We’ve reached the decisive day with the BGL BNP Paribas Luxembourg Open Final taking place this Saturday. Bookmakers Review breaks down the fixture below and lists the best available odds from green listed bookmakers.
Kvitova vs. Niculescu
As we predicted in our semi-finals analysis, things were far from easy for Petra Kvitova against Lauren Davis. However, the Czech’s higher experience proved to be crucial with the two-time Wimbledon champion emerging victorious by 7 – 5 6 – 3. After a superb performance a few weeks ago in Wuhan’s final against Dominika Cibulkova, Kvitova is looking to extend her remarkable career record in finals.
Monica Niculescu returns to the WTA Luxembourg final after losing in the decisive match in 2011 and 2012 against Victoria Azarenka and Venus Williams, respectively. The lower bouncing conditions in Luxembourg clearly suit Niculescu’s tricky slice forehand, one of the most unorthodox shots in the WTA Tour. Looking now to Monica’s numbers throughout the week, the highlight clearly goes to the Romanian return to serve with Niculescu winning 61.80% of the games played on her opponents’ serve.
These two players will face each other for the 4th time in their careers with Kvitova leading on the h2h by 2 – 1. Once again, the bookmakers consider Petra the favourite with the Czech available at 1/4 at Marathonbet while Pinnacle offers you 96/25 for Niculescu to lift the trophy. Due to Kvitova’s remarkable 18 – 6 career record in finals, we can’t go against the Czech. Therefore, Petra’s -1.5 set handicap at 13/20 at Pinnacle is clearly the highest value play for this contest.
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