Osaka vs Kudermetova: prediction for the WTA Indian Wells match

USA

Naomi Osaka

Japan

BNP Paribas Open

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12 March 20:00 UTC

Veronika Kudermetova

Russian Federation

On March 13, in the closing match of the game day Naomi Osaka will take on Veronika Kudermetova in the Indian Wells tournament. What to expect from this match? The answer is in our prediction.

Naomi Osaka vs Veronika Kudermetova Prediction and Betting Tips (13.03.2022)

Command Analysis

Naomi Osaka

Japan

Naomi Osaka got off to a confident start in 2022 season. At the first Melbourne tournament she made it to the semifinals, where she was drawn to play against her today opponent, Veronika Kudermetova. But Naomi chose to save the energy for Australian Open and withdrew herself from the match. However, this move didn't help the Japanese player, she was eliminated in the third round of the Major by Amanda Anisimova (6:4, 3:6, 6:7).

Osaka started the Indian Wells tournament with a narrow victory over Sloane Stephens (3:6, 6:1, 6:2). Naomi took some time for adaptation, but then turned things around and crushed the opponent.

Veronika Kudermetova

Russian Federation

In the new season Veronika Kudermetova put up a great performance in two tournaments. Russian player reached the finals at Melbourne and Dubai. But she was unable to get the title - she was defeated by Halep and Ostapenko respectively.

Despite two successful tournaments, Kudermetova is not always so impressive. She left tournaments at Saint Petersburg and Doha after first matches. Kudermetova is starting the Indian Wells tournaments from the second round and maybe the lack of match practice will affect negatively on her performance.

Trends

Ставка1st set: total under 9,5

Only in one of five last matches of Osaka more than nine games were played in the first set

1.61

СтавкаSets performance: 2>1

This bet was successful in three of four latest matches of Kudermetova

2.21

Tip and bets

1.65Handicap (-4) on Osaka

Naomi Osaka played one match in Indian Wells and after a bad first set managed to step up, securing a victory over Stephens. With such a great performance she should be able to get past Kudermetova, who is too inconsistent. Plus, Veronika is lacking match practice.

Our prediction - Osaka to win with a handicap of (-4) games

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1.81total under 21

If Osaka will play like she did in the second and third sets of the first round match, it shouldn't take long for her to record a victory here.

Our second bet is on total under 21 games

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