The WTA Adelaide International 2025 continues on Thursday, January 9 with Jessica Pegula, Emma Navarro and Madison Keys among those expected to be on court today. Here’s the preview, predictions and tips for these matches from Adelaide.
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Jessica Pegula v Ashlyn Krueger Preview
Head-to-Head: There have been three previous meetings between these two players and Pegula has won every single time. This includes victories at Seoul in 2023 and Wimbledon and Canadian Open last year.
Jessica Pegula opened her 2025 season with her second round meeting with Maria Sakkari and it turned out to be a rather straightforward victory for the American.
Sakkari hasn’t remained the Sakkari of old when she was in the top 10 of the WTA Rankings and winning matches for fun. Then against Sakkari was coming off a confidence-inspiring opening round victory over Linda Noskova and there were signs she could be a handful still.
Pegula didn’t let that happen as she romped to a 6-4, 6-1 victory in a match that lasted an hour and 14 minutes. This was after Pegula was an early break down but coolly broke back twice in the set to take control of the encounter.
Ashlyn Krueger could, in fact, prove to be a sterner test for Pegula with youngster having entered this stage with wins over Marta Kostyuk and Paula Badosa.
In both those matches, Krueger was the second favourite according to the bookmakers and had to put up a fighting display before winning in three. Against Badosa, the match lasted over two and a half hours and saw Krueger drop her serve four times but she still managed to come away a 6-2 winner in the decider.
She had earlier made the quarterfinals in Brisbane with a prize scalp of Anna Kalinskaya under her belt too.
Pegula v Krueger prediction: Krueger to win a set – Yes
Diana Shnaider v Yulia Putintseva Preview
Head-to-Head: Their only previous meeting came in Osaka in 2023 and Putintseva had won it in straight sets.
Diana Shnaider is ranked 13th in the world but at the moment her tennis isn’t talking as loud as those rankings do. This was on display yet again in the second round here in Adelaide when she lost the first set of her match to Marketa Vondrousova.
Vondrousova was then forced to retire from the match in tears, leaving Shnaider a free path to the quarterfinals.
This result follows a three-set win for Shnaider in the previous round in which she lost the second set 6-0 to Katerina Siniakova. Earlier, the Russian had been bundled out of her opener at Brisbane, going down after having won the first set against Anhelina Kalinina.
And Yulia Putintseva, her quarterfinal opponent here would have seen this and sensed a weakness. Even better is the fact that Putintseva herself is showing signs of some good form having defeated Donna Vekic and Ons Jabeur in successive matches without dropping a set.
We believe she could prove to be a handful here and should come through against Shnaider.
Shnaider v Putintseva prediction: Putintseva to win: 4/6
Daria Kasatkina v Madison Keys Preview
Head-to-Head: This has been some rivalry. They have faced off 11 times in their careers including once in the Olympics and Keys holds a 9-2 advantage over her opponent. The last time they faced off was in the 2023 Eastbourne final where Keys had won while their last hardcourt meeting was in San Diego where Keys had dropped just five games.
Daria Kasatkina is coming off a third round exit at the Brisbane International last week but has done well here. She has obviously faced opponents who haven’t done too many noteworthy things at the highest level of tennis but you can only play against who’s in front of you and the Russian has done that well.
After registering a 6-2, 6-3 win over Olivia Gadecki in the first round, she overcame Emerson Jones 7-5, 6-3 to enter the quarterfinals.
Kasatkina’s issue is she needs to find a way to get past Madison Keys, a solution that she hasn’t been able to really find.
Keys had a tough meeting with Jelena Ostapenko but it must be quickly added that her Latvian opponent is one of the most dangerous ones, who on her day can oust players of the quality of Iga Swiatek.
Which is why, for Keys to come back from being a set down to beat Ostapenko spoke volumes about her persistence and confidence and we could see some more of that in this quarterfinal.
Kasatkina v Keys prediction: Keys to win: 4/6
Emma Navarro v Liudmilla Samsonova Preview
Head-to-Head: Navarro and Samsonova have never faced off in a competitive match before this.
After losing her opener at the Brisbane International, the world number eight Emma Navarro would have been itching to take to court here.
She had a first round bye which meant that it took her about a week since that defeat to Kimberly Birrell for Navarro to face an opponent. Ekaterina Alexandrova.
And it turned out to be quite an opening set in which Navarro missed three set-points on her own serve and another one in the tie-breaker before taking the lead off her fifth. She took a 4-0 lead in the second set and while Alexandrova put up a fight, Navarro came through in straight sets in the end.
Her opponent in this encounter is Liudmilla Samsonova, who like Navarro had made an early exit in Brisbane. Here she defeated Marie Bouzkova from being a set down and then was on court for nearly three hours as she quelled Belinda Bencic’s challenge in three, hard-fought sets.
If Navarro can get to the levels she was at in the second round, she should grab a win here but Samsonova might not quit that easily. We could see three more sets here.
Navarro v Samsonova prediction: Three sets in the match: 6/5
