{"id":75511,"date":"2024-11-01T13:21:27","date_gmt":"2024-11-01T17:21:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/tennis\/?p=75511"},"modified":"2024-11-01T13:21:27","modified_gmt":"2024-11-01T17:21:27","slug":"wta-hong-kong-semifinal-predictions-shnaider-fernandez","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/tennis\/2024\/11\/01\/wta-hong-kong-semifinal-predictions-shnaider-fernandez\/","title":{"rendered":"WTA Hong Kong Semifinal Predictions Including Diana Shnaider vs Leylah Fernandez"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Hong Kong Open had the strongest line-up of the three WTA 250 events this week and that hasn&#8217;t changed by the semifinal stage. This should be a treat, especially as top-seeded Diana Shnaider will have to turn around her head-to-head record against Leylah Fernandez. In the bottom half of the draw, Katie Boulter faces Yue Yuan. Who do you think will make the final?<\/p>\n<h2>WTA Hong Kong Semifinal Predictions<\/h2>\n<h4>Yue Yuan vs Katie Boulter<\/h4>\n<p><strong>Head-to-head:<\/strong> Boulter 1-0<\/p>\n<p>Katie Boulter was able to take down Yue Yuan in two sets at the <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/tennis\/category\/australian-open\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_self\">Australian Open<\/a>, but it&#8217;s not like it wasn&#8217;t competitive. The Chinese was playing amazing tennis in that patch from late 2023 to early 2024 and while she lost her way a bit since, she&#8217;s on it again this week and is of course very familiar with the conditions in Asia. When her forehand is on, it&#8217;s tough to stop someone with her shotmaking potential. But Boulter won&#8217;t let herself get overwhelmed like some of the previous opponents did. It&#8217;s not a guarantee, but the Brit has been hitting very well herself the last two weeks and is coming off a semifinal run in Tokyo. She&#8217;s kept it up so far in Hong Kong.<br \/>\n<em>Prediction: Boulter in 3<\/em><\/p>\n<p><a id=\"Yek2GUJnQztZOgO9mQr5uA\" class=\"gie-single\" href=\"http:\/\/www.gettyimages.com\/detail\/2181540684\" 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:'Yek2GUJnQztZOgO9mQr5uA',sig:'ueglcSlGf9WxDnKkQ_L5GPIe-OtM-81Nk2EwbddHCZw=',w:'594px',h:'396px',items:'2181540684',caption: true ,tld:'com',is360: false })});<\/script><script src='\/\/embed-cdn.gettyimages.com\/widgets.js' charset='utf-8' async><\/script><\/p>\n<h4>Diana Shnaider vs Leylah Fernandez<\/h4>\n<p><strong>Head-to-head:<\/strong> Fernandez 2-0<\/p>\n<p>Diana Shnaider has already picked up a title each on all three surfaces this year and now she&#8217;s trying to finish in style as well. It&#8217;s been a <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/tennis\/2024\/08\/11\/diana-shnaider-newfound-star-wta\/\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_self\">fantastic season for her<\/a> and she seems a bit ahead of Leylah Fernandez right now. But the Canadian has beaten her twice since August and has the counter-punching skills to extend the rallies and make things uncomfortable for the 20-year-old. Perhaps she has a solid shot to take down Shnaider again after looking unstoppable in the first three rounds. Between the two players, it&#8217;s also the top seed that should be a bit more fatigued at this point of the season.<br \/>\n<em>Prediction: Fernandez in 3<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Main Photo Credit: Eric Bolte-USA TODAY Sports<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Hong Kong Open had the strongest line-up of the three WTA 250 events this week and that hasn&#8217;t changed by the semifinal stage. This should be a treat, especially as top-seeded Diana Shnaider will have to turn around her head-to-head record against Leylah Fernandez. In the bottom half of the draw, Katie Boulter faces [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2968,"featured_media":62259,"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":[18504,18505,1225,16172,3551,15818,2373,2369,41658,13554,17432],"class_list":["post-75511","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-predictions","tag-diana-shnaider","tag-diana-shnaider-predictions","tag-katie-boulter","tag-katie-boulter-predictions","tag-leylah-fernandez","tag-leylah-fernandez-predictions","tag-tennis-picks","tag-tennis-predictions","tag-wta-hong-kong-predictions","tag-yue-yuan","tag-yue-yuan-predictions"],"modified_by":"Yesh Ginsburg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/tennis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75511","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=75511"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/tennis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75511\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/tennis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/62259"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/tennis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=75511"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/tennis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=75511"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/tennis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=75511"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}