A spot in the next round is at stake on Thursday, when Elvina Kalieva goes up against Tamara Korpatsch in the Suzhou round of 16. Tamara Korpatsch is 5-5 across recent matches. Elvina Kalieva is 2-8 across recent matches.
Tamara Korpatsch is clearly higher-rated on hard — our number puts Korpatsch around 59%. Korpatsch arrives with very little recovery time. This one is close to a coin flip, and the lean toward Korpatsch is exactly that — a lean.