Katerina Siniakova vs Elina Avanesyan Prediction & Betting Tips - WTA Linz

Prediction published on 26/01/2025, 15:26  by Steve Ashfield | Modified on 26/01/2025 at 16:26 in Tennis Predictions

Sunday saw Katerina Siniakova win the Women's Doubles title at the Australian Open. Siniakova returns to singles action and faces seventh seed Elina Avanesyan in round one of the Upper Austria Ladies Linz tournament. Here's our match prediction.

Siniakova is at 53rd in the singles rankings but top of the list in doubles. The Czech lost in round one of the singles at the Australian Open. A tough draw saw her face Iga Swiatek but she did take seven games off the Pole.

Before that, the 28-year-old reached the last 32 of the Brisbane International, Towards the end of last year, Siniakova got to the last four of the Guangzhou Open in China.

Elina Avanesyan is 49th in the singles rankings but also lost in round one of the Australian Open. The Armenian lost in three sets to Yulia Putintseva. A good start had been made to the year though with a win over Paula Badosa in Brisbane and a semi-final in Hobart.

The 22-year-old has had most of her success playing on clay but as seen in Hobart is also capable on this surface. The winner of this match will face either wild card Eva Lys (who reached round four of the Australian Open) or a qualifier. We go for over 19.5 games to be played in this match.