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Magda Linette vs Mihaela Buzarnescu Tennis Prediction

Buzarnescu heads into her first tour-level meeting with Linette as the favorite. They met at a $10k ITF event at Vic (Spain) in 2010 when the Romanian (ranked #817) defeated the Pole (ranked #446) in straight sets (6-3 6-3).

Mihaela Buzarnescu News

Mihaela Buzarnescu made her second career final appearance (first on clay) at Prague earlier this month, defeating Beatriz Haddad Maia, Kristyna Pliskova and Camila Giorgi, before making it tough for the home favorite Petra Kvitova in the final round (l. 2-6 6-2 6-3).
Since Prague, the Romanian has suffered a couple of straight-set first round losses at Madrid (l. Sharapova) and Rome (l. to Shuai Zhang). After participating at twelve tournaments this season, she has now faced opening-round exits in seven of them.
Buzarnescu made her first and only appearance at Strasbourg way back in 2008 as the world #441, losing in the qualifying round. Ten years later, she returns to the tournament as the world #33 and the fourth seed.

Magda Linette News

Magda Linette makes her third appearance at Strasbourg, having reached the second round in her previous visits. In 2013, she defeated #76 Puchkova as a qualifier, while in 2017, she defeated qualifier Vera Lapko to set up a meeting with Garcia (l. 6-3 6-3).
It has been a quiet season for the former world #55, with an 8-11 record on tour in 2018. However, she remains in the top 100 of the WTA Race with a third round run at the Australian Open (d. Kasatkina) and quarterfinals at Taipei and Bogota.

Tennis Prediction: Mihaela Buzarnescu
Odds: 1.53