Elina Svitolina – Iva Jovich. Forecast and preview for the WTA 250 semifinals in Auckland

On January 10, at the tennis tournament in Oakland, Elina Svitolina (WTA 13) – Iva Jovic (WTA 35) will play their semi-final match.

The meeting will start at 08:00 Kyiv time.

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

Elina Svitolina

The first racket of Ukraine wants to immediately take the title this season – there are all prerequisites for this. In Oakland, Svitolina is the first seed, so she will not meet anyone higher than her here.

With each meeting at this tournament, the tennis player becomes more and more difficult. In the first round, she easily beat Varvara Grachova – 6:3, 6:1. The second opponent was Katie Boulter, here she also managed to win in two sets – 7:5, 6:4. The match in the quarterfinals against another Briton, Sonai Kartal, was extremely difficult, which she managed to beat in three sets – 6:4, 6:7, 7:6.

In the third set, Elina made a comeback from 3:5. In the Live rating, the Ukrainian is already on the 12th line, the top ten is very close.

Iva Jovich

The American is not yet familiar to fans, although she occupies a solid position in the world classification, in live she is already in 30th place. Jovic rose to fame last season when she won four tournaments, 2 ITF, one WTA 125 and one WTA 250.

The athlete turned 18 only in December, so the potential is definitely there. At this tournament, the tennis player beat two opponents from the Czech Republic, first Knutson – 4:6, 6:1, 6:0, and then Beilek – 7:6, 6:4. In the last match, there was a victory over the Belgian Kostulas – 6:2, 7:6. Jovic also played here in doubles with Aleksandra Eala, being eliminated at the semi-final stage.

Forecast

Rivals have never played against each other before, which is not surprising, given the age of the American tennis player. Jovic is 13 years younger, although I do not think that Svitolina will give in to her rival in terms of endurance. The Ukrainian is cited as the favorite, she is higher in the rating, has more experience. It will be difficult for the American psychologically as well, because she does not often play against opponents of this level.

In the final, they will have to play against the winner of the pair Eala – Van. It is difficult to predict the course of this match, I think there will be an intrigue, I risk betting on a total of more than 20.5 games for 1.8.