{"id":57409,"date":"2023-06-19T21:13:22","date_gmt":"2023-06-20T01:13:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/tennis\/?p=57409"},"modified":"2023-06-19T21:13:22","modified_gmt":"2023-06-20T01:13:22","slug":"wta-birmingham-day-2-predictions-dart-burrage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/tennis\/2023\/06\/19\/wta-birmingham-day-2-predictions-dart-burrage\/","title":{"rendered":"WTA Birmingham Day 2 Predictions Including Harriet Dart vs Jodie Burrage"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The WTA grass season continues with a stop in Birmingham, Great Britain, for the 2023 Rothesay Classic. This 32-woman draw has welcomed some terrific players to its grounds looking to gain some form ahead of the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/tennis\/wimbledon\/\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_self\">third Slam of the season<\/a>. We have an intriguing all-Brit Round 1 battle in Birmingham between Harriet Dart and Jodie Burrage. We at LWOT have the preview and prediction for that match and all other happenings around Birmingham. We split the day&#8217;s other matches between two articles, featuring <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/tennis\/2023\/06\/19\/wta-birmingham-day-2-predictions-ostapenko-noskova\/\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_self\">Jelena Ostapenko vs Linda Noskova<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/tennis\/2023\/06\/19\/wta-birmingham-day-2-predictions-krejcikova-bucsa\/\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_self\">Barbora Krejcikova vs Cristina Bucsa<\/a>. But who will advance?<\/p>\n<h2>WTA Birmingham Day 2 Predictions<\/h2>\n<h4>Anastasia Potapova vs Marta Kostyuk<\/h4>\n<p><strong>Head-to-Head:<\/strong> Potapova 1-0 Kostyuk<\/p>\n<p>Anastasia Potapova and Marta Kostyuk will square off for the second time this season after Potapova dominated Kostyuk 6-1 6-3 in Miami. The 22-year-old Russian is up to a career-high ranking of world No. 21 and has all the tools to have a successful grass-court season. Kostyuk, on the other hand, limps into this match having won just one of her last five matches. The 20-year-old Ukrainian has shown a proclivity to the grass but will have to find some form early in this match. We saw Potapova dominate this matchup three months ago, and I do not think the surface change does any favors for Kostyuk.<br \/>\n<em>Prediction: Potapova in 2\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n<p><a id=\"8uIKuTj7RhFSy2LuMcj-Sg\" class=\"gie-single\" href=\"http:\/\/www.gettyimages.com\/detail\/1495356080\" 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:'8uIKuTj7RhFSy2LuMcj-Sg',sig:'5prUyx7sALC0EbJciYC4mly8OQ-dXSdw6nD1ahZDRjQ=',w:'424px',h:'594px',items:'1495356080',caption: true ,tld:'com',is360: false })});<\/script><script src='\/\/embed-cdn.gettyimages.com\/widgets.js' charset='utf-8' async><\/script><\/p>\n<h4>Shuai Zhang vs Emina Bektas<\/h4>\n<p><strong>Head-to-Head:<\/strong> first meeting<\/p>\n<p>Veterans Shuai Zhang and Emina Bektas will square off for the first time in Birmingham. Zhang, the No. 7 seed at this event, is 0-9 since February. She has won just two sets in those nine losses. World No. 150 Bektas should feel confident after advancing through two rounds of qualifying without dropping a set. The 30-year-old American is 11-1 on the grass this season and reached the quarterfinals in Den Bosch last week. Her current form, paired with her grass-court advantage, should allow her to roll past Zhang.<br \/>\n<em>Prediction: Bektas in 2<\/em><\/p>\n<p>[cta id=445 type=cta]<\/p>\n<h4>Harriet Dart vs Jodie Burrage<\/h4>\n<p><strong>Head-to-Head:<\/strong> Dart 2-0 Burrage<\/p>\n<p>Countrywomen Harriet Dart and Jodie Burrage are both coming off strong runs in Nottingham and will look to translate that success one hour southwest in Birmingham. Both women have shown a proclivity to the grass and should bring their best tennis for the home fans on Tuesday. Stylistically, I like the way Burrage matches up with Dart. She played with controlled aggression in Nottingham and has the confidence to let it rip from the baseline. Because of this, I give her a slight edge in what should be a three-set encounter.<br \/>\n<em>Prediction: Burrage in 3<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Main Photo Credit: Eric Bolte-USA TODAY Sports<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The WTA grass season continues with a stop in Birmingham, Great Britain, for the 2023 Rothesay Classic. This 32-woman draw has welcomed some terrific players to its grounds looking to gain some form ahead of the\u00a0third Slam of the season. We have an intriguing all-Brit Round 1 battle in Birmingham between Harriet Dart and Jodie [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4067,"featured_media":57415,"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":[1526,15429,16548,16549,1224,16035,13430,17757,2372,15534,18908,405,15524,2373,2369,6560],"class_list":["post-57409","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-predictions","tag-anastasia-potapova","tag-anastasia-potapova-predictions","tag-emina-bektas","tag-emina-bektas-predictions","tag-harriet-dart","tag-harriet-dart-predictions","tag-jodie-burrage","tag-jodie-burrage-predictions","tag-marta-kostyuk","tag-marta-kostyuk-predictions","tag-rothesay-classic-predictions","tag-shuai-zhang","tag-shuai-zhang-predictions","tag-tennis-picks","tag-tennis-predictions","tag-wta-birmingham-predictions"],"modified_by":"Yesh Ginsburg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/tennis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57409","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\/4067"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/tennis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=57409"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/tennis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57409\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/tennis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/57415"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/tennis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=57409"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/tennis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=57409"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/tennis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=57409"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}