{"id":57988,"date":"2023-07-16T15:39:13","date_gmt":"2023-07-16T19:39:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/tennis\/?p=57988"},"modified":"2023-07-16T15:39:13","modified_gmt":"2023-07-16T19:39:13","slug":"wta-budapest-day-1-predictions-sramkova-avanesyan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/tennis\/2023\/07\/16\/wta-budapest-day-1-predictions-sramkova-avanesyan\/","title":{"rendered":"WTA Budapest Day 1 Predictions Including Rebecca Sramkova vs Elina Avanesyan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The WTA Hungarian Grand Prix main draw action kicks off on Monday in Budapest with seven main draw matches. Elina Avanesyan is among the most high-profile players on the schedule, having reached the second week at <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/tennis\/french-open\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_self\">Roland Garros<\/a> recently. Can the Russian continue piling up such strong results? We also look at the rest of the day&#8217;s matches <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/tennis\/2023\/07\/16\/wta-budapest-day-1-predictions-maria-monnet\/\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_self\">in a separate article<\/a>.<\/p>\n<h2>WTA Budapest Day 1 Predictions<\/h2>\n<h4>Astra Sharma vs Kamilla Rakhimova<\/h4>\n<p><strong>Head-to-head:<\/strong> Rakhimova 1-0<\/p>\n<p>Astra Sharma has actually fallen off quite a bit recently, but her drop down to the ITF level might actually be a blessing in disguise here. She&#8217;s managed to pick up lots of match rhythm, unlike Kamila Rakhimova who&#8217;s coming off three straight losses on grass. Along with how dominant Sharma was in the qualifying, maybe this really is a good opportunity for the Australian to get back to winning ways.<br \/>\n<em>Prediction: Sharma in 3<\/em><\/p>\n<p><a id=\"2g_ztQjmTBdDVy5u670l5w\" class=\"gie-single\" href=\"http:\/\/www.gettyimages.com\/detail\/1398655856\" 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:'2g_ztQjmTBdDVy5u670l5w',sig:'Ym8gFVk_DBdMP3mTWtKmMTnq-bdC7Qz2JcTNEar_rCA=',w:'417px',h:'594px',items:'1398655856',caption: true ,tld:'com',is360: false })});<\/script><script src='\/\/embed-cdn.gettyimages.com\/widgets.js' charset='utf-8' async><\/script><\/p>\n<h4>Natalia Szabanin vs Kateryna Baindl<\/h4>\n<p><strong>Head-to-head:<\/strong> First meeting<\/p>\n<p>The only home-country representative playing on Monday will be Natalia Szabanin. It&#8217;s been a very unsuccessful season for the 19-year-old with her record outside of the Billie Jean King Cup standing at just 4-12. Maybe she can find some magic on home soil here, but it does look pretty unlikely. Kateryna Baindl isn&#8217;t going that strong this year either, but she&#8217;s been facing better opposition. She&#8217;s also done really well in the past few editions of this event. She&#8217;ll make it tough for Szabanin here.<br \/>\n<em>Prediction: Baindl in 2<\/em><\/p>\n<p>[cta id=4013 type=cta]<\/p>\n<h4>Rebecca Sramkova vs Elina Avanesyan<\/h4>\n<p><strong>Head-to-head:<\/strong> First meeting<\/p>\n<p>Elina Avanesyan broke into the Top 100 with a phenomenal run at Roland Garros and the next few months will be our opportunity to check whether she&#8217;s here to stay. She impressed in Paris with her variety and court craft, which should keep helping her out in Budapest. Rebecca Sramkova&#8217;s not a particularly comfortable round one opponent, but she&#8217;s also not in amazing from at the moment. If Avanesyan can keep rallying like she was a month ago, she should be getting through to the second round.<br \/>\n<em>Prediction: Avanesyan in 2<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/RelevantTennis\/status\/1664681049471713297\/photo\/2\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Main Photo from Twitter<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The WTA Hungarian Grand Prix main draw action kicks off on Monday in Budapest with seven main draw matches. Elina Avanesyan is among the most high-profile players on the schedule, having reached the second week at Roland Garros recently. Can the Russian continue piling up such strong results? We also look at the rest of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2968,"featured_media":57089,"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":[5376,15425,17491,17492,12545,16288,17759,17760,17907,17908,16249,16258,2373,2369,16283],"class_list":["post-57988","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-predictions","tag-astra-sharma","tag-astra-sharma-predictions","tag-elina-avanesyan","tag-elina-avanesyan-predictions","tag-kamilla-rakhimova","tag-kamilla-rakhimova-predictions","tag-kateryna-baindl","tag-kateryna-baindl-predictions","tag-natalia-szabanin","tag-natalia-szabanin-predictions","tag-rebecca-sramkova","tag-rebecca-sramkova-predictions","tag-tennis-picks","tag-tennis-predictions","tag-wta-budapest-predictions"],"modified_by":"Yesh Ginsburg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/tennis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57988","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=57988"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/tennis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57988\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/tennis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/57089"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/tennis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=57988"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/tennis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=57988"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/tennis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=57988"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}