Caroline Garcia v Leylah Fernandez Live Streaming, Prediction & Preview for Australian Open 2023: Can In-Form Fernandez Test the World No. 4?

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World number four Caroline Garcia has a challenging match-up in the form of the 40th-ranked Leylah Fernandez in the second round of the 2023 Australian Open on Thursday, January 19. Get the live streaming options of this Caroline Garcia v Leylah Fernandez match along with its preview, head to head, and tips here.

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Caroline Garcia v Leylah Fernandez Head to Head

No previous matches have been played between Garcia and Fernandez.

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Garcia Brushes Sebov Aside

24-year-old Katherine Sebov has moved up to 190th in the world, her career-best and qualified for this tournament with three successive wins including one against the in-form Linda Noskova.

Against Garcia, she found the going a lot tougher though as the world number four earned the right to make the second round with an easy win over Sebov.

Garcia won 6-3, 6-0 in a mere 66 minutes, with the Frenchman clinching the last nine games in a row; Sebov’s challenge getting extinguished at 3-3 in the first set. Two break-points against Garcia were saved with ease while she broke her opponent four times of the six opportunities she got.

The world number four has featured at the Australian Open 12 times before this and made the fourth round just once. As a world number four, her path through to that round is a lot easier but she now faces a challenging second round opponent.

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Fernandez Needs Some Time against Cornet

Fernandez will be facing a Frenchwoman in the second round after having defeat another in her opener.

Unlike Garcia, however, Alize Cornet had come into the tournament on the back of very little form and while Fernandez herself hasn’t had too many results going her way, she was a 3/5 favourite to clinch it.

And while Fernandez won it in straight sets, she needed to overcome a slow start before finding her rhythm in the second.

Fernandez won 7-5, 6-2 in an hour and 42 minutes as both broke serve once to take it to 5-5. The Canadian went 6-5 ahead on serve but Cornet then failed to hold her own to give her opponent the set.

In the second, the former world number 13 broke twice to ease to a win and make it to the second round at Australian Open for the first time.

Can she manage the same consistency against Garcia?

Garcia v Fernandez Prediction and Tip

Garcia will not have it easy and while the bookmakers have her at 2/5 to win this, we reckon it could get a lot closer than that. Three sets could also be an option.

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The 2023 Australian Open will be played from January 16 to January 29.  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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