St. Petersburg Ladies Trophy 2022: Women’s Singles Draw Preview, Analysis, and Prediction
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Elena Rybakina, Maria Sakkari and Anett Kontaveit
The 2022 edition of the St. Petersburg Ladies Trophy will commence from February 7 and will feature some big names like Maria Sakkari, Anett Kontaveit, and Elena Rybakina.
Tournament Details:
- Tournament: St. Petersburg Ladies Trophy 2022
- Date: February 7 – 13, 2022
- Number of Entrants: 32 (Singles), 16 (Doubles)
- Venue: St. Petersburg, Russia
- Surface: Hard Court
- Prize Money: $703,580
- Defending champion: Daria Kasatkina
Top Seeds at the St. Petersburg Ladies Trophy 2022
- Maria Sakkari
- Anett Kontaveit
- Elena Rybakina
- Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova
- Belinda Bencic
- Petra Kvitova
- Jelena Ostapenko
- Elise Mertens
Women’s Singles Draw Analysis and Prediction
Top Half
The top half of the draw will be headlined by Maria Sakkari. She will play local Anastasia Potapova in the first round and then could face the winner of Camila Giorgi vs Ekaterina Alexandrova in the Round of 16. 8th seed Elise Mertens will be up against in-form Frenchwoman Alize Cornet in the first round. She would face either Kamilla Rakhimova or Petra Martic in the second round. Mertens and Sakkari are expected to clash in the quarterfinals.
Kazakh third seed Elena Rybakina will open her campaign in St. Petersburg against a qualifier. She will then face Tereza Martincova or Vera Zvonareva in the Round of 16 and is drawn against 6th seed Petra Kvitova. The Czech will also open against a qualifier and will face either Shuai Zhang or Irina Camelia Begu in the second round.
First Semi-Final Prediction: Maria Sakkari vs Elena Rybakina
Bottom Half
Estonian second seed Anett Kontaveit will headline the bottom half of the draw and will face Jil Teichmann of Switzerland in the opening round. She will face the winner of the match between Marketa Vondrousova and Sorana Cirstea in the Round of 16. Olympic champion Belinda Bencic will face Veronika Kudermetova in the first round and then could face Belgian Alison Van Uytvanck in the Round of 16. Kontaveit and Bencic could very well face in the quarterfinal.
French Open runner-up Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova will take on Jaqueline Cristian in the opening round and will face either Aliaksandra Sasnovich or Magda Linette in the second round. 7th seed Jelena Ostapenko will lock horns against Xinyu Wang in the first round and could face Andrea Petkovic or a qualifier in the Round of 16.
Second Semi-Final Prediction: Jelena Ostapenko vs Anett Kontaveit
Semifinals
In the first semifinal, Maria Sakkari will take on Elena Rybakina. Both Sakkari and Rybakina are very hard hitters and love taking control from the baseline. Rybakina has a better suited game to the hard courts but Sakkari too bodes well on the offensive side. Expect a tight match with Sakkari making it to the finals.
Two fierce competitors, Jelena Ostapenko will be up against Anett Kontaveit in the second semifinal. Both of them have a very solid defensive game and hence will make each other run for every point. Kontaveit could make it to the final given her form in the last 6 months.
St. Petersburg Ladies Trophy Final: Maria Sakkari vs Anett Kontaveit
Final
The two highest ranked players of the tournament, Maria Sakkari and Anett Kontaveit will compete for the title. The Greek has a very attacking game style while Kontaveit is more of a hard court player with defensive game. The fast courts of St. Petersburg should be an advantage to the Estonian and she could go on to win her first title of the season.
Champion: Anett Kontaveit
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