Irina Maria Bara vs Sara Errani Prediction & Betting Tips - WTA Bogota

Prediction published on 04/04/2024, 06:46  by Ian John in Tennis Predictions

Sara Errani faces Irina Maria Bara in the quarterfinals of the Copa Colsanitas - Bogota on Friday hoping to kick start what has been an inconsistent by the Italian's standards. Her best performance had been a quarterfinal in Cluj-Napoca back in February, where she was well beaten by Karolina Pliskova. Since then, her only win outside of qualifiers for tournaments has come in Charleston in the first round, a 6-3, 6-2 win over Yanina Wickmayer. Her WTA Ranking had dropped to 117th for this tournament as a result, but she has since moved up to 112th in the Live Rankings. Now 36, the Italian has won nine times on the Main Tour in her career and is vastly more experienced than her 29-year-old opponent. In Bogota she defeated Yulia Starodubstseva 6-2, 7-6 (5) in the first round and produced one of her best performances this season, defeating third seed Sara Sorribes Tormo of Spain 6-2, 4-6, 6-4 in a gruelling 3 hour contest where she saved 9 of 15 break points faced.

Her opponent Romanian Irina Bara has spent most of her career playing on the ITF tour, where she has a solid enough record of 317 wins from 193 games. but she has lost 30 of the 46 games she has played on the main tour. She didn't play on the main tour at all in 2023 and her two wins from two means she is already half way to her best performance on the main tour in her career (which was 4 wins in 15 games in 2021). The right-hander is ranked 178th in the world, but her performances in Bogota have moved her up to 153rd in the Live Rankings. She defeated qualifier Katarina Zavatska 2-6, 6-3, 6-4 in the first round and was then taken to another three sets in the second round when defeating Brazil's Laura Pigossi, who had knocked out 5th seed Nadia Podoroska in the first round, with Bara winning another tough match 3-6, 7-6 (3), 6-4.