Magdalena Frech vs Astra Sharma Prediction & Betting Tips - WTA Prague Open

Prediction published on 21/07/2024, 06:40  by Daniel Ngulu | Modified on 21/07/2024 at 06:43 in Tennis Predictions

Sixth seed Magdalena Frech begins her 2024 Prague Open campaign with a first-round showdown against unseeded Astra Sharma. The winner of this first career meeting between the two will play Zeynep Sonmez or Dominika Salkova in the second round. In this article, we look at the numbers to offer a prediction for the match.

Frech is in a difficult moment and will be eager to snap a five-game losing streak coming into this encounter. Returning to play on hard court will have her confident of making a winning start. Frech has won 130 matches on hard courts in her career, with 12 coming this year. Her losing run has seen her drop to 57th in the live ranking.

Magdalena Frech produced a fourth-round finish at the Australian Open which remains her biggest highlight of the 2024 season.

Astra Sharma is playing in the main draw in Prague for the first time. She last competed here in 2022 in the qualifying rounds. The Australian is coming off a quarter-final finish in Palermo. Though it was on clay, she will hope to maintain a similar run in Prague.

Sharma has struggled this year, losing 15 times in 24 outings. On hard courts, a surface she has excelled on in the past, she has only featured three times and lost twice. Producing the highlight of her season in Palermo has moved the 28-year-old three places in the live ranking and into 148th.