There is another blistering field of talent on show again in this week’s WTA tennis betting. After all of the world’s top twenty stepped out for the 2011 Rogers Cup in Canada last week, we have nine of the top ten making another appearance, and some of them have a lot to prove to themselves. Two players we are missing is defending champion Kim Clijsters and Venus Williams. Serena Williams is not one of those players, as she battled her way to victory in Toronto against Aussie Sam Stosur. The showings which the Williams sisters are putting in on their return to the game, shows just what a class act they are. Once against Serena Williams will be unseeded here, as he long absence from the game saw her drop down the world rankings. This is just the fifth event in which she has appeared since being missing in action for a year, and fate could throw her back into action against Sam Stosur very soon. The two are likely to meet in the second round here, with Stosur going as tenth seed. So, while she in unseeded, Serena Williams is looking more and more powerful with every match that she gets under her belt. The power in the ground strokes and the serve is there, and to be able to step back into the game and be picking up tittles so soon is truly remarkable. This is true champion and will be worth a look in your WTA Cincinnati tennis betting for this week. As always, you have to take the draw into consideration, and there are some interesting potential opponents on the horizon. Na Li is the top seed in that particular quarter of the draw, but the big threat comes from Maria Sharapova. They could meet in the quarter finals, which sounds as if it would be a momentous clash of heavy hitting power. Looking forward to that happening, but don’t discount China’s Na Li, who always poses a threat there with her own hard and flat immense power. Superbly competitive quarter of the draw.
One player who really needs to be picking herself back up is Caroline Wozniacki. The Dane surprisingly bowed out as early as the second round at the Rogers Cup last weekend. With the world number one still on the prowl for a first Grand Slam she looks as if she could be struggling for a bit of confidence in her game. She needs to find a big weapon so that she can mix up her offence just a little bit better. Don’t take that as there being anything wrong with her game, because if she is on song then she is genuinely one of the big threats here in your WTA Cincinnati tennis betting. However, starting as top seed, as with the WTA being so wide open in terms of equal talent at the moment, there is a very tricky path ahead of Wozniacki in the first quarter. Roberta Vinci is in there, who Wozniacki won’t want to see again, and that Italian has been in really good form for most of the year. Also in there is the increasingly dangerous Andrea Petkovic and Wimbledon champion Petra Kvitova. This is the scene where Wozniacki made her professional debut back in 2005 and will be looking to get back into the groove of things ahead of Flushing Meadows in a couple of weeks, where she can hopefully launch a strong campaign to end the season on a high of winning her first Grand Slam title. It will start with having a big bounce back performance here to kick start things. Though it is tough and you have to seriously look at Petra Kvitova as the bigger threat at the moment.
Wimbledon Champion Petra Kvitova will want to continue her successful season and will be worth looking at. Her section of the draw is largely made of up qualifiers, so she should progress well enough. The decisive game will be against Andrea Petkovic in the third round. In the second quarter of the draw, there is another mouth watering clash. The draw for the 2011 WTA Cincinnati tennis betting is really looking fantastic. Here we have third seed Victoria Azarenka, who is in great form at the moment, looked set to meet Sabine Lisicki who is on the rise and rise. However, she was ousted in the first round by Shahar Peer, who has disappeared for quite a large chunk of the season, but is just again standing up to make herself noticed. That makes for a great second round match, but really the momentum should all be with Victoria Azarenka, who had a strong run in Toronto last week. There really is a big opportunity for Azarenka to push home here, because the draw will really open up once she moves to the third round. The level of seeding in her quarter of the draw should not pose her too many problems. Would meet the winner of Wozniacki’s quarter in the semi finals, but Azarenka, one of our favourites on these pages is well worth taking her in your WTA Cincinnati tennis betting. Good form, a good draw and could go very well here. Will also be wanting to make a huge impact at Flushing Meadows soon and just needs to deliver that killer instinct in the latter rounds to really make her elite.
Also want to take a look at Vera Zvonaerva (who won the title here in 2006), as she is another of those players who need to pull out a bounce back performance. She exited in the third round of the Rogers Cup when she really should have been making more of a strong challenge. Her level of top performance has fallen away since the start of the year, we have seen glimpses of her at her best, but it has been nowhere near often enough. She goes as second seed here and she should be inspired by looking at the draw. Eighth seed Marion Bartoli is the biggest ranking threat to her in her quarter of the draw, so there is a chance to build some confidence here. It is tough seeing a winner come from this fourth quarter of the draw to be honest, even though the likes of Jelena Jankovic (a winner of this even back in 2009), Flavia Pennetta and Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova are in there. The winner of this quarter will have to square off against the winner from the tough third quarter, where Serena Williams and Maria Sharapova are waiting.
WTA Cincinnati Tennis Betting Tip: Victoria Azarenka
