Julia Grabher vs Iga Swiatek Pick – Tennis Predictions & Odds 4/28/23

Iga Swiatek and Julia Grabher meet in the second round of the 2023 tennis Madrid Open. Let’s preview this game and give out a pick and prediction.

Iga Swiatek will play her first match since winning the Stuttgart Grand Prix last week. It was Swiatek’s second title this year and her 13th title of her career. Swiatek needed 7 sets and 3 games to get the job done, and enters this tournament, winning 11 of her last 13 completed matches. Swiatek has played just 3 matches in Madrid and all of those came in 2021 when she made the third round. Swiatek hasn’t lost an opening match since Cincinnati 2021. Swiatek has won 9 of her last 10 matches on clay court.

Julia Grabher is coming off a straight set win over Viktoriya Tomova that took 20 games to decide. In the victory, Grabher won 75 percent of her first serve points and 38 percent of her second serve points. Grabher won 63 percent of her total service points and converted on 4 of her 6 break points. Grabher got 71 percent of her first serves in play and saved 1 of her 3 break points. Grabher looks to win back to back matches for the first time since Charleston. Grabher may be 26 years old, but this is her first year playing WTA 1000 tournaments, so her experience could be an issue. Grabher has split her last 10 matches on clay court.

There’s no match history between these 2 players.

Grabher doesn’t have the experience or battle tested matches to pull off a victory in this spot. Swiatek is in too good of form to be tripped up here, especially when you consider it’s almost 2 full years since she’s lost an opening match in a tournament.

Give me Swiatek in straight sets to shave down the juice.