{"id":52271,"date":"2022-09-18T14:52:31","date_gmt":"2022-09-18T18:52:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/tennis\/?p=52271"},"modified":"2022-09-18T14:52:31","modified_gmt":"2022-09-18T18:52:31","slug":"wta-tokyo-day-1-predictions-liu-riske-amritraj","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/tennis\/2022\/09\/18\/wta-tokyo-day-1-predictions-liu-riske-amritraj\/","title":{"rendered":"WTA Tokyo Day 1 Predictions Including Claire Liu vs Alison Riske-Amritraj"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The first day of main draw action at the 2022 WTA Pan Pacific Open in Taokyo has six matches on the schedule, including is a very interesting all-American clash between Alison Riske-Amritraj and Claire Liu. Who do you think will advance?<\/p>\n<h2>WTA Tokyo Day 1 Predictions<\/h2>\n<h4>Xinyu Wang vs Ellen Perez<\/h4>\n<p><strong>Head-to-head:<\/strong> First meeting<\/p>\n<p>Ellen Perez was recently on a nine-match losing streak, but she managed to get out of it in Toronto and qualified for the event here. She&#8217;s much better in doubles than in singles and only owns one WTA Tour main draw win in her career. Xinyu Wang was a potential breakout not so long ago, but she&#8217;s been struggling of late, only winning one match since the grass season. The Chinese talent should still prevail, but it&#8217;s likely going to be messier than it should be.<br \/>\n<em>Prediction: Wang in 3<\/em><\/p>\n<p><a id=\"tORKP22aQllFHDEACD10FQ\" class=\"gie-single\" href=\"http:\/\/www.gettyimages.com\/detail\/1242895997\" 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:'tORKP22aQllFHDEACD10FQ',sig:'7dPx1Ps-U6qU22BCq-2C_ngMZ1EsxYJ_U3LyWheU7Qw=',w:'594px',h:'396px',items:'1242895997',caption: true ,tld:'com',is360: false })});<\/script><script src='\/\/embed-cdn.gettyimages.com\/widgets.js' charset='utf-8' async><\/script><\/p>\n<h4>Xiaodi You vs Despina Papamichail<\/h4>\n<p><strong>Head-to-head:<\/strong> First meeting<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s a matchup of two qualifiers as Xiaodi You takes on Despina Papamichail. The Greek snapped her six-match losing streak, while Xiaodi You scored a class upset over Carol Zhao. Both players are sitting on a win rate below 50% for the season. It might not be pretty and it&#8217;s also likely going to be very unpredictable. Who takes this coin flip? It&#8217;s very hard to tell, but the Chinese probably has a slight edge, having performed much better on hard courts than Papamichail this year.<br \/>\n<em>Prediction: You in 3<\/em><\/p>\n<p><a id=\"aCryoI-RT_dVcUgGt8Ft_A\" class=\"gie-single\" href=\"http:\/\/www.gettyimages.com\/detail\/1237527417\" 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:'aCryoI-RT_dVcUgGt8Ft_A',sig:'QU2b-p9LI2wDSs_vp8Dg25zZUU6-E6tR6lG-6Tx8cqw=',w:'594px',h:'396px',items:'1237527417',caption: true ,tld:'com',is360: false })});<\/script><script src='\/\/embed-cdn.gettyimages.com\/widgets.js' charset='utf-8' async><\/script><\/p>\n<h4>Claire Liu vs Alison Riske-Amritraj<\/h4>\n<p><strong>Head-to-head:<\/strong> First meeting<\/p>\n<p>Claire Liu hasn&#8217;t won since Toronto as the American drew Anastasia Potapova in the first round at both the <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/tennis\/us-open\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_self\">US Open<\/a> and Portoroz. Is Alison Riske-Amritraj an easier draw? If so, then only slightly. The 32-year-old had a huge run in New York and while her Asian swing began with a surprising exit to Anastasia Gasanova in Chennai, she should perform better now after having some time to get used to the conditions. Riske&#8217;s big serve is going to put Liu under plenty of pressure.<br \/>\n<em>Prediction: Riske-Amritraj in 3<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Main Photo from Getty.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The first day of main draw action at the 2022 WTA Pan Pacific Open in Taokyo has six matches on the schedule, including is a very interesting all-American clash between Alison Riske-Amritraj and Claire Liu. Who do you think will advance? WTA Tokyo Day 1 Predictions Xinyu Wang vs Ellen Perez Head-to-head: First meeting Ellen [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2968,"featured_media":28166,"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":[429,15630,1655,16158,17466,17467,12176,16185,2373,2369,18184,17651,17652,8154,16157],"class_list":["post-52271","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-predictions","tag-alison-riske","tag-alison-riske-predictions","tag-claire-liu","tag-claire-liu-predictions","tag-despina-papamichail","tag-despina-papamichail-predictions","tag-ellen-perez","tag-ellen-perez-predictions","tag-tennis-picks","tag-tennis-predictions","tag-wta-tokyo-predictions","tag-xiaodi-you","tag-xiaodi-you-predictions","tag-xinyu-wang","tag-xinyu-wang-predictions"],"modified_by":"Yesh Ginsburg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/tennis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52271","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=52271"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/tennis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52271\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/tennis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/28166"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/tennis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=52271"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/tennis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=52271"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/tennis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=52271"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}