Ashleigh Barty prevails over Kvitova in the quarter. Kenin Next. H2H, PREDICTION

AUSTRALIAN OPEN - MELBOURNE RESULTS. Barty defeats Kvitova to fight against Sofia Kenin in the semifinal

28 January 2020

Ashleigh Barty defeats Petra Kvitova 7-6⁶ 6-2 in the quarter in Melbourne on Tuesday. Barty will fight against Sofia Kenin in the semifinal.

Score, report, and key facts

1^st set.

Ashleigh clinched the set after recovering from 1 break down. In fact, after dropping her serve in the 3^rd (1-2) game, Barty broke back in the 4^th (2-2) game before winning the set at the following breaker at 6.

2^nd set.

Barty conquered a leading position at the beginning of the set after breaking Kvitova in the 1^st game (1-0) before consolidating her break and lead 4-0. Yet, that wasn’t sufficient for Barty to win the set since the Czech managed to break back in the 6^th (2-4) game. The Australian kept her focus to break Petra in the 7^th (5-2) game before winning the set (6-2).

Certainly, a key moment was when the Australian won 4 consecutive games in the 2^nd set to change the scoreline from 0-0 to 4-0.

Statistics

At the end of the match, Ashleigh scored 82 points vs. Petra’s 73 points.

The Australian was well focused in converting 50% of the break points that she procured (4/8). On the other side, Kvitova was struggling when converting her break points (only 17% – 2/12). That was one of the key issues for her demise.

After this match, the head to head between Barty and Kvitova is 4-4.

Highlights Ashleigh Barty vs. Petra Kvitova Australian Open – Melbourne

Barty’s Interview

Next Match H2H: Ashleigh Barty vs. Sofia Kenin – stats

Prediction: Barty in 3

Barty will fight against Kenin in the semifinal.

This will be the 6^th time that Ashleigh Barty and Sofia Kenin fight against each other. The head to head is 4-1 for Barty (see full H2H stats),but they are 1-1 on hard.

The last time that they played, Barty won 6-3 7-5 in the 3^rd round in Wuhan back in 2019.

Ashleigh Barty in Melbourne

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Tennis Scores at the

Sofia KeninKenin – Ons JabeurJabeur (6-4 6-4) – See score progression
Ashleigh BartyBarty – Petra KvitovaKvitova (7-6⁶ 6-2) – See score progression

Upcoming matches

Anett KontaveitKontaveit – Simona HalepHalep (0-2) – See H2H details
Garbine MuguruzaMuguruza – Anastasia PavlyuchenkovaPavlyuchenkova (4-1) – See H2H details
Ashleigh BartyBarty – Sofia KeninKenin (4-1) – See H2H details