{"id":51214,"date":"2022-07-31T22:17:36","date_gmt":"2022-08-01T02:17:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/tennis\/?p=51214"},"modified":"2022-07-31T22:17:36","modified_gmt":"2022-08-01T02:17:36","slug":"wta-washington-day-1-predictions-williams-marino","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/tennis\/2022\/07\/31\/wta-washington-day-1-predictions-williams-marino\/","title":{"rendered":"WTA Washington Day 1 Predictions Including Venus Williams vs Rebecca Marino"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Day 1 at the WTA event in Washington will feature plenty of exciting action, including the return to action of Venus Williams after an absence of over a year. It will also feature the debut of the #1 seed and World #7 Jessica Pegula. We also look at the rest of the day&#8217;s matches <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/tennis\/2022\/07\/31\/wta-washington-day-1-predictions-halep-bucsa\/\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_self\">in a separate article<\/a>.<\/p>\n<h2>WTA Washington Day 1 Predictions<\/h2>\n<h4>Jessica Pegula vs Hailey Baptiste<\/h4>\n<p><strong>Head-to-head:<\/strong> Pegula 1-0 Baptiste<\/p>\n<p>Their one previous meeting ended prematurely due to Baptiste&#8217;s retirement, but the reality is that Pegula is the much superior player and clear favorite here. She has been in good in recent months too, with a final in Madrid and a quarterfinal appearance in Roland Garros where she only lost to <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/tennis\/2022\/07\/29\/caroline-garcia-upsets-iga-swiatek\/\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_self\">Iga Swiatek<\/a>. She should definitely make it through without much issue here.<br \/>\n<strong>Prediction:<\/strong> Pegula in 2<\/p>\n<p><a id=\"utX7d2igT65MtPsTRjWX7g\" class=\"gie-single\" href=\"http:\/\/www.gettyimages.com\/detail\/1395402807\" 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:'utX7d2igT65MtPsTRjWX7g',sig:'Ug_0hF9hFznFrBW-4qAn-c1pdypzNTWoWc6qsig_F8E=',w:'594px',h:'396px',items:'1395402807',caption: true ,tld:'com',is360: false })});<\/script><script src='\/\/embed-cdn.gettyimages.com\/widgets.js' charset='utf-8' async><\/script><\/p>\n<h4>Zhu Lin vs Harriet Dart<\/h4>\n<p><strong>Head-to-head:<\/strong> Lin 1-1 Dart<\/p>\n<p>The pair split their previous two meetings, which were both tight three-setters. Another very close is to be expected here as both players have very similar levels and are in similar form too. It&#8217;s a match that could genuinely go either way depending on form on the day.<br \/>\n<strong>Prediction:<\/strong> Dart in 3<\/p>\n<p><a id=\"Zzep_BK-Qdlp6Vuchpb0rg\" class=\"gie-single\" href=\"http:\/\/www.gettyimages.com\/detail\/1363724241\" 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:'Zzep_BK-Qdlp6Vuchpb0rg',sig:'0kowqjpYflzMT8MCK-oCOwPkNBjWTtJoy_gyXfkxgNo=',w:'594px',h:'396px',items:'1363724241',caption: true ,tld:'com',is360: false })});<\/script><script src='\/\/embed-cdn.gettyimages.com\/widgets.js' charset='utf-8' async><\/script><\/p>\n<h4>Elise Mertens vs Ludmilla Samsonova<\/h4>\n<p><strong>Head-to-head:<\/strong> first meeting<\/p>\n<p>Mertens lost in the fourth round of both Roland Garros and Wimbledon, but in both tournaments she lost to the eventual finalists, which shows that she is in pretty good form. Samsonova isn&#8217;t an easy opponent, but Mertens should be able to pull through here.<br \/>\n<strong>Prediction:<\/strong> Mertens in 2<\/p>\n<p><a id=\"DkiTY3ULQJZwr2SYHmwHQg\" class=\"gie-single\" href=\"http:\/\/www.gettyimages.com\/detail\/1332813858\" 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:'DkiTY3ULQJZwr2SYHmwHQg',sig:'G5Ie3DuTFdwwEav_paBUWFHI3Qwh1s1zwQ0lmVABazU=',w:'594px',h:'408px',items:'1332813858',caption: true ,tld:'com',is360: false })});<\/script><script src='\/\/embed-cdn.gettyimages.com\/widgets.js' charset='utf-8' async><\/script><\/p>\n<h4>Venus Williams vs Rebecca Marino<\/h4>\n<p><strong>Head-to-head:<\/strong> Williams 1-0 Marino<\/p>\n<p>Their previous meeting was at the <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/tennis\/us-open\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_self\">US Open<\/a> in 2010, almost 12 years ago. Things are much different now; back then, Williams was still a Slam contender, now she hasn&#8217;t played for over a year. Everyone knows what a great champion she is, one of the greatest players in history, but her age and time off make this at best a very unpredictable contest. It&#8217;s very hard to anticipate what might happen here.<br \/>\n<strong>Predictions:<\/strong> Williams in 3<\/p>\n<p><em>Main Photo from Getty.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Day 1 at the WTA event in Washington will feature plenty of exciting action, including the return to action of Venus Williams after an absence of over a year. It will also feature the debut of the #1 seed and World #7 Jessica Pegula. We also look at the rest of the day&#8217;s matches in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1742,"featured_media":31579,"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":[7629,1412,15540,7684,15953,1224,16035,3535,15652,7685,15960,7278,15829,3871,16575,2373,2369,70,15651,17989],"class_list":["post-51214","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-predictions","tag-citi-open-predictions","tag-elise-mertens","tag-elise-mertens-predictions","tag-hailey-baptiste","tag-hailey-baptiste-predictions","tag-harriet-dart","tag-harriet-dart-predictions","tag-jessica-pegula","tag-jessica-pegula-predictions","tag-lin-zhu","tag-lin-zhu-predictions","tag-liudmila-samsonova","tag-liudmila-samsonova-predictions","tag-rebecca-marino","tag-rebecca-marino-predictions","tag-tennis-picks","tag-tennis-predictions","tag-venus-williams","tag-venus-williams-predictions","tag-wta-washington-predictions"],"modified_by":"Yesh Ginsburg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/tennis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51214","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\/1742"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/tennis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=51214"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/tennis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51214\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/tennis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/31579"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/tennis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=51214"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/tennis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=51214"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/tennis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=51214"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}