DUBAI RESULTS. Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova defeats Bencic in the 1st round of the Dubai Duty Free Championships

Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova hustles Belinda Bencic 1-6 6-1 6-1 in the 1^st round in Dubai on Tuesday. Pavlyuchenkova will try to go further in the tournament when he will face Anett Kontaveit or Sorana Cirstea in the 2^nd round.

Score, report, and key facts

1^st set.

Bencic had a strong start of this set after breaking Pavlyuchenkova in the 2^nd game (2-0) before consolidating her break and lead 5-0. Bencic managed to strengthen her lead after breaking Pavlyuchenkova in the 4^th (4-0) game before conquering the set (6-1).

Bencic won 0 consecutive points in this set from 15-0 1-0 to .

A crucial moment of the match was when the Swiss won 5 consecutive games in the 1^st set to change the scoreline from 0-0 to 5-0.

2^nd set.

Bencic conquered a good lead at the beginning of the set after breaking Pavlyuchenkova in the 1^st game (1-0). Nevertheless, the Russian succeeded in coming back to break Bencic 3 times in the 2^nd (1-1), in the 4^th (3-1) and in the 6^th (5-1) game before winning the set (6-1).

The Swiss was unable to find the solution against the opposition in the last 6 games of the set (from 0-1 to 6-1).

3^rd set.

Pavlyuchenkova had a strong start of this set after breaking Bencic in the 1^st game (1-0) before consolidating her break and lead 3-0. Yet, that was not enough for Pavlyuchenkova to win the set because the Swiss found the way to break back in the 4^th (1-3) game. Anastasia maintained her focus to break Bencic in the 5^th (4-1) and in the 7^th (6-1) game.

Statistics

At the end of the match, the Russian scored 70 points vs. Bencic’s 62 points.

Anastasia was pretty good in converting 50% of the break points that she procured (7/14). On the other side, Belinda was effective in converting 80% of the break points that she conquered points (4/5). Yet, that was not enough to win the match.

After this encounter, the head to head between Pavlyuchenkova and Bencic is 2-4 for Belinda.

Highlights Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova vs. Belinda Bencic Dubai Duty Free Championships – Dubai

Next Match H2H: Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova vs. Anett Kontaveit or Sorana Cirstea – stats

Pavlyuchenkova will play either Anett Kontaveit or Sorana Cirstea in the 2^nd round. The head to head is 2-3 vs. Anett Kontaveit and 3-3 vs. Sorana Cirstea.

Tennis Scores in Dubai

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• Veronika KudermetovaKudermetova – Dayana YastremskaYastremska (5-7 6-3 7-6²) – See score progression
• Kristina MladenovicMladenovic – Aliaksandra SasnovichSasnovich (6-4 6-3) – See score progression
• Jennifer BradyBrady – Elina SvitolinaSvitolina (6-2 6-1) – See score progression
• Anastasia PavlyuchenkovaPavlyuchenkova – Belinda BencicBencic (1-6 6-1 6-1) – See score progression
• Barbora StrycovaStrycova – Amanda AnisimovaAnisimova (7-6³ 2-6 6-4) – See score progression
• Elise MertensMertens – Qiang WangWang (6-3 6-0) – See score progression
• Marketa VondrousovaVondrousova – Anastasija SevastovaSevastova (6-3 6-2) – See score progression
• Ons JabeurJabeur – Alison RiskeRiske (7-6³ 1-6 6-3) – See score progression
• Garbine MuguruzaMuguruza – Kim ClijstersClijsters (6-2 7-6⁶) – See score progression

Upcoming matches

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• Petra MarticMartic – Su-Wei HsiehHsieh (1-2) – See H2H details
• Sorana CirsteaCirstea – Anett KontaveitKontaveit (0-0) – See H2H details
• Sofia KeninKenin – Elena RybakinaRybakina (0-0) – See H2H details
• Simona HalepHalep – Ons JabeurJabeur (0-1) – See H2H details
• Jennifer BradyBrady – Marketa VondrousovaVondrousova (0-0) – See H2H details
• Veronika KudermetovaKudermetova – Garbine MuguruzaMuguruza (0-0) – See H2H details
• Kristina MladenovicMladenovic – Karolina PliskovaPliskova (2-3) – See H2H details