Samantha Stosur upsets Anderson in the 1st round. HIGHLIGHTS – AUSTRALIAN OPEN RESULTS

AUSTRALIAN OPEN - MELBOURNE DRAW AND RESULTS. Stosur stuns Anderson to play Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova in the 2nd round

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Luke Meyer
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Prediction and head to head Samantha Stosur vs. Robin Anderson

Samantha Stosur upsets Robin Anderson 6-7(5) 6-3 6-3 in the 1st round in Melbourne on Tuesday. Stosur is going to play against Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova in the 2nd round. The match lasted 2 hours and 30 minutes. Her best result in this tournament was reaching the 4th round in 2006 and 2010. Here you can see her history at this event.

Stosur
Melbourne
Stosur's Record

Samantha added to her prize money $ 50,000 after winning this match. She has won already $ 140,000 after this win. If she wins the next match, Samantha will add $ 40,000 to her earnings to get in total $ 180,000 in total.

Highlights Samantha Stosur vs. Robin Anderson Australian Open – Melbourne

Stats: aces, double faults, breaks, winners

Stosur
Anderson
Samantha Stosur
6-75 6-3 6-3
2h:30
Robin Anderson
110
110
Total points
99
99
51
51
Winners
38
38
46%
46%
Ratio Winners
38%
38%
53
53
Unforced
39
39
58%
58%
Ratio Unforced
42%
42%
25/38
25/38
Net Approaches
10/18
10/18
66%
66%
Perc
56%
56%
-- Serve --
12
12
Aces
7
7
4
4
Double Faults
5
5
63%
63%
1st in
58%
58%
76%
76%
1st won
64%
64%
51/67
51/67
1st won
38/59
38/59
43%
43%
2nd won
51%
51%
17/40
17/40
2nd won
22/43
22/43
182
182
Fastest serve
186
186
162
162
AVG 1st Serve
163
163
133
133
AVG 2nd Serve
131
131
-- Break Points --
5/12
5/12
Total
2/9
2/9
42%
42%
Won
22%
22%
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At the end of the match, Stosur scored 110 points vs. Robin’s 99.

Stosur

Stosur served pretty well to win 76% of the points (51/67) behind her first serve. However she won only 43% points (17/40) on her second serve. Samantha fired 12 aces and she committed 4 double faults. The Australian won this match even if she had some problems converting her break points since she converted only 42% (5/12) of the procured opportunities.

Anderson

On the other side, the American was struggling to find the solution in converting her break points (only 22% – 2/9). That was one of the key issues for her demise.

After this match, the head to head between Stosur and Anderson is 1-0 for Samantha.

Draw and next match H2H: Samantha Stosur vs. Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova – stats

Stosur will fight against Pavlyuchenkova in the 2nd round.

This will be the 10th time that Samantha Stosur and Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova fight against each other. The head to head is 5-4 for Stosur (see full H2H stats),but they are 1-1 on hard.

The last time that they fought against each other, Stosur won 6-2 7-61 in the 2nd round in Paris back in 2018.

Samantha Stosur Draw info

Live score progression and stats

Pavlyuchenkova took off at the beginning of the set after breaking Robin Anderson in the 2nd game (2-0) before consolidating her break and lead 3-0. However, there was more work to do for the American to win the set since the Australian found the way to break back in the 7th (3-4) game. The American maintained her cool before winning the set at the breaker at 5.

Tiebreak

The American won 4 minibreaks in the 2nd (2-0), 6th (5-1), 10th (6-4) and 12th (7-5) point. On the other side, the Australian won 3 minibreaks in the 4th (1-3), 8th (3-5) and 9th (4-5) point.

Anderson won the tiebreak 7-5 after she conquered a decisive 5-1 lead.

This was the tiebreak sequence: 1-0, 2-0, 2-1, 3-1, 4-1, 5-1, 5-2, 5-3, 5-4, 6-4, 6-5, 7-5

They played 91 points. The set was a huge battle since finally Anderson won just 3 points more than Samantha (47-44). Robin surrendered 18 points on serve (33-18). on the other side of the net, the Australian conceded 14 points on serve (26-14).

Stosur didn’t want to give any chance to the opposition at the beginning of the set after breaking Robin Anderson in the 2nd game (2-0) before consolidating her break and lead 3-0. That break was the key for Samantha to win the set (6-3) as there were no other breaks.

Stosur converted 50% of her break points (1/2). She had 2 break points opportunities in the 2nd game (1-0 15-40 and 30-40). On the other side, the American was unable to convert any of her 5 break points. She had 5 break points opportunities in the 1st (0-0 30-40) and the 9th game (3-5 15-40, 30-40, 40-A and 40-A).

They contested 66 points. The Australian was the winner of the set after clinching 6 more points than Anderson (36-30). Stosur conceded 16 points on serve (28-16). Regarding the other side of the net, Anderson conceded 8 points on serve (14-8).

Stosur won the set after she broke Anderson 3 times in the 3rd (2-1), in the 5th (3-2) and in the 9th (6-3) game. Anderson tried to stage a comeback breaking in the 4th (2-2) game. Yet, Samantha maintained the focus to conquer the set 6-3.

Samantha converted 75% of her break points (3/4). She had 4 break points opportunities in the 3rd (1-1 30-40), the 5th (2-2 30-40 and 40-A) and the 9th game (5-3 0-40). Furthermore, on the other side, the American converted 50% of her break points (1/2). She had her opportunities in the 2nd (1-1 30-40) and the 4th game (1-2 15-40).

They contested 52 points. The Australian was the one to win the set after conquering 8 points more than Robin (30-22). Stosur dropped 9 points on serve (15-9). Regarding the other side of the net, Anderson conceded 15 points on serve (13-15).

 

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