Thanks BetIt. The travel angle is usually very useful if player has a big time difference or has gone far in his previous tournament and the circumstances are a big difference to the previous tournament.
Cirstea +106 over Dominguez Lino. Cirstea is 17 years old and has obviously some talent because her record in majors this year is 5-2 and in qualies and challengers 12-2. I checked her opponents and she has not been good lately against opponents who are better than she is. From June she is 9-3 but only played against two players who are in top 100. Her latest win over top 100 player was Kanepi but Kanepi retired her match last week so I do not think that is a big deal. Black clouds over DL is her match in Fed Cup but it was only one match and it is not a long trip from Sain to Italy so she might be without any tiredness from that. DL's form seems to be going down for me and she has not been as sharp this season as she has been her previous seasons. It is always a bit risky to play a youngster who might have problems with her head against opponents who has more name than her has but when she played this season in her native land at the end of the april she won Muller, Danilidou, Knapp and managed to take a set from Gisella Dulko in the final, that gives me some believe to this kid. Now Cirsten desires her fifth win in this tournament and DL has not yet been further than second round in her three previous years in Palermo.
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Cirstea +106 over Dominguez Lino. Cirstea is 17 years old and has obviously some talent because her record in majors this year is 5-2 and in qualies and challengers 12-2. I checked her opponents and she has not been good lately against opponents who are better than she is. From June she is 9-3 but only played against two players who are in top 100. Her latest win over top 100 player was Kanepi but Kanepi retired her match last week so I do not think that is a big deal. Black clouds over DL is her match in Fed Cup but it was only one match and it is not a long trip from Sain to Italy so she might be without any tiredness from that. DL's form seems to be going down for me and she has not been as sharp this season as she has been her previous seasons. It is always a bit risky to play a youngster who might have problems with her head against opponents who has more name than her has but when she played this season in her native land at the end of the april she won Muller, Danilidou, Knapp and managed to take a set from Gisella Dulko in the final, that gives me some believe to this kid. Now Cirsten desires her fifth win in this tournament and DL has not yet been further than second round in her three previous years in Palermo.
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