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Kasatkina vs Jabeur: will Daria win her third title of the season?
In 2021 Russian player already won two titles. On June 20, at Birmingham Daria Kasatkina will fight against Ons Jabeur for the third title of the season. Should we expect another victory from Daria? You can find out in our prediction.
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Daria Kasatkina
AustraliaIn 2021 Daria Kasatkina gained self-confidence and is performing great again. Russian player won two titles at Melbourne and at Saint-Petersburg. Now she is approaching the final of Birmingham tournament.
Odd enough that Daria is having another successful tournament on the grass. This surface is not the best one for her style of play. But in Birmingham Kasatkina proved that she can play against opponents, who play aggressively and have a powerful serve. She recorded victories over Hercog (4:6, 6:3, 6:3) and Kostyuk (6:2, 7:5) in first two rounds.
Russian player is on a fantastic form now. On Friday Daria played two matches, but that wasn't a problem for her. At first she beat Martincova in three sets (6:4, 2:6, 6:0). And then put up even more impressive performance against Vandeweghe (6:2, 6:4).
Ons Jabeur
TunisiaOns Jabeur is now on a 24th spot in the WTA rankings, but she never won a WTA title in her career. In 2021 she reached the final at Charleston, but lost the decisive match to Sharma (6:2, 5:7, 1:6).
In Birmingham Jabeur won four matches. She defeated McNally, Watson and Potapova in straight sets. The most difficult match for Tunisian player was in the round of 16 against Fernandez. She managed to record a win only on a tiebreak in the decisive set (6:4, 3:6, 7:6).
We should note that Jabeur already played two matches against Kasatkina, but failed to record a win. Last match was in the final of a Kremlin Cup in 2018 (6:2, 6:7, 4:6).
Trends
СтавкаSets performance: 2>1
In two head-to-head matches more games were played in the second set than in the first one
СтавкаTiebreak: yes
Players had two head-to-head matches and in both of them tiebreaks were played
Tip and bets
Kasatkina and Jabeur gained an excellent form for the start of the grass part of the season and they deserved to play in the final of Birmingham tournament. Russian player defeated her today opponent twice in her career, but in both of those matches Daria lost the first set. Ons usually loses concentration during the match, that's why she failed to win.
We should also note that Tunisian player never won the WTA tournament, while Kasatkina already has four titles and two of them were won in 2021. We offer a prediction on Russian player to win.
Our prediction - Kasatkina to win
It's hard to expect a one-sided match in the final of that prestigious WTA tournament. In both head-to-head matches players had a set exchange, so we expect a long match here.
Our second bet is on total over 21 games
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