Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova tops Elena Rybakina 6-7(2) 6-2 9-7 in the quarter in Paris on Tuesday. Pavlyuchenkova will have to play Tamara Zidansek in the semifinal. The match lasted 2 hours and 33 minutes. This will be her best result in this competition. In the past, the best she could do in the past was reaching the quarter in 2011. Here you can see her history at this event.
Anastasia added to her prize money € 120,000 after winning this match. She has won already € 375,000 till now in the tournament. If she wins the next match, Anastasia will add € 375,000 to her earnings to get in total € 750,000.
Highlights Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova vs. Elena Rybakina French Open – Paris
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Stats: aces, double faults, breaks, winners
At the end of the match, the Russian scored 121 points vs. the Kazakhstani’s 113.
Pavlyuchenkova
Pavlyuchenkova won this match even if she was struggling to find the solution in converting her break points since she converted only 35% (6/17) of the procured opportunities.
Rybakina
On the other side, the Kazakhstani was not so effective in converting her break points (only 43% – 3/7). That was one of the key issues for her defeat.
After this match, the head to head between Pavlyuchenkova and Rybakina is 1-0 for Anastasia.
Draw and next match H2H: Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova vs. Tamara Zidansek – stats
Pavlyuchenkova will square off with Zidansek in the semifinal.
There is no head to head record between Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova and Tamara Zidansek since this will be the first time that they will face off in the main tour.
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Rybakina won the set after she broke Anastasia in the 4th (3-1) game. Pavlyuchenkova tried to stage a comeback breaking in the 7th (4-3) game. However, Elena kept the situation under control to eventually clinch the set at the following breaker at 2.
Tiebreak
Elena won 4 minibreaks in the 2nd (2-0), 3rd (3-0), 6th (5-1) and 9th (7-2) point. On the other side, the Russian won a minibreak in the 8th (2-6) point.
Elena won the tiebreak 7-2 after she conquered a decisive 4-0 lead.
This was the tiebreak sequence: 1-0, 2-0, 3-0, 4-0, 5-0, 5-1, 5-2, 6-2, 7-2
They contested 92 points. Elena was the one to win the set after conquering 4 more points than Anastasia (48-44). Elena conceded 20 points on serve (33-20). on the other side of the court, Pavlyuchenkova conceded 15 points on serve (24-15).
Pavlyuchenkova in this set played at a much higher level than the Kazakhstani and consequently she won 6-2 after breaking Rybakina in the 6th (4-2) and in the 8th (6-2) game.
The Kazakhstani was not able to offer any resistance in the last 4 games of the set when the game count went from 2-2 to 6-2.
Pavlyuchenkova converted 33% of her break points (2/6). She had 6 break points opportunities in the 6th (3-2 15-40, 30-40, 40-A and 40-A) and the 8th game (5-2 30-40 and 40-A). On the other side, the Russian didn’t concede a single break point during this set.
They played 49 points. The Russian was the one to win the set after conquering 9 more points than the Kazakhstani (29-20). The Russian was extremely solid on serve to concede just 4 points (16-4). on the other side of the court, Rybakina conceded 13 points on serve (16-13).
Pavlyuchenkova had a pretty good kick start of the set after breaking Zidansek in the 2nd game (2-0). Yet, there was more work to do for the Russian to win the set because the Kazakhstani found the way to break back in the 3rd (1-2) and in the 5th (3-2) game. Anastasia maintained her focus to break the Kazakhstani in the 6th (3-3) and in the 16th (9-7) game.
The Russian converted 50% of her break points (2/4). She had 4 break points opportunities in the 2nd (1-0 15-40 and 30-40), the 6th (2-3 30-40) and the 16th game (8-7 30-40). Moreover, on the other side, the Kazakhstani converted 50% of her break points (2/4). She had her opportunities in the 3rd (0-2 15-40 and 30-40) and the 5th game (2-2 0-40 and 15-40).
They contested 93 points. This set was a huge battle since finally the Russian won only 1 point more than Elena (47-46). The Russian lost 20 points on serve (28-20). On the losing side, Rybakina conceded 19 points on serve (26-19).
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