Find out our top tennis play for this Saturday’s action in Nottingham with Johanna Konta and Magdalena Rybarikova fighting for a place at the Aegon Open Final. Bookmakers Review breaks down the fixture below and lists the best available odds from green listed bookmakers.
Konta vs. Rybarikova
As we predicted in our WTA Nottingham quarter-finals analysis, Johanna Konta proved too strong for Ashleigh Barty. With this victory, Konta improved her sensational record in 2017 to 28 – 9. Known as one of the most aggressive players on the WTA Tour, Johanna won 45.67% of the points on Barty’s serve.
The former world no.31 – Magdalena Rybarikova – continues her outstanding campaign on the grass-court season. After winning the ITF Surbiton last week, Rybarikova is just one win away from reaching her first WTA final since August 2014 in New Haven. Taking a look now at Magdalena’s campaign in Nottingham, the 28-year-old Slovak reaches this stage of the competition after an easy 6 – 4 6 – 1 win over the American qualifier – Kristie Ahn.
These two players are no strangers with Konta emerging victorious from their previous encounter in Nottingham two years ago.
Due to Johanna’s astonishing results in recent months, it’s hard to go against the local player at this moment. Despite Magdalena’s undeniable quality on this surface, Konta is the clear favourite to book a place in the final at 53/100 with Ladbrokes while Coral offers 7/4 for Rybarikova’s victory. For those who want to take a higher risk, Konta’s -3.5 game handicap at 1/1 with Bet365 is also a very interesting approach for this contest.
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