Donna Vekic – Karolina Pliskova, WTA 1000 first round match count in Miami (Florida, USA) is scheduled for Wednesday, March 20, no earlier than 17:00 and will be broadcast live on Digi Sport 2 / Digi Sport 4.

Donna Vekic (Croatia, 34 WTA) and Karolina Pliskova (Czech Republic, 46 WTA) will meet in one of the most interesting matches of the first round of the Miami Open, at a time when both players are coming off painful and unexpected defeats.

Donna Vekic started the year with a first-round exit at the Australian Open, then reached the semifinals in Linz and the round of 16 in Dubai (where she scored a crucial victory of 2024 over Aryna Sabalenko, 6-7, 6-3). , 6-0) and the quarterfinals in San Diego.

It should be noted that since 2021, Donna Vekic has won only one match at the tournament in Florida!

Before the Miami Open, Donna Vekic lost in the first round in Indian Wells 6-7, 3-6 to Caroline Wozniacki.

Karolina Pliskova debuted in 2024 with first-round exits in Adelaide and the Australian Open, reached the semifinals in Doha (where she starred) and won the Cluj-Napoca tournament after a 6-4, 6-3 final against Ana Bohdan.

Attention, the biggest performance of Karolina Pliskova at the Miami Open is the 2019 final, in which she defeated Ashley Barty!

The last tournament in which Karolina Pliskova participated before the Miami Open 2024 was Indian Wells, where she lost in the first round with a score of 1-6, 6-2, 4-6 to Anna Blinkova.

The two athletes have met nine times so far, and Karolina Pliskova leads Donna Vekic 7-2 (she has won seven of the last eight head-to-head meetings, most recently in 2023 in Stuttgart).

The winner of the match Donna Vekic – Karolina Pliskova will meet in the second round of the competition with Kateryna Aleksandrova (Russia, 14 WTA), who was free in the first round.

Superbet offers odds of 1.57 on the prediction Total sets under 2.5: two sets, regardless of the winner, in the match Donna Vekic – Karolina Pliskova.

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