The Palermo title is on the line on Sunday, when Fiona Ferro meets Francesca Jones. Francesca Jones brings a 9-match winning streak into this one, 9-1 across the last ten. Fiona Ferro has won 4 in a row and 5 of the last 10 overall.
The two have never played — a first meeting always adds a layer of uncertainty the numbers can't fully capture.
There's a wide gap in our ratings on clay, and our number follows from it. Ferro comes in off a compressed schedule; Jones comes in off a compressed schedule. This one is close to a coin flip, and the lean toward Jones is exactly that — a lean.