This a Premier tier event and it is drawing in extra focus this time around as Maria Sharapova is back in action after having served out her ban. This is part of the clay swing of the season now and so you will have different players coming to the head of the market and it is just going to be so interesting to see what Sharapova can pull off in this one. Sharapova is an 8/1 option at Bet365 in the WTA Stuttgart Tennis Betting market and this is a wide open field and anything can happen. What adds intrigue to this one is that Sharapova won the tournament three seasons in a row between 2012 and 2014 so has some strong history here.
Angelique Kerber has won the last two editions of the tournament on home soil and the German is up at the head of the market as 9/2 outright favourite with bet365. She is probably going to enjoy things back on clay in what has been a pretty quiet season for her, her best recent result coming in Monterrey when she made it to the final where she lost against Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova in early April. Really there hasn’t been enough from her this season to warrant throwing too much on her, apart from her recent tournament history of course.
Karolina Pliskova is a 13/2 option and she has been going well lately with back to back semi final appearance in Indian Wells and Miami. She lost out in the quarter finals here last season and is a little more consistent on the hard surface than she is on clay. But she is in decent form nonetheless but then you have Simona Halep at around the same price and who is a constant frustration for punters. Once again, after helping Romania get past GB in the Fed Cup recently, she should be a strong option for this one. She is the second best performing player on clay in the whole of the WTA over the last two seasons on the Tour, bettered only by Garbine Muguruza.
The thing about Halep is that she hasn’t taken things to the next level like she should have and Muguruza being in the field at 7/1 will take some attention away from her. Muguruza misfired here badly last season losing in the quarter finals against Petra Kvitova, never really getting into the match. She’s a lot better than that and again, you square her up against Kerber, Halep and Pliskova then the head of the market is pretty evenly matched out. Then you have Sharapova. Can she do it? It would be some come back of course, but there is always the factor of being match-rusty. You also have recent Miami-winner Johanna Konta coming in on a wild card as well in the bottom half of the draw which houses Halep and Pliskova.
Going back to Sharapova, she is quality on the clay and she has tournament history on her side in Stuttgart. She’s unseeded of course and goes in the same quarter as Muguruza and could be on course for a quarter-final with the Spaniard and a potential semi against Kerber. So there’s a tough road ahead and really none of these have a comfortable run to the final at all. Out of all of them, Kerber has the best draw, but she’s not going great at the moment, so number two seed Karolina Pliskova, who is running in strong form at the moment, could be the one to watch in Stuttgart.
WTA Stuttgart Tennis Betting Odds
Angelique Kerber 9/2, Karolina Pliskova 13/2, Simona Halep 11/2, Garbine Muguruza 7/1, Maria Sharapova 9/1, Johanna Konta 12/1, Agnieszka Radwanska 14/1, Svetlana Kuznetsova 18/1, bar 25/1
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