Find out our top tennis play for this Saturday’s action in Stuttgart with Kristina Mladenovic and Maria Sharapova fighting for a place in the Porsche Tennis Grand Prix Final. Bookmakers Review breaks down the fixture below and lists the best available odds from green listed bookmakers.
Mladenovic vs. Sharapova
Regardless of this Saturday’s outcome, Kristina Mladenovic already secured her career high ranking next week. Mladenovic is going through the best moment in her career with a phenomenal 21 – 5 record since her disappointing defeat in the Australian Open 1st round against Ana Konjuh. Looking now at Kristina’s campaign in Stuttgart, the French reaches this stage of the competition after three straight sets victories over top 25 players – Mirjana Lucic-Baroni, Angelique Kerber and Carla Suarez Navarro.
Maria Sharapova continues her impressive run in the Porsche Tennis Grand Prix. Playing on this event brings great memories to the Russian with Maria looking for her 4th career title in Stuttgart. Known as one of the greatest competitors in the game, Sharapova is famous for producing her best tennis under pressure. This week is no exception with Maria winning 80.00% of the points when facing break points.
These two players are no strangers with Sharapova winning their previous encounter four years ago in Wimbledon by 7 – 6 6 – 3.
This is, without any doubt, Sharapova’s biggest challenge since her comeback. As we mentioned before, Mladenovic is playing at a superb level in recent months and it won’t be easy for the Russian to overcome this tough opponent. Taking a look now at the odds available for this game, Bet365 offers 53/100 for Maria’s victory while Kristina is available at 3/2 at Coral. Even though we agree with Sharapova’s favouritism, this should be a closer match than the odds suggest, which makes the Over 21.5 at 91/100 at Pinnacle the best betting approach for this contest.
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