Fiona Ferro of France, the number two seed and world 45, will play compatriot and wildcard Clara Burel, the world 218, in the quarter-final of the 2021 WTA Lyon on Friday, March 5. The match is scheduled for 7.30 pm local time (BST 6.30 pm). Get the live streaming options for this match between Fiona Ferro and Clara Burel.
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Fiona Ferro v Clara Burel Head to Head
The pair have never met before. This will be the first match between the 23-year-old French woman, and her young compatriot, four years younger.
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Ferro, Now Favourite to Win in Lyon
Ferro is into the quarter-final on home soil in Lyon, after a comparatively easy outing against the Czech qualifier Tereza Martincova. She had taken the first set and had just broken her opponent for the third time, when Martincova was forced to retire with a back problem.
Not that Ferro would have been complaining about that, having been pushed all the way in the first round by another qualifier, the Pole Magdalena Frech.
However, although she has not played particularly well this week, the tournament is opening up for her. With the elimination of the top seed Ekaterina Alexandrova, she is now the highest ranked player left in the competition and can begin to dream of winning her third WTA title, and her first since Palermo last year.
Burel, a French Teenage Wildcard
Burel is a former junior world number one who got to the third round of the French Open last October, and qualified for the Australian Open for the second time, although this time she did not get past the first round stage.
She was given a wildcard for this event and was drawn against another Frenchwoman, Alize Cornet, the number five seed in the first round. That turned out to be a battle but Burel in the end out-lasted her more experienced opponent and clinched victory in the third set.
That resulted in a second round match with Aliaksandra Sasnovich, and it became a war of attrition in the first two sets, Burel winning the first and Sasnovich the second.
However, Burel ran away with the third and Sasnovich’s game deserted her and the teenager took the set to love, to earn her quarter-final place.
Ferro v Burel Prediction & Tip
Ferro knows that the tournament is now opening up for her, and she has an excellent chance to win the event this week. Burel has done well to get this far, but this is unknown territory for her in terms of a senior WTA event and Ferro should have too much experience and know-how for her,
Tip: Ferro to win in straight sets: 6/4 (Sign up here with bet365 to get excellent odds!)
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