{"id":60219,"date":"2023-09-24T13:57:02","date_gmt":"2023-09-24T17:57:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/tennis\/?p=60219"},"modified":"2023-09-24T14:01:52","modified_gmt":"2023-09-24T18:01:52","slug":"wta-ningbo-day-1-predictions-kvitova-friedsam","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/tennis\/2023\/09\/24\/wta-ningbo-day-1-predictions-kvitova-friedsam\/","title":{"rendered":"WTA Ningbo Day 1 Predictions Including Petra Kvitova vs Anna-Lena Friedsam"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Petra Kvitova has already won the WTA 1000 in Miami and the WTA 500 in Berlin this year. Now she&#8217;ll be looking to add to her WTA 250 trophy cabinet in Ningbo. Will she find her best level right away, facing Anna-Lena Friedsam on Monday? We also look at the rest of the day&#8217;s matches <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/tennis\/2023\/09\/24\/wta-ningbo-day-1-predictions-avanesyan-tauson\/\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_self\">in a separate article<\/a>. Who do you think will come out on top?<\/p>\n<h2>WTA Ningbo Day 1 Predictions<\/h2>\n<h4>Lucia Bronzetti vs Jil Teichmann<\/h4>\n<p><strong>Head-to-head:<\/strong> First meeting<\/p>\n<p>Falling down to World No. 141 must be a bit of a shock for Jil Teichmann and so far, she wasn&#8217;t handling it well at all. The Swiss lost her first three matches of this Asian Swing, but did well to qualify for this event. Lucia Bronzetti isn&#8217;t as talented or explosive. Will that matter though? She&#8217;s the player with more confidence at the moment and the player with a steadier, more reliable level.<br \/>\n<em>Prediction: Bronzetti in 3<\/em><\/p>\n<p><a id=\"1Gk3pAjhREtZmylxqe7Bvw\" class=\"gie-single\" href=\"http:\/\/www.gettyimages.com\/detail\/1640891159\" 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:'1Gk3pAjhREtZmylxqe7Bvw',sig:'fJbtvP0Z8v-LMr03D8kZayrK5U1kGno7_nyDlZp8Ezc=',w:'594px',h:'369px',items:'1640891159',caption: true ,tld:'com',is360: false })});<\/script><script src='\/\/embed-cdn.gettyimages.com\/widgets.js' charset='utf-8' async><\/script><\/p>\n<h4>Daria Saville vs Yulia Putintseva<\/h4>\n<p><strong>Head-to-head:<\/strong> Putinsteva 4-0<\/p>\n<p>How much does this head-to-head matter? When they played for the third time, they were still just 19 and 18. It&#8217;s only the last encounter between them that is still relatively fresh (Sydney 2019). Last week, they both lost to the eventual runner-up of Guangzhou, Magda Linette. Daria Saville might have a harder time playing Yulia Putinsteva than most with her possessing a counter-punching style herself. After all these years, it&#8217;s hard to tell if that still holds up though.<br \/>\n<em>Prediction: Putinsteva in 3<\/em><\/p>\n<p>[cta id=4013 type=cta]<\/p>\n<h4>Yue Yuan vs Kateryna Baindl<\/h4>\n<p><strong>Head-to-head:<\/strong> Yuan 1-0<\/p>\n<p>They played just about a month ago with Yue Yuan battling her way due to a hard-fought 4-6 7-6 6-2 win. Both haven&#8217;t exactly been setting the world on fire since. One thing that still holds up though is that the Chinese <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/tennis\/2022\/08\/03\/qinwen-zheng-xiyu-wang-lead-young-chinese-charge\/\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_self\">should have a much higher ceiling<\/a> with her forehand shotmaking. It is up to her to deliver the goods and prove that in another match against Kateryna Baindl.<br \/>\n<em>Prediction: Yuan in 2<\/em><\/p>\n<p><a id=\"dIbR_J0uSHZcRybmrvqYfQ\" class=\"gie-single\" href=\"http:\/\/www.gettyimages.com\/detail\/1579065812\" 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:'dIbR_J0uSHZcRybmrvqYfQ',sig:'LWpZD9oEkFhbMhI1f0b8pCk2BQXRjZpEoEKO11aX06Y=',w:'594px',h:'396px',items:'1579065812',caption: true ,tld:'com',is360: false })});<\/script><script src='\/\/embed-cdn.gettyimages.com\/widgets.js' charset='utf-8' async><\/script><\/p>\n<h4>Petra Kvitova vs Anna-Lena Friedsam<\/h4>\n<p><strong>Head-to-head:<\/strong> First meeting<\/p>\n<p>Petra Kvitova has been scheduling herself rather conservatively this year, but her quality once she&#8217;s actually on the court is definitely there. The North American hard-court swing had her out in the second round (or second match) on three occasions, but it&#8217;s not like she&#8217;s had any bad losses. Anna-Lena Friedsam is a gritty competitor, but the conditions in Ningbo should allow Kvitova to hit through her.<br \/>\n<em>Prediction: Kvitova in 2<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Main Photo Credit: Geoff Burke-USA TODAY Sports<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Petra Kvitova has already won the WTA 1000 in Miami and the WTA 500 in Berlin this year. Now she&#8217;ll be looking to add to her WTA 250 trophy cabinet in Ningbo. Will she find her best level right away, facing Anna-Lena Friedsam on Monday? We also look at the rest of the day&#8217;s matches [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2968,"featured_media":58609,"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":[6013,15522,17145,17146,4537,15632,17759,17760,16301,16302,101,15531,2373,2369,41595,13554,17432,462,15641],"class_list":["post-60219","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-predictions","tag-anna-lena-friedsam","tag-anna-lena-friedsam-predictions","tag-daria-saville","tag-daria-saville-predictions","tag-jil-teichmann","tag-jil-teichmann-predictions","tag-kateryna-baindl","tag-kateryna-baindl-predictions","tag-lucia-bronzetti","tag-lucia-bronzetti-predictions","tag-petra-kvitova","tag-petra-kvitova-predictions","tag-tennis-picks","tag-tennis-predictions","tag-wta-ningbo-predictions","tag-yue-yuan","tag-yue-yuan-predictions","tag-yulia-putintseva","tag-yulia-putintseva-predictions"],"modified_by":"Yesh Ginsburg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/tennis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60219","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=60219"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/tennis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60219\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/tennis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/58609"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/tennis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=60219"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/tennis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=60219"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/tennis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=60219"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}