2022 edition st. Petersburg Women’s Cup It will kick off on February 7 and will feature some big names like Maria Sakkari, Anett Kontaveit, and Elena Rybakina.
Tournament Details:
- Tournament: St. Petersburg Women’s Cup 2022
- History: 7 – 13 February 2022
- The number of participants: 32 (Singles), 16 (Doubles)
- place: St. Petersburg, Russia
- Surface: Hard Court
- prize money: $703,580
- defensive champion: Darya Kasatkina
Best Seeds in St. Petersburg Ladies Cup 2022
- Maria Sakkari
- Anett Kontaveit
- Elena Rybakina
- Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova
- Belinda Bencic
- Petra Kvitova
- Jelena Ostapenko
- Elise Mertens
Women’s Singles Draw Analysis and Forecast
Upper Half
Maria Sakkari will make headlines in the first half of the draw. She will play against local Anastasia Potapova in the first round and then face the winner of Camila Giorgi and Ekaterina Alexandrova in the round of 16. 8th seeded Elise Mertens will face in-form French Alize Cornet in the first round. She will face Kamilla Rakhimova or Petra Martic in the second round. Mertens and Sakkari are expected to face each other in the quarterfinals.
Kazakh third seed Elena Rybakina, St. He will open his campaign against an elimination match in St. Petersburg. She will then face Tereza Martincova or Vera Zvonareva in the round of 16 and draw with 6th seeded Petra Kvitova. The Czech will also face a qualifying round and will face either Shuai Zhang or Irina Camelia Begu in the second round.
First Semi-Final Prediction: Maria Sakkari vs Elena Rybakina
lower half
Estonian second seed Anett Kontaveit will headline and face off in the lower half of the draw. Jil Teichmann On the opening tour of Switzerland. In the round of 16, he will face the winner of the match between Marketa Vondrousova and Sorana Cirstea. Olympic champion Belinda Bencic will face Veronika Kudermetova in the first round and will then face Belgian Alison Van Uytvanck in Round 16. It can be Kontaveit and Bencic. They faced off very well in the quarterfinals.
French Open runner-up Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova will face Jaqueline Cristian in the opening round and will face either Aliaksandra Sasnovich or Magda Linette in the second round. 7th seed Jelena Ostapenko will honk against Xinyu Wang in the first round and could face Andrea Petkovic or a knockout in the round of 16.
Second Semi-Final Prediction: Jelena Ostapenko vs Anett Kontaveit
semi-finals
In the first semi-finals, Maria Sakkari will face Elena Rybakina. Both Sakkari and Rybakina are very hard hitters and like to take control from the baseline. Rybakina has a better game for hard courts, but Sakkari also bodes well on the offensive side. Expect a tight match with Sakkari who made it to the final.
Two tough opponents, Jelena Ostapenko, will face Anett Kontaveit in the second semi-final. They both have a very solid defensive play and therefore will run each other for every point. Kontaveit managed to reach the final with the form in the last 6 months.
st. Petersburg Women’s Cup Final: Maria Sakkari vs Anett Kontaveit
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The two highest ranked players of the tournament, Maria Sakkari and Anett Kontaveit, will compete for the title. Greek has a very offensive style of play, while Kontaveit is a hard court player with more defensive play. st. Petersburg’s fast courts should be an advantage for the Estonian and he can go on to win his first title of the season.
Champion: Anett Kontaveit
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