{"id":87188,"date":"2025-07-20T13:58:50","date_gmt":"2025-07-20T17:58:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/tennis\/?p=87188"},"modified":"2025-07-20T13:58:50","modified_gmt":"2025-07-20T17:58:50","slug":"wta-prague-day-1-predictions-maleckova-sramkova","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/tennis\/2025\/07\/20\/wta-prague-day-1-predictions-maleckova-sramkova\/","title":{"rendered":"WTA Prague Day 1 Predictions Including Jesika Maleckova vs Rebecca Sramkova"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The final European WTA Tour tournament of 2025 has arrived, and 32 players will look for a WTA 250 title just before hitting the <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/tennis\/2025\/07\/18\/national-bank-open-four-players-receive-wild-cards\/\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_self\">hard courts in North America<\/a>. There are no byes in this event, so all the top seeds&#8211;such as No. 2 seed Rebecaa Sramkova&#8211;will have to hit the ground running early on in the week. LWOT previews and predicts Monday\u2019s opening matches.<\/p>\n<h2>WTA Prague Day 1 Predictions<\/h2>\n<h4>Viktoriya Tomova vs Lucrezia Stefanini<\/h4>\n<p>Head-to-head: First meeting<\/p>\n<p>Stefanini has been comfortable at lower tournament levels throughout 2025, while Tomova\u2019s ranking has dropped considerably over the past 12 months. Tomova did reach the quarterfinals of this tournament last year, and she\u2019s generally done well to defeat the players she\u2019s needed to in opening rounds or lower tournaments. Stefanini hits both a double-handed forehand and backhand, which could throw Tomova off her rhythm if she can get off to a fast start. But the Italian hasn\u2019t been able to string together results at WTA Tour-level, and Tomova should feel comfortable as a defensive and consistent baseliner.<br \/>\n<em>Prediction: Tomova in 3<\/em><\/p>\n<h4>Viktorija Golubic vs Elisabetta Cocciaretto<\/h4>\n<p>Head-to-head: Cocciaretto 1-0<\/p>\n<p>Both players notably play at their best on grass courts, but Golubic is the sharper hard-court player with a longer career of experience. However, Cocciaretto won a 125K event in Bastad earlier in July, and she\u2019s had a slightly better season as she\u2019ll look to return to her best form that shined in 2023. The Italian won the pair\u2019s only meeting in 2023, and has an offense-minded game that should break down Golubic\u2019s slice and variety.<br \/>\n<em>Prediction: Cocciaretto in 2<\/em><\/p>\n<p><a  id=\"LTXi81O0TDh4Cv3btCfoJg\" class=\"gie-single\" href=\"http:\/\/www.gettyimages.com\/detail\/2219353246\" 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:'LTXi81O0TDh4Cv3btCfoJg',sig:'76DIXfzZdJrl002DdQDoSUuuMvNWbhWoB3TDHpyDSv0=',w:'594px',h:'396px',items:'2219353246',caption: true ,tld:'com',is360: false })});<\/script><script src='\/\/embed-cdn.gettyimages.com\/widgets.js' charset='utf-8' async><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Jesika Maleckova vs Rebecca Sramkova<\/p>\n<p>Head-to-head: First meeting<\/p>\n<p>Maleckova, the 30-year-old from the Czech Republic, will benefit from the home crowd in this encounter, but Sramkova is having a breakout year that has pushed her ranking to near the Top 30. Sramkova relies on both a strong baseline and net game, and she\u2019ll likely dictate most of the rallies. Maleckova has lost all her three WTA Tour level matches, but this is her first Tour-level match at home&#8211;something that will give her nothing to lose on Monday.<br \/>\n<em>Prediction: Sramkova in 2<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Main Photo Credit: Mike Frey-Imagn Images<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The final European WTA Tour tournament of 2025 has arrived, and 32 players will look for a WTA 250 title just before hitting the hard courts in North America. There are no byes in this event, so all the top seeds&#8211;such as No. 2 seed Rebecaa Sramkova&#8211;will have to hit the ground running early on [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4624,"featured_media":80435,"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":[5874,15921,17905,17906,13413,16388,16249,16258,2373,2369,288,15694,8604,15699,11652,5702],"class_list":["post-87188","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-predictions","tag-elisabetta-cocciaretto","tag-elisabetta-cocciaretto-predictions","tag-jesika-maleckova","tag-jesika-maleckova-predictions","tag-lucrezia-stefanini","tag-lucrezia-stefanini-predictions","tag-rebecca-sramkova","tag-rebecca-sramkova-predictions","tag-tennis-picks","tag-tennis-predictions","tag-viktorija-golubic","tag-viktorija-golubic-predictions","tag-viktoriya-tomova","tag-viktoriya-tomova-predictions","tag-wta-prague","tag-wta-prague-predictions"],"modified_by":"Yesh Ginsburg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/tennis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87188","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\/4624"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/tennis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=87188"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/tennis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87188\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":87195,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/tennis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87188\/revisions\/87195"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/tennis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/80435"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/tennis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=87188"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/tennis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=87188"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/tennis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=87188"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}