Garbine Muguruza bests Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova 7-5 6-3 in the quarter in Melbourne

on Wednesday. Muguruza will seek to keep on going in this event against Simona Halep in the semifinal.

Score, report, and key facts

1st set.

Garbine won the set after recovering 2 times from a break down. In fact, after dropping her serve in the 3rd (1-2) and in the 7th (3-4) game. Muguruza broke back 3 times in the 4th (2-2), in the 8th (4-4) and in the 12th (7-5) game before winning the set 7-5.

2nd set.

Pavlyuchenkova conquered a leading position at the beginning of the set after breaking Muguruza in the 1st game (1-0). Anyhow, Muguruza refused to bow to find the way to come back to break Anastasia in the 2nd (1-1) and in the 6th (4-2) game before winning the set (6-3).

Statistics

At the end of the match, Muguruza scored 71 points vs. Anastasia’s 56 points.

Garbine served extremely well to win 75% of the points (27/36) behind her first serve. However she won only 39% points (11/28) on her second serve. Garbine was sharp when converting 71% of the break points that she procured (5/7). On the other side, Anastasia was pretty effective in converting 50%

of the break points that she conquered points (3/6). Notwithstanding, that was not enough to win the match.

After this match, the head to head between Muguruza and Pavlyuchenkova is 5-1 for Garbine.

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Next Match H2H: Garbine Muguruza vs. Simona Halep – stats

Prediction: Halep in 3

Muguruza will face Halep in the semifinal.

This will be the 6th time that Garbine Muguruza and Simona Halep square off. The head to head is 3-2 for Muguruza (see full H2H stats), 2-0 on hard.

The last time that they squared off, Halep won 6-1 6-4 in the semifinal in Paris back in 2018.

Garbine Muguruza in Melbourne

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