Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova and Garbine Muguruza will play each other in the quarter of the Australian Open for the 6th time of their career. They are scheduled to compete on Wednesday at 12.30 pm (NB) on the Rod Laver Arena. In this post, we analyze their head to head performance and the prediction.

Prediction, odds and live streaming

The pick for Tennis Tonic is Garbine Muguruza who should win in 3 sets.

As per the initial odds, Garbine Muguruza is the pick to win this match.
Garbine Muguruza -> 1.50
Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova -> 2.62

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Prediction and head to head Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova vs. Garbine Muguruza

This will be the 6th time that Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova and Garbine Muguruza play 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 1st round in Birmingham back in 2018.

Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova

Ranked no. 30, Anastasia got to the 1st round after defeating Nina Stojanovic 6-1 7-5, Taylor Townsend 7-5 7-61, Karolina Pliskova 7-64 7-63 and Angelique Kerber 6-75 7-64 6-2.

In the 4th round against Kerber, Anastasia recovered from a 1-set down deficit before winning (6-75 7-64 6-2). During the match Pavlyuchenkova scored 132 points vs Kerber’s 117. Anastasia was extremely aggressive to blast 52 winners.

Talking about serving, Pavlyuchenkova blasted 4 aces and she committed only 3 double faults. Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova lost the serve 3 times and she saved 1 break points. Furthermore, Pavlyuchenkova put 75% of her first serves in, winning 70% (52/74) of the points behind her 1st serve and 52% (13/25) on the 2nd serve. Pavlyuchenkova broke Kerber 5 times after converting 28% of her break points (5/18).

Overall Performance in this tournament

Anastasia has lost 1 set in this tournament to conquer 53% of the points she played.

Pavlyuchenkova has a good win-loss record in the last 10 years having won 56% of her matches (775-616). 5-2 on hard in 2020. In connection with her performance on the same surface of this competition, Pavlyuchenkova has a 271-200 record in the last 10 years on hard.

The Russian has a 5-2 win-loss record in 2020, 5-2 on hard (See FULL STATS).

Last year at the Australian Open

Pavlyuchenkova lost in the quarter 2-6 7-5 6-1 to Danielle Rose Collins.

Garbine Muguruza

Ranked no. 32, Muguruza reached the 1st round after defeating Shelby Rogers 0-6 6-1 6-0, Ajla Tomljanovic 6-3 3-6 6-3, Elina Svitolina 6-1 6-2 and Kiki Bertens 6-3 6-3.

In the 4th round, Garbine had a good straight sets win against Bertens (6-3 6-3). During the match Muguruza scored 57 points vs Bertens’s 42. Muguruza was extremely aggressive to blast 28 winners.

Talking about serving, Muguruza blasted 6 aces and she committed only 4 double faults. Garbine Muguruza lost the serve twice and she saved 2 break points. Furthermore, Muguruza put 67% of her first serves in, winning 90% (28/31) of the points behind her 1st serve and 27% (4/15) on the 2nd serve. Muguruza broke Bertens 5 times after converting 56% of her break points (5/9).

Overall Performance in this tournament

The Spaniard has conceded 2 set in the tournament to win 56% of the points she played.

Muguruza has a solid record in the last 10 years having won 66% of her matches (987-515). 9-1 on hard in 2020. In connection with her performance on the same surface of this competition, Muguruza has a 267-152 win-loss record in the last 10 years on hard.

The Spaniard’s best result of the current season was reaching the semi-finals in Shenzhen.

Muguruza has a 9-1 win-loss record in 2020, 9-1 on hard (See FULL STATS).

Last year at the Australian Open

The Spaniard lost in the 4th round 6-3 6-1 to Karolina Pliskova.

Live score

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H2H Performance in the tournament

Matches, sets, games and points

Points Pavlyuchenkova Muguruza
Match played 4 4
Tot Set 9 10
Tot Games 104 79
Pts 413-359 284-222
Total Points 772 506
Winners 170 119
%Winners 41% 42%

Both Pavlyuchenkova and Muguruza played 4 matches. Both players lost a set in the event. Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova conceded 1 set, while Garbine Muguruza dropper 2 sets. Pavlyuchenkova has played 1 sets less than Muguruza (9 vs 10). However, it’s interesting to notice that Pavlyuchenkova played 25 games more than Muguruza. The Russian scored 170 winners (41% on total points). On the other side, Garbine blasted 119 winners (42%).

