{"id":73318,"date":"2024-09-15T00:11:16","date_gmt":"2024-09-15T04:11:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/tennis\/?p=73318"},"modified":"2024-09-15T00:11:16","modified_gmt":"2024-09-15T04:11:16","slug":"wta-guadalajara-open-final-prediction-frech-gadecki","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/tennis\/2024\/09\/15\/wta-guadalajara-open-final-prediction-frech-gadecki\/","title":{"rendered":"WTA Guadalajara Final Prediction: Magdalena Frech vs Olivia Gadecki"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The final is set at the Guadalajara Open Akron and two unexpected names make the last two. With most top seeds bowing out early, it presented a great opportunity for someone to make a deep run and Olivia Gadecki has grabbed it with both hands. She has already defeated Danielle Collins but can she go one step further and beat Magdalena Frech in a final? As always, LWOT offers predictions for the final. But which player will get their maiden WTA title?<\/p>\n<h2>WTA Guadalajara Final Prediction<\/h2>\n<h4>Magdalena Frech vs Olivia Gadecki<\/h4>\n<p><strong>Head-to-Head<\/strong>: First meeting<\/p>\n<p>Magdalena Frech was down a break in both sets against <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/tennis\/2022\/09\/09\/after-soaring-all-summer-caroline-garcia-returns-to-earth-with-a-bump\/\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_self\">Caroline Garcia<\/a> in the semifinals but showed immense grit to turn it around and reach her second WTA final. She&#8217;s had slow starts but always found a way to battle back the whole week. Frech did well to force errors out of Garcia which is the key against the Frenchwoman. With this win, Frech guarantees a new career high ranking and a top 40 debut. This will be Frech&#8217;s second tour-level final and first on hard courts.<\/p>\n<p>Olivia Gadecki is probably having the most unexpected run of the year on the WTA Tour. She <span style=\"font-weight: 400\">was ranked outside the top 150 at the start of the week, but will now be inside the top 100 on Monday. She will also be the highest-ranked Australian woman (only in the top 100). This run can give her some great opportunities going forward. Should be a main draw entry for the 2025 Australian Open as well.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><a id=\"hkpo3e8xRRJ82aVh48dM5A\" class=\"gie-single\" href=\"http:\/\/www.gettyimages.com\/detail\/2171251865\" 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:'hkpo3e8xRRJ82aVh48dM5A',sig:'J7gMLiHS4kTNzqtPTwJOlDEf4wSxpn8CeeBjULVMMSw=',w:'594px',h:'396px',items:'2171251865',caption: true ,tld:'com',is360: false })});<\/script><script src='\/\/embed-cdn.gettyimages.com\/widgets.js' charset='utf-8' async><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Gadecki has had a fantastic run and is still only 22, so there is plenty of possibility for improvement. She has gotten off to a good start in all her matches this week, which contrasts with Frech. It is a golden opportunity for both players to get their first WTA Tour title. Gadecki has defeated some top players already this week so she won&#8217;t be nervous but Frech will be her toughest opponent. However, I am backing the Australian to complete her dream run.<br \/>\n<em>Prediction: Gadecki in 3<\/em><\/p>\n<p>[tgdcta items=&#8221;1&#8243; id=&#8221;170466&#8243;]<\/p>\n<p><em>Main Photo Credit: Mike Frey-USA TODAY Sports<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The final is set at the Guadalajara Open Akron and two unexpected names make the last two. With most top seeds bowing out early, it presented a great opportunity for someone to make a deep run and Olivia Gadecki has grabbed it with both hands. She has already defeated Danielle Collins but can she go [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5086,"featured_media":70764,"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":[4594,16029,13658,17775,2373,2369,14659,4935],"class_list":["post-73318","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-predictions","tag-magdalena-frech","tag-magdalena-frech-predictions","tag-olivia-gadecki","tag-olivia-gadecki-predictions","tag-tennis-picks","tag-tennis-predictions","tag-wta-guadalajara-predictions","tag-wta-predictions"],"modified_by":"Yesh Ginsburg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/tennis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73318","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\/5086"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/tennis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=73318"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/tennis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73318\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/tennis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/70764"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/tennis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=73318"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/tennis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=73318"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/tennis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=73318"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}