Tennis Tips: French Open Women’s Semi-Final Picks make a 3/1 Acca

Tennis tipster Ben Smith has two picks for today's semi-finals.

Jasmine Paolini, june 2024

French Open Betting Tips 

Thursday, 2pm Iga Swiatek v Coco Gauff – Under 18.5 Games
Thursday, 4pm Jasmine Paolini v Mirra Andreeva – Mirra Andreeva -2.5 Games

*All prices are bang up to date with our snazzy widgets, while odds in copy are accurate at time of publishing but subject to change.

Iga Swiatek v Coco Gauff – Under 18.5 Games

Coco Gauff will move to number two in the world when the new WTA rankings come out on Monday, but she faces an uphill task in her bid for a second Roland Garros final berth.

Iga Swiatek might think that the ‘Queen of Clay’ label is premature, but having only dropped a total of two games in her last two matches, it looks like there is no stopping the three-time French Open champion.

The Pole leads the head-to-head against Gauff 10-1 and has not dropped a set against her in four meetings on clay. They have met at this tournament in each of the last two years and under 18.5 games landed easily on both occasions.

Gauff is in excellent form and with a Grand Slam title to her name she will come into this semi-final with more belief than ever, but even when the pair faced off in Rome three weeks ago, Swiatek cruised to a 6-4 6-3 success and only faced two break points to Gauff’s 11.

Jasmine Paolini v Mirra Andreeva – Mirra Andreeva -2.5 Games

The second women’s semi-final is not the one that was expected, but Jasmine Paolini remained steady against Elena Rybakina, and Mirra Andreeva came from a set behind to upset an out-of-sorts Aryna Sabalenka.

This is the deepest Grand Slam run of both players’ careers, but while Paolini has significantly more experience than her teenage opponent, Andreeva can overpower the Italian just as she did in Madrid in April.

Paolini will make life difficult for the Russian and keep errors to a minimum, but Andreeva has defeated five higher-ranked opponents than herself during this clay court season and looks ready to reach her first final.

French Open Betting Tips

Thursday, 2pm Iga Swiatek v Coco Gauff – Under 18.5 Games
Thursday, 4pm Jasmine Paolini v Mirra Andreeva – Mirra Andreeva -2.5 Games

*All prices are bang up to date with our snazzy widgets, while odds in copy are accurate at time of publishing but subject to change.

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