Analysis for Kudryavtseva-Broady (WTA Birmingham)

Head-to-head record 0:0

Naomi Broady of UK will play Russian Alla Kudryavtseva in the first round at Birmingham. Naomi is a talented youngster and we expect her to get into the Top 100 in future. She began playing tennis at the age of 7 and was the 2007 British under 18 girls' champion. She is currently the British No.7 with a world ranking in the fourth hundred. So far in her career she has won one ITF title in singles and 3 in doubles. Her favourite surfaces are hard and grass because they favour her big serve and powerful range of groundstrokes. Naomi reached the quarterfinals of the $10,000 ITF event in Glasgow in January. She won her first adult title later that month in Grenoble, France. She was unseeded in this event but beat the No.5 seed, Varvara Galanina, in the quarterfinals and the No.1 seed, Youlia Fedossova in the final. She did not drop a set throughout the tournament. In March she reached the quarterfinals of another ITF tournament in Bath. Her performance in this event moved her into the top 400 for the first time in her career. She lost to Camerin in a tight match at Nottingham last week but she now gets a chance to win her first career match on WTA circuit. Her YTD record is 27/11 and we think she has a chance against unimpressive Russian. Kudryavtseva has a poor YTD record of 8/15 and her grass court skills shouldn’t guarantee the improvement of this balance. We think she will have problems with young qualifier and odds around 2.5 are good enough for us.