One match is on Monday's card at Toronto, and we have a pick for every one of them. The headline act: Shuai Zhang against Yulia Putintseva in the first round. Our calls: Putintseva over Zhang. As always, every pick below is graded after the fact and stays up, right or wrong.
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Monday's Toronto first round pits Shuai Zhang against Yulia Putintseva on hard. Yulia Putintseva is 6-4 across recent matches. Shuai Zhang comes in at 4 wins from the last ten.
Neither the serve numbers nor the ratings separate these two by much, which is why our number stays close to even. Little separates them; Putintseva gets the nod on the finest of margins.
Pick: Putintseva
Win probability: 59% Putintseva · Sets: 2 (64%) · most likely score 2-0 (40%)