Sara Sorribes Tormo vs. Magda Linette – Prediction – WTA Ostrava (Czech Republic) 19.10.2020

Preview and players comparison.

Sorribes Tormo is not particularly a threatening player indoors, but she leads the head-to-head by a clean 2-0. She edged Linette, 6-4, 4-6, 7-6, in two hours and 48 minutes in the quarterfinal of Bogota in 2017, and needed to rally from a set deficit in the qualifyings of Wuhan in 2018 to win 4-6, 6-2, 6-3, in two hours and 18 minutes.

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Magda Linette is set to finish inside the top 50 for the second year in a row due to the effective ranking freeze. The Pole is able to achieve this milestone despite the fact that she has won just 11 matches across as many tournament outings. She will start off her Ostrava campaign with a 5-9 season record against top 100 opponents. Linette, who was initially slated to play the qualifying of this tournament, is seeking to collect just her second main draw victory at a Premier-level tournament since March 2019; she defeated Ostapenko at Rome last month. Moreover, it has been three years since she picked up her latest first-round win at a Premier 700 event.

Coming off a mixed clay season, Sara Sorribes Tormo needed some good fortune to clear the qualifying hurdles of Ostrava. She started with a straightforward win over Ana Bogdan, 6-4, 6-4, but benefited from the finger injury-led retirement of Anna Blinkova in the final round while trailing by a set but leading the second set by 5-2. While world no. 40 Linette would only amasse two wins on dirt this season (2-3), Sorribes Tormo claimed her career’s biggest professional title at W100 Cagnes-Sur-Mer, France exactly a month ago, en route dropping no sets across five matches. This was preceded by a WTA quarterfinal finish at Prague, here at Czech Republic.

Match Info and Live Scores.