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Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova vs Katie Boulter Preview & Prediction | 2025 Italian Open | First Round

by Alex Meechan · May 6 2025, 17:28
Updated May 7 2025, 13:47
Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova vs Katie Boulter Preview & Prediction | 2025 Italian Open | First Round

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Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova of Russia takes on Great Britain’s Katie Boulter in the first-round of the Italian Open.

Ranking points: WTA 1000

Start date/time: Wednesday 7th May, 2025: UK – not before TBC / US ET – not before TBC / US PT – not before TBC

Venue: Foro Italico, Rome, Italy

Surface: Outdoor clay

How to watch on TV: UK – Sky Sports Tennis / US – Tennis Channel

How to watch online: UK – Sky Go / US – Tennis Channel

Tickets: Visit this link for the latest Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova vs Katie Boulter ticket information

Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova vs Katie Boulter prediction

Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova is on a four match losing streak and hasn’t won on clay so far this season. Her last victory came at the Abu Dhabi Open in early February. The Russian will be extremely low on confidence having gone winless on tour for three months. This wretched run of form is in sharp contrast to how she was playing at the Australian Open in January, where she reached the quarter-finals and took world number one Aryna Sabalenka to a deciding set.

Katie Boulter picked up her first ever clay court win on the WTA Tour in the first-round of the Madrid Open, coming from a set down to beat Katerina Siniakova 4-6 6-2 6-1, However, an error-strewn performance in her next match led a heavy defeat against Jasmine Paolini, as the British number one lost 6-1 6-2 to the sixth seed.

These two have met once before in their respective careers, with Pavlyuchenkova winning 7-6 6-4 in Linz at the beginning of last year but this will be their first match against each other on clay.

Neither player is in form ahead of this one and we could see this encounter going all the way to three sets.

Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova vs Katie Boulter tip: Both players to win a set

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