Elina Svitolina – Anna Kalinskaya. Forecast and announcement for the WTA 1000 match in Doha

On February 11, Elina Svitolina (WTA 9) and Anna Kalinskaya (WTA 28) will play each other in the 1/8 finals of the prestigious tennis tournament in Doha.

The meeting is scheduled to start at 18:30 Kyiv time.

Sport.ua together with a betting partner betting announces the upcoming match!

Elina Svitolina

The first racket of Ukraine this season is worthy of the most pleasant compliments. The athlete has 11 victories in 12 matches. During this period, Svitolina won the tournament in Auckland, reached the semifinals of the Australian major, and also returned to the top 10.

In Doha, the athlete started with the second round, where she quite confidently dealt with a difficult compatriot Dayana Yastremska – 6:1, 6:4. The combination of experience, stability and serious training allows us to show tennis at such a high level now. Svitolina makes excellent use of her strengths and knows how to adapt to her opponents’ style of play. If you manage to get to the quarterfinals, you will have to play with the winner of the Czech derby Karolina Pliskova – Karolina Muhova.

Anna Kalinskaya

In the current season, “Neutralka” played 9 matches, in which they won six. There were no great successes, but the athlete played well. To be clear, in the current season, Kalinskaya lost to such strong opponents as: Victoria Mboko, Jessica Pegula and Iga Svyontek, all in three sets.

In Doha, the tennis player managed to play two matches, in the first round there was a convincing victory over the Spaniard Jessica Buzas Maneiro – 6:2, 6:1. And in the second round, she defeated the strong American Emma Navarro – 7:5, 2:6, 6:2. Since the beginning of the season, Kalinska was able to climb five positions in the rating.

Personal meetings

The tennis players crossed each other three times, in all cases Kalinska lost without a chance in two games. Two matches took place on hard, both last year, first Svitolina won in Dubai – 6:1, 6:2, and then in Montreal – 6:1, 6:1.

Forecast

The Ukrainian is the favorite of the meeting, and there are good reasons for this: Svitolina is higher in the rating, has an advantage in face-to-face meetings, and is also having a better season this season.

It cannot be said that Kalinska is in bad shape, she can impose a serious fight on an uncomfortable opponent. I will take a cautious bet here total more than 19.5 games at 1.61.