Olga Danilovic vs Lucrezia Stefanini Prediction & Betting Tips - WTA Palermo Open

Prediction published on 18/07/2023, 02:18  by Nella Wagah in Tennis Predictions

Unseeded players Olga Danilovic and Lucrezia Stefanini will on Tuesday meet in the first round at the Palermo Ladies Open. Advancing from this tie will set up a second-round showdown with either Mayar Sherif or Jessica Bouzas Maneiro for the winner. Olga Danilovic is in fine form and arrives for this match after winning the title in Bastad. The Serbian defeated top seed Emma Navaro in three sets in the final. She is now on a five-match winning streak which has taken her record for the season to 26 wins in 38 matches. The majority of her victories, 17, have been on clay. This should have her confident of not only winning this match but challenging for the title here. Danilovic has now won two titles in 2023. Before her Bastad success, she had won the Madrid ITF tournament in May, also on clay. She starts the week having moved up two places to 102nd in the live ranking.

Lucrezia Stefanini is also up two places in the live ranking to a new career-high placing of number 105. The Italian arrives at the Country Time Club after her first-round exit at Wimbledon. She lost in straight sets to Anett Kontaveit. Despite the loss, the match represented a huge milestone for her. It was the first time she had made it through to the main draw at SW19. Stefanini will now hope she has a memorable outing here as she plots to win her first match on clay this season. The 25-year-old has played four times on clay in 2023 and has lost all four matches. She is a strong performer on the surface and will not be all too worried by this. Stefanini has compiled a 139-111 record on clay in her career. She has won 24 of the 38 matches she has played thus far and has one finals appearance in the ITF circuit.