Analysis for Benesova-Karatancheva (WTA Brisbane)

Head-to-head record 1:0

Sesil Karatancheva from Bulgaria will play the Czech clay-courter Iveta Benesova in the first round of WTA Brisbane tournament. Benesova has achieved her career best results on clay. She uses extreme topspin on her forehand and slower topspin and slice on her backhand. She prefers slow surfaces and is patient baseliner who wins matches by disrupting her opponents' rhythm through changes of spin, pace, depth, height, and angle. Her hard court results are far from being as impressive and we think she will have difficult time against Sesil. She never achieved any good result in tournaments in Australia.

Her opponent will be the Bulgarian prodigy Karatancheva who certainly has the bright future ahead of her.She is just 19 years old, she played 3 good matches in qualies, she beated Schruff (2:1), King (2:0) and Rodina (2:0). Two points bet on Bulgarian youngster.