Caroline Garcia vs Julia Goerges Tennis Prediction

Garcia has won the pair’s previous encounter at 2016 Monterrey (hard-court) from a set down (4-6 6-3 6-4). Both players have posted good results in the last twelve months as well as in this clay season, making this a down-to-the-wire clash.

Caroline Garcia News

Caroline Garcia moves into the round of 16 stage of Madrid for the third time after seeing off Petra Martic 6-3 7-5 in the second round. Although, the world #7 had a complicated finish as she allowed Martic to come back from a 0-4 deficit in the second set.
Garcia advanced to Madrid quarterfinal on her debut in 2014 as a qualifier, with a w/o from Kirilenko and retirement by Kerber. Since then, her results at the tournament had been successively declining, culminating in a first-round exit last year (l. #64 Wang).
However this year, the Frenchwoman returns as a top 10 player and winner of two big WTA titles, Beijing and Wuhan, to make her fifth appearance at Madrid. She started the clay season with a quarterfinal at Stuttgart, defeating #4 Svitolina and Sharapova.

Julia Goerges News

Julia Goerges went down a set and break against Lara Arruabarrena, before she turned the R2 match around, winning eleven of the last 14 games. She would finish the match comfortably, 2-6 6-4 6-2, having hit 44 winners, including 12 aces.
This is the first time the German, who is appearing at Madrid as a top 20 player for the first time, has gone beyond its second round since storming into the semifinals on her debut year of 2011 (ranked #27), defeating #1 Wozniacki and former #1 Safina.
Goerges, who debuted into the top 10 after winning Moscow, WTA Elite Trophy and Auckland, was bidding for her second Premier clay title at Charleston last month but lost to Kiki Bertens in the final (6-2 6-1).

Tennis Prediction: Julia Goerges
Odds: 2.15