There will be a few more WTA Hobart International 2025 matches that will be played on Monday, January 6 with Viktoriya Tomova, Maria Lourdes Carle and Yue Yuan taking to court for their openers. Here’s the preview, predictions and tips for these matches from Brisbane.
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Dayana Yastremska v Katie Volynets Preview
Head-to-Head: There haven’t been any previous main draw matches between these two players but they did face off in the qualifiers of the Stuttgart Open 2023. Volynets had won that clay court meeting in three sets.
After having ended the 2023 season ranked 102nd in the world, Yastremska set about to turn things around. And she did a good job of it too thanks to her performance at the 2024 Australian Open.
Yastremska, who started out as a qualifier in that competition, went on to defeat Marketa Vondrousova, Emma Navarro and Linda Noskova on her way to the semifinal of that event.
Since then, however, her performances have been quite average with 12 hardcourt competitions yielding just six wins. And the same issue continued in 2025 too with an opening exit from the Brisbane International where she lost to Anastasia Potapova.
Up against her is Katie Volynets who is coming off a solid showing in Auckland where she made the quarterfinals. Wins over Erika Andreeva and Ann Li got her a meeting with Alycia Parks who then got the better of her in straight sets.
Last year, Volynets had made it to the quarterfinals at Hua Hin and the third round at both, the Indian Wells and China Open. It’s this consistency spread across the entire year that makes her the favourite in this encounter.
Yastremska v Volynets prediction: Volynets to win: 4/6
Viktoriya Tomova v Greet Minnen Preview
Head-to-Head: While they have never faced off at the highest level, their only meeting on the ITF circuit had led to Minnen winning a hardcourt match in 2023.
Tomova had ended the 2023 season ranked 80th on the WTA charts but came away with a solid set of performances in 2024. While she did not win a single tournament even at the lower level, her results on clay helped her climb up the rankings.
So much so that she is now 53rd in the world, just seven away from her career-best rank.
On hardcourt surfaces, however, Tomova has a struggle on her hands. Last year, there were only two tournaments in which she won back to back main draw matches on it – at Seoul and at this tournament in Hobart where she had started off as a lucky loser.
Not that her opponent had too much going her way in 2024. Which is why the once-60th-ranked Minnen fell 35 places to her current position.
Minnen will take some positive from her showings this year so far. She started off with a win in Auckland where she defeated Anna-Lena Friedsam but then lost to Alycia Parks in the second.
And here she was a straight-set winner in both her qualifying rounds to enter the main draw.
Bookmakers have installed her as a favourite and we will have to go with that too.
Tomova v Minnen prediction: Minnen to win: 3/5
Maria Lourdes Carle v Jessica Bouzas Maneiro Preview
Head-to-Head: There have been two previous meetings between these two players, one on clay and the other in a hardcourt competition – both on the WTA 125 circuit – and Maria Lourdes Carle has won them both.
Most of Lourdes Carle’s top performances in her career have come on clay. 10 of her 14 ITF titles have been on the red dirt, which includes her previous seven in a row going back to 2021.
Which is why it comes as a big surprise that she has won both her qualifiers here to make it to the main draw. This includes a victory over Renata Zarazua despite starting out a 7/4 underdog in the encounter.
That doesn’t change the fact that Bouzas Maneiro is a huge favourite in this – some offering 1/3 for her win – after she shocked Maria Sakkari in her United Cup match for Spain.
While her team Spain did not progress further in the competition, that victory was enough to push her WTA Ranking to a career-best of 52nd in the world when the rankings are updated on Monday.
Backing her to cruise here.
Lourdes Carle v Bouzas Maneiro prediction: Bouzas Maneiro to win in straight sets: 5/6
Yue Yuan v Camila Osorio Preview
Head-to-Head: This will be the first meeting between Yuan and Osorio.
49th-ranked Yue Yuan made a strong start to the season when she eased past two of her opponents – Arantxa Rus and Marta Kostyuk – in her first two rounds at the Brisbane International. While she lost to the slight underdog Anhelina Kalinina in the third, she would take a lot of positives away from that competition.
Yuan had entered the season after having won her maiden WTA title last year in Austin after having made the semifinal in Hobart earlier. Later she proceeded to be one of the quarterfinalist at the Indian Wells Open where she overcame Qinwen Zheng and Daria Kasatkina on her way to the last eight stage.
That makes her a 1/2 favourite against an opponent who is yet to take to court this year and is usually found to be more proficient on clay. She has two WTA titles and three on the ITF level on clay and while she hasn’t struggled in hardcourt competitions, her record isn’t something to marvel.
The Chinese player shouldn’t have a problem here.
Yuan v Osorio prediction: Yuan to win: 1/2
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