Analysis for Sequera-Nakamura (San Diego)

Head-to-head record 0:0

The tournament in American city San Diego starts today. Aiko Nakamura of Japan and Milagros Sequera of Venezuela will meet ane another in the first round. Japanese woman should be a slight favourite in this match and so we will bet on her in good odds at Centrebet (this match was not available at Pinnacle). Aiko Nakamura has had many up and downs this year and her overall YTD balance is 14:15 - not so fortunate. But we must admit she lost to very good players in many cases - Hingis, Paszek, Peer etc. She played two tournaments after Wimbledon and she lost her opening match in both of them (lost to Tatishvili in Cincinnati 1:2 and lost to Yuan in Stanford 1:2). In yesterday's final round of San Diego qualification she paid back that loss to Yuan and she won straight sets. Nakamura´s opponent will be an aforementioned Milagros Sequera. Milagros have quite a good balance (18:11) this year, but the truth is she played major part of her victory matches on clay. Her style looks like made for clay - she plays most of her strikes right after base line, with smaller power and she gets best of her fast legs. She played her last competitive match at Wimbledon in the third round (wipe-out 1:6, 0:6 with Serena Williams). We believe in better play of Japanese and we bet 4 points on her win.