Barbora Krejcikova vs Anna Karolína Schmiedlová Prediction & Betting Tips - Women's Olympic Tournament

Prediction published on 30/07/2024, 13:33  by Daniel Ngulu | Modified on 30/07/2024 at 13:37 in Tennis Predictions

Ninth seed Barbora Krejcikova will battle the unseeded Anna Karolina Schmiedlova next in the women’s tennis tournament at the Paris Olympics. The two will square off in the quarter-finals with the winner playing Donna Vekic or Marta Kostyuk next. In this article, we will highlight the stats behind this match and offer a prediction.

Tennis at this year’s Summer Games is being played at the Roland Garros. This is a venue Barbora Krejcikova knows all too well. She triumphed here in 2021 to win the French Open. It is therefore not a coincidence that the Czech player is having a strong run in Paris.

Krejcikova, who arrived here after her Wimbledon success, has won her last 10 matches. She defeated the bronze winner at the Tokyo Games in 2021, in three sets. The world number 10 has now won 16 times this year though still holds a losing record on clay.

Anna Karolina Schmiedlova is a strong clay performer and has won most of her career tour titles on the surface. As a former fourth-rounder at the French Open, the 29-year-old will fancy her chances of causing an upset.

She has already shocked a WTA top 10 ranked player in Paris. Schmiedlova, who has won two of her three matches here, defeated fourth seed Jasmine Paolini in the last round. She won in three sets against the player Krejcikova defeated to lift the Wimbledon title.

The Slovakian has now claimed 14 of her total 25 wins this year on clay and set a new Olympics personal best. Despite progressing to the last eight, Schmiedlova dropped six places to 73rd in the live ranking.