Be tipped to do something, be tipped for something

10. VERB : usu passive

If a person is tipped to do something or is tipped for success at something, experts or journalists believe that they will do that thing or achieve that success.[BRIT]

• He is tipped to be the country's next foreign minister.
• He was widely tipped for success.

.... Cobuild

Tip: 4. be likely to succeed [transitive usually passive]

if someone or something is tipped to do something, people think that they are most likely to succeed in doing it

• tip somebody/something to do something:
  .... the man tipped to become the next President
• tip somebody for/as something:
  .... He's tipped as a future world champion.
• widely/strongly/hotly tipped:
  .... He had been widely tipped to get the new post of deputy director.

.... Longman