Sybase Friday Matchups
16 second-round matches get underway at 10:30 this morning. The most competitive ones appear to be these:
#15 Catriona Matthew vs. #18 Kristy McPherson
#14 Morgan Pressel vs. #19 Sophie Gustafson
#13 Inbee Park vs. #20 Maria Hjorth
#30 Amy Yang vs. #35 Juli Inkster
#54 Azahara Munoz vs. #62 Beatriz Recari
On the first three, I'll stick with my initial predictions and expect Matthew, Pressel and Hjorth to move on. Yang/Inkster is a toss-up - both had to go extra holes on Thursday, albeit against opponents of very different quality. On a hunch, I'll pick Yang and I like Munoz to edge Recari.
These matches could be tight, too:
#5 Cristie Kerr vs. #28 Sun Young Yoo
#8 Michelle Wie vs. #25 Hee Young Park
#12 Song-Hee Kim vs. #21 Momoko Ueda
#46 Sandra Gal vs. #61 Haeji Kang
#7 Karrie Webb vs. #55 Amanda Blumenherst
#24 Eun-Hee Ji vs. #57 Karine Icher
The underdogs in the first two matches often play hot-or-cold. If either shows up hot again today, the higher seed is in trouble although I still favor them. I like Ueda to upset Kim, Gal to beat Kang and Icher to outlast Ji. As I predicted in my bracket, I like Blumenherst to upset Webb.
In these five matches, I expect the higher seed to prevail.
#27 Jee Young Lee vs. #48 Shi Hyun Ahn
#2 Ai Miyazato vs. #31 M.J. Hur
#10 Angela Stanford vs. #41 Pat Hurst
#4 Yani Tseng vs. #29 Candie Kung
#1 Jiyai Shin vs. #32 Hee-Won Han
We'll see if I can do better than yesterday's .655 (21-11) percentage.
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