<\/p>\n<p>Both women can certainly play on grass, but haven&#8217;t been consistently delivering their best tennis this year. Alexandra Krunic qualified here and will be more familiar with the courts, but the Serbian didn&#8217;t have a great time at Birmingham, particularly in a straightforward loss to Sorana Cirstea. Her craftiness can be a huge asset, but Alja Tomljanovic&#8217;s more power-oriented game seems more dangerous.<br \/>\n<em>Prediction: Tomljanovic in 3<\/em><\/p>\n<p><a id=\"PWRISriSQBNfpuxY09dn6A\" class=\"gie-single\" href=\"http:\/\/www.gettyimages.com\/detail\/1402183751\" 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:'PWRISriSQBNfpuxY09dn6A',sig:'eM_mZLTROCjMxMJsUGOSQmBxHqAwpi8CIhOET6Wm61Q=',w:'594px',h:'384px',items:'1402183751',caption: true ,tld:'com',is360: false })});<\/script><script src='\/\/embed-cdn.gettyimages.com\/widgets.js' charset='utf-8' async><\/script><\/p>\n<h4>Anhelina Kalinina vs Sorana Cirstea<\/h4>\n<p><strong>Head-to-head:<\/strong> Kalinina 1-0<\/p>\n<p>Anhelina Kalinina&#8217;s grass-court game is still a little suspect, mostly as the Ukrainian only recently made the jump to the main tour and hasn&#8217;t played much at the highest level yet. Sorana Cirstea is coming off a semifinal appearance at Birmingham and while historically she also hasn&#8217;t done that well on the lawn (sub 50% win-rate), it should set her up nicely for this encounter.<br \/>\n<em>Prediction: Cirstea in 3<\/em><\/p>\n<p><a id=\"SXIgr2mgSwRPUPo8RXCuMQ\" class=\"gie-single\" href=\"http:\/\/www.gettyimages.com\/detail\/1403807450\" 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:'SXIgr2mgSwRPUPo8RXCuMQ',sig:'-uavF3RlBr1FUYRV1a9DMmUFIi8ohMPMKjJdROQFRCk=',w:'594px',h:'396px',items:'1403807450',caption: true ,tld:'com',is360: false })});<\/script><script src='\/\/embed-cdn.gettyimages.com\/widgets.js' charset='utf-8' async><\/script><\/p>\n<h4>Marta Kostyuk vs Barbora Krejcikova<\/h4>\n<p><strong>Head-to-head:<\/strong> Kostyuk 1-0<\/p>\n<p>Who knows what Barbora Krejcikova will be able to bring to the court on Monday. Following her long struggle with injury, the Czech came back to tennis with a loss to Diane Parry and then caught COVID-19. Her fitness wasn&#8217;t there yet in Paris and the illness won&#8217;t help that. It doesn&#8217;t help that Marta Kostyuk is a nasty opening-round draw and demolished Viktorija Golubic in the quarterfinals.<br \/>\n<em>Prediction: Kostyuk in 3<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Main Photo from Getty.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The 2022 WTA Eastbourne International continues with a mixture of first and second-round matches on Monday, Day 2 of the event. One of the most interesting storylines is the return of Barbora Krejcikova, who only got one match in at Roland Garros before suffering another setback. Marta Kostyuk is a nasty opening draw for the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2968,"featured_media":45473,"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":[15654,17819,17820,2430,7418,15925,3976,15545,6847,4123,16857,2372,15534,13555,15866,602,15445,2373,2369,16111],"class_list":["post-50286","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-predictions","tag-ajla-tomljanovic-predictions","tag-alexandra-krunic","tag-alexandra-krunic-predictions","tag-alja-tomljanovic","tag-anhelina-kalinina","tag-anhelina-kalinina-predictions","tag-barbora-krejcikova","tag-barbora-krejcikova-predictions","tag-eastbourne-international-predictions","tag-kirsten-flipkens","tag-kirsten-flipkens-predictions","tag-marta-kostyuk","tag-marta-kostyuk-predictions","tag-maryna-zanevska","tag-maryna-zanevska-predictions","tag-sorana-cirstea","tag-sorana-cirstea-predictions","tag-tennis-picks","tag-tennis-predictions","tag-wta-eastbourne-predictions"],"modified_by":"Yesh Ginsburg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/tennis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50286","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=50286"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/tennis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50286\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/tennis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/45473"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/tennis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=50286"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/tennis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=50286"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/tennis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=50286"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}