Daria Kasatkina vs Emma Raducanu Prediction & Betting Tips - WTA Korea Open

Prediction published on 19/09/2024, 08:56  by Steve Ashfield | Modified on 19/09/2024 at 09:53 in Tennis Predictions

Top seed Daria Kasatkina faces unseeded Emma Raducanu in the Korea Open quarter-finals. The winner will take on either fourth seed Diana Shnaider or fifth-seeded Marta Kostyuk in the last four. Here's our match prediction.

Kasatkina is up to 12th in the live rankings and will return to the top ten if winning this hard court WTA 500 tournament in Seoul. Her career-high is eighth and that was achieved two years ago.

The Russian is also 12th in the WTA Live Race and winning this tournament will boost her chances of making it into the end-of-season Tour Finals. One match has been played by her to reach this quarter-final.

That saw her defeat unseeded Hailey Baptiste in straight sets, losing just six games. The 27-year-old is hoping this week ends with her third hard court final of the year after getting to that stage in Adelaide and Abu Dhabi.

Emma Raducanu continues to climb back up the rankings. The former world number ten has risen from 70th to 54th in the live rankings thanks to this run to the Korea Open quarter-final. Beating Kasatkina will take her back into the top 50.

Wins this week have come over unseeded Peyton Stearns and the eighth-seed Yue Yuan. Both matches were won in straight sets. It's only the third time this year that the 21-year-old has won two successive matches in hard court tournaments. 

Not since Indian Wells in 2023 has she won three hard court matches in a row. Raducanu is facing Kasatkina for the third time and has lost the previous two in straight sets. One was played on a hard court.

We tip Kasatkina to win this match.