TENNIS SCORES. Pavlyuchenkova surprises Bertens in the 2nd round in Osaka

Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova shocks Kiki Bertens 6-1 7-5 in the 2^nd round in Osaka on Thursday. Pavlyuchenkova is going to play against Misaki Doi in the quarter.

Score, report, and key facts

1^st set.

Pavlyuchenkova started the set in the best possible way after breaking Bertens in the 2^nd game (2-0) before consolidating her break and lead 5-0. Pavlyuchenkova extended her lead after breaking the Dutch in the 4^th (4-0) game before winning the set (6-1).

A crucial moment of the match was when Anastasia won 5 consecutive games in the 1^st set to change the scoreline from 0-0 to 5-0.

2^nd set.

Pavlyuchenkova won the set after she broke the Dutch 4 times in the 5^th (3-2), in the 7^th (4-3), in the 9^th (5-4) and in the 11^th (6-5) game. Bertens tried to stage a comeback breaking 3 times in the 6^th (3-3), in the 8^th (4-4) and in the 10^th (5-5) game. Notwithstanding, Pavlyuchenkova didn’t lose the lead before winning the set 7-5.

The Russian failed to serve out the set when leading 5-4 to be broken at 40.

Statistics

At the end of the match, the Russian scored 76 points vs. Bertens’s 56 points.

The Russian served exceptionally well to win 78% of the points (31/40) behind her first serve. Notwithstanding she won only 35% points (8/23) on her second serve. The Russian was effective in converting 50% of the break points that she procured (6/12). On the other side, the Dutch was pretty effective in converting 60% of the break points that she procured points (3/5). However, that was not enough to win the match.

After this encounter, the head to head between Pavlyuchenkova and Bertens is 3-5 for Kiki.

Highlights Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova vs. Kiki Bertens Toray Pan Pacific Open – Osaka

Next Match: Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova vs. Misaki Doi – stats

Pavlyuchenkova will face Doi in the quarter.

This will be the 3^rd time that Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova and Misaki Doi fight against each other. The head to head is 2-0 for Doi (see full H2H stats), 2-0 on hard.

The last time that they fought against each other, Doi won 6-7³ 6-4 3-1 ret. in the 1^st round in Wuhan back in 2016.

Tennis Scores in Osaka

• Misaki DoiDoi – Donna VekicVekic (7-6⁵ 6-3) – See score progression
• Camila GiorgiGiorgi – Sloane StephensStephens (6-0 6-3) – See score progression
• Anastasia PavlyuchenkovaPavlyuchenkova – Kiki BertensBertens (6-1 7-5) – See score progression
• Yulia PutintsevaPutintseva – Varvara FlinkFlink (6-1 6-1) – See score progression
• Madison KeysKeys – Zarina DiyasDiyas (5-7 6-0 6-4) – See score progression
• Naomi OsakaOsaka – Viktoriya TomovaTomova (7-5 6-3) – See score progression
• Elise MertensMertens – Su-Wei HsiehHsieh (6-3 1-6 6-2) – See score progression
• Angelique KerberKerber – Nicole GibbsGibbs (6-2 6-4) – See score progression

Upcoming matches

• Naomi OsakaOsaka – Yulia PutintsevaPutintseva (0-3) – See H2H details
• Camila GiorgiGiorgi – Elise MertensMertens (0-0) – See H2H details
• Madison KeysKeys – Angelique KerberKerber (2-8) – See H2H details
• Misaki DoiDoi – Anastasia PavlyuchenkovaPavlyuchenkova (2-0) – See H2H details