{"id":60770,"date":"2023-10-09T16:29:12","date_gmt":"2023-10-09T20:29:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/tennis\/?p=60770"},"modified":"2023-10-09T16:29:12","modified_gmt":"2023-10-09T20:29:12","slug":"wta-zhengzhou-day-2-predictions-kudermetova-zvonareva","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/tennis\/2023\/10\/09\/wta-zhengzhou-day-2-predictions-kudermetova-zvonareva\/","title":{"rendered":"WTA Zhengzhou Day 2 Predictions Including Veronika Kudermetova vs Vera Zvonareva"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Veronika Kudermetova chose the WTA Zhengzhou Open as her next event after winning Tokyo and losing to Coco Gauff in the second round in Beijing. Seeded ninth at this event, she takes on the former world #2 Vera Zvonareva in the opening round. Can the 39-year-old veteran trouble an in-form top player? Who do you think will advance to the next stage of the tournament?<\/p>\n<h2>WTA Zhengzhou Day 2 Predictions<\/h2>\n<h4>Zhuoxuan Bai vs Tamara Korpatsch<\/h4>\n<p><strong>Head-to-head:<\/strong> first meeting<\/p>\n<p>Tamara Korpatsch had a qualifying draw full of doubles specialists in this event, but still had to rely on getting a lucky loser spot after losing to Ellen Perez. She has been really unspectacular during this Chinese swing and Zhuoxuan Bai hasn\u2019t done that much better. The Chinese youngster is an up-and-coming player though with a former top 10 ranking in the juniors and maybe hasn\u2019t said her last word in this part of the season yet.<\/p>\n<p><em>Prediction: Bai in 3<\/em><\/p>\n<p>[cta id=591 type=cta]<\/p>\n<h4>Magda Linette vs Petra Martic<\/h4>\n<p><strong>Head-to-head:<\/strong> Linette 3-0 Martic<\/p>\n<p>The 3-0 lead for Magda Linette is somewhat surprising and it\u2019s no wonder that despite that, this one actually seems like a coin flip. This is one of the Pole\u2019s favorite parts of the season and she\u2019s already done well, but so has Petra Martic while almost taking out Coco Gauff in Beijing. Let\u2019s say Linette keeps exceeding expectations in Asia but this is a very exciting match with no obvious favorite, in spite of the head-to-head record.<\/p>\n<p><em>Prediction: Linette in 3<br \/>\n<a id=\"qNwuQBsbSW9dAytxoxwg3g\" class=\"gie-single\" style=\"color: #a7a7a7; text-decoration: none; font-weight: normal !important; border: none; display: inline-block;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.gettyimages.com\/detail\/1714900514\" target=\"_blank\" 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:'qNwuQBsbSW9dAytxoxwg3g',sig:'KG7Es8fa1xhZ29TTe88GL4XSIV-lruYgJTO5n5OhOFs=',w:'594px',h:'396px',items:'1714900514',caption: true ,tld:'com',is360: false })});<\/script><script src='\/\/embed-cdn.gettyimages.com\/widgets.js' charset='utf-8' async><\/script><br \/>\n<\/em><\/p>\n<h4>Veronika Kudermetova vs Vera Zvonareva<\/h4>\n<p><strong>Head-to-head:<\/strong> Zvonareva 1-0 Kudermetova<\/p>\n<p>Vera Zvonareva isn\u2019t really playing a full schedule anymore, but this Chinese swing she\u2019s actually been producing some real results and getting a lot of matches in. The former world #2 is probably in trouble here though. Veronika Kudermetova should be oozing confidence after winning Tokyo and has a massive fitness advantage here as well. This is a good opportunity for her to even the score between herself and her renowned countrywoman.<\/p>\n<p><em>Prediction: Kudermetova in 2<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Main photo credit: Geoff Burke-USA TODAY Sports<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Veronika Kudermetova chose the WTA Zhengzhou Open as her next event after winning Tokyo and losing to Coco Gauff in the second round in Beijing. Seeded ninth at this event, she takes on the former world #2 Vera Zvonareva in the opening round. Can the 39-year-old veteran trouble an in-form top player? Who do you [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2968,"featured_media":60783,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"no","_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":[3541,15647,2507,15438,5296,15563,2373,2369,1736,15542,5398,15535,8637,18816,18817],"class_list":["post-60770","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-predictions","tag-magda-linette","tag-magda-linette-predictions","tag-petra-martic","tag-petra-martic-predictions","tag-tamara-korpatsch","tag-tamara-korpatsch-predictions","tag-tennis-picks","tag-tennis-predictions","tag-vera-zvonareva","tag-vera-zvonareva-predictions","tag-veronika-kudermetova","tag-veronika-kudermetova-predictions","tag-wta-zhengzhou-predictions","tag-zhuoxuan-bai","tag-zhuoxuan-bai-predictions"],"modified_by":"Jim Smith","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/tennis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60770","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=60770"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/tennis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60770\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/tennis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/60783"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/tennis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=60770"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/tennis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=60770"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/tennis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=60770"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}