The quarterfinal action at the WTA Auckland 2025 will be held on Friday, January 3 as Madison Keys leads the way. Here’s the preview, predictions and tips for these matches from Auckland.
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Madison Keys v Clara Tauson Preview
Head-to-Head: There have been no previous meetings between Keys and Tauson before this match.
Keys continued to live up to her top billing as she registered another straight-set win in the competition. This time it was the turn of Jaqueline Cristian to face her wrath as she eased to a 6-1, 6-2 victory in a matter of an hour and 15 minutes.
The top seed from USA did lose her serve once in the match but responded by getting the better of her opponent’s serve on five occasions.
This win follows a 6-4, 6-4 drubbing of Lucia Bronzetti in her opening round encounter.
These two victories set up her quarterfinal match against Clara Tauson who had started the season off ranked 50th in the world. Despite showing a lot of promise, Tauson hasn’t been able to break into the top 30 of the WTA charts and she would hope she can go the distance here to kick-start that endeavour.
Tauson had begun the season with a straightforward victory over Lucrezia Stefanini but despite starting out a 7/10 favourite against Sofia Kenin, looked to be in a scrap in her second round match.
She was on court for two hours and 45 minutes, needed to overcome the loss of the first set and was down two breaks of serves in the second set, also saw Kenin serve for the match at 5-4 before she saved a match-point in the tie-breaker that followed.
A third set tie-breaker is what she needed to grab her victory.
Can she put up a similar fight against Keys too?
Keys v Tauson prediction: Over 20.5 games in the match: 5/6
Naomi Osaka v Hailey Baptiste Preview
Head-to-Head: Osaka and Baptiste have never faced off in a competitive match before this.
Osaka made a slow start to her second round match against Julia Grabher, missing four break-points in the very first game and then having to save two of her own at 4-4.
Fortunately for the former world number one, Grabher did not have the best serving game in the 12th one of the opening set and she was able to swoop in and win the set. She broke once in the second set too to capture the match 7-5, 6-3 and moved into the quarterfinal of an event she has featured in once before way back in 2017.
The Japanese player had earlier defeated Lina Glushko in the first round and will now take on the world number 92 Hailey Baptiste in a quest to make the semifinals.
Baptiste was kept on the court for nearly three hours by Jodie Burrage and was forced to thwart a match-point on her opponent’s serve in the final set before coming through in that tie-breaker.
So while she did manage to scrape through, Baptiste won’t have a lot of time to recover from it given her quarterfinal is less than 24 hours from this match.
Expecting Osaka to come through with much ease.
Osaka v Baptiste prediction: Osaka to win in straight sets: 6/5
Bernarda Pera v Robin Montgomery Preview
Head-to-Head: Their only previous meeting came in the qualifiers of the 2022 San Diego Open and Montgomery had won that in three sets.
Americans Pera and Montgomery have a golden and rare chance to enter the semifinal of a WTA quarterfinal when they face off in their last eight clash.
Why rare you might ask? That’s because Pera last entered the semifinal in August 2022 while Montgomery has never made it that far in her career at this level!
Pera overcame Victoria Jimenez Kasintseva and Rebecca Marino in her first two rounds here, having gone into those matches as 3/5 and 3/4 favourites. That she didn’t drop a set in either is testimony to the manner in which she has begun the season.
Montgomery also went into both her opening two rounds as a favourite against Japanese players Mai Hontama and Nao Hibino and while she dropped a set against the former, she lost just four games to the latter.
We could see a keen tussle between these two as a result.
Pera v Montgomery prediction: Three sets in the match: 6/5
Katie Volynets v Alycia Parks Preview
Head-to-Head: They have never faced off in a competitive match at this level before this. Their only other meeting came on the ITF level in 2022 and Parks had won that one.
Volynets continues to march on, exhibiting the kind of form that took her to number 56 in the world rankings last season. After needing three sets in her opener against Erika Andreeva, Volynets overcame Ann Li in straight sets in the second round.
And while Volynets did drop her serve three times in the match, she got the better of her opponent’s service a whopping six times from the nine opportunities she got.
She now faces fellow American and world number 82 Parks who is looking to climb back on the rankings charts.
Once ranked 40th in the world, Parks had earlier stunned another American in the form of Amanda Anisimova in her opener before easing past Greet Minnen in the second round.
There isn’t much to choose between the two and we think Volynets could edge this in three.
Volynets v Parks prediction: Volynets to win in three sets: 3/1
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