The WTA Adelaide International 2025 will see all of its second round matches played on Wednesday, January 8 with Jessica Pegula, Paula Badosa and Marketa Vondrousova among those in action. Here’s the preview, predictions and tips for these matches from Adelaide.
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Jessica Pegula v Maria Sakkari Preview
Head-to-Head: There have been 10 previous matches played between these two players and both have won five. Their most recent match came at the WTA Finals in 2023 and Pegula had won that. All but one of these 10 have come in hardcourt competitions and Pegula leads 5-4.
Jessica Pegula kick-starts her new season with her first match of the season against a player with whom she has had some great rivalry. As the aforementioned head to head suggests, there’s not much one can take from it.
Having won two titles last year, Pegula managed to remain in the top 10 of the WTA Rankings but has slipped a little from her all-time best third rank.
Speaking of slipping ranks and no better than Maria Sakkari to point towards that.
Sakkari was also third at one point in the recent past but a poor season later, it has gone outside the top 30 for her. And it wasn’t as if there looked to be any respite for Sakkari this year either as she lost both her United Cup matches and then fell in the second qualifying round of this tournament.
She made it through as a lucky loser and was at her rampaging best in her opener against Linda Noskova, winning 6-3, 6-3.
Can she now carry that form into this match against Pegula?
Pegula v Sakkari prediction: Pegula to win: 7/20
Paula Badosa v Ashlyn Krueger Preview
Head-to-Head: Their only previous match came in Doha last year where Badosa won in three sets.
Paula Badosa registered her first win of the season but it took a lot out of her to do that, pointing to how things have changed drastically from the time she was ranked second in the world.
Having entered this tournament following an opening round exit at the Brisbane International to Elina Avanesyan, Badosa was on court for two hours and 45 minutes for her first match here.
She finally won 6-7 (5), 6-3, 7-5 against Peyton Stearns to move into the second round where another American player awaits. Fortunately for Badosa, Ashlyn Krueger is still early in her career, unlike Stearns who has become a dangerous name.
Krueger was a lucky loser coming into this main draw following a qualifying loss to Katerina Siniakova but took out the 4/5 favourite Marta Kostyuk in her opener. Like Badosa she needed to come back from being a set down to win it.
Expect her to now put up a fight but for Badosa to win in two.
Badosa v Krueger prediction: Badosa to win in straight sets: 7/5
Yulia Putintseva v Ons Jabeur Preview
Head-to-Head: There have been three previous meetings between these two players and Jabeur has beaten Putintseva every single time.
Putintseva is 30 years old and is finding some of the best form of her career. Sure, she lost in the third round of the Brisbane International last week but it was to the world number one, Aryna Sabalenka.
Before that, Putintseva had eased past Mccartney Kessler in her opener there.
And in her first round match here, Putintseva did not too much trouble dispatching Donna Vekic from the competition either. She won 6-2, 6-3 to march in the second round.
Here she takes on Ons Jabeur who not only has the wood on her as far as head to head matches go, she is also coming off a strong performance against Danielle Collins.
Having made the quarterfinal of the Brisbane International last week, Jabeur took out the former Australian Open runner-up Collins 7-6 (6), 6-2 to advance to the second round.
We could see a thrilling battle that could get to the third set.
Putintseva v Jabeur prediction: Three sets in the match: 6/5
Marketa Vondrousova v Diana Shnaider Preview
Head-to-Head: There have been no previous matches between Vondrousova and Shnaider.
Marketa Vondrousova is a former French Open runner-up but her Wimbledon 2023 triumph is still spoken about as a big shock win. Since that victory, however, things haven’t looked too positive for the Czech and a lot of that has to do with her fitness.
So much so that the former world number six has slipped to 39th in the world.
Which is why playing against Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova in her opener, she was anything but the favourite to win it. Pavlyuchenkova came out hard at her and it wasn’t till they were on court for two hours and 44 minutes that Vondrousova finally managed to grab a three-set win.
She now takes on a player who is threatening to break into the top 10 of the rankings for the first time in her career. Diana Shnaider his a career-best ranking of 12th following a season filled with four tournaments wins.
Shnaider did not have a great start to 2025 though as she fell to Anhelina Kalinina in the Brisbane International and while she won her opener here against Katerina Siniakova it wasn’t till she had been bagelled in the second set.
Vondrousova will know she has a chance here.
Vondrousova v Shnaider prediction: Vondrousova to win: 1/1
