{"id":58488,"date":"2023-08-03T17:54:41","date_gmt":"2023-08-03T21:54:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/tennis\/?p=58488"},"modified":"2023-08-03T17:54:41","modified_gmt":"2023-08-03T21:54:41","slug":"wta-prague-quarterfinal-predictions-noskova-schmiedlova","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/tennis\/2023\/08\/03\/wta-prague-quarterfinal-predictions-noskova-schmiedlova\/","title":{"rendered":"WTA Prague Quarterfinal Predictions Including Linda Noskova vs Anna Karolina Schmiedlova"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The WTA event in Prague moves on to the quarterfinal round, and we&#8217;re left with a few unexpected names. There could be more surprising results as the out of form veteran Alize Cornet takes on the flashy Tamara Korpatsch and Jaqueline Cristian, a player that started the year losing 11 of her first 14 matches, squares off against last week&#8217;s Budapest finalist, Kateryna Baindl. We&#8217;ve attempted to make sense of the head-to-heads as we look to predict the quarterfinals here at LWOT.<\/p>\n<h2>WTA Prague Quarterfinal Predictions<\/h2>\n<h4>Tereza Martincova vs Nao Hibino<\/h4>\n<h4>Head-to-head: Hibino 2-0 Martincova<\/h4>\n<p>Nao Hibino may already have two wins over Tereza Martincova but they both came around seven years ago. Hibino was probably playing her best tennis ranking-wise but Martincova&#8217;s level wasn&#8217;t wholly different from what it is now. The Czech definitely hits a bigger ball but Hibino has a knack for breaking down players who can&#8217;t deliver the goods repeatedly.<\/p>\n<p>Now that Martincova&#8217;s got a bit rhythm at this tournament, however, we&#8217;re inclined to believe she\u00a0<em>can<\/em> deliver the goods over and over albeit over some tight sets. If it had been the very start of the tournament, we might have picked otherwise.<br \/>\nPrediction:\u00a0<em>Martincova in 3<\/em><\/p>\n<p><a id=\"DWpnifZbTfFfGBW72VwJ6g\" class=\"gie-single\" href=\"http:\/\/www.gettyimages.com\/detail\/1555753305\" 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:'DWpnifZbTfFfGBW72VwJ6g',sig:'bOvDVHl97H_2GtzVnNHEP6dzkvg-QH641s9q1elCzn8=',w:'594px',h:'396px',items:'1555753305',caption: true ,tld:'com',is360: false })});<\/script><script src='\/\/embed-cdn.gettyimages.com\/widgets.js' charset='utf-8' async><\/script><\/p>\n<h4>Kateryna Baindl vs Jaqueline Cristian<\/h4>\n<h4>Head-to-head: Cristian 1-0 Baindl<\/h4>\n<p>Jaqueline Cristian accruing so many losses at the start of the year had to be due to injury. The Romanian hits a such a pure ball, she has the makings of a consistent top 100 player for sure.<\/p>\n<p>Kateryna Baindl will have her hands full. She was a little lucky with her draw in Budapest, facing three consecutive players outside of the top 300 before defeating Claire Liu to reach her first WTA final in five years. We&#8217;re not convinced she&#8217;s on a tear of form and Cristian seems to be finding her feet again (see her first round win here over Marie Bouzkova).<br \/>\nPrediction:\u00a0<em>Cristian in 3<\/em><\/p>\n<p>[cta id=445 type=cta]<\/p>\n<h4>Alize Cornet vs Tamara Korpatsch<\/h4>\n<h4>Head-to-head: Cornet 1-0 Korpatsch<\/h4>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/tennis\/2022\/09\/02\/alize-cornet-slams-2022\/\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_self\">Is Alize Cornet back yet<\/a>? Back-to-back quarterfinals with all four matches won clinched in deciding sets&#8211;she&#8217;s certainly as fit as she&#8217;s ever been and she seems to be finding her range again.<\/p>\n<p>Tamara Korpatsch is a pretty big hitter but that won&#8217;t trouble Cornet too much. The Frenchwoman absorbs and redirects pace better than most on tour. We&#8217;re assuming Cornet is fighting fit so we&#8217;re backing a straight sets win.<br \/>\nPrediction:\u00a0<em>Cornet in 2<\/em><\/p>\n<p><a id=\"B5n0KZ7dTXlOj2nLWmJYlQ\" class=\"gie-single\" href=\"http:\/\/www.gettyimages.com\/detail\/1258262142\" 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:'B5n0KZ7dTXlOj2nLWmJYlQ',sig:'PXS2y2p8m45p1zPOaJEaZ62diVs3Yro2i3o3HLnR_0o=',w:'594px',h:'396px',items:'1258262142',caption: true ,tld:'com',is360: false })});<\/script><script src='\/\/embed-cdn.gettyimages.com\/widgets.js' charset='utf-8' async><\/script><\/p>\n<h4>Linda Noskova vs Anna Karolina Schmiedlova<\/h4>\n<h4>Head-to-head: First meeting<\/h4>\n<p>It&#8217;s not how well you play at your best, it&#8217;s how well you play at your worst that separates the best from the rest. Linda Noskova, an 18-year-old aspiring to become one of the best players in the world, scrapped through her second round against Ankita Raina. She was broken six times in the first two sets <em>alone<\/em>. Having survived that, she may now be playing with house money.<\/p>\n<p>If Noskova swings freely, Anna Karolina Schmiedlova&#8217;s sometimes passive game could be blown apart. Noskova&#8217;s already made a WTA Tour final once before. Can she go one better here in her home country?<br \/>\nPrediction:\u00a0<em>Noskova in 2<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The WTA event in Prague moves on to the quarterfinal round, and we&#8217;re left with a few unexpected names. There could be more surprising results as the out of form veteran Alize Cornet takes on the flashy Tamara Korpatsch and Jaqueline Cristian, a player that started the year losing 11 of her first 14 matches, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3704,"featured_media":58497,"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":[470,15690,5320,15686,7304,16371,17759,17760,826,15427,5296,15563,2373,2369,4565,15704,5702],"class_list":["post-58488","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-predictions","tag-alize-cornet","tag-alize-cornet-predictions","tag-anna-karolina-schmiedlova","tag-anna-karolina-schmiedlova-predictions","tag-jaqueline-cristian","tag-jaqueline-cristian-predictions","tag-kateryna-baindl","tag-kateryna-baindl-predictions","tag-nao-hibino","tag-nao-hibino-predictions","tag-tamara-korpatsch","tag-tamara-korpatsch-predictions","tag-tennis-picks","tag-tennis-predictions","tag-tereza-martincova","tag-tereza-martincova-predictions","tag-wta-prague-predictions"],"modified_by":"Yesh Ginsburg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/tennis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58488","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\/3704"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/tennis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=58488"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/tennis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58488\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/tennis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/58497"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/tennis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=58488"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/tennis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=58488"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/tennis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=58488"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}