World number 61 Yulia Putintseva faces the 129th-ranked Leolia Jeanjean in the second round of the 2023 WTA Rabat Open on Wednesday, May 24. Get the predictions and odds of this Yulia Putintseva v Leolia Jeanjean match along with its preview, head to head, and tips here.
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Yulia Putintseva v Leolia Jeanjean Head to Head
No previous matches have been played between Putintseva and Jeanjean before this.
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Local player Aya El Aouni is in very early stages of her tennis career and as a result, has never been ranked higher than 1127th in the world. And her lack of experience playing against a player like Putintseva showed, as did her fighting spirit which was on display for a bit in the second set.
Putintseva still needed nearly an hour and a half before warding off the El Aouni challenge in her opening round, winning 6-1, 6-4.
After a straightforward first set which saw Putintseva get the better of El Aouni’s serve three times, she broke early again to take a 3-0 lead in the second. But just when it all looked to be going her way, Putintseva was broken and the Moroccan player levelled things out at 4-4.
That was about as much steam as she could generate though as Putintseva earned a break-point when El Aouni served to stay in the match, which she duly converted to clinch it.
Putintseva will now be aiming for successive wins for the first time since Hobart in January.
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The 376th-ranked Gabriela Lee wasn’t expected to give Jeanjean much of a fight according to the bookmakers’ odds but she almost snatched the match from under her opponent’s nose.
Jeanjean needed a whopping three hours of on-court time to get past Lee, winning 7-6 (4), 5-7, 6-3 to squeak through to the second round.
A whopping 16 breaks of serves punctuated the encounter accounting for nearly half the number of games in the match – it speaks volumes about how it seemed more a case of who erred lesser in the match.
It was only in the third set that the two players got some control of their serves after both had broken one another in the first two games. At 4-3 though, Jeanjean made a match-deciding break of serve before serving it out to love.
Can she put up a show against Putintseva?
Putintseva v Jeanjean Prediction and Tip
The manner in which Jeanjean served in her opener, it could well be an easy one for Putintseva. Expecting the Kazakh to win in two.
Tips:
- Low Risk Tip: Putintseva to win in straight sets: 4/5
The 2023 WTA Rabat Open will be played from May 21 to 27. You can get all the tennis betting news with our tennis betting blog here. Also get rest of the tennis match previews here.
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