Emiliana Arango vs Darja Semenistaja Prediction Buenos Aires 125 Tennis Picks 11/27/24

Emiliana Arango won her opening match in Buenos Aires in straight sets. She defeated home player Julia Caffarena 6-0, 6-0. 

Arango completed that whitewash in less than an hour, and the gulf in quality and ranking was evident. The Colombian is ranked inside the top 200, while her opponent is ranked outside the top 1000.

This was Arango's seventh win from four tournaments on South American soil since the end of October.

This run includes a runner-up finish in Santa Cruz at the start of November.

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Darja Semenistaja was pushed to three sets by Maja Chwalinska. She won 3-6, 6-4, 6-2 in two hours and 12 minutes.

Semenistaja landed 73% of first-serve points and won 57% of first-serve points (29/51). The Latvian tallied 68% of second-serve points (13/19) and converted seven of 13 break points.

This was Semenistaja's 34th match win on clay at all levels and her 55th of the season.

Emiliana Arango vs Darja Semenistaja Head-To-Head

• These two players have not met at any level before this. This will be their first career meeting.

Emiliana Arango vs Darja Semenistaja Prediction

There are a few reasons why Semenistaja should win this match. She's won more matches on this surface than Arango and has shown consistent rally tolerance, but is priced at a lowly -222 to win here.

These two players are fond of clay and play their best tennis on it. Even with a title win, neither will be touching the world's Top 100 at the end of the week.

With that said, Arango has just shown a lot more potential and promise that I'm convinced is a great pick at +163 pre-match. This is a player who beat Amanda Anisimova on the clay in Madrid and is coming off a finalist run in Santa Cruz.