World number 67 and Croatia’s Donna Vekic faces the 147th-ranked Maria Carle of Argentina on the third day of the 2023 United Cup to played on Saturday, December 31. Get the live streaming options of this Donna Vekic v Maria Carle match along with its preview, head to head, and tips here.
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Donna Vekic v Maria Carle Head to Head
Vekic and Carle will be facing off for the first time in a competitive encounter.
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Vekic Hoping to Claw Back to Her Best
Vekic has a career-best ranking of 19th and even till before the pandemic struck, she was a top-25 player in the world.
Unfortunately for her, Vekic failed to find any kind of traction on the return of tennis following the pandemic break. She ended the 2020 season ranked 32nd, and around eight months into 2021 had crashed out of the top 100.
By the second week of February 2022, Vekic was ranked 112th in the world – her lowest since 2016 – with injuries playing a huge role in her on-court issues.
Since then, however, Vekic has slowly tried to get back to her best. At times the old issues have returned as was evidenced by her straight-set loss to Harriet Dart in the first round at Nottingham, her failure to qualify for the Cincinnati Open and another opening defeat at Slovenia to Diane Parry.
More recently, however, there have been signs of Vekic of old returning to the fray. A final at the San Diego Open after starting out as a qualifier saw her defeat Maria Sakkari, Karolina Pliskova, Aryna Sabalenka and Danielle Collins – probably her best string of results.
She ended the year with a second round appearance at Guadalajara immediately after this and will hope she continues with similar form coming into this new year.
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Carle No Match for Cornet
She is at her career-best ranking of 147th in the world but Carle was unable to find any footing against Alize Cornet in her opening match of the season.
The Argentine fell to a 6-2, 6-1 defeat at the hands of the Frenchwoman in a match lasting an hour and 16 minutes. There was a brief passage of play in the second set when Carle showed some fight, breaking Cornet back in the third game but failed to win a game after that to capitulate to an easy defeat.
Carle, who is more of a clay-courter than a hardcourt player, will need to do a lot better this time around against a player who relishes playing on such surfaces.
The only good news for Carle is Vekic’s form isn’t like how it used to be when she was once a top-20 player. Can Carle take advantage of that?
Vekic v Carle Prediction and Tip
While Carle has had some practice having played a match before this, it looks like Vekic is back to some of her former best and should scoop this one.
Tips:
- Low Risk Tip: Vekic to win: 1/2 (Click Here to Bet with bet365)
- Moderate Risk Tip: Vekic to win in straight sets: 11/10 (Click Here to Bet with 888Sport)
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