Alison Riske vs Iga Swiatek 5/26/22 French Open Tennis Picks, Predictions, Odds

Iga Swiatek and Alison Riske meet in the second round of the 2022 tennis French Open.

Iga Swiatek is coming off a straight set win over Lesia Tsurenko that took 14 games to decide. In the victory, Swiatek won 74 percent of her first serve points and 69 percent of her second serve points. Swiatek won 72 percent of her total service points and converted on six of her nine break points. Swiatek won her match in under an hour and faced just two break points. Swiatek still hasn’t lost a match since Dubai back in February. Swiatek looks to make the third round of a grand slam for the ninth straight time. Swiatek hasn’t lost before the third round of a grand slam since the 2019 US Open. Swiatek has won 10 straight matches on clay court.

Alison Riske is coming off a straight set win over Dayana Yastremska that took 18 games to decide. In the victory, Riske won 61 percent of her first serve points and 65 percent of her second serve points. Riske won 62 percent of her total service points and converted on five of her 11 break points. Riske got 71 percent of her first serves in play and hit just nine unforced errors. Riske looks to make the third round of a grand slam for the first time since the 2020 Australian Open. Riske has never made the third round of the French Open. Riske has 10 career wins over top-10 players, with one of those wins coming this year. Riske has lost six of her last eight matches on clay court.

These two have played one completed match, which was last year in Madrid, a meeting Swiatek won in 14 games. They played last year in the Italian Open as well, but Riske retired nine games into the first set.

Riske is far from a pushover, and she was competitive in the first set the last time they played before she retired. With that said, there’s no betting against Swiatek, the top ranked player in the world and somebody who isn’t dropping sets these days, let alone matches. Also, Riske doesn’t play well on clay usually and hasn’t had any success in this tournament especially. This is a historic run Swiatek is on, and you should ride it until it cools off.

Give me Swiatek in straight sets for max betting value.