Daria Kasatkina vs. Marie Bouzkova: WTA Melbourne Prediction (February 19, 2021)

For the first time in a long period, Daria Kasatkina made her way to the final of the WTA tournament. The last time a Russian tennis player won Kremlin Cup in 2018 at home.

At the tournament in Melbourne, Daria had a difficult tournament group. However, the current excellent game shape allowed the Russian tennis player to find approaches to diverse opponents’ games. In the last three matches in the competition, Kasatkina prevailed over her compatriot Pavlyuchenkova (2-6, 6-1, 6-4), Martic (6-0, 6-4), and Collins, who was in excellent shape (6-2, 6-7, 6-1).

The talented representative of the glorious Czech women's tennis school, Marie Bouzkova in Melbourne, had an entirely simple tournament group in the first three rounds. In the first round, Kovinic withdrew from the game, winning the first set. Then Marie’s opponents were not the most rated - Zhu Lin (6-4, 6-2) and Da Silva Fick (6-1. 6-1).

In the last two games of the tournament, Bouzkova with great difficulty overcame the resistance of Teichmann (6-3, 4-6, 6-2) and Andreescu (6-7, 6-2, 7-5). In the game against Andreescu, the Czech tennis player won by two match points.