Coco Gauff and Anhelina Kalinina will face each other in the first-round game of the Silicon Valley Classic. The game will start on August 3 at 03:00 UK time.
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Bookmaker Ratings: Prediction One – Handicap (-3.5) for Gauff – 1.44.
Bookmaker Ratings: Prediction Two – Total Games Under 20.5 – 1.73.
Coco Gauff is aiming to make her debut in the top 10 and has a more consistent overall season on the hard court than Kalinina. Moreover, Anhelina was withdrawn from a match at the last tournament and it is far from certain that she has fully recovered and is ready to play in San Jose. In only one of the last ten matches won, Coco has given away a set to her opponents.
When Coco Gauff is on fire, she leaves no chance for her opponents and wins with no sets given up. We expect the match against Kalinina to not be too long today.
Gauff took a short break after Wimbledon, deciding to prepare as well as possible for the American series of tournaments.
At Wimbledon, she did not perform very well. She lost already in the third round to Amanda Anisimova (7-6, 2-6, 1-6). However, the opponent she faced was not the easiest one at this stage of the tournament.
The highlight of Gauff’s success so far this season has been reaching the final of Roland Garros. Coco had a brilliant six-match winning streak before losing in the final to Iga Swiatek (1-6, 3-6).
On the hard court, Coco has also had some good results. She reached the semi-finals in Adelaide earlier this year, reached the quarter-finals in Doha and won two matches in the big tournament in Miami.
Coco Gauff has notched up 9 wins in her last 10 matches against lower-ranked opponents.
Kalinina was unable to finish her match against Katerina Siniakova (3-6, walkover) in Budapest in mid-July. Due to an injury, she had to miss several more tournaments on clay.
Apparently, she simply didn’t want to take any chances before the important tournaments in America.
This season for the first time in her career, Kalinina reached the quarterfinals at the WTA 1000 level. It happened in Madrid, where Anhelina defeated Sloane Stephens (7-5, 6-4), Garbine Muguruza (6-3, 6-0) and Emma Raducanu (6-2, 2-6, 6-4).
It is also worth noting that in late March, Kalinina went three rounds at a major tournament in Miami.
As for the recent successes of Anhelina, we can recall her victory over Maria Sakkari (3-6, 7-5, 6-4) in the second round of the tournament in Eastbourne.
In four of Kalinina’s last five hard-court matches, more than 20 games were played.
In three of Kudermetova’s last five matches, less than 9.5 games were played in the second set. We offer to bet on “2nd Set Games – Under 9.5” with odds of 1.52.
In three of Kalinina’s last five matches, the first set has the better result. We offer to bet on “Sets Scoring: 1>2” with odds of 2.18.
Type of Court – Hard
Speed of Court – 5/10
Gauff’s Rating – 11
Coco Gauff Wins/Losses in 2022 – 10/7
Kalinina’s Rating – 50
Anhelina Kalinina Wins/Losses in 2022 – 18/15
Coco and Anhelina will play their first head-to-head match.
The match will be played at Stadium, San Jose State University, San Jose, California, United States.
We recommend checking out the odds for the Silicon Valley Classic: Gauff vs Kalinina at Helabet and Melbet.