Jasmine Paolini bests Blinkova in the 3rd round to collide vs Kalinskaya at the Australian Open. HIGHLIGHTS, INTERVIEW – AUSTRALIAN OPEN RESULTS

AUSTRALIAN OPEN - MELBOURNE DRAW AND RESULTS. Paolini ousts Blinkova to compete against Anna Kalinskaya in the 4th round

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Luke Meyer
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Prediction and head to head Jasmine Paolini vs. Anna Blinkova

Jasmine Paolini gets by Anna Blinkova 7-6(1) 6-4 in the 3rd round in Melbourne on Saturday. Paolini will engage against Anna Kalinskaya in the 4th round. The match lasted 1 hour and 26 minutes. This will be her most significant achievement in this tournament. In the past, the best she could do was reaching the 1st round in 2020, 2021, 2022 and 2023. Here you can see her history at this event.

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Paolini's Record

The Italian added to her prize money $ 120,000 after winning this match. She has already won $ 375,000 after this win. If she wins the next match, Paolini will add $ 225,000 to her earnings to get in total $ 600,000 in total.

Highlights Jasmine Paolini vs. Anna Blinkova Australian Open – Melbourne

Paolini’s Interview

Stats: aces, double faults, breaks, winners

Paolini
Blinkova
Jasmine Paolini
7-61 6-4
1h:26
Anna Blinkova
71
71
Total points
54
54
34
34
Winners
20
20
48%
48%
Ratio Winners
37%
37%
19
19
Unforced
25
25
43%
43%
Ratio Unforced
57%
57%
6/8
6/8
Net Approaches
5/10
5/10
75%
75%
Perc
50%
50%
-- Serve --
3
3
Aces
1
1
1
1
Double Faults
1
1
82%
82%
1st in
59%
59%
68%
68%
1st won
53%
53%
34/50
34/50
1st won
20/38
20/38
45%
45%
2nd won
46%
46%
5/11
5/11
2nd won
12/26
12/26
174
174
Fastest serve
188
188
153
153
AVG 1st Serve
156
156
122
122
AVG 2nd Serve
127
127
-- Break Points --
4/5
4/5
Total
3/5
3/5
80%
80%
Won
60%
60%
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At the end of the match, Jasmine scored 71 points vs. Anna’s 54.

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Jasmine was pretty focused in converting 80% of the break points that she procured (4/5).

Blinkova

On the other side, Anna was pretty good at converting 60% of the break points that she conquered points (3/5). Notwithstanding, that was not enough to win the match.

After this match, the head to head between Paolini and Blinkova is 3-3.

Draw and next match H2H: Jasmine Paolini vs. Anna Kalinskaya – stats

Paolini will take on Kalinskaya in the 4th round.

This will be the 2nd time that Jasmine Paolini and Anna Kalinskaya clash against each other. The head to head is 1-0 for Paolini (see full H2H stats), 1-0 on hard.

The last time that they squared off, Paolini won 6-3 6-2 in the 2nd round in Portoroz back in 2021.

Jasmine Paolini Draw info

Live score progression and stats

1st Set -
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0
0
B
0
0

Paolini was quite dominant at the beginning of the set to break Anna Blinkova in the 2nd game (2-0). Anyhow, that wasn’t sufficient for Paolini to win the set since the Russian managed to break back in the 3rd (1-2) and in the 5th (2-3) game. Paolini kept her focus to break the Russian in the 4th (3-1) game before winning the set (7-6).

They played 79 points. Paolini was the winner of the set after clinching 7 points more than the Russian (43-36). Paolini dropped 10 points on serve (21-10). on the other side of the net, the Russian conceded 22 points on serve (26-22).

2nd Set -
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0
0
0
0

Paolini was quite dominant at the beginning of the set to break Anna Blinkova in the 2nd game (2-0) before consolidating her break and lead 3-0. Nonetheless, Paolini refused to bow to come back to break Anna in the 7th (3-4) and in the 9th (5-4) game before winning the set (6-4).

Blinkova was outplayed in the last 5 games of the set when the game count went from 1-4 to 6-4.

They played 46 points. Jasmine won 14 points more than Blinkova (30-16). Paolini conceded 9 points on serve (17-9). on the other side of the court, Anna conceded 13 points on serve (7-13).

1st
Paolini
Blinkova
7-6
7
6
6
6
6
5
5
5
5
4
4
4
4
3
3
3
3
2
3
1
2
1
2
0
1
0
2nd
Paolini
Blinkova
6-4
6
4
5
4
4
4
3
4
2
4
1
4
1
3
0
3
0
2
0
1
 

Tennis Scores at the Australian Open

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