{"id":52266,"date":"2022-09-18T14:35:06","date_gmt":"2022-09-18T18:35:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/tennis\/?p=52266"},"modified":"2022-09-18T14:35:06","modified_gmt":"2022-09-18T18:35:06","slug":"wta-seoul-day-1-predictions-zhu-jang","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/tennis\/2022\/09\/18\/wta-seoul-day-1-predictions-zhu-jang\/","title":{"rendered":"WTA Seoul Day 1 Predictions Including Lin Zhu vs Su Jeong Jang"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Day 1 at the WTA event in Seoul will feature a lot of exciting yet unpredictable action, with only one Top 100 player taking the court. It&#8217;s an usually weak field, with only two Top 60 players in the draw, which will allow many players to dream about making a great run and maybe even win the title.<\/p>\n<h2>WTA Seoul Day 1 Predictions<\/h2>\n<h4>Dayeon Back vs Na-Lae Han<\/h4>\n<p><strong>Head-to-head:<\/strong> first meeting<\/p>\n<p>A duel between two Korean players: Na-Lae is a veteran of the circuit, whose tour level match wins have all come at this venue; Back, on the other hand, is young and up-and-coming, having recently won her first ever career title in a W15 in Korea. It&#8217;s a match that could go either way, but the younger player should have the momentum edge going for her here.<br \/>\n<strong>Prediction:<\/strong> Back in 2<\/p>\n<h4>Lizette Cabrera vs Lulu Sun<\/h4>\n<p><strong>Head-to-head:<\/strong> Sun 1-0 Cabrera<\/p>\n<p>Cabrera is having a very difficult season, with an overall record of 8-18 and no consecutive wins since May before this weekend&#8217;s Seoul qualifying. Sun hasn&#8217;t been playing great either but she seems to have more upside: the one time these two faced Sun won in Lisbon en route to winning the title that week. A similar outcome here wouldn&#8217;t be surprising at all. (Well, Sun winning this match, not the title&#8211;that&#8217;d be surprising for sure).<br \/>\n<strong>Prediction:<\/strong> Sun in 3<\/p>\n<p><a id=\"JMKV-LPKQc130hUVQBQi3g\" class=\"gie-single\" href=\"http:\/\/www.gettyimages.com\/detail\/1084865592\" 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:'JMKV-LPKQc130hUVQBQi3g',sig:'7_ctWtZX6WJJJSBPFcvEDDTwcoFozDkmrsbWHgMJMVA=',w:'594px',h:'396px',items:'1084865592',caption: true ,tld:'com',is360: false })});<\/script><script src='\/\/embed-cdn.gettyimages.com\/widgets.js' charset='utf-8' async><\/script><\/p>\n<h4>Kimberly Birrell vs Priscilla Hon<\/h4>\n<p><strong>Head-to-head:<\/strong> Hon 2-0 Birrell<\/p>\n<p>Both of their previous meetings were very tight 3-set affairs eventually won by Hon. Another extremely tight all-Australian matchup is to be expected here and Hon does seem likely to have the slighest of edges based on form and overall quality.<br \/>\n<strong>Prediction:<\/strong> Hon in 3<\/p>\n<p><a id=\"U8HRDBsGS6tX0WZdTdJW3w\" class=\"gie-single\" href=\"http:\/\/www.gettyimages.com\/detail\/1239449332\" 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:'U8HRDBsGS6tX0WZdTdJW3w',sig:'Yrsty7pGQGvx2gZgQ7eZXR11l11G13LUBDkDKjt_8fo=',w:'594px',h:'396px',items:'1239449332',caption: true ,tld:'com',is360: false })});<\/script><script src='\/\/embed-cdn.gettyimages.com\/widgets.js' charset='utf-8' async><\/script><\/p>\n<h4>Lin Zhu vs Su Jeong Jang<\/h4>\n<p><strong>Head-to-head:<\/strong> Jang 2-1 Zhu<\/p>\n<p>Zhu is the only Top 100 player in action tomorrow and actually the 4th seed in the tournament, so one of the favorites to win. Her first round draw wasn&#8217;t the easiest considering the possibilities but she should still be able to prevail here and make a bit of a run at least.<br \/>\n<strong>Prediction:<\/strong> Zhu in 2<\/p>\n<p> Main Photo:<br \/>\n<a id=\"fy08roZYSn11SlJgJPMvJg\" class=\"gie-single\" href=\"http:\/\/www.gettyimages.com\/detail\/1398858050\" 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:'fy08roZYSn11SlJgJPMvJg',sig:'DWR9sIZmM8zWYJ1dZkEPxquOu26KpYWMAjH-YjGFvZI=',w:'594px',h:'396px',items:'1398858050',caption: true ,tld:'com',is360: false })});<\/script><script src='\/\/embed-cdn.gettyimages.com\/widgets.js' charset='utf-8' async><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Day 1 at the WTA event in Seoul will feature a lot of exciting yet unpredictable action, with only one Top 100 player taking the court. It&#8217;s an usually weak field, with only two Top 60 players in the draw, which will allow many players to dream about making a great run and maybe even [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1742,"featured_media":52274,"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":[18181,18182,4109,18183,7685,15960,391,16256,17649,17650,16563,16562,4210,17122,17197,17198,2373,2369,2374,4935,18180],"class_list":["post-52266","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-predictions","tag-dayeon-back","tag-dayeon-back-predictons","tag-kimberly-birrell","tag-kimberly-birrell-predictions","tag-lin-zhu","tag-lin-zhu-predictions","tag-lizette-cabrera","tag-lizette-cabrera-predictions","tag-lulu-sun","tag-lulu-sun-predictions","tag-na-lae-han","tag-na-lae-han-predictions","tag-priscilla-hon","tag-priscilla-hon-predictions","tag-su-jeong-jang","tag-su-jeong-jang-predictions","tag-tennis-picks","tag-tennis-predictions","tag-wta-picks","tag-wta-predictions","tag-wta-seoul-predictions"],"modified_by":"Yesh Ginsburg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/tennis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52266","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=52266"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/tennis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52266\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/tennis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/52274"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/tennis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=52266"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/tennis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=52266"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/tennis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=52266"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}