World No. 40 Zhu Lin will take on World No. 58 Lauren Davis in the first round of the 2023 French Open on Tuesday, May 30. Get the predictions and odds of this Zhu Lin v Lauren Davis match along with its preview, head-to-head, and tips here.
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Zhu Lin v Lauren Davis Head to Head
Zhu Lin and Lauren Davis have not faced off before this.
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Zhu Lin caught fire at the start of the season. The 29-year-old started the season with a quarterfinal run in Auckland. That was a precursor of what was to come.
Lin played breathtaking tennis in dispatching top-10 player Maria Sakkari at the Australian Open. The Chinese woman reached the fourth round of a Grand Slam for the first time in Melbourne where she lost in three sets to two-time champion Azarenka.
Less than a month later, Lin rode on that wave of momentum, heading to Hua Hin and sweeping past the field in Thailand to win her second career title.
Although she played at a high level in Monterrey, she came up short against eventual champion Donna Vekic, losing the semifinals there.
Lin hasn’t quite managed to hit her stride since, losing at the first hurdle in Indian Wells, Miami and Madrid. She didn’t play in Rome, so just the one match in the Spanish capital that she contested on clay coming to Roland Garros.
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Lauren Davis has enjoyed a superb. Like Lin, Davis has won a WTA title this season, hers coming in the second week of January in Hobart.
Even though she didn’t set the world alight in Melbourne, the American has got her ranking closer to the top 50.
Davis, unlike Zhu Lin, will arrive in Paris with plenty of momentum. She recently reached two semifinals on clay, first at the WTA 125K in Reus and the Strasbourg 250 where she saved match points in an incredible quarterfinal against Anastasia Pavluichenkova.
Her campaign in Strasbourg ended at the hands of Anna Blinkova although she appeared to struggle physically from the aftereffects of that chaotic match against Pavlyuchenkova.
Davis has a mediocre record at the French Open throughout her career, winning her first-round match there twice in nine trips.
Lin v Davis Prediction and Tip
Davis’ pyrrhic win over Pavyuchenkova might end up costing her big time in Paris. She has a shoddy record at Roland Garros and if Lin finds form out of nowhere, this could be an upset in the making.
Tips:
- Low Risk Tip: Over 18.5 games in the match: 1/2
- Moderate Risk Tip: Lin to win a set: 4/5
The 2023 French Open will be played from May 28 to June 11. 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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