Wimbledon predictions and tennis betting tips: Muchova can conquer Kerber

Free tennis tips, best bets and analysis for the women's singles quarter-finals at Wimbledon on Tuesday.

Where to watch

BBC1, BBC2 & BBC red button from 1pm, Tuesday
(play on outside courts starts at 11am)

Best bets

Karolina Muchova to beat Angelique Kerber
1pt 5-4 Betfair, Paddy Power

Karolina Pliskova -2.5 games v Viktorija Golubic
1pt 4-6 Betfred

Ons Jabeur to beat Aryna Sabalenka
1pt 6-5general

Quarter-final preview

Karolina Muchova v Angelique Kerber

Angelique Kerber is back to somewhere near her best but the 2018 Wimbledon champion may still do well to thwart Karolina Muchova.

Three-time major winner Kerber took the title in Bad Homburg in the week leading up to the start of the grass-court Grand Slam tournament, so the 33-year-old may start to feel the pace as the second week draws on.

Muchova, who also reached the quarter-finals of Wimbledon in 2019, has yet to scale the heights of her rival.

But the 24-year-old Czech, a semi-finalist in the Australian Open earlier this year, is a powerful performer who is difficult to defeat and the value to progress to the last four may lie with her.

Karolina Pliskova v Viktorija Golubic

Viktorija Golubic has done superbly well to reach the last eight of a major singles for the first time in her career, but while she is in terrific form this is unchartered territory for the Swiss.

Self-belief has been an issue for Golubic in the past and the unseeded 28-year-old could find that crossing the line gets tougher in the coming days - and that would not help her cause against a high-class operator such as Karolina Pliskova.

Eighth seed Pliskova, like many of her fellow Czechs, will have been inspired by Barbora Krejcikova's recent French Open heroics.

Former world number one Pliskova is a Grand Slam singles finalist herself - she lost to Angelique Kerber in the 2016 US Open - and the way she has performed in straight-sets triumphs over Tamara Zidansek, Donna Vekic, Tereza Martincova and Liudmila Samsonova suggests her focus may have been rediscovered.

Ons Jabeur v Aryna Sabalenka

Wimbledon singles second seed Aryna Sabalenka is the favourite to beat Ons Jabeur by virtue of her higher rank, but in terms of focus the Tunisian gets the call.

Dismissing two qualifiers and a wild-card saw Sabalenka into the last 16 and the Belarusian franked her higher chart position when defeating Elena Rybakina 6-3 4-6 6-3 in the fourth round, her second three-set outing in the competition after fighting back from a set down to oust Britain's Katie Boulter.

But while Sabalenka is seldom easy to stop, Jabeur has been on a career-best run in recent weeks. She claimed her first main-tour title in Edgbaston last month and has seen off four fine opponents in Rebecca Peterson, five-time champion Venus Williams, 2017 Wimbledon champion Garbine Muguruza and last year's Roland Garros heroine Iga Swiatek, who had little look-in once the African found her rhythm to win 5-7 6-1 6-1.

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