Elena Rybakina gets the better of Leylah Annie Fernandez 6-4 6-2 in the quarter in Doha on Thursday. Rybakina will play against Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova in the semifinal. The match lasted 1 hour and 34 minutes. This will be her best result in this event. Previously, the best she could do was reaching the 2nd round in 2020. Here you can see her previous results at this event.
Rybakina added to her prize money $ 85,979 after winning this match. She has already won $ 158,944 until now in this event. If she wins the next match, Rybakina will add $ 149,376 to her earnings to get in total $ 308,320.
Highlights Elena Rybakina vs. Leylah Annie Fernandez Qatar TotalEnergies Open – Doha
Stats: aces, double faults, breaks, winners
1h:34
At the end of the match, Elena scored 72 points vs. Leylah’s 55.
Rybakina
The Kazakhstani served pretty well to win 79% of the points (27/34) behind her first serve. Nonetheless she won only 45% points (10/22) on her second serve. Rybakina won this match even if she was far from perfect in converting her break points as she converted only 45% (5/11) of the procured opportunities.
Fernandez
On the other side, Fernandez had a tough time converting her break points (only 33% – 2/6). That was one of the key issues for her loss.
After this match, the head to head between Rybakina and Fernandez is 1-0 for Elena.
Draw and next match H2H: Elena Rybakina vs. Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova – stats
Rybakina will fight against Pavlyuchenkova in the semifinal.
This will be the 2nd time that Elena Rybakina and Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova face off. The head to head is 1-0 for Pavlyuchenkova (see full H2H stats), but they have never played each other on hard.
The last time that they fought against each other, Pavlyuchenkova won 6-72 6-2 9-7 in the quarter in Paris back in 2021.
Live score progression and stats
Rybakina was in a great position at the beginning of the set to break Leylah Annie Fernandez in the 1st game (1-0). Anyhow, Rybakina managed to stage a good comeback to break the Canadian 3 times in the 6th (2-4), in the 8th (4-4) gamein the 10th game before winning the set (6-4) after breaking his opponent in the last game.
Rybakina failed to serve out the set when leading 6-4 to be broken at 40.
Leylah was powerless in the last 6 games of the set when the score went from 1-4 to 6-4.
The Kazakhstani converted 60% of her break points (3/5). She had 5 break points opportunities in the 6th (1-4 15-40), the 8th (3-4 30-40 and 40-A) and the 10th game (5-4 40-A and 40-A). In addition on the other side, Fernandez converted 33% of her break points (2/6). She had her opportunities in the 1st (0-0 15-40 and 30-40), the 5th (3-1 30-40, 40-A and 40-A) and the 11th game (3-6 30-40).
They played 83 points. The Kazakhstani conquered the set after winning 7 points more than Leylah (45-38). Elena dropped 19 points on serve (25-19). on the other side of the court, Fernandez conceded 20 points on serve (19-20).
The Kazakhstani in this set played much better tennis than Leylah and without struggling too much she won 6-2 after breaking Fernandez 3 times in the 6th (4-2), in the 7th (5-2) and in the 8th (6-2) game.
Leylah was unable to find the solution against the opposition in the last 4 games of the set when the game count went from 2-2 to 6-2.
The Kazakhstani converted 33% of her break points (2/6). She had 6 break points opportunities in the 4th (2-1 30-40 and 40-A), the 6th (3-2 40-A, 40-A and 40-A) and the 8th game (5-2 30-40). On the other side, Rybakina didn’t concede a single break point during this set.
They contested 44 points. Rybakina won 10 points more than Fernandez (27-17). Elena was incredibly sharp on serve to drop not even a single point during her serving games (12-0). Regarding the other side of the net, Fernandez conceded 15 points on serve (17-15).
Tennis Scores in Doha
- Iga SwiatekSwiatek – Victoria AzarenkaAzarenka (6-4 6-0) – Stats and score progression
- Anastasia PavlyuchenkovaPavlyuchenkova – Danielle Rose CollinsRose Collins (7-5 6-4) – Stats and score progression
- Elena RybakinaRybakina – Leylah Annie FernandezAnnie Fernandez (6-4 6-2) – Stats and score progression
Upcoming matches
- Naomi OsakaOsaka – Karolina PliskovaPliskova (2-4) – H2H details and stats
- Elena RybakinaRybakina – Anastasia PavlyuchenkovaPavlyuchenkova (0-1) – H2H details and stats