Serve Performance

Serve Pavlyuchenkova Muguruza
Aces 18 17
Avg per match 4.5 4.3
1st in 236/341 155/247
%1st in 69% 63%
1st pts 170/236 119/155
%1st pts 72% 77%
2nd pts 49/105 40/92
%2nd pts 47% 43%

Pavlyuchenkova blasted 18 aces (4.5 per match). Muguruza blasted 17 aces (4.3 per match). Pavlyuchenkova won 72% points on her first serve. She had a solid display on her second serve to win 47% of the points. On the other side, Muguruza won 77% points on her first serve. She had a solid display on her second serve to win 43% of the points.

How they played the important points

Breaks Pavlyuchenkova Muguruza
Won 15 19
Converted 15/54 19/45
% Converted 28% 42%
Conceded 23 20
Saved 14 11
% Saved 61% 55%
Times Broken 9 9

The Russian broke her opponents 15 times with 28% conversion rate. Pavlyuchenkova conceded her serve 9 times and she saved 61% of the break points that she conceded. The Spaniard broke her opponents 19 times with 42% conversion rate. Muguruza conceded her serve 9 times and she saved 55% of the break points that she conceded.

Pavlyuchenkova
R1
Stojanovic		 R2
Townsend		 R3
Pliskova		 R4
Kerber		 Total
Score 6-1 7-5 7-5 7-61 7-64 7-63 6-75 7-64 6-2
Tot Set 2 2 2 3 9
Tot Games 19 25 26 34 104
pts 67-46 101-88 113-108 132-117 413-359
Total points 113 189 221 249 772
Winners 31 38 49 52 170
%Winners 46% 38% 43% 39% 41%
SERVE
Aces 7 2 5 4 18
Double Faults 3 2 11 3 19
1st in 42/59 54/83 66/100 74/99 236/341
% 1st in 71% 65% 66% 75% 69%
1st pts 31/42 38/54 49/66 52/74 170/236
% 1st pts 74% 70% 74% 70% 72%
2nd pts 7/17 15/29 14/34 13/25 49/105
% 2nd pts 41% 52% 41% 52% 47%
Breaks
Won 5 3 2 5 15
Converted 5/7 3/14 2/15 5/18 15/54
Converted % 71% 21% 13% 28% 28%
Conceded 2 7 10 4 23
Saved 0/2 5/7 8/10 1/4 14
Saved % 0% 71% 80% 25% 44%
Times Broken 2 2 2 3 125
Muguruza
R1
Rogers		 R2
Tomljanovic		 R3
Svitolina		 R4
Bertens		 Total
Score 0-6 6-1 6-0 6-3 3-6 6-3 6-1 6-2 6-3 6-3
Tot Set 3 3 2 2 10
Tot Games 19 27 15 18 79
pts 69-55 97-89 61-36 57-42 284-222
Total points 124 186 97 99 506
Winners 27 43 21 28 119
%Winners 39% 44% 34% 49% 42%
SERVE
Aces 5 2 4 6 17
Double Faults 1 2 1 4 8
1st in 38/62 61/94 25/45 31/46 155/247
% 1st in 61% 65% 56% 67% 63%
1st pts 27/38 43/61 21/25 28/31 119/155
% 1st pts 71% 70% 84% 90% 77%
2nd pts 8/24 16/33 12/20 4/15 40/92
% 2nd pts 33% 48% 60% 27% 43%
Breaks
Won 6 4 4 5 19
Converted 6/15 4/8 4/13 5/9 19/45
Converted % 40% 50% 31% 56% 42%
Conceded 5 9 2 4 20
Saved 1/5 6/9 2/2 2/4 11
Saved % 20% 67% 100% 50% 59%
Times Broken 4 3 0 2 125

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