{"id":97129,"date":"2026-02-01T16:54:23","date_gmt":"2026-02-01T21:54:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/tennis\/?p=97129"},"modified":"2026-02-01T16:54:23","modified_gmt":"2026-02-01T21:54:23","slug":"wta-cluj-napoca-day-2-predictions-raducanu-minnen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/tennis\/2026\/02\/01\/wta-cluj-napoca-day-2-predictions-raducanu-minnen\/","title":{"rendered":"WTA Cluj-Napoca Day 2 Predictions Including Emma Raducanu vs Greet Minnen"},"content":{"rendered":"

Emma Raducanu will play for the first time since splitting with Francisco Roig<\/a> on Day 2 in Cluj-Napoca. She faces an interesting matchup against the veteran Greet Minnen. That contest and two others are predicted in this article. We here at LWOT predict the other WTA Cluj-Napoca matches, including Karolina Pliskova vs Anastasia Zakharova<\/a>, separately.<\/p>\n

WTA Cluj-Napoca Day 2 Predictions<\/h2>\n

Kaja Juvan vs Elena Bertea<\/h4>\n

Head-to-head: First meeting<\/p>\n

Bertea is a local wild card who has been given an opportunity despite her career-high ranking being No. 299. This will be a great experience for her regardless of the final result. Juvan has yet to win a match this season, and this is the best draw she could have gotten to change that. Bertea will likely get a few games and have some moments, but the more experienced Juvan should triumph.
\nPrediction: Juvan in 2<\/em><\/p>\n

Olga Danilovic vs Miriam Bulgaru<\/h4>\n

Head-to-head: Danilovic 1-1 Bulgaru<\/p>\n

Danilovic has made significant improvements on hard courts in the past 18 months. Although the Serbian remains more inconsistent on the surface compared to her favorite clay, she will be a title contender for any WTA 250 she enters. Home favorite Bulgaru has not played since the Canberra International almost a month ago. Her achievements and overall game do not come near matching Danilovic’s. The former world No. 32 also defeated Venus Williams at the Australian Open in front of a crowd fiercely supporting the American. Therefore, the Romanian fans will definitely not intimidate her.
\nPrediction: Danilovic in 2<\/em><\/p>\n

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Emma Raducanu vs Greet Minnen<\/h4>\n

Head-to-head: Raducanu 1-0 Minnen<\/p>\n

Raducanu’s split with Roig<\/a> was not surprising. After losing in the second round of the Australian Open to Anastasia Potapova, the 2021 US Open champion said she wanted to play in a different way than recently<\/a>. That recent development makes Raducanu’s level in this match somewhat uncertain. However, the 23-year-old has parted ways with several coaches in her career, and has played without a permanent one a few times. Raducanu’s best tennis is much better than Minnen’s, and I think she can handle this challenge.
\nPrediction: Raducanu in 2<\/em><\/p>\n

Main Photo Credit: Mike Frey-Imagn Images<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Emma Raducanu will play for the first time since splitting with Francisco Roig on Day 2 in Cluj-Napoca. She faces an interesting matchup against the veteran Greet Minnen. That contest and two others are predicted in this article. We here at LWOT predict the other WTA Cluj-Napoca matches, including Karolina Pliskova vs Anastasia Zakharova, separately. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4708,"featured_media":78463,"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":[43530,43531,11218,16189,8595,15930,6217,15957,19037,19038,3940,16296,2373,2369,16541],"class_list":["post-97129","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-predictions","tag-elena-bertea","tag-elena-bertea-predictions","tag-emma-raducanu","tag-emma-raducanu-predictions","tag-greet-minnen","tag-greet-minnen-predictions","tag-kaja-juvan","tag-kaja-juvan-predictions","tag-miriam-bulgaru","tag-miriam-bulgaru-predictions","tag-olga-danilovic","tag-olga-danilovic-predictions","tag-tennis-picks","tag-tennis-predictions","tag-wta-cluj-napoca-predictions"],"modified_by":"Yesh Ginsburg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/tennis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/97129","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\/4708"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/tennis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=97129"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/tennis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/97129\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":97157,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/tennis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/97129\/revisions\/97157"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/tennis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/78463"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/tennis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=97129"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/tennis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=97129"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/tennis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=97129"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}