Pavlyuchenkova beats Kerber in the 4th round of the Australian Open. Muguruza next. H2H, Prediction

Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova conquers Angelique Kerber 6-7⁵ 7-6⁴ 6-2 in the 4^th round in Melbourne on Monday. Pavlyuchenkova will clash against Garbine Muguruza in the quarter.

Score, report, and key facts

1^st set.

Kerber won the set after recovering 2 times from a break down. In fact, after dropping her serve in the 3^rd (1-2) and in the 7^th (2-5) game. Angelique broke back in the 8^th (3-5) and in the 10^th (5-5) game before winning the set at the following breaker at 5.

One of the most important stint of the contest was when Angelique won 4 consecutive games in the 1^st set to change the scoreline from 2-5 to 6-5.

2^nd set.

Neither player conceded a service game during this set. Therefore the affair had to be decided at the tiebreak. Eventually, the Russian won the breaker at 4.

3^rd set.

Pavlyuchenkova started the set in the best possible way after breaking Kerber in the 1^st game (1-0) before consolidating her break and lead 4-0. Nonetheless, there was more to do for the Russian to win the set as the German found the way to break back in the 6^th (2-4) game. Anastasia maintained her focus to break the German in the 7^th (5-2) game before managing to win the set (6-2).

It is worth noting that a key moment of this match was when Pavlyuchenkova won 4 consecutive games in the 3^rd set to change the scoreline from 0-0 to 4-0.

Statistics

At the end of the match, Anastasia scored 132 points vs. Kerber’s 117 points.

Anastasia won this match even if she wasn’t that great in converting her break points since she converted only 28% (5/18). On the other side, the German was pretty good in converting 75% of the break points that she conquered points (3/4). However, that was not enough to win the match.

After this encounter, the head to head between Pavlyuchenkova and Kerber is 8-7 for Anastasia.

Highlights Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova vs. Angelique Kerber Australian Open – Melbourne

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Next Match H2H: Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova vs. Garbine Muguruza – stats

Predictions: Muguruza on 3

Pavlyuchenkova will play Muguruza in the quarter.

This will be the 6^th time that Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova and Garbine Muguruza fight against each other. The head to head is 4-1 for Muguruza (see full H2H stats), 3-0 on hard.

The last time that they fought against each other, Muguruza won 6-1 6-2 in the 1^st round in Birmingham back in 2018.

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Tennis Scores at the

• Anastasia PavlyuchenkovaPavlyuchenkova – Angelique KerberKerber (6-7⁵ 7-6⁴ 6-2) – See score progression
• Garbine MuguruzaMuguruza – Kiki BertensBertens (6-3 6-3) – See score progression
• Simona HalepHalep – Elise MertensMertens (6-4 6-4) – See score progression
• Anett KontaveitKontaveit – Iga SwiatekSwiatek (6-7⁴ 7-5 7-5) – See score progression
• Petra KvitovaKvitova – Maria SakkariSakkari (6-7⁴ 6-3 6-2) – See score progression
• 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

Upcoming matches

• Ashleigh BartyBarty – Petra KvitovaKvitova (3-4) – See H2H details
• Sofia KeninKenin – Ons JabeurJabeur (2-0) – See H2H details
• Anett KontaveitKontaveit – Simona HalepHalep (0-2) – See H2H details
• Garbine MuguruzaMuguruza – Anastasia PavlyuchenkovaPavlyuchenkova (4-1) – See H2H details