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Today’s selected tennis pick is Kerber and Strycova have played against each other eight times, the earliest encounter being 2008 and the latest one being Beijing, 2016.
The German leads the H2H by 6-2 and has won the last two meetings.
Strycova is a crafty and tricky opponent to play against, but given Kerber’s form, she is expected to prevail in this match-up.

Today’s Tennis Pick for Barbora Strycova – Angelique Kerber

Here are the top news about both players:

Angelique Kerber News

Angelique Kerber has won a whopping 16 matches out of the four tournaments (including the exhibition team competition, Hopman Cup)​ that​ she has played in the short season so far.
After a successful stay in Australia, with a title in Sydney and a semifinal in Melbourne, she had another good week in Doha, where she defeated Johanna Konta and Sam Stosur, before getting edged out by Wozniacki.

To put Kerber’s 2018 turnaround in perspective, she won 29 matches in the entirety of 2017, as compared to 16 (more than half) in the first seven weeks of this year.
Kerber reached the semifinal of this tournament last year (best result) when it was a Premier 5 event, defeating Mona Barthel, Monica Puig, and Ana Konjuh.

 

Barbora Strycova News

Barbora Strycova’s 2018​ so far​ has been quite good ​as well, with two ​quarterfinals at Auckland and Sydney and a round of 16 at the ​​Australian Open (her second consecutive fourth round in Melbourne).
Three of her four losses in the season have come against the Top 20 players such as Barty, Goerges, and Pliskova.
The Czech is a former finalist of the Dubai Tennis Championships, when she reached the finals in 2016 while being ranked #47 and defeated Julia Goerges, Ana Ivanovic, and Caroline Garcia, before falling apart against Sara Errani (0-6 2-6).
Last year, she was knocked out by Peng Shuai in her opening match in straight sets.

Angelique Kerber is the most aggressive player in this game. The difference between the two players is clearly in favor of the German player.

So for today’s tennis pick we have reach to the final conclusion:


Tennis Pick WTA – SINGLES: Dubai (United Arab Emirates), hard : Angelique Kerber Corect Score 2-0 SET
Odds: 1.80 Bet365 – 1.75 Bwin – 1.77 Betfair