World number 67 Elisabetta Cocciaretto will face the 84th-ranked Lauren Davis in the final of the 2023 Hobart International on Saturday, January 14. Get the live streaming options of this Elisabetta Cocciaretto v Lauren Davis match along with its preview, head to head, and tips here.
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Elisabetta Cocciaretto v Lauren Davis Head to Head
There has been one previous meeting between these two and it came at the Guadalajara Open in 2021. Cocciaretto had won that quarterfinal in straight sets.
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Cocciaretto Sends Kenin On Her Way
Before the start of this tournament, Cocciaretto had never seen the inside of the top 60 WTA Rankings. Nor had she reached the final of a WTA tournament. By the end of it, she would have achieved both.
In fact, even if Cocciaretto doesn’t win this final, she would have broken into the top 50 for the first time ever. A win could take her closer to the top 40. And she has managed that with a sterling win over the pre-match favourite Sofia Kenin in their semifinals.
Cocciaretto staved off a fighting Kenin challenge to carve out a 7-5, 4-6, 6-1 victory in a match lasting two hours and seven minutes.
After exchanging early breaks with Kenin in the first set, Cocciaretto saved a set-point in the 10th game and then clinched a topsy-turvy set in the 12th.
She then lost her serve on two separate occasions after having gone 2-1 ahead with a break of serve in the second set but swatted the Kenin serve away in the third. Breaking Kenin three times in the third set, Cocciaretto also saved five break-points to add to her opponent’s frustrations.
Can she now win her maiden title?
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Davis Wastes No Time on Blinkova
While Cocciaretto needed to put up a fighting display against Kenin, Davis did not have to spend too much time on court for her semifinal.
The American needed just over an hour and a half to complete a 6-3, 6-3 drubbing of Anna Blinkova to make it to her first WTA final since January 2017. Yep, six long years!
The match did not start off the way Davis would have liked with Blinkova breaking in her very first service game but from there on there was no looking back.
The world number 84 retaliated with three successive breaks of serves in in the fifth, seventh and ninth games respectively and then again in the fourth game of the second set. Davis missed out on a match-point in the eighth game off her opponent’s serve but then served to love to make an entry into the final.
This follows a couple of straight-set wins in the qualifiers before Davis routed Sloane Stephens, Ysaline Bonaventure and Xinyu Wang in the previous rounds.
Can she now take down Cocciaretto here?
Cocciaretto v Davis Prediction and Tip
Both players will be hungry for the title and go in with not much to choose between them. A case of whoever plays better on the day but this could see a three-setter.
Tips:
- Moderate Risk Tip: Three sets in the match: 5/4 (Click Here to Bet with bet365)
- High Risk Tip: Davis to win in three sets: 3/1 (Click Here to Bet with 888Sport)
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The 2023 Hobart International will be played from January 9 to January 14. 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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