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I usually avoid high unit bets especially in WTA but this game has some characteristics that I believe justify this.
Cibulkova is an experienced and very talented player but somewhat of a wild-card. She can beat anybody on a good day but then go on and lose to someone from outside the first 100 just as easily. She is the one who usually controls games. She like to hit the ball early and hard, she looks for winners. Lately she has been playing pretty badly and her results have been very inconsistent. But her game is perfectly suited for fast hard courts. She has a very good first serve and her hard hitting is at home on this surface. In the first round she defeated Sloane Stephens 6-3 6-4 and she played good tennis so her form is looking up.
Alize Cornet is a strange player capable of defeating Serena Williams three times in a year but then not being able to win a title or get very high in the rankings. Cornet is a counter-attacker she likes to stay in the defensive and then to pounce on a shorter ball and use the force of the opponent. Her serve is weak and usually her games have a lot of breaks of serve. In the first round she defeated Carla Suarez Navarro in a games that lasted three hours and three minutes. Fatigue should play a factor in the game today. Also, after playing Navarro, changing styles to adapt to the hard-hitting Cibulkova today will be a challenge for the french women.
The two players have played 4 times previously, all the games won by Cibulkova, the last one in Melbourne this year. I didn't want a handicap or set betting because Cornet as the value to take a set but Cibulkova has the heads-up, is more rested and should have a good morale after defeating Stephens. Cibulkova should win this.
Pick: Cibulkova to win
Odds: 1.57
Bookmaker: ➾ Ladbrokes
Stake: 9 units
Tipster: Ares
| TIPSTER: Ares | Total profit: +12.81 | Tips won: 21 |
| Country: Romania | Total yield: +4.78% | Tips lost: 22 |
| Speciality: Snooker | Total picks: 44 | Tips pushed: 1 |
| 12.08 | • ASA Targu Mures - ACS Poli Timisoara | 1.87 | 8 | ❌ | -8 |
| 12.08 | • Dominika Cibulkova - Alize Cornet | 1.57 | 9 | ❌ | -9 |
| 09.08 | • Fergal O'Brien - Luca Brecel | 2.2 | 4 | ❌ | -4 |
| 09.08 | • Steaua Bucuresti - Dinamo Bucuresti | 4.45 | 2 | ❌ | -2 |
| 08.08 | • CSU Craiova - Concordia Chaijna | 2.32 | 4 | ✅ | +5.28 |
| 07.08 | • Luca Brecel - Nigel Bond | 1.8 | 5 | ✅ | +4 |
| 06.08 | • Astra Giurgiu - West Ham United | 1.73 | 10 | ✅ | +7.3 |
| 09.07 | • Garbine Muguruza - Agnieszka Radwanska | 2 | 7 | ❌ | -7 |
| 07.07 | • Bryan B./Bryan M. - Bopanna R./Mergea | 4 | 5 | ✅ | +15 |
| 01.07 | • Fernando Verdasco - Dominic Thiem | 2.73 | 6 | ❌ | -6 |
