Jodie Burrage vs Tamara Korpatsch Ningbo Open Expert Tip: Hard Courter to Excel in Quick Conditions

Jodie Burrage vs Tamara Korpatsch (Ningbo Open): Tuesday, September 26th

Our Monday bet voided, as Rebeka Masarova absolutely dominated the first set, constantly breaking Linda Fruhvirtova, but lost an edge physically and had to retire one game into the third set.

For Tuesday’s WTA preview, we’re back to the Ningbo Open as we look at Jodie Burrage vs Tamara Korpatsch.

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In this article:

• Jodie Burrage vs Tamara Korpatsch Expert Tip
• Jodie Burrage Recent Form
• Tamara Korpatsch Recent Form
• H2H Stat of the Match
• Gamble Responsibly

Jodie Burrage vs Tamara Korpatsch Expert Tip

Korpatsch has been much better on hard courts this season than I had expected, but I think that’s being valued a tad too much here against a much more natural player on the surface.

Burrage is, for all intents and purposes, a quick-court specialist, with most of her best results coming on quick hard courts or grass courts

• Expert Tip: Burrage to win at 1.67 with Bet365, using 3/10 stakes.

Odds as at 3:30 am UK Time on September 26th, 2023. Odds may now differ.

Read on for more expert insights.

Jodie Burrage Recent Form

This should be a time of the year that Burrage finds her form this season and for the future. With the swing through China, South Korea and Japan typically boasting lower-bouncing, faster courts, the big serve and forehand should be rewarded and the ball should stick in her preferred striking zone.

She came through qualifying in fairly impressive fashion. She needed to come back from a set down in her second match, but Jana Kolodynska is certainly going to be a name to watch in the next year or two and I don’t really hold losing a set to the talented Belarussian against Burrage.

Her last two losses have come to Magda Linette in three sets – a seasoned pro who has also thrived in quicker conditions this year – and Aryna Sabalenka, so unless she makes a run and plays one of the top seeds, it’s hard to look at her losses and use them to analyse against a match against the likes of someone like Korpatsch.

Tamara Korpatsh Recent Form

I mentioned Korpatsch looking a bit better than expected this year on hard courts earlier, but even with that, she’s still posted a record of just 8-10 outdoors and 0-4 indoors on the surface.

Unlike Burrage, Korpatsch feels more at home on clay. The higher bounce suits her more and the slower nature of clay courts allows her style of unrelenting defence to shine through and elicit errors from her opposition.

When points are shorter, as they tend to be on quicker surfaces, that tactic becomes less effective.

Her form hasn’t been that great either. She reached the semifinals in Prague earlier this summer, but it wasn’t the toughest road to get there and she was throttled in the semis by Linda Noskova.

Since then, she’s reverted to looking like more of a clay courter and I’d expect the difference in court preference to play a big role in this matchup.

Jodie Burrage vs Tamara Korpatsch H2H – Stat of the Match

We don’t have any head-to-head meetings at the pro level to look at for these two.

Stats wise, we don’t have a large enough sample over the past season for Burrage to look at, and what we do have is skewed by lopsided defeats to Sabalenka and Linette (after she won the first set and then was nowhere near a decent level physically).

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