Iga Swiatek vs Marie Bouzkova Prediction & Betting Tips - WTA French Open

Prediction published on 31/05/2024, 00:53  by Daniel Ngulu | Modified on 31/05/2024 at 00:58 in Tennis Predictions

Top seed Iga Swiatek continues with her French Open title defence with a gane against unseeded Marie Bouzkova in the third round. The winner will then set up a fourth-round showdown with Wang Xinyu or Anastasia Potapova. Iga Swiatek is coming off a gruelling three-set showdown with multiple Grand Slam winner Naomi Osaka. Their second-round battle lasted nearly three hours, and Swiatek required seven games in the two sets she won. The world number one has won 14 straight matches and improved her record to 40-4. With this rich vein of form, she is the high favourite to win a third successive French Open title. Swiatek is the two-time defending champion here and has won three titles overall. She has also in her five appearances never failed to reach the second week of competition.

Marie Bouzkova is having a superb French Open campaign. She has won both her matches without dropping a set and has advanced past the second round for the first time. The Czech player defeated lucky loser Jana Fett by the loss of four games in the last round. This win improved her record to 12-10 and was her seventh on clay. Bouzkova is having a strong clay court season and has lost only twice on the surface. Her performances on clay have yielded her first tour final of the season. This was in Bogota, her first tour final on clay. Advancing to this round has propelled the 25-year-old seven places in the live ranking to number 35.