Ashleigh Barty survives Riske in the AO 4th round. Kvitova next. PREDICTION

Ashleigh Barty hustles Alison Riske 6-3 1-6 6-4 in the 4^th round in Melbourne on Sunday. Barty will have to play Petra Kvitova in the quarter.

Score, report, and key facts

1^st set.

Barty enjoyed quite a good start of the set after breaking Riske in the 2^nd game (2-0) before consolidating her break and lead 3-0. However, there was more to do for Ashleigh to win the set as Riske succeeded in breaking back in the 5^th (2-3) game. The Australian maintained her focus to break Alison in the 6^th (4-2) game before winning the set (6-3).

2^nd set.

Riske was pretty sharp at the beginning of the set after breaking Barty in the 2^nd game (2-0) before consolidating her break and lead 3-0. Alison extended her lead after breaking the Australian in the 6^th (5-1) game before winning the set (6-1).

3^rd set.

Barty won the set after she broke the American in the 4^th (3-1) and in the 10^th (6-4) game. Alison tried to stage a comeback breaking in the 7^th (4-3) game. However, Barty didn’t lose the lead before winning the set 6-4.

Statistics

At the end of the match, Barty scored 72 points vs. Riske’s 70 points.

The Australian served very well to win 80% of the points (37/46) behind her first serve. However she won only 28% points (7/25) on her second serve. Barty was pretty focused in converting 67% of the break points that she conquered (4/6). On the other side, Riske didn’t lose the concentration in converting 80% of the break points that she procured points (4/5). Nonetheless, that was not enough to win the match.

After this encounter, the head to head between Barty and Riske is 1-1.

Highlights Ashleigh Barty vs. Alison Riske Australian Open – Melbourne

Barty’s Interview

Next Match H2H: Ashleigh Barty vs. Petra Kvitova – stats

Barty will square off with Kvitova in the quarter. This will be the 8^th time that Ashleigh Barty and Petra Kvitova square off. The head to head is 4-3 for Kvitova (see full H2H stats),but they are 2-2 on hard. The last time that they played each other, Barty won 6-4 6-2 in the Round Robin in Shenzhen back in 2019.

The prediction is Barty winning in 3 sets.

Tennis Scores at the

• Sofia KeninKenin – Cori GauffGauff (6-7⁵ 6-3 6-0) – See score progression
• Ashleigh BartyBarty – Alison RiskeRiske (6-3 1-6 6-4) – See score progression
• Ons JabeurJabeur – Qiang WangWang (7-6⁴ 6-1) – See score progression
• Petra KvitovaKvitova – Maria SakkariSakkari (6-7⁴ 6-3 6-2) – See score progression

Upcoming matches

• Anett KontaveitKontaveit – Iga SwiatekSwiatek (1-0) – See H2H details
• Elise MertensMertens – Simona HalepHalep (1-2) – See H2H details
• Garbine MuguruzaMuguruza – Kiki BertensBertens (2-1) – See H2H details
• Angelique KerberKerber – Anastasia PavlyuchenkovaPavlyuchenkova (7-7) – See H2H details
• Ashleigh BartyBarty – Petra KvitovaKvitova (3-4) – See H2H details
• Sofia KeninKenin – Ons JabeurJabeur (2-0) – See H2H details