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WTA Indian Wells
Muchova v Swiatek 1.59
Due to start at 6 pm
Confidence rating 6.5/10 Note, this should be a really tight match. Real value on Muchova. The 6.5 rating refers to the eventual winner prediction.
Swiatek 4-2. Most recent March 2025, hard, Swiatek in 2. 2 sets win on hard in Jan 2025. 3 sets win on hard in Aug 2023. She won on clay in 2023, 3 sets. Muchova’s wins were both 3 setters on clay in 2020 and 2019. Hard win %’s favour Swiatek.
Muchova reached the 4th round last year. 2 sets win over Bondar in the 2nd round. Easy win over Ruzic in the 3rd round.
Title in Doha 2026, 4th Round at the Australian Open 2026, Semi finals in Brisbane 2026, Quarter finals in Tokyo 2025, 4th Round in Beijing 2025, Quarter finals at the US Open 2025, 4th Round in Montreal 2025.
Swiatek reached the Semi final last season. 2 sets win over Day in the 2nd round. 2 sets win over Sakkari in the 3rd round.
Quarter finals in Doha 2026, Quarter finals at the Australian Open 2026, Quarter finals in Wuhan 2025, 4th Round in Beijing 2025, Title in Seoul 2025, Quarter finals at the US Open 2025, Title in Cincinnati 2025, 4th Round in Montreal 2025, Quarter finals in Miami 2025.
12 month stats and stats for their last 10 favour Muchova on serve. 2026 stats favour Muchova.
Very good chance of 3 sets.
Lay Swiatek around 1.40 and remove liability at 1.75. Lay set 1 winner.
Match prediction: Muchova in 3 sets.
Embed from Getty ImagesUpdate: Swiatek served first and held to 30. The next 4 games were holds. Muchova served at 2-3 and was broken after saving a break point. I laid Swiatek at 1.23.
In the next game, Swiatek held to 15. Muchova served at 2-5 and went 0-30 behind. I exited at 1.14. Muchova was broken to 0.
Muchova had lost the last 4 games. I had expected much more from her but she seemed clueless in that set.
Swiatek served first in the second set and held to 0. She then broke Muchova to 15.
Swiatek’s serve stats were particularly strong up to this point and Muchova was not even competing. I did not enter after the break and waited to see if Muchova could give me a reason to enter again.
Muchova did not win a game in set 2. This was never going to be an easy match for her but I did expect it to be a lot closer!
Swiatek won 6-2, 6-0.
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