Marta Kostyuk vs Cori Gauff Predictions: All Chips on Cori Gauff

World Number 4 Cori Gauff will face Marta Kostyuk in the QuarterFinals of the Australian Open. Both players will take their place on the courts against each other for the second time in their careers. Cori Gauff defeated Marta Kostyuk in their last meeting back in 2022 in the WTA Adelaide tournament. Both players have been in fine form throughout the tournament, but Cori Gauff is the favorite to come out of this clash with a win.

Marta Kostyuk

Marta Kostyuk is currently ranked 37th on the WTA rankings. The 21 year old Ukrainian has won only 1 single title and her win/loss ratio is currently 71:72 throughout her career. Marta Kostyuk has played in 4 Australian Opens prior to this edition. Her first participation in 2018 crashed out in the 3rd round. In the 2021 edition, she failed to make it past the first round, and in the 2022 edition, she went on to the 3rd round, same as her last participation in the 2023 edition, when she lost to Jessica Pegula.

In this tournament, Marta Kostyuk has defeated four opponents. She defeated Claire Liu (2-1), then she defeated Elise Mertens in the next round by the same scoreline. After that, she defeated Elina Avanesyan 2-1, before Maria Timofeeva in straight sets in the last round.

Cori Gauff

Cori Gauff is expected to see off this challenge against Marta Kostyuk. Cori Gauff is currently ranked 4th on the WTA rankings and she has 7 singles career titles to her name already. Her win/loss ratio is rated 149/68 throughout her career.

Cori Gauff has qualified for every Australian Open since her first involvement in 2020. She only made it to the 4th round in the 2020 edition, then she got to the 2nd round in the 2021. In the 2021 edition, she got to the 2nd round and in the 2023 edition, she got to the 4th round, when she lost to Jelena Ostapenko.

So far in this tournament, she has won all 4 games she has played in. She defeated Karolina Schmeidlova in her first game in straight sets, then she defeated Caroline Dolehide in the next round by similar scoreline. Her next game against Alycia Parks ended the same way as the previous games and she won in straight sets, and finally in her last game she defeated Magdalena Fretch in straight sets.

Head to Head

Marta Kostyuk and Cori Gauff have faced each other once before now and that was in the WTA Adelaide 2 and Cori Gauff won the game 2:1.

Analysis and Predictions

Cori Gauff is just in unstoppable form at the moment and her results so far in the tournament speaks for itself. It would come as no surprise to see her knock off Marta Kostyuk in this game.

• Under 20.5 Games at 1.60 Odds
• Under 19 Games at 1.88 Odds
• Cori Gauff (-5.5) Handicap at 1.72 Odds