{"id":89077,"date":"2025-08-21T17:13:23","date_gmt":"2025-08-21T21:13:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/tennis\/?p=89077"},"modified":"2025-08-21T18:48:56","modified_gmt":"2025-08-21T22:48:56","slug":"wta-cleveland-quarterfinal-predictions-samsonova-cirstea","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/tennis\/2025\/08\/21\/wta-cleveland-quarterfinal-predictions-samsonova-cirstea\/","title":{"rendered":"WTA Cleveland Quarterfinal Predictions Including Liudmila Samsonova vs Sorana Cirstea"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>After a difficult Wednesday full of rain, we&#8217;re finally seeing some WTA action again in Cleveland. Three quarterfinals are already set, with Eva Lys granting Anastasia Zakharova a walkover in one of them. We&#8217;ll add the prediction for the fourth once the line-up is established. Who do you think will make the final four at the 2025 Tennis in the Land?<\/p>\n<h2>WTA Cleveland Quarterfinal Predictions<\/h2>\n<h4>Elsa Jacquemot vs Ann Li<\/h4>\n<p><strong>Head-to-head<\/strong>: First meeting<\/p>\n<p>Both players had to wrap up their second-round matches earlier today, but they likely weren&#8217;t long enough for fatigue to be a major factor (and they&#8217;ll get a similar window of rest anyway). Elsa Jacquemot, with this run, should have a chance at stabilizing in the Top 100, which she just recently managed to break. Not sure her ceiling is as high as Ann Li&#8217;s, and the American hits the bigger ball in this matchup. Li earned a great win over the wunderkind Iva Jovic and should be able to ride that momentum for another victory on the very same day. If she gets on a roll, Jacquemot might struggle to find a way to stop her.<br \/>\n<em>Prediction: Li in 3<\/em><\/p>\n<p><a id=\"TjIw_HK_ROVGnvvZ0J1WwA\" class=\"gie-single\" style=\"color: #a7a7a7; text-decoration: none; font-weight: normal !important; border: none; display: inline-block;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.gettyimages.com\/detail\/2219152171\" 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:'TjIw_HK_ROVGnvvZ0J1WwA',sig:'aJ1KrDS08OewaQJbiISkkjJ2owPmKxWMFIdjn4czM6Y=',w:'594px',h:'396px',items:'2219152171',caption: true ,tld:'com',is360: false })});<\/script><script src='\/\/embed-cdn.gettyimages.com\/widgets.js' charset='utf-8' async><\/script><\/p>\n<h4>Viktorija Golubic vs Xinyu Wang<\/h4>\n<p><strong>Head-to-head<\/strong>: First meeting<\/p>\n<p>Viktorija Golubic eventually pulled away from Katie Boulter, but her match hadn&#8217;t even begun when Xinyu Wang was already declared the winner over Talia Gibson earlier today. That could be an issue if they manage to wrap up their quarterfinal just a few hours later. Besides, the No. 2 seed has been in strong form since reaching the Berlin final in June (lost to Marketa Vondrousova) and would have been a considerable favorite over Golubic regardless of that extra factor.<em><br \/>\nPrediction: Wang in 3<\/em><\/p>\n<h4>Liudmila Samsonova vs Sorana Cirstea<\/h4>\n<p><strong>Head-to-head<\/strong>: Samsonova 1-0<\/p>\n<p>Liudmila Samsonova absolutely destroyed the field at this event <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/tennis\/2022\/10\/02\/liudmila-samsonova-wta-tour\/\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_self\">three years ago<\/a>, barely dropping games in all five matches. The Russian hasn&#8217;t been quite as dominant this week, but it wouldn&#8217;t be the first time that she picks up her game the week before a Slam. She needs some momentum after losing early in Montreal and Cincinnati and while she isn&#8217;t the most consistent player, she should have a bit more to offer than the post-prime version of Sorana Cirstea. The No. 1 seed will have the firepower advantage and clearly enjoys the conditions in Cleveland with her heavy artillery standing out even more than usual.<em><br \/>\nPrediction: Samsonova in 2<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Main Photo Credit: Jerry Lai-USA TODAY Sports<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After a difficult Wednesday full of rain, we&#8217;re finally seeing some WTA action again in Cleveland. Three quarterfinals are already set, with Eva Lys granting Anastasia Zakharova a walkover in one of them. We&#8217;ll add the prediction for the fourth once the line-up is established. Who do you think will make the final four at [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2968,"featured_media":57501,"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":[16396,10120,15969,12584,16905,17899,7278,15829,602,15445,2373,2369,288,15694,16624,8154,16157],"class_list":["post-89077","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-predictions","tag-anastasia-zakharova","tag-ann-li","tag-ann-li-predictions","tag-elsa-jacquemot","tag-elsa-jacquemot-predictions","tag-eva-lys","tag-liudmila-samsonova","tag-liudmila-samsonova-predictions","tag-sorana-cirstea","tag-sorana-cirstea-predictions","tag-tennis-picks","tag-tennis-predictions","tag-viktorija-golubic","tag-viktorija-golubic-predictions","tag-wta-cleveland-predictions","tag-xinyu-wang","tag-xinyu-wang-predictions"],"modified_by":"Damian Kust","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/tennis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89077","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=89077"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/tennis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89077\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":89122,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/tennis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89077\/revisions\/89122"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/tennis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/57501"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/tennis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=89077"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/tennis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=89077"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/tennis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=89077"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}