{"id":73279,"date":"2015-08-28T04:02:15","date_gmt":"2015-08-28T08:02:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/topbet.eu\/news\/?p=73279"},"modified":"2016-03-23T15:27:21","modified_gmt":"2016-03-23T19:27:21","slug":"2015-us-open-first-round-predictions-and-tennis-preview-maria-sharapova-vs-daria-gavrilova-caroline-wozniacki-vs-jamie-loeb","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/topbet.eu\/news\/2015-us-open-first-round-predictions-and-tennis-preview-maria-sharapova-vs-daria-gavrilova-caroline-wozniacki-vs-jamie-loeb.html","title":{"rendered":"2015 US Open First Round Predictions and Tennis Preview: Maria Sharapova vs. Daria Gavrilova & Caroline Wozniacki vs. Jamie Loeb"},"content":{"rendered":"

The hottest female tennis players (both competitively and aesthetically) are about to take center stage in the Big Apple on August 31st<\/sup> for the 2015 US Open.<\/p>\n

Top-seeded beauties Maria Sharapova and Caroline Wozniacki are both equally eager to wrap up the WTA season with a win at the final Grand Slam event of the year. Standing in their paths, though, are two young up-and-comers looking to pull major upsets at Flushing Meadows.<\/p>\n

Read on as we break down the two sizzling matches that will get the New York crowd fired up to kick-off the US Open on Monday in scorching fashion. And while we\u2019re on the topic of being in heat, check out our special feature on the hottest female tennis players<\/a> in the circuit today (and yes, Maria and Caroline are on that list), as well as our coverage on the first round US open matches of the Williams sisters<\/a>.<\/p>\n[sc:TennisArticles ]\n

2015 US Open Women\u2019s Singles First Round Preview<\/b><\/h2>\n

Maria Sharapova vs. Daria Gavrilova<\/b><\/h3>\n

Line:<\/strong>\u00a0Maria Sharapova (-380<\/strong>)\u00a0vs. Daria Gavrilova (+290<\/strong>) –\u00a0view all US Open Women’s Singles lines<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n

Will a rather lengthy break from the competition work against Maria Sharapova? The Russian phenom has not participated in any tournament since losing to Serena Williams in the semis of Wimbledon this past June. But taking some time to regroup herself may have been the right call, especially with the final Grand Slam of the event right around the corner.<\/p>\n

[sc:Other240banner ]Sharapova has a more than respectable record of 34-7 this season. Yet somehow, we expected more than just the two titles she has won up to this point considering her being a top-flight contender ever since she broke into the WTA scene over a decade ago. Her underwhelming output so far should explain why she\u2019s only priced at +800<\/a> to win this year\u2019s US Open.<\/p>\n

Awaiting Sharapova in the first round is fellow Russian Daria Gavrilova. The righty out of Moscow has had great success this year by winning a couple of ITF women\u2019s singles titles and one WTA women\u2019s doubles titles with Ukraine\u2019s Elina Svitolina in Istanbul this July. The 37th<\/sup>-ranked Gavrilova is now looking to bag her first career WTA singles title to cap off what has been an amazing season in the works.<\/p>\n

Luckily for Gavrilova, she\u2019s no stranger in facing Sharapova on the court. The two ladies split their two career meetings and both of them took place just this 2015. Gavrilova won the first bout in the second round of the Miami Masters this March in straight sets, until Sharapova got even with a straight-sets victory of her own two months after at the Rome Masters semifinal round.<\/p>\n

For Gavrilova to stay toe-to-toe with her fellow Soviet rival, she would have to improve in starting and closing out games. She\u2019s has only managed to win 38.8 percent of her points on first serve returns, and convert just 47 percent of her break points. Sharapova, meanwhile, must continue to serve like a boss. She has won 80.4 percent of her service games this season.<\/p>\n

Writer\u2019s Prediction<\/b><\/h3>\n

Sharapova (-380<\/a><\/strong>)\u00a0plays a sharp game en route to a composed 6-4, 6-1 win over Gavrilova.<\/p>\n

Create a betting account now<\/a> to start betting on the hottest stars of the WTA battling it out at the 2015 US Open.<\/p>\n

Caroline Wozniacki vs. Jamie Loeb<\/b><\/h3>\n

Line:<\/strong>\u00a0Carolina Wozniacki (-1,500<\/strong>)\u00a0vs. Jamie Loeb (+800<\/strong>) –\u00a0view all US Open Women’s Singles lines<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n

Apart from Sharapova, there\u2019s another former World No. 1 that\u2019s in quite a rut as well. Caroline Wozniacki (+2,500<\/a>) has only one title to her credit this season, and her record of 30-16 is unbecoming of a World No. 3 player such as her. To make matters worse, she was granted first round byes in her past three events (Cincinnati, Toronto and Stanford) only for her to squander the upper hand with opening match losses in all of those tournaments.<\/p>\n

But if there\u2019s one Grand Slam that Wozniacki looks forward to every year, it\u2019s got to be the one here in Flushing Meadows. The Danish damsel has reached the final round of the US Open twice, once in 2009 and the other just last season, and lost both of those occasions to Kim Clijsters and Serena Williams respectively. A third trip to the final round of the US Open could work like a charm as the proverbial saying goes, but she has some stiff competition to plow over first before we begin touting her return to peak form.<\/p>\n

Expect the Arthur Ashe Stadium to be rocking when Jamie Loeb makes her US Open debut. Loeb, a native of Ossining, New York, earned a wild card berth to the US Open last Tuesday. If her credentials from the collegiate level are any indication of what we could expect at Flushing Meadows, Wozniacki may be in for a long, grueling afternoon.<\/p>\n

As a former Tarheel, Loeb won two-straight ACC Player of the Year awards in as many collegiate seasons in UNC. The smashing 20-year old has a lifetime record of 84-9, and she also won this year\u2019s NCAA women\u2019s singles tennis title back in May. She also already has four ITF titles locked up, so it won\u2019t be a matter of time before she takes the WTA by storm.<\/p>\n

An impressive showing \u2013 all the more an upset of Wozniacki \u2013 at the US Open will at least nab her some sweet endorsement deals while she continues to improve and earn her brass through the rungs of professional competition.<\/p>\n

Writer\u2019s Prediction<\/b><\/h3>\n

Loeb makes an electric debut, but Wozniacki\u2019s (-1,500<\/strong><\/a>)\u00a0experience wins out in the end for a 6-3, 6-4 finish.<\/p>\n[sc:Other490banner ]\n

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