{"id":54738,"date":"2023-02-07T16:39:05","date_gmt":"2023-02-07T21:39:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/tennis\/?p=54738"},"modified":"2023-02-07T16:39:05","modified_gmt":"2023-02-07T21:39:05","slug":"wta-linz-day-3-predictions-parks-kalinina","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/tennis\/2023\/02\/07\/wta-linz-day-3-predictions-parks-kalinina\/","title":{"rendered":"WTA Linz Day 3 Predictions Including Alycia Parks vs Anhelina Kalinina"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The indoor hard court action continues in Austria as Day 3 of WTA Linz is upon us. Plenty of thrilling matches are in store, with last week&#8217;s Lyon champion Alycia Parks stepping on the court. As throughout the week, we will be offering up our predictions on the day&#8217;s play. So, who will move on in Linz?<\/p>\n<h2>WTA Linz Day 3 Predictions<\/h2>\n<h4>Anastasia Potapova vs Jule Niemeier<\/h4>\n<p><strong>Head-to-head: Potapova 1-0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Niemeier came through a great match with Sofia Kenin to reach the second round. The young German is a terrific ball striker with an impressive amount of power &#8211; and any quick surface will suit her game. Though she lost the only meeting between her and Potapova so far, this came on clay last year and she&#8217;s come a long way since then.<\/p>\n<p>Potapova struggled past Bronzetti in the first round, and this will most likely be a step up in level on these courts. The young Russian has a great game but Niemeier looks more dangerous every week &#8211; and she&#8217;s the favourite for me here.<br \/>\n<em>Prediction: Niemeier in 3<\/em><\/p>\n<p><a id=\"wyfrQ21jSgRzMVY4b32C5w\" class=\"gie-single\" href=\"http:\/\/www.gettyimages.com\/detail\/1453699768\" 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:'wyfrQ21jSgRzMVY4b32C5w',sig:'KlmxBUhZC8omLhSoHgxDal6-i9QoAfm9G5z_6GH87tw=',w:'594px',h:'396px',items:'1453699768',caption: true ,tld:'com',is360: false })});<\/script><script src='\/\/embed-cdn.gettyimages.com\/widgets.js' charset='utf-8' async><\/script><\/p>\n<h4>Marketa Vondrousova vs Rebeka Masarova<\/h4>\n<p><strong>Head-to-head: First meeting<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Masarova is having a fantastic week. She took down Garcia Perez and Tauson in qualifying before upsetting the second seed Alexandrova in the first round. The Spanish-Swiss player is hitting some great form as the year begins and this is promising for the rest of her season &#8211; and clearly she&#8217;s enjoying these conditions.<\/p>\n<p>Vondrousova had no issues in her opening round, and played some great tennis <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/tennis\/australian-open\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_self\">in Melbourne<\/a> where she went out to Linda Fruhvirtova in a tight battle. The Czech hits a heavy ball and can move well &#8211; and she should be stronger in the extended rallies her. Masarova&#8217;s form may reward her a set, but I can&#8217;t see much more.<br \/>\n<em>Prediction: Vondrousova in 3<\/em><\/p>\n<p><a id=\"i13ElWVySwdIAOnjsl6YJQ\" class=\"gie-single\" href=\"http:\/\/www.gettyimages.com\/detail\/1458101586\" 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:'i13ElWVySwdIAOnjsl6YJQ',sig:'ZyVMhSi4RBLR0af1MTfVntrWwkVguCmFtAIHgQTWG8Y=',w:'594px',h:'396px',items:'1458101586',caption: true ,tld:'com',is360: false })});<\/script><script src='\/\/embed-cdn.gettyimages.com\/widgets.js' charset='utf-8' async><\/script><\/p>\n<h4>Alycia Parks vs Anhelina Kalinina<\/h4>\n<p><strong>Head-to-head: Kalinina 1-0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>It seems <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/tennis\/2023\/02\/06\/alycia-parks-wta-title-streak\/\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_self\">Alycia Parks has officially broken through<\/a>, as was very much expected of her. The young American is in electric form right now, having secured her first WTA title last week in Lyon&#8211;beating Caroline Garcia in the final. If we include her recent 125k titles, she&#8217;s on a 15-match winning streak. Her indoor hard court form is undeniably great, and it&#8217;ll be fascinating to see how far she can go in the coming weeks.<\/p>\n<p>Kalinina played some exceptional tennis in Melbourne&#8211;especially in her straight sets win over Petra Kvitiova. She&#8217;s incredibly solid from the back of the court and can be really tough to hit through. Parks is a huge hitter so this matchup will be intriguing. The indoor conditions will help Parks get some more speed in her shots &#8211; and given how high her confidence will be, she&#8217;ll fancy her chances. Kalinina is a great defender and Parks does tend to overhit\/spray errors so I can see this one being close, but the American will continue riding the wave.<br \/>\n<em>Prediction: Parks in 3<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Main Photo from Getty.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The indoor hard court action continues in Austria as Day 3 of WTA Linz is upon us. Plenty of thrilling matches are in store, with last week&#8217;s Lyon champion Alycia Parks stepping on the court. As throughout the week, we will be offering up our predictions on the day&#8217;s play. So, who will move on [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3775,"featured_media":54691,"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":"1","_ef_editorial_meta_number_word-count":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[69],"tags":[15376,16273,1526,15429,7418,15925,6009,15889,884,15567,16695,16696,2373,2369,9143],"class_list":["post-54738","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-predictions","tag-alycia-parks","tag-alycia-parks-predictions","tag-anastasia-potapova","tag-anastasia-potapova-predictions","tag-anhelina-kalinina","tag-anhelina-kalinina-predictions","tag-jule-niemeier","tag-jule-niemeier-predictions","tag-marketa-vondrousova","tag-marketa-vondrousova-predictions","tag-rebeka-masarova","tag-rebeka-masarova-predictions","tag-tennis-picks","tag-tennis-predictions","tag-wta-linz-predictions"],"modified_by":"Yesh Ginsburg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/tennis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54738","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\/3775"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/tennis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=54738"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/tennis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54738\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/tennis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/54691"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/tennis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=54738"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/tennis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=54738"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/tennis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=54738"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}