First round
Yastremska (2.4) v Brady (1.70)
Due to start at 2 pm
This will be their first meeting.
Overall results favour Brady in 2020. She has won 26 of 35 matches (74%). Yastremska has won 17 of 27 matches. Yastremska has better indoor results. She has won 20 of her 29 indoor matches.
Brady’s only indoor successes have been in ITF events in 2016 and 2018. She is having an excellent season. She started the season ranked outside the top 50. She has been as high as 25 and is currently ranked 26th. She reached the semi finals of the US Open and won the title on hard courts In Lexington in August.
Yastremska has also had some hard court success this season. She made the final in Adelaide in January and also third rounds in Cincinnati and Doha. Most of her indoor matches in the last couple of seasons were in Fed Cup ties.
This should be a great match. We have a very good chance of it going to 3 sets. Back Brady around 2.00 to 2.20. Lay the set 1 winner. Slight edge to Brady to win.
Update: Yastremska made the better start. She took the opening set with a double break. The second set was very tight. Brady served for the set at 5-4 but was broken. She took a very close tie break to level the match. In the third set it was brady who dominated.
Brady won 3-6, 7-6, 6-1.
