Siniakova vs Krejcikova: a match between two friends

Katerina Siniakova and Barbora Krejcikova are successfully playing together on doubles for quite some time now. On July 16, partners will play against each other in the quarter-final of home tournament at Prague. How is the match between friends going to play out? The answer is in our prediction.

Command Analysis

Katerina Siniakova

Since the start of the current year Katerina Siniakova was trying to find her game and her results were not impressive. Only after transition to clay in April Czech player started to show good results. She reached the quarter-final of Istanbul tournament, the semi-final of Parma tournament and the third round of Roland Garros. She also was a runner-up of Bad Homburg tournament.
On a home tournament at Prague Siniakova played two different matches. In the first round she crushed a low-ranked player, Burrage (6:0, 6:4). In the second round she barely avoided defeat in the match against Smitkova (2:6, 7:6, 6:3).

Barbora Krejcikova

A winner of 2021 Roland Garros Barbora Krejcikova is the main favourite of Prague tournament. So far the 13th WTA player lives up to expectations of the local fans.
In the first round Barbora beat Shinikova pretty easily (6:3, 6:2). After that she had a difficult match against Bonaventure (7:6, 6:4). In that match Krejcikova was not so confident on her serve. Opponents made four breaks during the match.
Trends
СтавкаSecond set: total over 9.5
In last three Siniakova's matches more than nine games were played in the second set

СтавкаTiebreak: yes
Both players had tiebreaks in their previous matches

Tip and bets
One year ago Siniakova and Krejcikova played against each other in a friendly tournament. Barbora recorded a victory in that fixture. Players know each other pretty well, they play regularly on doubles, so they are unlikely to surprise each other. Overall, Krejcikova is looking better throughout the season. We offer to place a bet on her.
Our prediction - Krejcikova to win
Previous matches of Siniakova and Krejcikova on that tournament were pretty long. We think that Katerina and Barbora will put up a great performance for the local fans, may exchange sets to decide a winner in a third set. We recommend to place a bet on total over.
Our second bet is on a total over 20 games