Garcia vs Kasatkina and Swiatek vs Gauff Predictions

When you have a round-robin format, you hope that all the matches will be meaningful on the final day of group play. That’s only half true on Nov. 5, when Coco Gauff meets Iga Swiatek and Caroline Garcia plays Daria Kasatkina in the 2022 WTA Finals 2022.

But that latter match (4:30 p.m. ET) puts everything on the line.

Garcia vs Kasatkina WTA Finals 2022 Odds

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The winner between Garcia and Kasatkina will join Iga Swiatek in the semifinals on Sunday, to face Nancy Richey pool winner Maria Sakkari.

 Garcia vs Kasatkina Head-to-Head

Kasatkina The Winner Last Time

Kasatkina is the underdog in this year’s event, as the lowest seed and maybe that relative lack of pressure is the difference maker, as Garcia – always high-strung – seems to be putting a lot of pressure on herself to perform this week.

Garcia vs Kasatkina Match History

The two last met in the summer of 2021 in San Jose, which has proven to be a happy place for Kasatkina. She made the final that year and won it this past August.

The straight-up attacking style the Frenchwoman has (finally) adopted in 2022 to great effect works best when she’s getting consistent pace to work with because she needs to take more risk on every shot and it doesn’t take much to throw her off. At which point she begins to doubt herself.

The Russian’s game doesn’t give Garcia much rhythm

And Garcia won’t have gained any confidence after the quick way Swiatek dispatched her when they met on Thursday.

Garcia vs Kasatkina WTA Finals 2022 Prediction

Garcia will consider it a relief if she makes the semifinals; Kasatkina will consider it a bonus and so the Russian is likely to swing more freely. She also has a lot less risk in her game, a lot less that can go wrong under pressure.

Best Bet: Kasatkina in Three Sets (+400)

Swiatek vs Gauff Odds

American teenager Coco Gauff’s debut at the WTA Finals has been a rough one. Shut out in doubles. Shut out so far in singles, the 18-year-old is playing just for pride Saturday, in her final match of the week.

Unfortunately, she’s up against world No. 1 Swiatek – who has had her number every time they’ve met.

Swiatek vs Gauff Head-to-Head

Swiatek Perfect vs Gauff

It wasn’t a huge shock that Gauff didn’t show that well in the French Open final in June. It was her first Grand Slam singles final, and she hadn’t faced a top-30 player during her run to the final day.

But the match against Swiatek was speedy.  It wasn’t a contest, really.

Swiatek vs Gauff Match History

And when the two met again last month in San Diego in another highly-anticipated match with Gauff having a home-country advantage, she did no better.

Swiatek vs Gauff WTA Finals 2022 Prediction

Swiatek is arguably the worst possible opponent to try and fashion a salvage job against for Gauff.

It seems more likely that this will be yet another straight-set win for Swiatek – who is on a mission.

And she’ll also want to save her energy for the big matches to come.

Best Bet: Swiatek in Two Sets (-186)