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Pegula – Pliskova: forecast for the WTA Toronto match
In the second round of the tournament in Toronto on August 8, Jessica Pegula will play against Karolina Pliskova. How will the upcoming meeting go and what reliable bets should you choose today? We recommend that you read the forecast of our expert
Command Analysis
Jessica Pegula
USAPegula has been performing well in Canadian tournaments. Last year, she won in Montreal, and before that, in 2022, she made it to the semifinals in Toronto. Let us remind you that Canadian hard tournaments alternate between Montreal and Toronto. Jessica is undoubtedly betting on defending last year's ranking points. Last week, the American played at the Olympics in Paris, where she hung up her racket following the second round, losing to Svitolina (6-4, 1-6, 3-6). In Toronto, Pegula will start straight from the second round.
Karolina Pliskova
Czech RepublicPliskova had a great grass court tournament in Nottingham in June, where she managed to reach the final. After that success, the Czech tennis player went into the shadows and failed to win a single match in three starts in a row. Karolina broke her losing streak in Toronto. In the first round, in a tense battle, she dealt with Podoroska (6-4, 7-6), scoring 7 aces.
Trends
Total under 2.5 sets bet
Only one of the seven head-to-head matches saw the maximum number of sets played.
1.41Match Tie-Break Bet – Yes
Four of Pliskova's previous seven matches have gone to tiebreaks
3.20Tip and bets
Pegula leads in personal meetings with a score of 4:1 and rightfully receives the status of favorite from bookmakers today. At the same time, Jessica will play only the first match on hard and difficulties are possible when changing the surface. Pliskova has already played one match in Toronto, got game practice, the serve more or less worked in the confrontation with Podoroska. We believe that we should not expect a rout in this pair from the favorite.
Our prediction is Pliskova's victory with a handicap of (+4) games for a coefficient of 1.83 in the bookmaker Winline
Bet on total
Thanks to her powerful serve, Pliskova may well put up a decent fight against Pegula today. It should be noted that Carolina's last 11 matches have featured at least 20 games.
The second bet is total over 20.5 games for 1.75 on the OLIMPBET bookmaker line
Bet on the first set
In the last two head-to-head meetings, more than nine games were played in the opening set. We expect in the forecast that today the most intense struggle will unfold at the beginning of the game.
Forecast - total games in the first set over 9.5 with odds of 1.98
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