{"id":67229,"date":"2024-05-19T00:09:28","date_gmt":"2024-05-19T04:09:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/tennis\/?p=67229"},"modified":"2024-05-19T00:09:28","modified_gmt":"2024-05-19T04:09:28","slug":"wta-strasbourg-day-1-predictions-svitolina-parry","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/tennis\/2024\/05\/19\/wta-strasbourg-day-1-predictions-svitolina-parry\/","title":{"rendered":"WTA Strasbourg Day 1 Predictions Including Elina Svitolina vs Diane Parry"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The 2024 WTA Internationaux de Strasbourg is the biggest event we&#8217;ll have on either tour in the week coming up. Who will enter Roland Garros with a lot of momentum after going deep in this tournament? Defending champion Elina Svitolina will hope to be in that conversation and she&#8217;s kicking off her campaign against Diane Parry on Sunday.<\/p>\n<h2>WTA Strasbourg Day 1 Prediction<\/h2>\n<h4>Leylah Fernandez vs Anastasia Potapova<\/h4>\n<p><strong>Head-to-head:<\/strong> Fernandez 3-0<\/p>\n<p>They&#8217;ve played very recently in Madrid with Leylah Fernandez picking up a relatively tight straight-set win. Anastasia Potapova&#8217;s season has been nothing spectacular and it seems like the Russian has really stagnated by now, struggling to make the push to the Top 20 that seemed obvious a couple of years ago. Fernandez also slowed down after a good finish to 2023, but she&#8217;s probably a small favorite here given her lefty counter-punching was enough to beat Potapova just a couple of weeks ago.<br \/>\n<em>Prediction: Fernandez in 3<\/em><\/p>\n<p>[tgdcta items=&#8221;1&#8243; id=&#8221;170472&#8243;]<\/p>\n<h4>Anhelina Kalinina vs Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova<\/h4>\n<p><strong>Head-to-head:<\/strong> First meeting<\/p>\n<p>Anhelina Kalinina couldn&#8217;t defend her points for making the Rome final, but the Ukrainian is still playing much better than a few months ago right now. Back then she was the seed everyone wanted to draw in many events, now she&#8217;s back to being more of a dangerous floater. Let&#8217;s see if she turns out a threat to Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova as well. It&#8217;s the Russian veteran who has a much bigger game and should be able to play front-foot tennis here.<br \/>\n<em>Prediction: Pavlyuchenkova in 2<\/em><\/p>\n<p><a id=\"nMT37pxPRJtNp2hjh8-_Tw\" class=\"gie-single\" href=\"http:\/\/www.gettyimages.com\/detail\/2150079802\" 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:'nMT37pxPRJtNp2hjh8-_Tw',sig:'Z3lp_Ah8208S3oQM0KTSYS44R2n1etHoi17CJ_-4K6c=',w:'594px',h:'399px',items:'2150079802',caption: true ,tld:'com',is360: false })});<\/script><script src='\/\/embed-cdn.gettyimages.com\/widgets.js' charset='utf-8' async><\/script><\/p>\n<h4>Karolina Pliskova vs Clara Burel<\/h4>\n<p><strong>Head-to-head:<\/strong> Burel 1-0<\/p>\n<p>Karolina Pliskova has only played one tournament on clay this year so far and while her early results in 2024 seemed like a breath of fresh air, the Czech needs to show she can still do it on a surface that she used to be very good on despite her movement. Clara Burel was in the semifinals in Strasbourg last year and has already beaten a few top players with her neat all-round game and dangerous forehand. This is far from obvious and Pliskova will need to bring a really strong level to survive.<br \/>\n<em>Prediction: Burel in 3<\/em><\/p>\n<p><a id=\"x4mVACb5QMVPuIJJJ3KW_g\" class=\"gie-single\" href=\"http:\/\/www.gettyimages.com\/detail\/2151462724\" 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:'x4mVACb5QMVPuIJJJ3KW_g',sig:'7njqtqRRPYObf2h1cRqWq36R8TO-QdkcIQCsCQO49oM=',w:'594px',h:'399px',items:'2151462724',caption: true ,tld:'com',is360: false })});<\/script><script src='\/\/embed-cdn.gettyimages.com\/widgets.js' charset='utf-8' async><\/script><\/p>\n<h4>Diane Parry vs Elina Svitolina<\/h4>\n<p><strong>Head-to-head:<\/strong> First meeting<\/p>\n<p>Elina Svitolina is on an 8-match winning streak in Strasbourg with titles in the 2020 and 2023 editions. It&#8217;s a good moment to reflect on how she&#8217;s been playing the last 12 months or so with this event being where <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/tennis\/2023\/07\/11\/elina-svitolina-stuns-iga-swiatek\/\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_self\">her comeback started big-time<\/a> last year. Some of the magic seems to have worn off, but after all she had three match points against Aryna Sabalenka in Rome last week. Former junior No. 1 Diane Parry isn&#8217;t a pushover in the opening round here. It&#8217;s tough to go against Svitolina at this venue though and she looked great in the Italian capital.<br \/>\n<em>Prediction: Svitolina in 2<\/em><\/p>\n<p>[tgdcta items=&#8221;1&#8243; id=&#8221;170468&#8243;]<\/p>\n<p><em>Main Photo Credit: Susan Mullane-USA TODAY Sports<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The 2024 WTA Internationaux de Strasbourg is the biggest event we&#8217;ll have on either tour in the week coming up. Who will enter Roland Garros with a lot of momentum after going deep in this tournament? Defending champion Elina Svitolina will hope to be in that conversation and she&#8217;s kicking off her campaign against Diane [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2968,"featured_media":57372,"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":[269,15428,1526,15429,7418,15925,12484,15693,12589,15695,394,15585,147,15562,3551,15818,2373,2369,6014],"class_list":["post-67229","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-predictions","tag-anastasia-pavlyuchenkova","tag-anastasia-pavlyuchenkova-predictions","tag-anastasia-potapova","tag-anastasia-potapova-predictions","tag-anhelina-kalinina","tag-anhelina-kalinina-predictions","tag-clara-burel","tag-clara-burel-predictions","tag-diane-parry","tag-diane-parry-predictions","tag-elina-svitolina","tag-elina-svitolina-predictions","tag-karolina-pliskova","tag-karolina-pliskova-predictions","tag-leylah-fernandez","tag-leylah-fernandez-predictions","tag-tennis-picks","tag-tennis-predictions","tag-wta-strasbourg-predictions"],"modified_by":"Yesh Ginsburg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/tennis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67229","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=67229"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/tennis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67229\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/tennis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/57372"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/tennis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=67229"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/tennis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=67229"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/tennis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=67229"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}