Live Stream Kateryna Bondarenko vs Petra Martic – Prediction, Team News Tennis-ATP Challenger Tour
Martic Created Stretching
Martic did not play a single exhibition match during a pandemic breaks and even in the lead-up to the US Open, participated in two tournaments on clay. Rustiness was always going to be a concern.
And appearing in her first-round match against Tereza Martincova, where he stretched to three sets, need to come back from a set down to win the game.
In a meeting that lasted almost two and a half hours, Martic won 5-7, 6-2, 6-4 to set up this meeting with Bondarenko. Croat back down at the beginning of the first set, the control back to tie it at 3-3 but serving to stay in the set at 5-6, she faced three break points. Martic saved two but dropped off the third set.
Martic retaliated by racing off to a 4-0 lead in the second set before eventually winning 6-2, but then dropped serve at the start of the third set to trail 3-1 Martincova. Martic broke back but struggled to hold serve, saving a large number of break-points before leveling off in the 3-3 case. The Croat then got the crucial break of serve after that and served for the win.
Bondarenko Aims to Win Two Matches in a Row
The last time the Bondarenko won several games in a row came at the beginning of the year in Shenzhen where he reached the quarter-finals. Since then, however, lost the first round at the Australian Open and the Hua Hin Open, and returned to defeat back in the second round in Monterrey and Acapulco followed.
Ukraine 34 years, once ranked 29th in the world, did not play in a single exhibition tournament during a pandemic break and come back in Lexington Open only to lose her qualification there. Another defeat at the Cincinnati Open qualification followed but easy first round match against Alexandra Kiick is what he needs here.
And while she dropped a set for Kiick, Bondarenko came back strongly to win the next two to move into the second round - her first major win since the 2018 main draw of the French Open.
Petra Martic vs Kateryna Bondarenko Head to Head
After playing each other twice in the WTA circuit and once at the ITF level, Bondarenko 2-1 lead head to head. Bonarenko first victory came in Macon ITF tournament while the second is in the qualifying round of the San Jose Open. In matches played in the main draw of a WTA event, Martic crushed his opponent in straight sets to move into the second round of the French Open in 2017.
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